Hi all.

I got out yesterday to a regional chain store called "Runnings"... my first time ever in one. It's kind of like what you'd get if you built a Tractor Supply and added a bunch of sporting goods to it.

It turns out they carry reloading supplies. Their powder shelves were nearly empty... four pounds of powder in stock, including one Pyrodex, one Triple 7, one Longshot, and one IMR4895 (which, this last one I grabbed).

They had a fair supply of component bullets on hand for the common pistol calibers and .223- and .30-caliber rifle. I scored two boxes of .308-caliber Hornady Interlocks, one of 170-grain flat-points for .30-30 and some 180-grain PSPs for the '06.

Interestingly, although I would bought Noslers or Speers or Sierras if they had 'em, what they had on hand was mostly Hornady (which I also like just fine). I brought two boxes of Hornady bullets home to set alongside three other partial boxes of Hornady bullets.

It makes me wonder if Hornady has been better at fighting the supply chain issues just lately, or has better manufacturing capacity than the other firms.

-AaronB

Well Aaron,
I haven't been in a store for so long I am not sure I remember how to do that.

There is a gun shop that is not far out of my way home from work. I just haven't haven't stopped in for quite some time.

Mark

Working in a shop I've heard all sorts of stories and thoughts from all sorts including those of distributor sales people and customers and I've come to the conclusion that the shortages are real, unevenly distributed and caused by many contributing factors. I am convinced that we will be 2-years into a pro-gun president before the shortages of anything begin to ease. WHY? Because that is what it will take to get things back on an even keel. All the shortages begun due to the pandemic lock-down are being exploited/exacerbated by the current socialist politicians in charge. Stalin didn't mind starving his politically unreliable citizens and these people don't care either. The elites will always have what they want as they will always have the necessary items (gold/silver/money/energy/people) to exchange for those things and access to the trade routes.

I will say this again and again, we have recorded exactly what has and will happen in such times in our histories and in our fiction even and perhaps most particularly written by the "liberals"/socialists themselves. If you want to see what will happen just read.

I am glad I had such a good life but it will likely be over all too soon.

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Sincerely,

Hobie

Due to the ongoing craziness I haven’t spent much time in gun shops lately but on a recent trip to a local one, that usually carries reloading stuff, they had a decent supply of various Sierra Bullets. I’m in pretty good shape, so I didn’t even skim them to see what they had. The next shelf over, which is usually stocked with primers was totally full of XTP’s in 9mm and .357, looking like that had just got a big order of them in. Or maybe it was something that popped up on a distributor’s website and they just jumped on them , knowing they would sell? Hard telling…

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We have been taking whatever we can get and finally have a good supply of .223/5.56 and 9mm on the shelf but great difficulty getting .30-06, .243, .22-250, 7mm-08, .30-30, .38 Spec and .357 Mag. Our sourcing has extended to other shops which have supply they can't sell due to local laws (e.g. 6.5 CR, .30-06 and .300 Win Mag from Iowa).

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Sincerely,

Hobie

"... can't sell due to local laws (e.g. 6.5 CR, .30-06 and .300 Win Mag from Iowa)."

Why does local law prevent those calibers from being sold in Iowa, if I may ask?

-AaronB

Maybe they aren’t legal hunting rounds? Indiana has some stupid deer caliber laws on the books

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What Doug said. They aren't legal for deer hunting, so unless you're going to hunt out of state or just want to shoot the caliber for shooting's sake, they aren't very commercial there.

I'm having trouble bending my head around .30-06 not being legal for deer hunting.

Maybe they got a lot of shotgun-only areas...

-Aaron

As in the whole state. Yeah, 30'06 and deer go together like biscuits and gravy, it's odd to find out there's places where biscuits and gravy aren't a staple, or the 30'06 legal for hunting...

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Sincerely,

Hobie

Well all righty then.

If I ever plan to hunt there I'll just bring along a Marlin Guide Gun, loaded appropriately.

-AaronB

I think this is a/the list of acceptable RIFLE cartridges for Iowa deer hunting...

.350 Legend .429 DE
.35 Remington .44 Wildey Mag
.356 TSW .44 Remington Magnum
.357 Sig .44 Automag
9×25 Dillion .445 Super Mag
9×23 Winchester .45 Super
.357 Magnum .45 Wildey Mag
.357 Maximum .450 Bushmaster
.357 SuperMag .45 Winchester Magnum
.357 Wildey Mag .451 Detonics
.357/44 Bain & Davis .454 Casull
.375 Winchester .45 Silhouette
.38-55 Winchester .458 Socom
10 mm Auto .460 Rowland
.40 Super .475 Wildey Magnum
.401 Powermag .475 Linebaugh
.400 Cor-Bon .480 Ruger
.38-40 Winchester .50 GI
.41 Remington Magnum .50 Action Express
.41 Wildey Mag .50 Beowulf
.414 SuperMag .500 JRH
.44-40 Winchester .500 Special
.440 Cor-Bon .500 Wyoming Express

Allowable cartridges for use in handguns that were considered for use in rifles but deemed ballistically dissimilar from allowable pistol or revolver cartridges include (these cartridges are NOT proposed for inclusion to the list of allowable rifles to hunt deer in Iowa):

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Sincerely,

Hobie

the nearest one is 5 1/2 hours away. lol

Only an hour from where I hunt, so I go once a year.

Companies are being choked by the Rem/Fed/CCI Corp and Olin...So says the CEO of one of these companies.
They may have components available for this reason.

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