Local retailer (Sporting Goods Mom&Pop) has 12 gauge RST and AA target loads for $12.00/box (plus tax)-- this is in small farm town MI-- how does this compare with prices in your neck of the woods. Some SC events are way low in attendance, due to ammo shortages/high prices, etc. When will the madness end?? RWTF

Have RST’s ever been below $10.00?

$6.00 should never keep a gun away from a fun round of clays.

at 2 places I shoot, what shells are available are $7 and $9/box. No light loads (12 ga 7/8 oz )such as I was able to get last year. In both places they will only sell what you are going to shoot there.

The madness will end when enough people quit panic buying & hoarding to let the manufacturers can catch up & restock the shelves!!

I don't know...this "hoarding" explaination seems a little pat to me. I mean, 16 gauge 2 1/2" fiber wad shells? Who panic buys flats of those?

I bought a case of Winchester AA #8 @1290 fps for $84.99 + tax last Wednesday at Cabela's. Since a small local store doesn't have their purchasing power, $12.00/box (plus tax) isn't outrageous, especially for RST. RST is currently charging $15 and up for box for 12 gauge and a lot of it is out of stock.

Other 16 gauge shooters :P

More seriously 16 gauge 2 1/2" fiber wad shells are probably a limited run product and currently ammo makers are too busy trying to catch up on standard loadings to do a limited production run. I shoot some odd handgun calibers and I don't expect to by able to buy more until Fiocchi and Prvi Partizan are able to catch up with demand

Local gun club has gone to progressive pricing to stop hoarding. First case might be $80.00 a flat, then the second flat cost 120.00 and third flat cost 160.00. all sales tracked on their computer. All the old guys were buying ammo and taking it home instead of shooting it at the club. A few were bragging about flipping in on GunBrokers. Problem was club had no targets bring shot because these regulars were buying up all the ammo but not shooting any of it. End of hoarding mostly. Non members can only buy what they will shoot that day.

I am fortunate enuf to own (some inherited) 7 fine pre-1950 Model 12's-- including a 28 gauge skeet gun (1939)- NONE of them are in 16 gauge, and I doubt if I would ever buy one in that "bastard" gauge, as the late Paul A. Curtis sometimes called- neither fish nor fowl, I'll either shoot a 20 or a 12- std. or 3" Magnum. BUT- unlike the late Gene Hill, who owned a 16 gauge Greener, I don't hunt grouse or woodcock, nor quail nor doves- when I can't carry a field grade M12 12 gauge after pheasants in Nov.-- I'll stay home and learn chess or backgammon I guess. Oh, the Mom and Pop store has a limit of 3 boxes/shells purchased per day, honor system. RWTF.

I picked up a mild hoard of 16s yesterday. I fellow I used to work with finally aged-out and sold a number of his guns, including his Fox 16 about a year ago. He recently brought his accumulated collection of 16-gauge shells in to MW Reynolds to have them moved along. Everything from RST non-tox to a flat of William Larkin Moore marked 2 1/2 inch stuff, fiber wads and all. Shells at the local clubs are ranging in price from $8.75 to $18 a box (12 gauge only). Eventually, things will catch up again but I suspect 16s wont be commonly available for a while, thus my purchase of this lot. 12s and 20 will come back online first, well before the rest of the gauges return, but I suspect that $5 a box shells will be a thing of the past.

Why would anyone buy AA or any premium shell unless they are shooting for a living. Not many of us are shooting a game where a missed target is a financial disaster. Use the cheap stuff if you can find it.

Finding any shotgun ammo, much less the inexpensive stuff, is still a problem right now. I shoot skeet every Sunday so I go through a case every 4-5 weeks. I've been lucky in that I've been able to buy a case at Cabelas every once in a while. enough that I have enough on hand for maybe 3 months. It is very much a seller's market right now and I have to give credit to Cabelas/Bass Pro/Sportsmen's Warehouse for not jacking up the prices and restricting people on how much they can buy. There have been credible rumors of local gun stores sending their employees to Cabelas, have them buy as much ammo as possible and then turnaround and sell it at a much higher price.

$12/box for RST's is an excellent price. Two years ago if I ordered a flat of RST's the price was $130.

You forgot to include the needed supply chain to manufacture and deliver needed materials for production.

Just saw a box of older Federal 3-inch .410-bore mixed shells show up on GI for $125. One full with the correct shells just sold in the Ward's Auction for $27!! Ward's gave the range as $10 to $30.

https://www.wardscollectibles.com/viewitem.php?item=10443

I have an unopened case 20 boxes of 410 2 1/2 inch # 9 paper Western skeet loads. Bobby

.410 loads have been selling on GunBroker for $30.00 a box for a while. Just not to me. Have not checked lately so maybe stupid prices are coming down into the outrageous range. It will be a couple years until stuff comes back a bit to normal.

Bobby, as a youth I shot a lot of 28 gauge Winchester paper shells. I loved those paper shells. First case came in a wooden crate but the others all came in cardboard boxes. Use to buy them at WesternAuto store in town. Funny thing is that they almost always just happened to have a case I wanted on hand when I had earned enough money to buy them. Took me years to figure out my father would go into the store and order them shortly before I had enough money to buy them. He took good care of my shooting needs like everything else he did. Quietly and without fanfare.

Back in those days I most likely had the only 28 gauge in our county. Many Skeet shooters shot 3” .410 for the 28 gauge event because they did not have a true 28. Small bore events were 50 target events at small clubs. Nearest Skeet club was 30 miles away and I never knew about it until I was in college. I would have loved to shoot Skeet as a kid when I had sharp eyes, reflexes like a cat and a Winchester Model 12 in 28 Skeet. Today I still have the gun but eyes are proper age, reflexes are so-so and now I shoot with my friend arthritis every round.

I’ve picked up random four box packs (Estates, Winchester promos/AA’s etc) at Wally World to satisfy most of my practice requirements. The NSCA has relaxed its requirements on using reloads in some tourneys this year and I’ve shot a ton of those.Powder and shot are available (at elevated prices) in my area but primers are still scarce. I was fortunate to have a 10k surplus at the start of the year but am down to 4K now. I’m shooting the US Open next week and was glad to hear they will have 3 containers of Federal, Winchester and Fiocchi shells on site. With over a thousand shooters attending they’ll need them! I don’t anticipate any bargains.