Bonkers pricing at Gunshow

[NateHaler]

New Braunfels, TX. Smallish venue, as full of tables/vendors as the socialist distancing mandates will permit. Line to get in, everybody polite and orderly, and not a whole lot of buying. Masks don't cover raised eyebrows though, and I saw plenty, and my own almost cramped up (need to drink more water I guess?).

50-round boxes of plinking-grade .45 ACP: $90
5-round boxes of 12 ga 00 buckshot: $25
20-round boxes of PPU brand .308 Win: $75
100-round boxes of CCI .22 LR 'Mini-Mags': $20
500-rounds of TULA .223: $650 (and I heard a passerby say "If I had the money, I would buy that.")

I may have scored the best bargain of the show when my discerning gaze landed on 7 boxes of Winchester 'Super X' .22 WMR, circa 1980s. Total of 350 rounds, for $60.

These are disturbing times.

 

[Daddymac]

Supply and demand.

 

[Thud]

Again. It's only expensive if you pay for it.

 

[Dusty Stevens]

I wish they would finally get tired of buying this stuff and get stuck with it

 

[Islanderflyer]

I wish that gunshow would restart in my neck of the woods. I haven't been to one in a few years due to work and the covid. Once in a while I miss the people gawking and warm cinnamon roasted almonds. On second thought, standing in line behind a flatulent jerk and dealers lowballing you until your will breaks, maybe I am better off without them.

 

[okie]

Heard prices in Texarkana last weekend were same...

 

[JackT]

I am 2 months away from moving to Canyon Lake (12 miles West of NB). Glad to hear that they have gun shows!

 

[Knotwild]

Supply and demand plus inflation. Another round of stimulus checks should give even poor people mad money to blow on ammo.

 

[joshb]

What a difference 2 years makes. 1k PMC 223 was $3-350. I bought this box of ammo, too. I feel rich!

 

[243Lapua]

I just fly thru those tables. No need to check on prices as I know they are ridiculously expensive. I've had a box 50 9mm bullets for the past 15+ years for my Sig 226. Only use would be for deadly force.

 

[243Lapua]

I am 2 months away from moving to Canyon Lake (12 miles West of NB). Glad to hear that they have gun shows!

Nice. They are alot of Benchrest shooters in that area.

 

[JackT]

I am excited about the opportunity to move there, having an extra room built as an office/man cave/reloading room with heat and AC. Look forward to meet some of those folks in the area. Now my challenge will be to work less and play more.

 

[Ranger188]

I've probably sold 3000 rounds of 9mm and 223 ammo to my local
gun shop. He paid me 50% in (cash) more than I paid for it and was happy. (He offered the price)
He sells it to people buying guns from him, (and still makes money on it) so they have ammo to shoot.
We both win.

 

[PatMiles]

I don't go to gun shows to buy reloading supplies, ever. The prices have always been high, in good times and bad. Kinda reminds me of shopping in a big hock shop, everything is priced high or it's worn out, almost junk.

 

[swd]

How much is actually changing hands at those prices is the real question?

 

[ben lurkin]

Do people still go to those? Around here you pay $10 to park, another $15 to get in. Waste all day looking at junk that some dealer thinks is worth more than it’s weight in gold. I would just rather stop by a few of the local shops and try my luck there. The local guy I know said he quit going there as a vendor because he had to pay additional to man the booths, pay to get that booth and somehow cover the costs of the products he was selling. His words were it never made sense financially.

To each their own.

 

[Rsadams]

Exactly why I didn't go... I figured it would be like that...

 

[Shooter13]

I wish they would finally get tired of buying this stuff and get stuck with it

Now this I agree with and believe it will eventually play out!

 

[nakneker]

I’ve always enjoyed gunshows, granted much of it is over priced but I’ve found some of my best guns there. Not sure I would go right now. In “normal times” I like to get in as early I can and if it’s a three day show I try and go back and haggle on things the last couple hours of the show, By that time some guys are tired of packing things around, lots of fun.

 

[sundance]

I usually get some of my reloading supplies at the Tulsa shows but both of them were canceled last year. With 4000 tables there are enough private sellers to find some bargains if you hit the whole show.
All the shows here in eastern Colorado and some in Wyoming have canceled. I see the high prices online
on Gunbroker.Amazing!