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Post by HighCotton on Feb 18, 2021 8:44:20 GMT -5
and will this be the start of more?
Just got word that Elmore Guns in Greenwood is closing its store front shop.
Hard to get guns. Even tougher getting ammo.
Said he can't sell what he can't get.
I wonder if more are to follow?!
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Post by jjas on Feb 18, 2021 9:04:46 GMT -5
Place like Cabelas and BassPro can sell other goods to keep the doors open, but smaller gun shops are likely in serious trouble.
Like you said, you can't sell what you can't get.
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Post by parson on Feb 18, 2021 11:29:42 GMT -5
I talked with the folks at 9 Guns, in Anderson, the other day; they said that they have enough reserve to hold on for a while, but their shelves were pretty bare.
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Post by esshup on Feb 18, 2021 11:55:46 GMT -5
My buddy drove to Daytona and back. Was down there for the race and a week vacation. Stopped in a few gun shops, one that had powder and 209 primers had tripled the price of powder and 209 primers were going for $250/1,000. I know they didn't cost the shop that much, but they said people were buying them.
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Post by stevein on Feb 18, 2021 16:37:49 GMT -5
A young man started a gun shop near me last summer. Nice guy, he has a good selection of guns and gets different ammo in. Triple A Guns. I hope he makes it. He has plans to put in an indoor range this year too.
Thomlinsons in Chrubusco was just bought. They plan to continue business as usual. They have a good stock of powder, bullets but no primers. Also have a supply of rifles, pistols and shotguns.
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Post by esshup on Feb 18, 2021 17:35:35 GMT -5
I've been to Thomlinsons a few times, I hope the new owners keep the place stocked as well as the old owners. I will stop there next week, I will be in the area.
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Post by jjas on Feb 18, 2021 17:41:12 GMT -5
A young man started a gun shop near me last summer. Nice guy, he has a good selection of guns and gets different ammo in. Triple A Guns. I hope he makes it. He has plans to put in an indoor range this year too. Thomlinsons in Chrubusco was just bought. They plan to continue business as usual. They have a good stock of powder, bullets but no primers. Also have a supply of rifles, pistols and shotguns. There was a local company that built a new indoor range near me several years ago and my understanding is that it was very expensive to do so. With the ammo shortages we have expected to last @ least this year, it would suck to build something like that and have no ammo for people to shoot. |
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Post by scrub-buster on Feb 18, 2021 19:08:26 GMT -5
A young man started a gun shop near me last summer. Nice guy, he has a good selection of guns and gets different ammo in. Triple A Guns. I hope he makes it. He has plans to put in an indoor range this year too. Thomlinsons in Chrubusco was just bought. They plan to continue business as usual. They have a good stock of powder, bullets but no primers. Also have a supply of rifles, pistols and shotguns. There was a local company that built a new indoor range near me several years ago and my understanding is that it was very expensive to do so. With the ammo shortages we have expected to last @ least this year, it would suck to build something like that and have no ammo for people to shoot. I bet there are a lot of regulations related to the lead and exhaust systems. |
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Post by jjas on Feb 18, 2021 19:10:49 GMT -5
There was a local company that built a new indoor range near me several years ago and my understanding is that it was very expensive to do so. With the ammo shortages we have expected to last @ least this year, it would suck to build something like that and have no ammo for people to shoot. I bet there are a lot of regulations related to the lead and exhaust systems. I would imagine that you are correct. |
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Post by beermaker on Feb 18, 2021 19:58:28 GMT -5
A young man started a gun shop near me last summer. Nice guy, he has a good selection of guns and gets different ammo in. Triple A Guns. I hope he makes it. He has plans to put in an indoor range this year too. Thomlinsons in Chrubusco was just bought. They plan to continue business as usual. They have a good stock of powder, bullets but no primers. Also have a supply of rifles, pistols and shotguns. There was a local company that built a new indoor range near me several years ago and my understanding is that it was very expensive to do so. With the ammo shortages we have expected to last @ least this year, it would suck to build something like that and have no ammo for people to shoot. I know someone who tried every way possible to convince himself to open an indoor range. He figured around $50k/lane NOT including the building itself. I have no way of knowing how he came to that figure. I do know that he has very deep pockets and would have done it if he had any indication that he could have just broke even. Instead he opened a small shop specializing in custom build parts and suppressors. He built it up and sold it along with the suppressor kiosk for a healthy profit. Why did he sell it? Couldn't find a dependable manager. |
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Post by Sasquatch on Feb 18, 2021 20:26:58 GMT -5
Very sad! You hate to hear of any gun shop going down.
I know the two gun shops in Madison aren't hurting for business. (Though who knows how much more they could be making if they could get what everything that customers are after) One does a ton of business online, and when I was in there two months ago it looked like a mailroom. There was a pallet about two feet high sitting outside the door which the owner said was outgoing orders. I was in the other shop a few weeks ago picking up a rifle and while everything was processing I talked with the owner about ammo sales. He said it's so scarce that if his supplier calls and says he has a pallet of anything, the answer is "Yes!"
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Post by esshup on Feb 18, 2021 21:48:53 GMT -5
There was a local company that built a new indoor range near me several years ago and my understanding is that it was very expensive to do so. With the ammo shortages we have expected to last @ least this year, it would suck to build something like that and have no ammo for people to shoot. I know someone who tried every way possible to convince himself to open an indoor range. He figured around $50k/lane NOT including the building itself. I have no way of knowing how he came to that figure. I do know that he has very deep pockets and would have done it if he had any indication that he could have just broke even. Instead he opened a small shop specializing in custom build parts and suppressors. He built it up and sold it along with the suppressor kiosk for a healthy profit. Why did he sell it? Couldn't find a dependable manager. Kiosk? From the Silencer Shop in Austin, Tx? |
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Post by beermaker on Feb 19, 2021 5:58:17 GMT -5
I know someone who tried every way possible to convince himself to open an indoor range. He figured around $50k/lane NOT including the building itself. I have no way of knowing how he came to that figure. I do know that he has very deep pockets and would have done it if he had any indication that he could have just broke even. Instead he opened a small shop specializing in custom build parts and suppressors. He built it up and sold it along with the suppressor kiosk for a healthy profit. Why did he sell it? Couldn't find a dependable manager. Kiosk? From the Silencer Shop in Austin, Tx? Yes. I think Gun World in Corydon now has it. |
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Post by jjas on Feb 19, 2021 10:37:57 GMT -5
Kiosk? From the Silencer Shop in Austin, Tx? Yes. I think Gun World in Corydon now has it. I've always liked Gun World. I haven't been there since late last fall, but they normally (and we all know now isn't normal) have a good selection of firearms,optics, ammo, archery equipment and accessories. Well worth a look if anyone is around Corydon. |
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Post by bullseye69 on Feb 20, 2021 14:59:57 GMT -5
I got lucky today. Small local shop had some at normal pricing.  |
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Post by esshup on Feb 20, 2021 20:12:04 GMT -5
$24 and change per pound, good find!!!!!
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Post by saltydog on Feb 22, 2021 6:27:48 GMT -5
I bought my first pistol from Russ back in 1979, A H&R 929. Not good that a gun shop is closing !
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Post by bartiks on Feb 23, 2021 16:42:08 GMT -5
Went to RK and Dunhams last night in vincennes to try to find some ammo. Seen some 12 GA on the shelves, not many boxes. At dunhams they did have a few more rifles than last time. Who knows maybe things will start to turn around.
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Post by esshup on Feb 23, 2021 19:24:49 GMT -5
A friend told me that a friend of his has a PALLET of ammo coming in from overseas. It's been hung up in customs for over a month now, and no word when it will be released. That may be the problem too, don't know what is being told to the customs inspectors behind the scenes.
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Post by firstwd on Feb 23, 2021 20:18:20 GMT -5
A friend told me that a friend of his has a PALLET of ammo coming in from overseas. It's been hung up in customs for over a month now, and no word when it will be released. That may be the problem too, don't know what is being told to the customs inspectors behind the scenes. Everything is getting hung up at the ports currently. LA Port is full, the mooring area has around 28 cargo ships in it, and there is almost 20 at sea waiting to get in. Current lag time is 14 to 21 days. Then there is the rail back up. That is running about 7 days. But wait, there's more. There is a lack of chassis to put the containers on to move them from the rail cars when they get to the de-van locations. But wait, there's more. The de-van locations in Chicago are behind getting customs cleared and having trouble scheduling trucks for delivery. Sometimes I hate my job. I got a delivery Friday night around 10pm because we set up the expedite truck to get it from the de-van location in Chicago. Packed everything on that delivery Saturday to send to FCC up by Fort Wayne Monday morning so they could make transmissions to keep from shutting Honda down today. The same time that container arrived in Chicago a second one of mine arrived. I still don't have it and the last I heard it's still on a rail car. We will shut Honda down on Tuesday. These shipments are currently 6 weeks behind schedule. I get a container a week. I normally have 6 weeks worth in transit at any one time. I currently have 13 with no stable schedule of delivery to work with. And that mess is just the 3 parts I get from Thailand. China is worse, some Japan parts have been out all year, and the raw materials from Japan have been getting flown in and still taking over a week. |
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