Gary Reeder
notes from our 2 main distributors which are 2 of the `4
Tuesday, August 03, 2021, 13:41

largest guns and ammo distributors in the country. Th main thing each stressed is very little hunting ammo or rifles to be available this fall. This is going to put a big damper on our hunting seasons this year. Unless the hunters have ammo stashed they will be in deep chitlins. Even standard or normal ammo like 30-30, 30-06, 270 etc will be very hard to find and in very limited quantities.

I don't know if any of you saw the note I got from Steve Hornady a couple of weeks ago. I was hurting for 375 caliber bullets for my 378 GNR and had e-mailed Steve to see if they had a box or two of 375 caliber bullets he could send me. Here is his answer...

Gary,
I can sympathize. I’m leaving for Africa week from tomorrow and needed some 375 Ruger ammo and we were out so I told the guys to handload some and we didn’t have any bullets! Ended up some of our people had a stash at home so I was able to get enough for my trip. Saying all that to tell you I don’t have two boxes to send, I don’t have one box! but I do have 20 bullets which I will send. I am sorry I can’t do better but with everything going on last year we didn’t run quite a few items since the demand was so low and now we can’t catch up!

Regards,

SH

Steve kept his word and I got 20 375 caliber bullets from him a day or two later, which helped a lot for my lion hunt in September. But the gist of this if one of the largest ammo, bullets and brass companies in the country can't come up with enough ammo for the owner of the company to hunt in Africa with and he had to scrounge up a handful of bullets from one of his employees, then where are the rest of us going to get our needed ammo, bullets and brass for the coming fall hunts. It ain't looking good for the home team.