On Thu, 30 Jan 2014 22:16:03 -0600, Swingman wrote:

On 1/30/2014 7:46 PM, Larry W wrote:
In article ,
Swingman wrote:

...snipped...
.... Still, a compact 1911 can be finicky about what you
feed it, and 9mm ammo is still hard to locate.


May have been true some time ago, but today 9mm is probably the most
common handgun ammo around in the country, and certainly the best priced
center-fire handgun ammo in general.

Maybe where you are, but not around here (TX, AR), where 9mm is still
hard to find in stock on the shelves, and has more than doubled in price
from 2012.

Granted, since Nov there has been more 9mm than in the past year at
places like Walmart, Academy, Gander Mountain, to the point that you may
even find a box or two left on the shelves early in an afternoon, but
there is still a limit of 1 on 9mm purchases at most all retail outlets,
when you can find it, and you simply can't just walk in and count on it
being there.

Academy, here, is only limiting sales on (nonexistent) .22LR.
Everything else is fair game. 9mm was plentiful, at least a couple of
weeks ago.

Forget about finding .22 LR on the shelf at any retail outlet. Gun
ranges and your LGS might have it, but at .17-.46/rd.

Conversely, I have little trouble the past six months finding .38 and
.45ACP on the shelves at most retail stores.

I still can't find .38+P, anywhere. Also, the bullet types are fairly
restricted. Almost all the .38 I see is JHP. I don't see a lot of
FMJ around. Unjacketed was in plentiful supply at the last gun show
but I hate cleaning that stuff out of the barrels.

Except for .22LR, the shortage of the past two years does appear to be
letting up, but prices are certainly much higher than two years ago.

That's OK, higher prices mean fewer hoarders ...

Or more. I have far more on hand than I used to keep, when I could
drop by WallyWorld on the way to the range any buy anything, cheap.
Whenever I'm in a store that has stock, I buy a box or two of whatever
they have.