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Speer gold dot in 9mm 124 grain is my preferred carry round, partially because it’s an extremely popular round with law enforcement carrying similar hardware. Seems the last couple months it’s completely disappeared. Same with the Hornady Critical Duty stuff. Certainly nothing local. Ammoseek.com shows only two sites that have any. One is low quantity orders only at high price, and the other has a REAL bad rep (and probably doesn’t actually have it at all).
There doesn’t seem to be any kind of ammo run in terms of prices going up due to supply/demand like we saw a few years ago when everyone was screaming about gun control from capitol hill (I know the president is making some small noise, but *shhh secret* he’s on his home stretch with an opposing legislative branch).
Anyone else seeing ammo shortages? What am I missing here? What’s your favorite 9mm defensive ammo, and where’s a good place to get it?
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Speer gold dot in 9mm 124 grain is my preferred carry round, partially because it’s an extremely popular round with law enforcement carrying similar hardware. Seems the last couple months it’s completely disappeared. Same with the Hornady Critical Duty stuff. Certainly nothing local. Ammoseek.com shows only two sites that have any. One is low quantity orders only at high price, and the other has a REAL bad rep (and probably doesn’t actually have it at all).There doesn’t seem to be any kind of ammo run in terms of prices going up due to supply/demand like we saw a few years ago when everyone was screaming about gun control from capitol hill (I know the president is making some small noise, but *shhh secret* he’s on his home stretch with an opposing legislative branch).
Anyone else seeing ammo shortages? What am I missing here? What’s your favorite 9mm defensive ammo, and where’s a good place to get it?
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I understand that many .Gov agencies are moving back to 9mm. This includes the FBI.
That could be part of the reason, I’m not sure.I use Critical Defense, I was just at Cabalas and they are running a rebate on some Ammo @ $5.00 off per box up to 4 boxes. Not a bad deal on small batches of around .74 cents per defense round from Barnes TAC-XPD – 20 Rounds. I usually buy bulk ammo on line. I’ve had good luck with luckygunner.com for range ammo but defensive ammo at a good price is hard to come by.
I used to buy Speer and Hornady online for a good price but have since switched to Hornady XTP bullet remans from Freedom, I have always been about spray and pray (photog and shooting) as opposed to accuracy so that is just me so it’s all about quantity for me and FM does that for me.
I used to buy Speer and Hornady online for a good price but have since switched to Hornady XTP bullet remans from Freedom, I have always been about spray and pray (photog and shooting) as opposed to accuracy so that is just me so it’s all about quantity for me and FM does that for me.
I shoot HST. I have a few sites that I bookmarked that sell the 50-count “law enforcement” boxes. And I buy several more or less whenever I think to check and they have it in stock.
It’s rare for it to cost more than 55c/shot this way.
I would not, under any circumstances, trust my life to Freedom Munitions remans regardless of the bullet. Maybe I just got a couple bad batches, but they were the only rounds that have choked up my M&P. And between 9 and 223, they’re about 1% failures….which is IMHO completely unacceptable for a defensive round.
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The ammo here has been flying off the shelves. People have been buying guns right and left. I was in Louisiana not long ago, and they were selling good, but not like here. All of the smaller guns for self protection have been hard to find. You can still find Glock Gen 3 if that is what you want. But if you want Gen 4, in the smaller guns, you are up a creek. I am sure before long some will make it back to the shelves. When people buy the guns, they will also want ammo to go with it. The better protection ammo has also been hard to come by.
My 1911’s run Critical Defense, mainly because the Kimber chokes on Speer. I shot some Gold Dot through my 9mm and it worked well, but the Barnes was more accurate.
My 1911’s run Critical Defense, mainly because the Kimber chokes on Speer. I shot some Gold Dot through my 9mm and it worked well, but the Barnes was more accurate.
Speer gold dots or Hornady critical defense. I’m using some Speer in the 45acp 200g +P variety. I carried one of those two in my 9mm.
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