I don't know, but I do know that I put Bass Pro on my ignore list at AmmoSeek. They never had anything they said was in stock, anyway, so it is hardly a loss if they decided to quit selling ammo online. I guess one can always cruise down to their neighborhood Bass Pro store on ammo shipment day and wait.

 

I have noticed some places like Academy (I think) only sell what little ammo they’re getting in to customers IN the stores.

why deal with shipping when you can sell all you get in to people standing in front of you.

 

It would depend on their distribution channel. If it goes to a warehouse(s) and is then shipped to each individual store, it could be cheaper for them to ship to customers from the single location rather than shipping to each store. If it's shipped straight from the distributors to the store, then it makes more sense to favor in-store sales. Probably a combination of both.

Guess it also depends on what type of customers they want. Do they prefer people coming in to the stores and seeing all the other merchandise? Not selling online would definitely reward the in-store customers. Of course, they don't have that many locations, so there might be some value to lots of online customers. I have a BassPro about 30 miles from me, but I rarely go there because it's a chore to get through the traffic.

 

I drop by local Cabelas every week or so. Have occasionally stumbled on them rolling out pallet loads of ammo to the floor. Even with limits, they are gone quickly. The times I've seen it, the prices have been pandemic-reasonable. I've not seen much foot traffic in the times I've been there. The ammo shelves are almost completely bare. Not as bad for display guns, but not full either.

They'd love to have people in the stores. But they have to make money somehow and online seems more doable during pandemic and pretty efficient in any case if you an recoup shipping costs or balance by not having to ship as much to stores (last I saw they ship free if over $50).

 

But they have to make money somehow and online seems more doable during pandemic and pretty efficient in any case if you an recoup shipping costs or balance by not having to ship as much to stores (last I saw they ship free if over $50).

I wonder about the free S&H at $50 as well. I have no idea how much markup there was on ammo at the prices they were charging. When they did have ammo available online, S&H was reasonable. A few times all I could get that was available was under $50, and S&H was only $5.

Midway started upping their prices a couple of months ago, and I noticed in the last couple of weeks that Brownells is now selling closer to the ammoseek/gunbroker prices. Really hated to see that; however, I don't blame them. I am curious, though, if their cost has risen that dramatically, or are they just increasing their margin to put up with the hassle and workload on their employees and website.

 

They are involved in some sort of litigation concerning an incident at one of their stores. I don't know if that has anything to do with the current situation.

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I bought ammo online from Bass Pro, but it was back in July. I ordered six boxes of 100 round ammo at a very reasonable price.

I have been to their store twice since then and virtually nothing on the shelves except for some 12 gauge and that was only a few boxes.

 

Why would a retail store like Cabela's even bother with the extra hassle of mail order when the ammo will be all sold 5 minutes after putting it on the shelf. Also having ammo in the stores creates an incentive for people to come to the stores and buy other items.

 

Because people that have to go to work can't stand in line for hours on "Ammo Day" morning.
We have a local shop that allows on line purchases to be picked up at the store.
You place your order, get notified that your order is ready and then go pick it up.

That is the best way to ensure "order" at your store and it gets ammo into the hands of your ENTIRE customer base.
I would hope/expect more retailers to start doing this.

 

Pretty sure that BP/Cab quit selling online. I saw a couple videos on YouTube that said they have stopped so it must be true, correct?

 

For some reason they have stopped shipping most ammo. I don’t think you can get any centerfire shipped. They are still shipping some shotgun shells. I just got some 12 gauge a few days ago.

 

For months now, I’ve been checking Bass Pro’s website a few times a day for handgun ammo. They were one of the last sites selling it for non-hyperinflated prices. I’ve noticed the past 2 or 3 weeks, there’s nothing available, not even rare/unusual calibers. I did some googling and found a couple of pages from January that said Bass Pro has halted online ammo sales, but they didn’t say why other than speculation.

Anyone else heard this? I can’t really blame them. I don’t think they had the best website design to begin with, and I’m sure we ammo seekers were causing their IT folks nightmares, but I’m just curious as to if they made a conscious decision to stop selling it online; and if so, what was the specific reason?

My only complaint would be that if true, why wouldn’t it say this on the website rather than letting us waste time searching the site?

I think they are just out of ammo. They had a few times ammo for sale that had a limit of one or two, and "only in-store sale."

 

Go to sgammo.com, they add ammo stock routinely.

 

I'm still amazed you can buy any ammo online. I started shooting in the 60's and going to the store was part of the fun.

 

You may see that change soon. New administration. Then we will all have to do it your way.

 

I have ammoprime at TargetSports which, according to them, gets a large share of availability and they offerings have been thin the last few weeks.

 

Same here. I was able to grab quite a bit (by my standards) in 2020, but it is hard to get anything from them now, and I can’t yet stomach $.55 /rd for 9mm ball. Only buying .22lr now, when possible.

 

If anyone's interested, see update in original post.

 

I was just in the Albuquerque Cabela's this morning and they actually had some ammo. It wasn't out on the shelf and was sitting on a rack behind the optics counter. Gal said it had just came off the truck. I was able to get Fiocchi 9mm, Federal 10mm and CCI 22lr Mini-Mags. They also had some SD 147 gr 9mm and CCI 22lr subsonic there.

 

Did your bum hurt after paying for it, or was it kinda' "normal" pricing??