Is 30-06 still being made?

The 30-06 remained the U.S. Army’s primary rifle and machine gun cartridge for nearly 50 years before being replaced by the 7.62×51mm NATO and 5.56×45mm NATO, both of which remain in current U.S. and NATO service. It remains a very popular sporting round, with ammunition produced by all major manufacturers.

Why is ammo so hard to get right now?

Unprecedented demand is the actual root cause. WASHINGTON — A Virginia gun owner told us a gun without bullets is just a hammer. And when ammunition supply can’t catch up with demand, you end up with a lot of hammers. Step into most gun stores these days and you’ll be hard-pressed to find full shelves of firearm ammo.

Is it getting harder to find ammo?

As firearm sales continue to set new records, and show little to no sign of slowing down anytime soon, ammunition is likely going to remain expensive and likely difficult to find. Even not so popular calibers, such as .250 Savage, have been increasingly hard to acquire, while the more common calibers are now all but impossible to locate anywhere.

Is it possible to find a box of 30-06 in Texas?

It’s not only handgun rounds that have disappeared. In the last few months, hunters have been dismayed to learn that their annual three boxes of .30-06 can’t be found. I recently visited every outdoor store in Tyler, Texas, looking for a single box of .308 Win. and found nothing.

How much is a 30-06 shell worth today?

A box of .30-06 shells that might have cost $29.99 pre-Trump might retail for $34.99 today. That $5 increase over that amount of time is normal inflation, not price gouging by any stretch of the imagination, especially when you consider the cost of raw materials has also gone up by the same modest margin over the same amount of time.

Why can’t providers keep up with ammo demand?

Providers of the raw materials that are needed to make ammo—copper, lead, gilding metal, gun powder, and the like—were also not prepared to double, much less triple, their production and distribution. Right now, they cannot keep up with what the ammo makers are asking for.