Hornady American Gunner 6.5 Grendel

[NugginFutz]

Thanks, that makes more sense.

I can’t keep track of who’s on first! I start the thread and people start answering everybody else!

No problem. While you hardly "started" this thread, (VASCAR did that months ago), much of the back and forth created by your post was a repetition of previous postings within this and other threads. There was some reference to that in the latest responses.

I had that talk with them about some other items. The stores do not order product. They receive product only. Some person driving a desk at the home office sends them what he/she thinks they need. You can not even special order items. Order online and ship to store is doable, until you hit Hazmat. Then it has to be shipped to your address.

Had the same talk with the shooting department manager(s) at the local store. They opened the store a little over a year ago with the ammo shelves stacked deep and wide for all the popular calibers, 6.x included. Now? Mostly gaps, here and there, with plenty of 308, 223 and some stuff that always seems to get used as bookends for the other calibers. The kid on the floor said they had no 6.5 G because it wasn't selling, (contradictory, if you ask me.) and that's why it wasn't being stocked. Spoke with the manager on that occasion, and explained to him that it was marketing like this that previously drove me away from Sportsman's, but now that they had pallets of AG in various popular calibers, I would be taking my ammunition business back there. The guy told me how since being bought by Bass Proshops, their ordering system had completely changed and there was nothing he could do. My parting comment was to tell him that they were losing customers, and word of mouth goes a long way in this state.


ETA: Come to think of it, I recall having this same discussion with Sticks, a while back.