Sorry to hear of that difficulty. I do hope people can find pellets to shoot. I wasn't referring to anyone in this thread as I don't believe anyone has been denigrated for buying in bulk in this topic. Some have done so elsewhere, however. I just lucked into it actually. I recalled the shortages after Obama and though such MIGHT happen again, I was still working regularly with disposable income, I already had lots of guns set up and knew what they liked, and I was nearing retirement and new I'd be shooting more this year. So I bought lots of what my guns liked. No extra intelligence here, just the result of "things". But attacking other's buying patterns seems to be less than sensible to me as it's a free country (for a while, at least).