AmmoSquared at the NRA Annual Meeting Next Week! Next weekend we’ll be setting up a booth at the 153rd NRA Annual Meeting in Dallas (May 16-19th). Booth 6923. Customers be sure to stop by and say “hi” because we'll bring along some special never before issued morale patches just for AmmoSquared customers. Pick them
Strategic Ammo Reserve Just over a week ago, on January 31st, ammunition sellers across the country were suddenly flooded with orders. Some sites went dark from the massive amount of traffic and others were quickly going out of stock on popular calibers. If you live in California you already know the story, but
Run-n-Gun Do You Even Run 'N Gun Bro? From triathlons on Catalina Island to today’s Run N Gun competitions, I’ve discovered the power of pairing fitness with firearms. It’s a test of endurance, accuracy, and mindset.
New Video + Sneak Peak Ahead We just finished a pretty BAD ASS video I wanted to share with everyone... I’m extremely pleased with how it turned out. Shout out to Silverline Films for the great work they did. What do you think? Good? Too much? If you like it please share and hit the
Hope for the best, but plan for the worst in 2024 Hope for the best, but plan for the worst. That is a good saying for just about any time but it’s especially relevant today. It is exactly how I’m looking at 2024... As we toasted the new year, it was interesting to talk to and find out that
Goals Setting Personal Goals for 2024 As 2023 comes to a close, I figure now is a great time to introduce myself and do an article on goals, specifically my personal Run N Gun training goals for 2024. Going forward, you'll see more regular contributions from me to the AmmoSquared blog like Danielle did
Christmas Message 2023 A few years back, my family and I watched a movie about the writing of Charles Dickens’ famous novel, A Christmas Carol. The movie was very well done, and we all enjoyed it, but it left me with an uneasy feeling. Not because of the story itself, but because of
Ammo Prices on the Rise... But It's Not What You Think If you are on social media or read some of the same blogs I do, then you might have seen talk about “ammo prices rising substantially in 2024”. Let’s dissect this and see if there is any merit to that claim… This time, unlike the 223/556 scare from
Why We Don't Do Black Friday Sales While other retailers flooded inboxes with Black Friday and Cyber Monday ads, AmmoSquared stayed true to our mission: no gimmicks, no sales—just steady value.
Veteran's Day 2023 Our position as a global superpower hasn't come cheap. The US has spent the majority of its history in wars both large and small. Those wars come at a huge price, not only in dollars but also in lives. While some don't make it back from
Is Ammunition a Commodity? What do you think? Is ammunition a consumer commodity like gasoline, milk, or carrots? To answer that we should probably start with some definitions... What exactly is a commodity? According to Merriam-Webster, the definition for a commodity is: 1c: a mass-produced unspecialized product 2a: something useful or valued
Navigating Future Ammo Shortages with a Plan As the past few weeks have shown, world events affect the US ammunition consumer. Sometimes quickly and unexpectedly. This is probably a good time to talk about having an ammunition management plan...
Ammo Update - October 2023 It has been a while since I’ve given an ammo update, because, well there hasn’t been anything unusual that needed to be shared. It is like the dash on your car, if everything is in the green and good to go, you don’t need a blinky light
When Bad Sh*t Happens Today is a good time to talk about bad stuff happening to good people and how to be prepared for it.
New Survey Results + Mantis X10 Winners! This month we conducted another survey, this time with non-customers. I’d like to announce the winners and do a deep dive into some of the findings. In September we did a NON-Customer survey to find out how people who aren’t our customers thought about us and
Got Values? Do you know who you are doing business with? In most cases you might not know what a company's values are because they don't publish them. Or if they do, they certainly don't follow them (e.g.: Do No Evil - Google). Well, we just
Caliber Options Everyone Has Been Asking For... One of the things I mentioned last week, was that we are going to be making some SKU updates based on customer feedback from the survey. Here is the first wave of caliber updates... 223 / 556 New Separated Options (available now) We're adding additional SKUs to separate 223
And the Survey Says... Yesterday we wrapped up our most comprehensive customer survey to date. We're pretty excited! The results of this survey are eye opening and will provide fuel to get us to the next level. Needless to say this was a pretty important project for us and will pay dividends
There's An App For That Did you know that we recently launched an "app" for AmmoSquared? No we weren't able to somehow bribe Apple or Google to let us on their respective app stores, we launched it independently of those tech monopolies... The next time you sign in to your account
What is Public Square? I think we're similar, you and me. Here's what I mean: I support businesses local to me, my state, and my country, in that order, as much as I can. Plus, nine times out of ten, I will support a small business before a larger one,
2 Steps Forward... 1 Step Back I hate rules. Especially bureaucratic rules. That is the main reason I became an entrepreneur. I wanted to escape the bureaucracy of corporate life. I remember meetings with no purpose other than to stroke the ego of the person setting the meeting, emails with 15 CC's, documents that
How Healthy is your Ammunition Stockpile? How much ammo is enough? Discover the 5 tiers of an ammunition stockpile, from inadequate to incredible, and learn what it takes to be truly prepared.
The Ammo Feeding Frenzy Has Finally Died Down We haven't seen ammo prices hit this level since 2019... Time to invest in some BRASS and LEAD!
Confessions of a Long Range Shooting Noob So I have a dilemma... Recently I’ve turned my attention to long range shooting. I’m not a long range shooter now but I’m working on learning the craft and becoming one. Danielle (my wife) is also interested in learning long range shooting. We have signed up for
Pioneers Get The Arrows There is a saying in business that “Pioneers get the arrows while settlers get the land”. I was reminded of this recently when one of our press releases got picked by TFB (The Firearm Blog) and they wrote a short article about AmmoSquared. We were happy to see this because
