Federal Ammo Corp

  • fishbait
    Posts: 149
    October 27, 2008 at 2:33 pm #719457

    Great education show. Thank for breaking thing down on both the GPS and your jig presentation.

    cdm
    Oronoco, SE. MN.
    Posts: 771
    April 15, 2013 at 12:01 am #205047

    Does anyone work for Federal in Anoka or know anyone ? Are they hiring like crazy, working buccou ot or just hoping this ammo shortage/hoarding will go away ?

    jay55447
    Plymouth MN.
    Posts: 1031
    April 15, 2013 at 2:26 am #130014

    Cant say if they are hiring but they are working 24/7

    kooty
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    April 15, 2013 at 11:32 am #130015

    Yes, they are working like mad. 15 million rounds of .22 lr a day.

    gundez-71
    South Minnesota
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    April 15, 2013 at 2:14 pm #130016

    The way our high school trap team is burning up shotgun shells should keep them going for awhile!!! Good to see these kids out doing this.

    Gundy

    cdm
    Oronoco, SE. MN.
    Posts: 771
    April 15, 2013 at 3:40 pm #130018

    Wow, and yet I cant find any on the shelves anywhere

    kooty
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    April 15, 2013 at 3:58 pm #130019

    I gotta get a tour of that place some day. How cool would it be to see the manufacturing process.

    darrin_bauer
    Inactive
    Menomonie Wi.
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    April 15, 2013 at 6:12 pm #130020

    Mills Fleet Farm in Menomonie is starting to refill the shelves albeit at inflated prices but you can now find .22LR, .223, and 12ga slugs. They even have a handful of AR-15’s in the case. We seem to have turned the corner but prices need to come down. They aren’t moving the .223 at $19.89 for a box of 20.

    johnee
    Posts: 731
    April 15, 2013 at 8:12 pm #130027

    Federal Cartridge is owned by ATK.

    It does not appear that a labor shortage has Federal doing a lot of hiring. Like most manufacturing now days, I suspect that just having more people will not speed up production. Excess capacity = waste so manufacturing these days is set up to have just enough capacity to fill the average demand.

    With a massive spike in demand, there simply isn’t enough capacity to come anywhere close to meeting demand. Real life is not like Star Trek, there’s no such thing as running at 125% capacity.

    The problem now is there is so much pent up demand that it’s going to take a long time before people quit buying everything they see.

    Grouse

    Hunting4Walleyes
    MN
    Posts: 1552
    April 16, 2013 at 4:07 pm #130043

    I have a friend that works there. They are in the process of bringing two more .223 lines into production. It’s a little more than bringing two machines in a plugging them in. They are building these two lines on site. So, hang in there, they are expanding their capabilities.

    ccales
    Posts: 32
    September 10, 2013 at 9:13 pm #131790

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    I gotta get a tour of that place some day. How cool would it be to see the manufacturing process.

    Do they actually offer tours? That would be really interesting.

    kooty
    Keymaster
    1 hour 15 mins to the Pond
    Posts: 18101
    September 10, 2013 at 10:49 pm #131795

    I don’t know. I suppose possibly if you know the right people. My neighbor happens to work there.

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