Since the ammo shortage started a couple of years ago, several things have happened that are actually good.
Remington finally finished bankruptcy, and divided up. The company that owns Federal, bought the Remington ammo rights. Remington ammo has started showing up just about everywhere now.
Fiocci, an Italian ammo company, is building or has finished building an ammo plant in Arkansas.
Beretta-Benelli, another Italian company, bought up Norma ammo company, and is building a factory to make ammo for the American market in Savanah, Georgia. I think Norma was a Swedish company.
Anyway, the existing American ammo companies are running 24-7 to keep up production and it is starting to show up.
The Bidet administration, I think stopped the import of ammo, thus the ammo companies building in America.
Since 2020, there are around 20 million NEW gun owners adding to the ammo demand. Many are women, and some are liberals.
Survivalists, preppers, and active shooters still buy a lot of ammo, even at the higher prices. Prices will never come down to the pre-2020 levels due to inflation alone as well as the supply/demand problems. Obumer closed the last remaining lead producing plant in Missouri when he was in office due to "environmental" reasons. So, we import lead now.
So, buy when you can, shoot less, and store more than you shoot. Get a green laser bore sighter, that you can see on the target at 100 yards to sight in your rifles to save ammo. I have a couple of sons that I went shooting sporting clays, skeet, and trap with at least 3-4 times a year. We shot about a case of shotgun shells each, every time we went to shoot. That is about 24-36 cases of #8 or #7.5 shot. This was ok when it was $50 a case at Walmart. Now it is over $100 a case. Cut our shooting out, during covid for about 2 years. Now with inflation, high food and energy prices, it is hard to go shooting anymore. Even 22's are high, but they are available.
Even bow hunting is expensive, especially to target practice with arrows at $5-10 or more each. If you lose or damage one with target practice, it is expensive.
Might get into trapping. Cheaper, quieter, but you can't legally snare a deer in most states. But, squirrels, rabbits, you can.