Allen Arms Tactical vs Sports South
Both catalogs are synced into one shared vocabulary, so the same UPC can be counted on either side and matched across them. Everything below is what we measured in the two feeds — how much each one lists, how much of it is the same product, and what only one of them carries.
| Allen Arms Tactical | Sports South | |
|---|---|---|
| Active SKUs | 1,565 | 58,618 |
| Distinct UPCs | 1,565 | 58,612 |
| Shared UPCs (both carry) | 609 | |
| Only at this distributor | 956 | 58,003 |
| Uptime | 100% | 99.9% |
| Integration | API | API |
| Freshness | Synced 58 minutes ago | Synced 47 minutes ago |
Where each one will ship it
Taken from each company’s own site on the dates shown on their individual pages. Running a drop-ship programme and naming where the parcel goes are separate questions, and most distributors answer only the first — so “Not stated” below means they have not published it, not that they refuse.
| Allen Arms Tactical | Sports South | |
|---|---|---|
| Ships to your store | Yes | Yes |
| Offers drop-shipping | Yes source | Not stated |
| Ships to your customer's FFL | Not stated | Not stated |
| Ships to your customer's address | Not stated | Not stated |
| Ships NFA items to a receiving SOT | Yes source | Not stated |
Every distributor here ships to your own licensed premises — that is what a wholesale account is, not a policy any one of them publishes. Confirm anything you will act on directly with the distributor.
Which should you open?
Sports South lists 58,612 distinct UPCs to Allen Arms Tactical's 1,565 — about 37.5× the breadth. 609 UPCs are carried by both — 39% of what Allen Arms Tactical lists and 1% of what Sports South lists. Beyond that overlap, 956 UPCs appear on Allen Arms Tactical alone and 58,003 on Sports South alone. If you open one account, Sports South is the wider of the two on its own — it leaves 956 UPCs unreachable, against 58,003 if you open Allen Arms Tactical instead. Carrying both reaches 59,568 distinct UPCs, 956 more than Sports South covers alone. Over the window we monitor, the Allen Arms Tactical feed answered us 100% of the time and the Sports South feed 99.9%.
This is arithmetic on the counts above, not a recommendation of one company over the other. Which account is worth opening also depends on terms and on what your customers ask for, neither of which is in the catalog data we measure. What each company publishes about shipping destinations is in the table above it.
Allen Arms Tactical
Allen Arms Tactical carries one of the smaller catalogs Project Parabellum syncs, focused on a lean assortment rather than trying to cover every category a general-purpose counter needs. For a dealer who already has a primary distributor for volume ordering, an account here works well as a secondary source to fill gaps or chase a specific item when a bigger distributor is out of stock. Its size also means a full sync completes quickly.
Sports South
Sports South is one of the deepest catalogs Project Parabellum syncs, spanning firearms, ammunition, optics, reloading components, and outdoor gear through a single dealer web-service connection. Project Parabellum pulls that catalog on the same automated schedule as every other API-connected distributor, so a dealer gets current stock positions across every one of those categories from one account instead of stitching together several narrower feeds.
Applying for a dealer account
- Apply for a Allen Arms Tactical dealer account — Because the catalog is smaller, check availability here as a secondary source rather than a primary one.
- Apply for a Sports South dealer account — Web-service access is a separate step from the account and is granted per dealer; ask for it when the account is activated. The catalog is large enough that a first full sync takes noticeably longer than for any other distributor.
Both links leave this site. Applications are submitted to, reviewed by, and approved by the distributor themselves — Project Parabellum is not part of that process and cannot speed it up or vouch for you.