Camfour vs Crow Shooting Supply

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.

Catalog size, overlap, feed uptime, and integration type for Camfour and Crow Shooting Supply.
CamfourCrow Shooting Supply
Active SKUs19,25424,386
Distinct UPCs19,24924,387
Shared UPCs (both carry)3,982
Only at this distributor15,26720,405
Uptime98.9%100%
IntegrationAPISFTP
FreshnessSynced 1 hour agoSynced 1 hour ago

What each one lists most of

Camfour and Crow Shooting Supply describe their catalogs in their own words, and we resolve both against one shared product vocabulary before counting. A category below therefore means the same thing on either side. Each list is that distributor’s own largest categories, counted in active listings.

Camfour

Firearm
11,243
Parts & Components
2,004
Ammunition
1,406
Tools & Maintenance
1,331
Magazine
1,054
Targets & Range
336
Holster
318
Reloading
296

Crow Shooting Supply

Parts & Components
6,485
Firearm
5,009
Reloading
3,595
Optic
2,958
Tools & Maintenance
1,759
Magazine
1,267
Safe & Storage
941
Light & Laser
292

Firearm, Parts & Components, Reloading, Tools & Maintenance and Magazine appear in both lists, so those counts can be read against each other directly.

Each list stops at that distributor’s eight largest categories. A category on one list and not the other is one we have not counted here, not one that distributor does not carry.

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.

Drop-ship programme and shipping destinations for Camfour and Crow Shooting Supply.
CamfourCrow Shooting Supply
Ships to your storeYesYes
Offers drop-shippingNot statedNot stated
Ships to your customer's FFLNot statedNot stated
Ships to your customer's addressNot statedNot stated
Ships NFA items to a receiving SOTNot statedNot 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?

Crow Shooting Supply lists 24,387 distinct UPCs to Camfour's 19,249 — about 1.3× the breadth. 3,982 UPCs are carried by both — 21% of what Camfour lists and 16% of what Crow Shooting Supply lists. Beyond that overlap, 15,267 UPCs appear on Camfour alone and 20,405 on Crow Shooting Supply alone. If you open one account, Crow Shooting Supply is the wider of the two on its own — it leaves 15,267 UPCs unreachable, against 20,405 if you open Camfour instead. Carrying both reaches 39,654 distinct UPCs, 15,267 more than Crow Shooting Supply covers alone. The largest category in both lists is Firearm — Camfour lists 11,243 there to Crow Shooting Supply's 5,009. Over the window we monitor, the Camfour feed answered us 98.9% of the time and the Crow Shooting Supply feed 100%.

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.

Camfour

Camfour syncs a mid-to-large catalog mixing firearms, ammunition, and accessories, connected through a dealer API on the same automated schedule as the other API-connected distributors here. For a dealer weighing how many accounts to run, Camfour's breadth is wide enough to anchor a storefront on its own rather than serving only as a supplemental source.

How to open a Camfour dealer account

Crow Shooting Supply

Crow Shooting Supply syncs a large catalog through a file-drop connection rather than a live API, and it's one of two distributors on this hub — alongside Iron Valley — where Project Parabellum authenticates with credentials tied to your specific dealer account rather than a shared integration key. That means Crow's catalog and stock data only appear on the hub once a dealer has connected their own account, unlike the API-based distributors whose general catalogs sync independent of any one dealer's credentials.

How to open a Crow Shooting Supply dealer account

Applying for a dealer account

  • Apply for a Camfour dealer accountThe catalog's size makes this workable as either a primary or a supplemental account depending on your other distributor mix.
  • Apply for a Crow Shooting Supply dealer accountSFTP credentials are dealer-specific; connecting Crow to Project Parabellum requires your own login, not a shared account. Because this is a file-drop connection, updates land on Crow's schedule rather than on demand.

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.

Project Parabellum is not affiliated with Camfour or Crow Shooting Supply, and neither distributor reviews or supplies this page.

The counts here are our own measurements of the feeds we sync, refreshed hourly. They describe what each distributor sends us, which is not the same thing as everything either company sells, and they will differ from figures published elsewhere.