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On 5/5/2021 at 12:19 PM, Bighanded said:

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Right now, the rare trip I make to any store that "used to" sell ammo, is more about curiosity when I walk down those isles.

 

 

 

 

 

Academy by me has  done away with the ammo isles , used to be two full isles full of every caliper , grain , gauge , etc  ------  now all the ammo is behind the front customer service isle , usually there is only about 10 different kinds of ammo at a time ---  last time I was there , they had 4 guns in the entire gun department 

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one of my LEO buds pinged me this morning that our local cop shop has PMC brass 9mm for $26/box and they are sitting on 10 cases...no limits.

so prices seem to be coming down from the $35/box we've been seeing.

I'm waiting for that $19-$20 box price point and then I'll likely grab another case of 9 and 45..but honestly, if I were never able to buy another bullet, I'm good on inventory.

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My local Rural King is getting better.  Plenty of 308, 762x39 and a whole bunch of Tac22 for $8.99/50.  Before this shortage hit they were over priced at $3.99.  Some guys swear by the Norma Tac22.  I swear at it.  I bought a brick 4 yrs ago, shot a hundred and gave the rest to a buddy that plinks with a suppressed .22.

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I laughed at myself the other day. I had grabbed a pelican box that holds my spotting scope gear and when I opened it, I was surprised to find the last time I had used it (long time back before panicdemic)  I had left 3 boxes of American Eagle 45acp brass and a box of 22lr in there....felt like I had just found a $100 bill on the sidewalk!

year ago, we just tossed boxes of ammo like that around in between range sessions and thought nothing of it.

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I've been considering taking my wife's jewelry out of the safety deposit box and putting my ammo in there.  Hey, jewelry can be replaced!

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I put all my ammo and her jewelry in a gun safe and cancelled my safe deposit box.

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My neighbor is in his early 80s , gets around really good , well he did before he dropped his .25 automatic over this Memorial Day weekend and shot himself in the foot  ---- we were sitting by the neighbors and he got out his truck and was walking up ( limping up ) , so joking with him , I asked " did they take your concealed permit away ? " , he said " No , why you ask that " , I said " if you carrying , then  I got to go " , I stated  calling him Cheddar Bob , but he don't get it as he never seen 8 Mile  ---- he has got me thinking about not keeping one in the chamber 

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This is a copy and post, not my post ::
 
I posted this on my hog hunters group. Seemed it caught a lot of attention.
For all of you out buying ammo? The two pictures are a recent purchase at a walmart. After purchasing the ammo it was noticed that the neck was cracked on one of the shell casings. So every round was inspected and 13 out of 60 of the shells had cracked necks. This isnt walmarts fault. This is the fault of the new manufacturer of remington ammo since post bankruptcy purchase. Vista outdoors purchased Remington ammunition post bankruptcy and seems to have no quailty control. Please check your ammo before purchasing. A cracked shell casing will cause the firearm to exploded and cause severe injury..even death. Just wanted to pass along this info. A lot of first time gun buyers out there and dont know what a danger this is! Please inspect your ammo!
 
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Yikes.  I was hoping quality control would get better under Vista, not worse.

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Ted is making (reading) all the expected talking points.. and he ain't wrong.

Guns have been a simple topic in my family household.

 

1) Dad enjoyed hunting. A shotgun, a deer lever rifle and a pistol for the bedstand..even in the days when nightime meant you latched the little hook on the screen door and that was all.

Ammo on hand at any given time might be a partial box of shotgun shells, maybe a 100rd stick of 22, and a sandwhich baggy with a handful of 30/30 rounds (swear ta God..it was a glad wrap sandwhich bag with the rounds in it!)

If you were planning to hunt or enjoy target fun, you stopped by Western Auto and grabbed a box.

But guns never had a mystic, nor some hyped up wannabee hollywood thing about them

 

2) Fast forward - The closet, the safes now hold pretty much something in every platform. pistols for daily carry and personal protection. Larger platforms for home defense. Even more aggressive platforms for civilian defense. and stacks of ammo and extra magazines, an inventory of which many gun stores can only dream of having on hand to sell these days.

 

so, what's changed?

Govt leaders that send signals to badly behaving people that those people are in fact victims, oppressed by guys like me. 

they send signals to them that they can and should rise up and cause mayhem and that they in fact will get away with it.

 

Then they tell folks like me that I best just accept that I'm the bad guy and that I have no right to own a tool for personal defense.

 

The media frenzies us, along with hollywood help and govt podium vultures, leveraging any piece of bad news as The Reason why all guns should be outlawed.

They threaten to take, they cause supply chain shortages, etc.

 

Hollywood continues to make gazillions of $ on movies that glorify gun violence, really all violence. 

Video gaming is beyond obscene in doing the same.

Schools are happy to teach the oppressed marxist mantra

and decades of democratic socialism programs and spending have only deepened the generational slavery to those programs and driven gangs and street violence to new levels.

 

no, my family, my home mindset would still be pretty simple when it comes to guns.

I'd rather buy another nice guitar, or amp, or some old lionel trains.

 

but then ol Dianne Fienstein gets up on the camera, wielding an evil black rifle telling me that I'm the only class of human that should not be allowed to possess deadly , destructive force to defend against rioters tearing my world apart, or career criminals invading my home at night..and well, my response is again, "pretty simple" . I go to the store, I buy a higher capacity firearm, buy extra mags for it, buy plenty of ammo, and amazingly enough, not a single one of those guns, mags, bullets has yet to commit a crime..darn things just sit there behaving themselves.

I even open the safe sometimes at night and shine a flashlight in there to make sure they haven't snuck out of the house to go commit some horrible act.

 

so, what's changed?  I am afraid of my own government. I am confident in their desire to transform my nation.

and so, i prepare. stock up, and I only ask that they THEY choose to leave this old hound dog lay on the porch.

don't make me get up, and all will be well.

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Went to a nearby urban area yesterday with the wife to run some errands.  Stopped by the local Academy Sports as they showed small pistol primers in stock.  When i asked they looked at me like I was stupid and said "We haven't gotten primers in months.  They're kinda hard to get right now."🙄

 

Went to another locally owned outdoor store who actually had a ton of merchandise in stock.  Full gun racks, and a fairly well stocked reloading aisle.  No primers, but did get a pound of pistol powder so I can reload some 38 special for plinking.  Picked up some cast lead 158 gr LSWC's last week, so guess I'll have to go back to hounding the old man for primers.  LOL

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nice Jeep....yeah, our Academy has basically cleared their ammo shelves and simply use that space to try and sell other product now. their gun cases are also down to mayby 5 pistols last time I looked.  I don't even bother.

my LGS has always been very strong on inventory and they were incredibly well stocked when I stopped in a couple weeks back. Ammo of course, still a major issue, so 1 box per customer..but the 9mm price was down to $26. so at least they were polite about doing what they could without gouging. They had sales in progress from SIG and Smith (M&P line ).

long guns, shotguns, AR style platform racks were full.

pistol cases were full..tight side-by-side display full.

I was happy to support them with a Sig M18 purchase, and while I didn't need ammo at that $26 price, they asked me and I said , sure give me my box.

I'm basically hybernated til this craziness calms down. Family reunion on the calendar for next weekend and they are already asking if they can go out back on my range and plink.. told em just bring their own ammo (grin).

 

I can enjoy the occassional range session as well, but just keeping the round count down. last week, to just check out the new M18, I dumped a 17rd mag and a 21rd mag, enough to figure out the POA for the sights, enjoy the new tool and ensure it was functioning properly... then quick clean and tucked it away for a rainy day.

 

other than that, we have numerous 22lr platforms in both handgun and rifles, so plenty of plinking fun.

I've held a few $ back so when ammo breaks down into my price point I'll grab some more, but for now...enough for the zombies

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I have been shooting quite a bit lately, but only the 22LR's.  Since I got them suppressed I shoot them a lot more. Every time I go on the farm now I take the old High Standard Sport King on my hip.  If I'm planning on being out there a while the 10/22 Takedown comes along too.

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I was born and raised and spent most of my life (yeah I know - sounds like the intro from Fresh Prince) in a country where it is very difficult to own a fire arm of any kind - unless a farmer (rodent control) or a member of a sports shooting club - and even then there are very strict rules with regular checks and inspections of how and where the gun(s) and ammunition is stored.

 

As an American citizen (import from the UK), and a previous board member of our local shooting sports complex here in Colorado, I listened intently to the never ending debate on guns and gun controls. I agree that is the right of Americans to bear arms as described in the second amendment.

 

I can't tell you why there are so many gun related deaths in our great country - when places like Switzerland has as high gun ownership as the US yet has very low gun related deaths. Some say it's a mental health issue.  I don't believe America is any more mental than any other developed country -  so I have concluded it is cultural.

 

Nonetheless, here are some interesting statistics - sliced and diced from many perspectives - on gun related deaths in the US.

https://usafacts.org/data/topics/security-safety/crime-and-justice/firearms/firearm-deaths/

I'm a data scientist - so I find data fascinating. I make no judgement.

 

The second amendment is still needed.

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Aside from gang shooting and the like, I believe the media gives the nut jobs out there a platform to go down in flames and glory. Then everyone will know who they were. Hard to stop someone ahead of time if they have a death wish. Laws surely won't do it, so it's up to each individual to decide if they want to be a victim.

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hey Mark...first off..welcome (belated) to America.

 

and yeah, I tend to like doing basic math myself (do if for a living actually).

 

so i did a quick study...

counted the firearms here in my house

counted the rounds of ammo/(magazines*capacity)

trend over time (years of ownership here and prior to me buying used models manufacturing date)

and darn if the calculator didn't come back with Zero(0)

I rechecked, crossed the numerator with the denominator, multiplied by the square root of the dimensions of a 1911 pistol and still came up with zero...as in zero people shot/killed by all these guns and bullets.

 

I must be doing something wrong with my algebra.

 

maybe if I try Trigonometry (grin)

 

i've even left the safe door open and put a security camera to watch it and the guns just sit there, not once has one crawled out of the safe and gun on a rampage.

 

 

 

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On 6/5/2021 at 6:54 AM, 01RUBY500 said:

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John Kennedy from my great state of Louisiana , he tells it like it is , I like the guy !!!! 

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While reloading shells yesterday My wad guide came loose and I couldn’t screw it back together because the threads were stripped. So I ordered new one from P/W. 
While on there website home page they have a big notice that says there is a 7 month back order for all new reloading machines. 
Just another part of the ammo shortage  

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14 hours ago, 01RUBY500 said:

While reloading shells yesterday My wad guide came loose and I couldn’t screw it back together because the threads were stripped. So I ordered new one from P/W. 
While on there website home page they have a big notice that says there is a 7 month back order for all new reloading machines. 
Just another part of the ammo shortage  

 

What PW loader do you have?  Dad has a 375 (which is still in the box, of course).  I have an old Pacific 266 and a couple of 155's.

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