overheard at gunstore today

[Arcamm]

What was the going rate for 5.56mm 55gr per round before the sky opened up?

I was cringing at the thought of paying 34 cents a round, delivered.

 

[DC-W]

I bought plenty of 22lr way back over the summer and boy, am I glad I did.
My bolt action marlin never gets too hungry, lol.

It's a bummer, but stocking up on 9mm target ammo seems out of the question right now. I'll just buy from the range until things settle.

 

[fuzzyclan]

I guess the old saying applies here:

"You want to play, you gotta pay"

I guess I'll have to skip eating out :-)

 

[Ab_Normal]

I saw a funny quote "Due to price increases, no warning shots are given"

 

[tdt91]

You can't find ammo because Home Land security bought 1.6 billion rounds lately

 

[plasty]

Told my buddy the same thing on New Years eve when he asked if I was going to fire a couple rounds off at midnight. I told him I was just going to take the gun out and yell bang a few times cause ammo is too expensive to shoot.

http://articles.baltimoresun.com/20...20130103_1_ajs-court-stray-bullet-celebratory

Just a thought..happened near you.

 

[dev]

What was the going rate for 5.56mm 55gr per round before the sky opened up?

Pre-election .30 cents a round
Post-election .32 cents a round and creeping up.

Post Sandy Hook $1 a round leaning towards a singularity.


Having said that I rapid fired 30 rounds of XM193 on Saturday afternoon and when I got back home I found two misplaced boxes that I thought I lost of PMC .223.

All is right in the universe that is if you stocked up ahead of time.

 

[NukeNick]

I am constantly cruising the gun shops and Walmart, searching for ammo. I shoot what I can find. I don't want to shoot anything in my stockpile right now.

Its hard for me to take from my stash either!

No shooting, only buying when available.....

I am more of a buyer right now for sure. I could make a range trip and still feel alright.

I would assume a lot of folks would love to have the ammo cache that I am sitting on. But I KNOW there is folks reading this that have a bigger stash than me. Tough times, but we will all get through this.

 

[mbz300sdl]

shit i really had to think about shooting my 10/22.
how fvcked up is that!

I haven't shot since November and I think I have gotten 15 new guns since then

 

[anil]

Life immitating art.

There's a game from a few years back called "Metro 2033". Ammo is used as currency. You have to decide if you need it as money, or need to use it to survive. Keep meaning to pick that up when it is on sale on Steam, but haven't played it yet.

 

[snavematt]

Worked at GC yesterday, Harry got a call for some forfive fourty five

 

[Deep Creek Rock]

Ammo shortage... what ammo shortage?

Gotta learn to grow your own food, to keep your guns fed properly. Ironically I shoot more 45ACP, then 22LR these days. Once a box gets emptied, it gets reloaded promptly, to main the supply. Im not going to forgo my sport, because if the current gun hoarding market.

 

[ccarson]

Ammo shortage... what ammo shortage?

Gotta learn to grow your own food, to keep your guns fed properly. Ironically I shoot more 45ACP, then 22LR these days. Once a box gets emptied, it gets reloaded promptly, to main the supply. Im not going to forgo my sport, because if the current gun hoarding market.

That is a purty picture

 

[Arcamm]

One shot, one kill, one dollar.

 

[Sundazes]

Ammo shortage... what ammo shortage?

Gotta learn to grow your own food, to keep your guns fed properly. Ironically I shoot more 45ACP, then 22LR these days. Once a box gets emptied, it gets reloaded promptly, to main the supply. Im not going to forgo my sport, because if the current gun hoarding market.

Some call the police. This guy has a high capacity cache of homemade explosive devises. Oh the humanity.

 

[Lucca1]

Keep your eye on Natchez. I purchased several 50 round boxes of 9mm yesterday at 2012 prices. They go fast but they did have PMC bronze, S&B and Federal FMJs. They all went into inventory following morning recepts before noon.

 

[Semper Noctem]

Ammo shortage... what ammo shortage?

Gotta learn to grow your own food, to keep your guns fed properly. Ironically I shoot more 45ACP, then 22LR these days. Once a box gets emptied, it gets reloaded promptly, to main the supply. Im not going to forgo my sport, because if the current gun hoarding market.

You must have stocked primers and powder pretty deep then. Good forethought!

I wish I had gotten into reloading this past summer, but I chose to purchase a few other things first.

I'm not shooting any of my stockpile, but my local store has range ammo at a fair price for when I do want to shoot.

9mm is about $28/100 for range use only. Eh, it works.

 

[67temp]

Besides buying some .40 for my wife for xmas I havent bought ammo since before the election. Last summer I picked up 3k of 9mm reloads for .16 a round shipped. Last spring I started picking up federal bulk 22lr everytime I stopped at walmart. Also tacked on several bricks of cci blazer 22lr onto orders from natchez when they had them on sale for $18. I still have atleast 5k of 22lr left. It has been nice just sitting back and not worrying about finding ammo.

 

[PapiBarcelona]

You can't find ammo because Home Land security bought 1.6 billion rounds lately

That's a lot, but don't forget the coast guard is under DHS.

 

[highfructosecornsyrup]

if i come across a reasonable price, ill buy ammo. I refuse to pay some of these premiums so ill buy silver instead at the moment. When ammo starts to come back down, once the shock of the "lower" price wears off well be back to where we were even though this could take years.