Gotdamn, ammo has gotten stupid expensive. I was just at the range. I swear, if I have to have to shoot a motherfucker in self defense, I’m gonna dig through his wallet for cash to get my money back.
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Gotdamn, ammo has gotten stupid expensive. I was just at the range. I swear, if I have to have to shoot a motherfucker in self defense, I’m gonna dig through his wallet for cash to get my money back.
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Yes, but it’s THERE on the shelves…
Well, sometimes.
Get in your time machine, go back 2 years, buy reloading equipment and supplies, stash them in your basement, and then come back to the present. Problem solved!
Or you could buy ammo and sell them now at inflated prices…
[smiles in reloader]
Yup. It has. 35$ for 20 round box of .308…..
Other prob is reloading stuff is back ordered…
Primers are stupid money too. Glad im prepared…
I’ve seen 9mm defensive going for that.
Once I saw fricking .30-30 ammo at +$3.00 a round, I figures l realized how bad it had gotten.
I do have stores of stuff, but nowhere nearly what some folks have. (Having a plethora of calibers kinda cuts into the ability to keep 10k+ in hand for any round other than .22 – although there’s very few who have the supply of 8x56mmR which we do, even if most of it is nearly a century old).
Might have to but a good “high power” BB/pellet air gun just to keep in practice without depleting stocks.
1/29/20 FEDERAL 5.56MM 62 GR GREEN TIP 1000 RDS $299.50
Now
12/17/20 PMC 5.56MM 62 GR GREEN TIP 1000 RDS $739.95
Suddenly, pistol bayonets don’t see like such a stupid idea anymore.
In Portland, going through the pockets afterward will get all the charges dropped.
That’s S.O.P. ’round here…
Some of the stores in central OK are pricing anywhere from a baggie of 50 reloads in 9mm for $35, to a box of factory for $50. And some people buy it because they can’t find any other.
At my local dealer today. Lots of pistols. Lots of modern sporting rifles. Almost no military arms of the wooden stock type.
He use to give a 50 round box of ammo with a purchase, not any more.
They had one baggie of 5.56 steel case, 30 rounds, $16. No idea make, age or anything else. Likely a magazine was unloaded into a baggie.
He was selling 5.56 normal stuff at $31 for 20 rounds.
All ouch
Yes Ammo is either higher priced or just not available on dealer’s shelves.
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Sheer dumb luck, but I happened to be in Academy several days ago (semi-local sporting goods store in South Texas) and wandered by the gun section. Every other time there was nothing but bare shelves. This time they had ammo, .380 and .45 acp, along with some odd cartridges that I don’t care about. Now I have plenty of .45 due to reloading, but damn near out of .380 (wife’s carry gun, don’t really shoot it much but still). Here’s the surprising part – .380 FMJ practice ammo, 50 rnds, $16 a box. Damn, I picked up three and would have got more except there’s a 3 box limit at the store.
I think the .45 acp 50 rnd boxes – again FMJ target stuff – was going for less than $20 box. That’s pre-panic pricing. I almost went back just cause I can’t even get .45 brass that cheap online.
Pretty sure it’s gone now, but if you get lucky some stores out there aren’t price gouging.
As for reloading, it’s the same as ammo. If you don’t have primers, all that equipment is worthless. I have some primers, but starting to run low on small pistol and small pistol magnums. Can’t find replacements anywhere.