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This is where I am. I probably have 3k rounds of 9mm, and wish that I had more, but there's no way in hell I'm paying $600/case for it. Same with 5.56. Have thousands of rounds of it, but it's still not enough.

Same here. Sitting on my stockpile. Not buying, not selling. Still shooting.

My new son-in-law just got his first gun, a Sig. I took him to my range recently and didn't hesitate to burn up 6 boxes of ammo with him.
I'm not sure he knows the present value of that, but it doesn't matter.
Prices will come back down. I'm not worried.

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Originally posted by konata88:
Is this really new owners? How reliable is that stat?

And this may not be all positive - wonder what percentage of these purchases are antifa prepping for clashes with free america?

With AntiFA being primarily non-working, basement dwelling slackers, I doubt they have the income to legally purchase firearms...........

As long as I remain productive after the rest of the family retires for the night my amount of handloads will exceed my factory 9mm counts by Months end. By the end of January this will be true in .380 and .38 Special too.

I have never relied so much on ammo that I rolled myself to keep me at the range. I am now slowly buying aftermarket Glock barrels for this reason.

Primers have been a challenge but one LGS still has them most of the time and will sell them 200-300 increments. I was fortunate to have an ample supply of powder. Components such as jacketed bullets are tough to get too and are definitely a buy them when available sort of thing now. Which is why I am using more and more home cast bullets. Good thing lead is still available for now.

I can manage the shortage but I definitely wish I had stocked deeper.

Unless you live in Seattle or Portland antifa isn’t much of a threat and even if you do I bet you a couple vets could clear out a chop zone by themselves pretty easily with just a couple AR’s. I bet if you drop a few of them the rest will pop smoke

I may have to dust off the old SMLE next time I go to the range. I bought boatloads of mil-surp .303 back when they were giving it away. So I can shoot .303 to my heart's content while shooting the NATO stuff much more sparingly. That should get me by the next couple of years.

Good time to 'lesser common' calibers.

There was a few boxes of .38 Super and 9x23 Win on the shelf of the LGS last time I was there.

$.02 worth,
Boss

Antifa BLM against vets,hunters,bikers,farmers and other legal gun owners? There's an hour we will never get back!!

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Originally posted by chellim1:
As these newbies learn... they will come to know that firearms ownership is both a right and an incredible responsibility. Rights and responsibilities go together. That's something many have not been taught at home by good parents.

I'm concerned that the newbies are a good mix of antifa who are arming themselves to mount a stronger offensive against free america. Please tell me I'm wrong.

Dude, the way you worry is exhausting.

You are wrong that Antifa is going to do much in an “offensive”. Antifa uses bully tactics and their tactics only work if they can remain with the bully tactics. I’ve said it for some time they are a paper tiger. If they weren’t, they would have spread their mayhem beyond where they did.

Why didn’t they? Because they operated in areas that they owned, where the risk was low. They owned city hall. Police, prosecutors, etc. they never tried their shenanigans where they stood a real risk of the population being unchecked when they fight back.

The media being in their pocket makes them seem more dangerous than what they are.

My wife and I shoot monthly IDPA and ICORE matches.
We use competition reloads for both I get from a company that does them for me. Last I heard from a friend he was out of primers.

We were was almost out of 38 spl and stopped doing ICORE,then a friend came through with some 38spl he does not use anymore. He changed caliber. He charged me what they cost him to buy last year.

My wife and I are on the comity to set up and run our monthly IDPA match. I told our match director he need to lower the round count for matches.
Several people have told me they are not going to burn through their ammo supply (my self included) to shoot monthly matches.


You can find ammo on line,supply is coming back. The problem is 9mm range ammo went from less than $200 a case last year to over $600 a case for the same stuff. I have seen it for as much as $800 a case.

So now we wait and see.

Any and all favors that I am doing now are only returnable in the form of ammunition. It's a new form of currency.

Will BONK for .22!