I'm not arguing. I'm stating how I buy what I buy. I don't shoot enough to purchase quantities online worth the shipping cost for an already expensive round. My buying strategy is to buy a couple boxes of what I want to shoot on sale and stock pile it for when i get the rare half and hour to go punch holes in paper. I fund this with a bit of left over "lunch money" so that it doesn't affect the family budget. I stick to locally available rounds so that I can purchase what I find when I browse. I've got a bunch of 9mm, less. 45, even less .32, etc. I think a lot of casual shooters purchase that way. My only point in this thread has been all along that should one in my town walk into the 4 largest sellers of guns and or ammo, step up to the counter and say, "I would like to purchase a .41 revolver and/or .41 ammo." they will tell you that they dont stock it and they can order it for you and have it in a couple days to a week. You will not walk out of the store with it in hand. It physically is not here. All I have said is that .41, in my geographic region, is rarer than hen's teeth to the point that it may as well be dodo's teeth. You'll find 20 different flavors of rifle rounds that will put a deer down post haste, many of them are illegal for hunting here as they aren't straight walled or big enough in caliber, but no .41 magnum as far as I know of.
I understand that getting ammo online is an Avenue. I'm one of those dagblasted millennials. My "lazy" generation kinda perfected having stuff dropped at the door in two days from an online merchant. I know how to procure ammo. I simply mean that of the wall of probably 50 chamberings at the LGS/Academy .41 magnum is not on the shelves. If any of you would like to make a trip to my town, I will gladly and in full sincerity shake your hand and buy you a beer. If you would like to go shoot some .41 magnum before we have said beer, you will need to bring your own as there is for all intents and purposes none here to be had.
There used to be many wolves in this area. Now there are functionally zero wolves. I know that wolves exist. I just probably won't stumble across one in this area outside of the zoo. It would be really cool to see a wolf in the wild. I would love it if more of them were around, but that is not the case. That does not detract from the wolves. It does not make them lesser animals because they are not here, but they are not.
I apologize for the continued thread drift, and I won't further comment as I dont want to be the cause of it to get locked for drifting. As I have said three times now, my first post was in jest about the availability of the round. I have never stumbled across a .41 magnum round in this area. I just assumed it was just as rare other places. For that assumption, i apologize.