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Pulled some money to build a shop but that’s on hold, hopefully enough folks panic to push the market below 15,000, then I’ll wait until the end of the year and build it for half the cost.

That would be just great , Thanks.
 
Advice won’t help you for this run but might for the next one. Seems like the best way to learn that something is hot is not to be informed of the fact, rather to experience it. I may be just getting old but didn’t we do the panic thing at the start of the last Presidents term? Yeah, seems silly that just a few years ago people were getting in line to pay $100 for $10 magazines, ask yourself why and to what end?

Stay calm and don’t “stock up” when everyone else is. Buy low, sell high. Become your own supply chain. Don’t reload all your components into ammunition. Save for a rainy day. I am sure others can add other comments old folks that went through hard times told them.

Maybe the most important lesson is that you are riding a wave, not unlike others in the past (except this one is the most media driven one I have seen, folks in Canada would have cleaned off the grocery shelves during Katrina all things being equal) things will get back to normal, even if it’s a new normal.
 
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Fiocchi might be having problems but I can't find anything online. They are located it northern Italy, in the Lombardy region, which has been in the news quite a bit.
 
Got all the ammo I need. I started reloading years ago just so I'd always have ammo. I know some people that have ammo left over from 2008-2010.What a waste! IMO.
 
I'm still hopeful that this shortage will be short and gentle. Or at least shorter and gentler than ~2013. From what I've seen over the years, there were a ton of gun owners who experienced the last drought and swore they'd never be caught flat-footed again. I know I did.
 
Funny thing is, a couple months ago, I bought a bunch of ammo from a guy that stockpiled after last time. Famous last words " I have way too much. No way I'll ever need it"
 
Lots of ammo at the LGS & GunBroker
I have been watching the prices skyrocket seems like a repeat of the Obama scare.
Also seen 10 squares of TP being sold on ebay never thought I would see that.

I can just imagine the craziness if the grid went down or something far worse.
 
Nothing new. I have been in my current business for 10+ years and every year there is some type of panic buying that sends people hoarding ammo and usually "assault weapons" they fear will be banned.

My experience is it kills businesses like mine because people will put off safety related items like handgun safes because they need to buy another 10,000 rounds of ammo.

I have only seen one bump in business and that was after Sandy Hook when people thought Obama was going to be able to implement National storage laws. As soon as the Senate turned Republican the frenzy ended and back to normal.

These panic buys hurt some gun related companies more than you would realize and the ammo and gun manufacturers always benefit.
 
That's ridiculous. Obviously we need some common sense toilet paper control. No one needs a couple dozen rolls of toilet paper!

And 1000 sheets per roll is way too many. There ought to be a reasonable limit. And it must be locked up and inaccessible until time of need. THINK OF THE CHILDREN
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Last week I was happy to get rid of some ammo that I have had for several years. Sold a couple cases each of 7.62X39, 223, 5.56 at the local gun show. Glad I still have a couple cases of 223. They're mine.
 
I went to Academy to get a few things yesterday and of course looked at ammo, always do...

One of the workers was putting out signs that they were out of certain calibers/gauges. I guess they're tired of people asking. Not a round of 9mm, 40 S&W, 38 Special or 12 gauge buckshot to be found. They had 3 20 round boxes of 45 ACP hollow points. 22LR is limited to 3 boxes.

Hopefully this panic is short lived.
 
exactly why I load my own ammo! and keep a healthy supply of loaded ammo and enough "parts" to reload several more times!
 
Life is funny. I had no desire to participate in a panic buying spree. So of course last night I got a notification email from Target Sports that 10mm Silvertip at $14.99/box was back in stock. It’s one of the few full-power 10mm defensive load from any major maker and it’s been out of stock forever. Who knows how long it will be in stock again, especially since it’s less expensive than most other HP choices, so I ordered a case.

Last night they were estimating a 10 day shipping delay. When I placed my order this morning it had increased to 12-15 days.
 
I don’t understand why some people buy ammo that they never plan to shoot.
I will end up shooting all of my ammo or have family or friends come shoot with me.
Now I do buy a lot of ammo when the prices are right, but I hand loaded my hunting ammo or anything special that I need.
In the last few years I have been stockpiling, but not for emergencies. I have an emergency stash that I rotate out every few years. What I have been stockpiling for is retirement.
I retire in August and will have to adjust some of my spending habits, no more overtime coming in.
One thing I have learned is that the price of ammo is always going up. So when there’s a good sale or just a super good deal, I buy more ammo.
When I retire in August, I won’t have to buy ammo for three or four years.
Now I have helped friends in times of need because I am able to. During the 22 ammo shortage many of my friends had no trouble finding ammo to hunt or take their kids shooting. When bulk pack Federal was going for around $75 a pack, I was selling it for $25 to $30 to friends. I just set that money aside and when ammo was available again at good prices I bought 20,000 rounds of 22 ammo on my first order. Just last week I had ordered 4,000 rounds of 22. Some was for hunting at .05 cents a round, but 3,000 of it was for plinking at .03 cents a round.
A good friend stopped by the house yesterday to pick up a cedar chest. We were shooting the bull and he mentioned that he had forgot to place an order for some 62gr 5.56 ammo to test out a couple of ARs he had just built. He said he only had about 200 rounds and didn’t want to shoot it all up with all the stuff that was going on. I asked what did he need, 500 or 1,000 rounds. He went home with 1,000 rounds of Federal M855. We agreed that $340 would be a fair price and that he could wait till this Coronavirus stuff blows over to pay me.
Just remember that life is to short to walk around with a stick up you butt. Help out friends and family when you can, and be friendly to people, until you have to punch them in their face.
To any members here on the forum that lives close by, if you got caught off guard and you are shot on ammo, just stop by and I’ll see what I can do.
 
I dont know if its because PSA is bogged down with ammo orders, but still waiting for them to ship a pistol I ordered Sunday
 
don’t understand why some people buy ammo that they never plan to shoot.
I never buy anything I don't intend to use. They say the road to hell is paved with good intentions though, and the intentions I had to build a privacy fence are now part of the table I made to put ammo on for guns I haven't owned in 20 years...
 
I never buy anything I don't intend to use. They say the road to hell is paved with good intentions though, and the intentions I had to build a privacy fence are now part of the table I made to put ammo on for guns I haven't owned in 20 years...
I do understand that some people sell or trade guns and end up with ammo they no longer need. I see that ammo as money that can be put into something else.
What I was talking about are the ones that buy more than they know they will ever shoot, but they buy it just to have it.
I friend of mine up in Illinois just bought 7,000 of 7.62 NATO for .25 cents a round from a guy.
The guy’s father had passed away and had over 30,000 rounds of 7.62 ammo. He told my friend that his dad had not been shooting in many years, but just kept buying ammo.
 
I understand entirely. I guess for me more than anything is handloads I'd worked up for different rifles I no longer own. Not really stuff I'd feel comfortable selling as loaded ammo, most likely useless if I get another rifle in the same caliber...and I'm too lazy to pull all the bullets. But its easy enough to over-do it when I feel the need to have a back up for my back up's back up.
 
I dont know if its because PSA is bogged down with ammo orders, but still waiting for them to ship a pistol I ordered Sunday

That's just normal PSA shipping times, could take up to a week or more. Never order anything from them you're in a hurry to get.
 
I do understand that some people sell or trade guns and end up with ammo they no longer need. I see that ammo as money that can be put into something else.
What I was talking about are the ones that buy more than they know they will ever shoot, but they buy it just to have it.
I friend of mine up in Illinois just bought 7,000 of 7.62 NATO for .25 cents a round from a guy.
The guy’s father had passed away and had over 30,000 rounds of 7.62 ammo. He told my friend that his dad had not been shooting in many years, but just kept buying ammo.
Part of it is that I can comfortably keep shooting whatever I want at times like this and not worry about it. Plus some of the ammo I have was bought at really good prices which I took advantage of. I got about 1400 rounds of 308 from a pawn shop last year that was part of an estate. The price ended up being half of what you find online. It will take me a while to shoot that, but I figure I will eventually.
 
It sure is funny how often this boom/bust cylce keeps repeating. The local Academy store booted a guy out for literally filling a shopping cart with all the 223/556 and 22 ammo on the shelves and pushing it around the store telling people they had to buy from him if they wanted any on Sunday afternoon. Talk about goofy!

Also silly was just 2 weeks ago people were talking about not wasting money on 1000 round cases of steel cased 9mm on sale for $120 delivered. Those same people now will run over Grammy to buy that same junky 9mm for $25 a box at the local gun store.
 
I don’t understand why some people buy ammo that they never plan to shoot.
I will end up shooting all of my ammo or have family or friends come shoot with me.
Now I do buy a lot of ammo when the prices are right, but I hand loaded my hunting ammo or anything special that I need.
In the last few years I have been stockpiling, but not for emergencies. I have an emergency stash that I rotate out every few years. What I have been stockpiling for is retirement.
I retire in August and will have to adjust some of my spending habits, no more overtime coming in.
One thing I have learned is that the price of ammo is always going up. So when there’s a good sale or just a super good deal, I buy more ammo.
When I retire in August, I won’t have to buy ammo for three or four years.
Now I have helped friends in times of need because I am able to. During the 22 ammo shortage many of my friends had no trouble finding ammo to hunt or take their kids shooting. When bulk pack Federal was going for around $75 a pack, I was selling it for $25 to $30 to friends. I just set that money aside and when ammo was available again at good prices I bought 20,000 rounds of 22 ammo on my first order. Just last week I had ordered 4,000 rounds of 22. Some was for hunting at .05 cents a round, but 3,000 of it was for plinking at .03 cents a round.
A good friend stopped by the house yesterday to pick up a cedar chest. We were shooting the bull and he mentioned that he had forgot to place an order for some 62gr 5.56 ammo to test out a couple of ARs he had just built. He said he only had about 200 rounds and didn’t want to shoot it all up with all the stuff that was going on. I asked what did he need, 500 or 1,000 rounds. He went home with 1,000 rounds of Federal M855. We agreed that $340 would be a fair price and that he could wait till this Coronavirus stuff blows over to pay me.
Just remember that life is to short to walk around with a stick up you butt. Help out friends and family when you can, and be friendly to people, until you have to punch them in their face.
To any members here on the forum that lives close by, if you got caught off guard and you are shot on ammo, just stop by and I’ll see what I can do.


I’m basically in the same boat as you...my goal is to have enough ammo when I retire that I can do “all the shooting” I want for years afterward. “All the shooting” “ included family and I and first time shooters who I never charge.

I have 5-7 years before I retire for good, but I try to add to the pile when funds are available and prices are cheap...
 
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