.22lr ammo, the good old days are back :)

[RetiredUSNChief]

I wonder what Rachel Maddow would say if she knew I had maybe 6,000 rounds of ammunition. People who frequent this board know that's not much ammunition at all! It's not for holding off the police and the National Guard. The purpose is to save money and to avoid running dry during a panic.

6,000 rounds of which caliber, you mean?



Reminds me of the time when my youngest daughter and I were at Walmart one day and we stopped by the guns and ammo counter. I was buying some .22 WMR and LR and she said "Are you keeping my .22 LR stocked up?"

I said "I dunno, how much do you consider 'stocked up'?"

She thought for a minute and named some (relatively) low number of a few hundred rounds.

I said "So, you're saying the 12,000 plus rounds of .22 LR that I have is enough, then?"

Her eyes got big! I don't think she realizes how quickly bulk packs add up!

 

[Skgreen]

Anyone stocking up on powder and primers?

Not any more,,,

 

[Sniper66]

I'm not "stocking up". but I keep a good supply. I don't get to shoot as many prairie dogs as I used to, when I could shoot 300-500 rounds in one day. In those days, I tried to maintain a larger supply then I do now. And yet, I buy reloading components at auctions when they go cheap

 

[RA40]

.22LR is easier to accumulate at ~$22/500 rds locally. This wasn't as big wallet drain to gradually reach a comfortable point. May have about 8K which isn't large considering those get sent out at 2-3X what I'd run with center fire.

I miss the internet buying days for the centerfire purchases, that is significant savings over local prices. Not to mention the drastically reduced selections.

 

[FROGO207]

Go for the primers for center fire if you buy anything. For rimfire I have "enough" .22 LR for the time being. Now have to concentrate on the .22 MAG for a bit.

 

[rpenmanparker]

It's always annoying to see an MSM photo of a few guns and rounds of ammo above a caption containing the words "cache" and "arsenal." Liberal journalists raised in apartments think a thousand rounds of anything add up to mental problems and a plan for mass murder. They don't realize that ammunition costs much less when you order it in large amounts.

I wonder what they think we do with ammunition. They must think it's abnormal to shoot a whole box of ammunition in a year. I can do about 200 rounds of pistol ammunition in one session before tiring to the point where I feel like I'm not gaining anything by continuing to shoot, and I'm sure many people shoot more rounds than that.

I don't believe in stocking up slowly because you pay a lot more for shipping that way, and if you're buying at stores, you have to drive back and forth. I say buy a thousand or more rounds at a time. Get it over with.

I wonder what Rachel Maddow would say if she knew I had maybe 6,000 rounds of ammunition. People who frequent this board know that's not much ammunition at all! It's not for holding off the police and the National Guard. The purpose is to save money and to avoid running dry during a panic.

Somehow I think she is bright enough to understand. The question is are you skillful enough to explain it to her? I have said it before and I will say it again. Ammo stashes are not the major concern of gun control advocates. Ammo hoarding is one aspect of our gun ownership situation where we are in the wrong. It is stupid and only ends up hurting ourselves.

 

[George P]

Anyone stocking up on powder and primers?

I did before I recently moved as I do not know what the local supply possibilities are...............

 

[Swifty Morgan]

Somehow I think she is bright enough to understand. The question is are you skillful enough to explain it to her? I have said it before and I will say it again. Ammo stashes are not the major concern of gun control advocates. Ammo hoarding is one aspect of our gun ownership situation where we are in the wrong. It is stupid and only ends up hurting ourselves.

Any liberal can spend two minutes Googling and find out why gun owners buy multiple guns and large quantities of ammo. It's not a mystery people are keeping from them, and a three-year-old can understand it. The reason they don't understand has nothing to do with anyone's ability to explain it. It has to do with their determination not to understand.

Not sure why the major concerns of gun control nuts are suddenly on the table. I commented on their disgraceful ignorance about reasons for owning multiple guns and thousands of rounds of ammunition. It has never occurred to me to take the concerns of anti-gun nuts and group them into "major" and "minor" concerns. I don't even know where I could find a list of their concerns ranked by urgency. That being said, it is annoying to see them display their ignorance by calling a few guns an arsenal or a few boxes of shells a hoard. They commonly suggest that people should only be allowed to own one gun or very few guns, and it is clear that many are against owning perfectly reasonable amounts of ammunition.

It's smart to buy a thousand rounds, or whatever amount makes sense, of any caliber one is likely to shoot a lot. It saves money and aggravation. It's just common sense.

I am against hoarding, however.

 

[Swifty Morgan]

6,000 rounds of which caliber, you mean?

My "arsenal" and "hoard" are pretty small! My needs aren't that great. I bought a 1400-round bucket of .22's the other day, and I felt like that was a lot. For some people here, that's probably a month of casual shooting.

 

[Swifty Morgan]

Anyone stocking up on powder and primers?

I was really happy when I got into reloading and found out I could make pistol ammunition cheaper and better than the factories. Then the panic came. I had to sit and watch the Internet to see when primers became available, and when they did, I bought a few thousand. I felt like I had won the lottery.

 

[rpenmanparker]

Any liberal can spend two minutes Googling and find out why gun owners buy multiple guns and large quantities of ammo. It's not a mystery people are keeping from them, and a three-year-old can understand it. The reason they don't understand has nothing to do with anyone's ability to explain it. It has to do with their determination not to understand.

Not sure why the major concerns of gun control nuts are suddenly on the table. I commented on their disgraceful ignorance about reasons for owning multiple guns and thousands of rounds of ammunition. It has never occurred to me to take the concerns of anti-gun nuts and group them into "major" and "minor" concerns. I don't even know where I could find a list of their concerns ranked by urgency. That being said, it is annoying to see them display their ignorance by calling a few guns an arsenal or a few boxes of shells a hoard. They commonly suggest that people should only be allowed to own one gun or very few guns, and it is clear that many are against owning perfectly reasonable amounts of ammunition.

It's smart to buy a thousand rounds, or whatever amount makes sense, of any caliber one is likely to shoot a lot. It saves money and aggravation. It's just common sense.

I am against hoarding, however.

I seems that we feel very similarly about this subject.

 

[22-rimfire]

I'm against hoarding for the sake of hoarding unless you shoot a fair amount. With 22LR, the pile does grow pretty easily if you buy or bought on a regular basis and shoot intermittently. The thing I like about having a ammo cache is that I have it in most calibers if I want to shoot and I don't have to wonder if I have enough. I just grab a box or three and go. The one difference now is that I often will take enough 22LR to support the other shooters plinking I might be with where as years ago, I would never have considered doing this. It's a change in financial perspective and the shooting hobby. So, I shoot up 1,000 rounds of 22LR in a day? Frankly those days are mostly past me; I just have no desire to shoot that much 22 up and it has nothing to do with the cost. If you are just punching holes especially with bolt action rifles, the use is not fast paced.

The good old days is when you get where you can't do the things you like to do and look back fondly on the carefree days.

 

[rpenmanparker]

I'm against hoarding for the sake of hoarding unless you shoot a fair amount. With 22LR, the pile does grow pretty easily if you buy or bought on a regular basis and shoot intermittently. The thing I like about having a ammo cache is that I have it in most calibers if I want to shoot and I don't have to wonder if I have enough. I just grab a box or three and go. The one difference now is that I often will take enough 22LR to support the other shooters plinking I might be with where as years ago, I would never have considered doing this. It's a change in financial perspective and the shooting hobby. So, I shoot up 1,000 rounds of 22LR in a day? Frankly those days are mostly past me; I just have no desire to shoot that much 22 up and it has nothing to do with the cost. If you are just punching holes especially with bolt action rifles, the use is not fast paced.

The good old days is when you get where you can't do the things you like to do and look back fondly on the carefree days.

What you describe is not hoarding. Bluntly put, hoarding has an irrational fear aspect to it that drives the activity past any reasonable bounds. In commodity goods like ammunition (and gasoline, by the way, for those old enough to remember 1973-74) it is the fear of shortage that actually produces the shortage. In the gasoline situation that fear was well founded, but with ammo, not so much. As I have said many times, national electees place the control of ammo purchases at the very bottom of their priority list if they consider it at all. The gun advocates’ scariest bugaboo, Obama himself, couldn’t have cared less about controlling ammo sales. It is just too far down the list to matter.

Even if one buys into the mentality of the most rabid of 2As, there is nothing to fear in 2018. There are not enough currently Republican Senate seats available to be switched to allow Congress to override a presidential veto. No national controls on ammo purchases are possible before January of 2021 not even considering how conservatively weighted the SC may be by that time. Ammo hoarding now and in the future is simply absurd.

 

[kcofohio]

Walmart has Winchester M22 1000rd packs for $41. I almost bought some but then remembered last time i bought ammo at Walmart they SCANNED my driver's license into their computer at checkout. I'm okay with a clerk asking for ID but Walmart scanning gunnowners into their computer, no freaking way. I politely told the clerk to cancel the transaction and left.

I was in Wal-Mart yesterday and seen the M-22 ammo. Decided to buy a box. The clerk only entered my birth date into their system. No scan. Different store, different policy?
They look of better quality than the Winchester 555 box I bought in '11 or '12. Maybe I will get the chance to side by side comparison later today.

 

[Walkalong]

I bought a 1400-round bucket of .22's the other day, and I felt like that was a lot. For some people here, that's probably a month of casual shooting.

For some it's an afternoon.

 

[Walkalong]

I was really happy when I got into reloading and found out I could make pistol ammunition cheaper and better than the factories. Then the panic came. I had to sit and watch the Internet to see when primers became available, and when they did, I bought a few thousand. I felt like I had won the lottery.

It was a tough time to get started.

 

[luger fan]

Found an old box of 50 a few weeks ago in my stash. Still had the 99 cent price sticker on it. Good old days. SKS $89, 1200 round of 7.62X39 for $99, Milled AK's for $400. Sweet memories.