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Would you join in stopping high demand ammo purchases?

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The real reason there is an ammo shortage is that a few of us decided to "vote with our money" to help insure that the manufacturers of our favorite products would survive these difficult political and financial times. :cool:
 
"Maybe he carried that kind of supply most of his life"

Deals are where you find them.

I'm still working my way through some commercial .45 ACP reloads I bought at a gun show in 2000. I thought I paid a little too much at the time considering they were reloads.

I guess not. ;)

Last week I saw some 100-round boxes of WWB .45 ACP for $49.95. Ouch.

John
 
THE DARK KNIGHT said:
Well, CA was considering something like that, but the final version of the bill does not have microstamping or the 50 round limit. It does however make dealers take fingerprints, keep records, etc. It doesn't take effect til 2010? or 2011? And it's just CA not the other 49.

Of course like I said, the biggest cause of the shortage has not been any politician (this administration has actually been gun FRIENDLY so far, passing National parks CCW and almost creating a 50-state CCW) but the problem is simply greedy dealers and dumb chain e-mails spreading misinformation to make money and ruining it for the rest of us.

A lot of stores, or dumb employees, like to make up crap, or are simply unaware of laws anyway. For example some guy on here was at a store and they told him "you must be 21 to buy anything related to home defense or tactical" there's no such law in his state, just a misinformed employee trying to tell him their store policy is a state law.
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You are correct it is a California proposed law which I don't know if it has been approved yet. But they will put some ID number on every cartridge to identify the buyer. Again I can only see this driving up prices for the people who aren't the problems and the criminals using stolen ammo and other means to get around it. Too bad they don't deal directly with the problem which is the person responsible who pulls the trigger.
Cars are deadly weapons if they did what they propose we would all be walking.
 
Cars are deadly weapons if they did what they propose we would all be walking.
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Bad argument, don't let the anti's get that idea.

All operating cars are supposed to be registered.
All operating cars are supposed to be safety inspected each year (most places).
All operating cars are supposed to pay a license fee each year.
All operating cars are supposed to be driven only by a licensed user.
All operating cars are supposed to display their individual identification that is easy to see.
All operating cars are supposed to be insured.
etc.



God I hope they don't try that with my guns.



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Acera said:
Bad argument, don't let the anti's get that idea.

All operating cars are supposed to be registered.
All operating cars are supposed to be safety inspected each year (most places).
All operating cars are supposed to pay a license fee each year.
All operating cars are supposed to be driven only by a licensed user.
All operating cars are supposed to display their individual identification that is easy to see.
All operating cars are supposed to be insured.
etc.



God I hope they don't try that with my guns.



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Hey you got a good point there but then you can see all the red tape, how difficult they would make it to own and operate such an instrument/tool. They would make tons of $$$ by doing this.
 
billsnogo said:
Just got back from walfart with 600rnds of WWB 9mm :) (limit of 6 boxes to each customer)

They still had at least 10 boxes of 9mm, 4 of .45 auto, and....... awe heck, I can't remember..... .44?

Anyways, either I have been timing it better, or things are loosening up a bit :D
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You must have just caught it in time perhaps a delivery came in. Most Walleyworlds shelves are cleaned off. Now the ammo that's left is very expensivelike the higher priced 30.06 $40.00 a box not the 19.00 per box.
Are these people hoarding so they can continue to shoot at the range? or are they hoarding for some kind of civil disaster? and or to beat the clock before these laws kick in making ammo too expensive to get and more difficult as in being treated as a criminal?
 
A few people thought I was hoarding when I bought a good number of cases of Wolf Match Target and Match Extra .22 LR years ago.

The WMT was $15 a brick for great ammo. I'm going to hate it when the day comes that I run out. Maybe prices will come back down. :scrutiny:

Deals are where you find them.

I see Midway has WMT for $5.79 a box or $49.99 a brick. Well, they don't actually have it, but backorders are okay.

Dang, WME is $71.99 a brick and $8 a box. Ouch. I should be selling all of mine and taking up knitting or something calming to pass the time when I retire.

John
 
In all irony, the typical ammo scalpers in my area have reduced prices by about 25%, but the prices at the mom/pop shops have went up about 17%.

So now the scalpers are cheaper.....go figure, huge stockpile, not enough demand...and the mom/pop shops are jacking up prices to prolong inventory availibility.

This is so screwy.
 
There is no .380 to be found where I live. I have been watching .380 prices on Gunbroker, and most people are listing it at 50 cents a round or higher, but virtually no one is bidding at those prices. I bought 500 rds last year for 26 cents a round, and I have about 200 rounds remaining. I will not pay 50 or 40 cents a round. If or when I run out, I just won't shoot that caliber anymore, until more reasonable prices come about, how about you guys?
 
I bought all the components to reload .380. Not counting the machine cost, I'm making them at $.14/rd with once fired brass I buy. My LCP flings the empties to far to find. I just buy more brass. I can live at $.14/round. lol

Justin
 
Your choices are a) use an indoor range (That way, you know your brass is "somewhere in this room" as opposed to "somewhere on this planet") or b) make a portable frame (I like PVC pipe) with a sheet to catch the brass.
 
b) make a portable frame (I like PVC pipe) with a sheet to catch the brass.
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I typically just hang a tarp up to the right of me between two trees* with some paracord. Then I leave a couple of feet flat on the ground so the tarp is in kind of an L shape. When I'm done all my brass is lying on the tarp waiting for me.

*Note: must have trees for this to work :D
 
I typically just hang a tarp up to the right of me between two trees* with some paracord. Then I leave a couple of feet flat on the ground so the tarp is in kind of an L shape. When I'm done all my brass is lying on the tarp waiting for me.

*Note: must have trees for this to work
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When I read your first sentence I thought, "What a great idea! But there has to be a catch to it somewhere.":p
 
I just toss out a large tarp. Catch 90% of the brass that way....
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The only problem I've found with that is that I have to stand in wildly different places in order for my brass to land on the tarp (10x12). This is particularly problematic when you have several people shooting and one gun throws brass 10-20 feet behind the shooter.
For example, my 1911 in .45ACP will have you standing right on the front left corner of the tarp. My brother's .40 S&W Beagle will have you standing about 8 feet further forward and about 4 feet further to the left.

I suppose I could just get a larger tarp if I A. had room, and B. wanted to mess with a HUGE tarp.
 
I guess it's all about where you shoot. Adjusting for me means standing in front of the firing line or in the bushes behind a tree--a tree I might as well tie a tarp to. ;)
 
I typically just hang a tarp up to the right of me between two trees* with some paracord. Then I leave a couple of feet flat on the ground so the tarp is in kind of an L shape. When I'm done all my brass is lying on the tarp waiting for me.

*Note: must have trees for this to work
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A sound idea, but it seems to require a lot of advance planning. How many years ahead of your range session should you plant the seeds?


:D

-Sam
 
Tomahawk674 said:
There is no .380 to be found where I live. I have been watching .380 prices on Gunbroker, and most people are listing it at 50 cents a round or higher, but virtually no one is bidding at those prices. I bought 500 rds last year for 26 cents a round, and I have about 200 rounds remaining. I will not pay 50 or 40 cents a round. If or when I run out, I just won't shoot that caliber anymore, until more reasonable prices come about, how about you guys?
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You should see the prices on the Corbon DPX ammo now that expensive and they only give you 20 rounds. I guess you are paying for the cooper material.
 
Is the ammo sold at Wal-mart primarily for range shooting or for personal protection? From what I have seen most of it is the cheaper FMJ ammo used for the range. All the cheaper cost ammo is gone I do see the 30.06 $40.00+ boxes on the shelves. But then again the 20.00 boxes of 30.06 boxes are sold o ut.
 
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