Are you stocked up for 2024

[pharmer]

I've been "stocking up" since Reagan left office. This year is no different than any other in my lifetime. As the late, great Jim Morrison opined: "The future's uncertain and the end is always near." Let it roll, baby, indeed. Joe

 

[Legionnaire]

Why, yes, I'm stocked up.
Problem is, I'm working six days a week, up to ten hours a day.
Not much time for shooting... .

Ditto.

 

[lightman]

My wife and I are trying very hard to eliminate our credit card debt. So right now, all extra money is going towards that.

I have nowhere near as much ammo as I'd like. I do reload, but also don't have nearly enough components.

Not much I can do about it right now...

I think thats very wise! I'm sorry to hear that thats getting into your reloading budget but it will be worth it!

 

[American_Fusilier]

I think thats very wise! I'm sorry to hear that thats getting into your reloading budget but it will be worth it!

Thanks! It's hard, but we'll be in a much better position when it's gone. Hopefully ammo won't be too much more expensive whenever that is.

 

[American_Fusilier]

Free & Clear is is the ultimate Stock Up!

Very true!

 

[Hokkmike]

Need some 9mm.

 

[tarosean]

And Anna Nichole married for love...

Next your going to tell me that artificial sweeteners were safe?

 

[.38 Special]

Blackpowder shooting has, over my last few years, gone from a hobby to an obsession, and I'm pretty well stocked up on most of those items. It helps that powder hasn't been much affected by the goings-on of the last few years - though of course there is the Goex situation - and it's hard to imagine there ever being a run on flint. I probably won't ever have enough percussion caps...

On the smokeless front, things are really starting to feel like a "new normal", and I'm guessing that $50/pound is going to be pretty typical from here on out. It probably marks me as a curmudgeon, but I just don't feel like shooting up powder that costs that much. I figure that pretty much means that I'll occasionally burn a few rounds here and there, but that most of it is going to be held onto for the zombie wars. I should probably pull down all those half-used bottles of "non-favorite" powders and load them into plinking rounds...

 

[Mark_Mark]

Next your going to tell me that artificial sweeteners were safe?

I thought they were… ouch mu head hurts

 

[Riomouse911]

Funny I saw this post today, it got me thinking.

I got the idea to rotate some newly purchased 500-round bricks to the rear of my 3’x 6’ shelving rack that I use as my ammo shelf. When I started digging behind the boxes in the front it became like opening a time capsule.

Ammo packaging that is long past new mixed with oddball buys from the sandy hook panic time, the two-year-long pandemic shortage, etc. I set just a sample out on the ATV, the seat wasn’t large enough for one of each that resides back there.



With this, plus at least 5 .50 cal cans of specific types-brands of match .22 LR ammo on the bottom shelf, I think I’m ok with rimfire ammo for a bit.

I hope.

Stay safe.

 

[Shanghai McCoy]

Next your going to tell me that artificial sweeteners were safe?

 

[Mark_Mark]

Funny I saw this post today, it got me thinking.

I hot the idea to rotate some newly purchased 500-round bricks to the rear of my 3’x 6’ shelving rack that I use as my ammo shelf. When I started digging behind the boxes in the front it became like opening a time capsule.

Ammo packaging that is long past new mixed with oddball buys from the sandy hook panic time, the two-year-long pandemic shortage, etc. I set just a sample out on the ATV, the seat wasn’t large enough for one of each that resides back there.

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With this, plus at least 5 .50 cal cans of specific types-brands of match .22 LR ammo on the bottom shelf, I think I’m ok with rimfire ammo for a bit.

I hope.

Stay safe.

do you reload ?

 

[.45Coltguy]

Uhh, yes he does. Just a little.
I sorta did the same as Rio did. Going thru some drawers and shelves and found 500 each of CCI LRP's and spp's! Made my afternoon.

 

[hso]

I've always been stocked up. None of these runs on anything gun related has ever affected me.

Yep...to the best ability without borrowing from expenses and savings.

 

[Chuck R.]

About the only thing I could use more of now is precsion .22lR match ammo.. Lapua LR and/or SK LR.

I'm taking a knee on everything else, cause now is the time to put in for various draws, so some of my discretionary spending is going to be tied up with that till the draws happen at least. I also retired from .GOV on the 29th, so I'm taking it easy letting the fixed income stuff straighten out.. My army pension covers everything plus some.. but playing it safe.

 

[Riomouse911]

About the only thing I could use more of now is precsion .22lR match ammo.. Lapua LR and/or SK LR.

I'm taking a knee on everything else, cause now is the time to put in for various draws, so some of my discretionary spending is going to be tied up with that till the draws happen at least. I also retired from .GOV on the 29th, so I'm taking it easy letting the fixed income stuff straighten out.. My army pension covers everything plus some.. but playing it safe.

Congrats! I retired one year ago this week from a .org, so I get your initial wait to see how the pension payments balance out. (I get paid by two systems, so mine took about six weeks to become official.)

Most of my match .22 I bought when Big 5 was clearing out RWS match ammo for $2.99 a box. I cleaned out five or six Big 5’s around here, and even scooped up the remaining stock from the store in Newport, Oregon when up there on vacation.

do you reload ?

I dabble in the black arts of the reloading bench. In fact, after moving stuff around on the rimfire shelf i cleaned/processed about 250 .38 Special and primed 400 .44 Special cases earlier this afternoon.

Stay safe.

 

[CapnMac]

it’s because he & I are in the same spot. Stocked up, but no time to shoot.

I was stocked up for 2023 but was unable to get out and use anything

Ditto.

So it looks like "me four" on the dittos.
But, I'm also pretty sure that while I have 'enough' that it's also "not enough."

I think I'm good unless I buy a firearm in a cartridge I don't already have.

One of my greater fears is that I'll start digging through the ammo stash, to get it to pack more efficiently, and find ammo for some arm I don't own anymore. And, if I buy something to shoot the oddball, then I'll for sure not have enough

 

[Chuck R.]

Congrats! I retired one year ago this week from a .org, so I get your initial wait to see how the pension payments balance out. (I get paid by two systems, so mine took about six weeks to become official.)

Most of my match .22 I bought when Big 5 was clearing out RWS match ammo for $2.99 a box. I cleaned out five or six Big 5’s around here, and even scooped up the remaining stock from the store in Newport, Oregon when up there on vacation.


I dabble in the black arts of the reloading bench. In fact, after moving stuff around on the rimfire shelf i cleaned/processed about 250 .38 Special and primed 400 .44 Special cases earlier this afternoon.

Stay safe.

The .GOV system is kind of unique (nice way of saying screwed up).

When I retired from the army, in 30 days I received my 1st retirement check.

For .GOV is like a 5-6 month process with interim estimated payments etc. A lot of it is due to us shifting from the Dept. of defense rolls to the civilian personnel office, but it really is a crazy system. I dropped my papers 1AUG, final day was 29DEC and it should be straightened out with back-pay etc. sometime in May...

Most of us are double dipping, so no worries, but I honestly don't know how the regular GS folks deal with it.

 

[entropy]

I actually added, or more accurately, reactivated a caliber I'd eliminated- .45 Colt. I already have dies, brass, etc. so really not much outlay. It's mostly finding time to load when everyone is not asleep. (My bench is directly below SWMBO'S room, and 10 feet from my son's space in the basement.)
As for all the other preps, been doing so since the early 80's.

 

[buck460XVR]

Are ya stocked up on your guns, ammo and components if ya reload? I'd think if ya aren't, ya better get while the getting is good. One little tick the wrong way, and over goes the dominos. One tragic mass shooting to take place that really would be like a Sandy Hook and BAM. Everything will be gone again and it'll be like the Sahara (baren and bleak)

I've always been stocked up. None of these runs on anything gun related has ever affected me. I believe in being always full when it comes to the larder.
How about you folks, are ya ready for that just in case it happens?

IMHO, it's things like these kind of threads that drives the shortages we have seen lately, much more than recent mass shootings. Misinformation about the government secretly buying up all the civilian ammunition or whatever. Somebody sees John's Reloading has primers and posts on six different gun sites about it, and next thing you know, John is sold out again. Folks being told they need 10,000 primers because they shoot 500 rounds a year is what is driving the shortages more than the war in Ukraine. Demand from fear is what is driving the prices up. LGS are making huge profits by continuing this fear. Keeping shelves fairly empty while the backroom is full makes folks think they are buying the last box of .22 LR, or LP primers. Folks bragging about how well they are prepared and making other feel like their larder in inadequate helps drive the panic buying too. The shortages after mass shootings are created by us......because of panic and fear, not because there are real shortages. The price increasses after that comes form the demand.

Yes, one should be prepared and have enough for what they need. But overpaying inflated prices to have 20,000 primers and 40# of powder left to be sold at your widow's garage sale is not really being prepared, or saving you any monies.

JMTCs.

 

[SamT1Beef]

If I wasn't its too late now. I guess I have enough paying $50/lb for powder or $120/1k for primers doesn't interest me.

Dang is that where primers are today? I’ve been out of the game 10 years. Most of my stash I paid 20-30 for. Powder used to be sub $20 by the case at powder valley. 26-30 in most local shops.

 

[earlthegoat2]

I’m shopping ammo as usual. Even a little sale will find me buying a few boxes.

270 is cheap and plentiful right now.

Sold a few guns to consolidate cartridges a bit. Stock up like mad on my less common ones like 450 BM, 6.8 SPC, and 224 Valk.

Whatever components speak to me. I don’t load now but have everything necessary to do so if it comes to that.

 

[Smokin Gator]

IMHO, it's things like these kind of threads that drives the shortages we have seen lately, much more than recent mass shootings. Misinformation about the government secretly buying up all the civilian ammunition or whatever. Somebody sees John's Reloading has primers and posts on six different gun sites about it, and next thing you know, John is sold out again. Folks being told they need 10,000 primers because they shoot 500 rounds a year is what is driving the shortages more than the war in Ukraine. Demand from fear is what is driving the prices up. LGS are making huge profits by continuing this fear. Keeping shelves fairly empty while the backroom is full makes folks think they are buying the last box of .22 LR, or LP primers. Folks bragging about how well they are prepared and making other feel like their larder in inadequate helps drive the panic buying too. The shortages after mass shootings are created by us......because of panic and fear, not because there are real shortages. The price increasses after that comes form the demand.

Yes, one should be prepared and have enough for what they need. But overpaying inflated prices to have 20,000 primers and 40# of powder left to be sold at your widow's garage sale is not really being prepared, or saving you any monies.

JMTCs.

If you wait to stock up after the shortages start to occur buying as much as you can at high prices, leaving nothing on the shelves, what you say is true. But for shooters who stock up during normal times when powder and primers are plentiful at normal (for that time) prices it is not true. When I bought 20,000 primers at a time before Covid there were still 100s of thousands or more available at Powder Valley, for example. It didn't clear out their inventory.

 

[Old Hobo]

I totally agree with stocking-up on shooting supplies this year, 2024.

Matters inside these dis-United States of America are bad. Need I say that world-wide tensions are through the roof! Dangerous days.

Beware. Be ready.

 

[SamT1Beef]

I totally agree with stocking-up on shooting supplies this year, 2024.

Matters inside these dis-United States of America are bad. Need I say that world-wide tensions are through the roof! Dangerous days.

Beware. Be ready.

It’s like buying land. Every time we think its too dang high it just goes higher.