Kachock, have actually gotten PM's from 3 people on this website offering to sell me components. Their price was plain goofy. Have also had 4 members here PM asking if I could hook them up and of course said yes. Two of them went far enough in the process to give me their phone numbers, tell me what they wanted and I picked it up. When it came down to finalizing the deal (I was not adding a single cent to price and actually negotiated really decent prices for what they wanted) neither called me back when I let them know had their primers in hand. So put most into my inventory except a few that went to a neighbor that didn't mind fattening up his stock. That said, am not going to even offer to help folks I don't know personally again with components.
The really weird thing is that through all of this most of the local shops never sold out of their 30 caliber stuff except M1a's. Most of the exotic battle rifles that cost real money even before the panic are still sitting in the racks. I found it odd that folks that were paying anything for AR's or AK's and then panicking when could not get one, didn't even seem to glance at HK's, FN's and such.
Yesterday as I was pilfering one shop I found an "old stock" 500 round package of .308 168 grain Sierra match king bullets that had sat so long the green box was fading toward yellow. Proprietor was so happy to have me ask cost knowing I was a buyer not a tire kicker sold them to me for an even 100 bucks just to get them gone. He said couldn't give away 500 round packages of loose bullets in anything but .223. That was completely odd to me. He also had several older 100 count boxes of GameKings in various calibers. All came in a deal where he bought the inventory from an older gun shop that went out of business. Most had three to four price tags stacked on them. He offered to let me have them at lowest price on boxes. Top sticker on the popular sizes said 29.99 and according to caliber/weight varied from 24.99 to 34.99. On the .284's peeled off top and next one under it said 24.99, peeled that off next said 19.99 and bottom price sticker said 17.99. I put three boxes of .243 cal, three of .257 cal, one of .264 cal, three of .284 cal, three of .338 cal, one of .323 cal, two of .358 cal and four of .375 cal with my 500 .308 MatchKing's and he rang up every 100 count box at 17.99. That said, I don't presently even own a .264, .323 or .375 caliber rifle but why not put them in stock while I can. Never know what your next rifle is going to be. So maybe I am part of the problem buying stuff don't even need but all of what I bought in that deal had sat in his inventory for over three years and no telling how long at the gun shop whose original stock they came from.
You would not believe how busy the local range is, people are waiting in long lines to shoot, never seen anything like it.
