Anyone afraid to shoot up their ammo?

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baddarryl

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I have a match coming up and am really hesitant to shoot up a 100 rounds at this point as I only have about 700 of that caliber on hand. I just ordered a reloading kit last night, but don't have any raw materials but brass. Maybe just hang low to wait and see..............
 
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Don't see any reason not to . . . .

Shooters:
There is no clear reason to not enjoy our shooting sports at this point in time. I can't speak for the rest of the country, but the sporting goods stores I frequent in both Illinois and Indiana seem to have ammo and ammo and ammo. If I have any trouble at all it's getting the particular brand of powder that I want as most of my LGS don't carry a full line of reloading stuff. I say shoot em if you got em.
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Prof Young
 
Having our current President elected the first time 4 years back scared me enough that I totally cut out extras in other areas of my life and tripled my monthly allowance for re-loading supplies way back then so I doubt I'll ever put a huge dent into what I have built up. I figured that even if nothing radical happened prices on ammo would never go down in my life time so why not buy at the cheapest price possible.
 
Shoot what you need to shoot, just replace it sooner, and stock up a bit more. If you order online, do it soon, that may be ending this year.
 
I've not been able to find any target-grade .22 LR, .223, 9mm, or .45 ACP. I've seen some of the $1/round .9mm and .45, but I can't afford to shoot it. I have enough (not that I don't want more), but it has been too cold to shoot anyway.
 
Lots & cases....

If you have the room(space), time & $$$, I'd highly suggest buying handgun ammunition in lots or cases. Most 20-50 round boxes are either low or sold out. Many sites say; NO BACK-ORDER. :(
Federal, Hornady, Corbon, Remington, Ranger T, DoubleTap Ammo could be worth buying by the case.

Clyde
 
do you really think online ammo ordering will end i highly doubt it
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I certainly hope you are correct, but I’m somewhat concerned.

This is one issue that sounds bad to people who are not familiar with recreational shooting when anti-gun folks say, “they order thousands of rounds off the internet”. While we all understand the economics and variety of selection that internet purchases offer the average person does not.

This might be one of those things that even Pro 2A Politicians compromise on so they can say they did “something”.
 
LEARN to reload first.. the reload. You should never have this be an issue ever again. Its fun, almost as fun as shooting.

DASHZNT
 
my problem is that I have been squirreling away ammo (reloads, mostly) for many years, and I can't replace what I have for anywhere near the cost, today.

Got a 1200rnd case of 7.62x51mm back when it cost me $165. Can I replace that today? yes. What will it cost today? A HELL of a lot more than $165!
 
FWIW, I just lowered our minimum round counts for most course for 2013, because people ARE nervous about supply. BUT, we've been through this before... and it has always been temporary.
 
war(s), combat, brass, lead....

In the mid to late 2000s, I thought the "dry spells" were caused by the US armed forces in SW Asia buying up all the ordnance materials(brass, lead, alloy, etc). Many common handgun rounds like .45acp, 9mm(9mmNATO), .40S&W, etc were priced higher or sold out.
When the troops started to filter out of Iraq(2011) prices & supply seemed to go back to the old levels.

Clyde
 
For some it seems to be like a sickness: once you think you need to "stock up" on ammo, you never have enough. I guess if you shoot several hundred rounds of a particular caliber a week you would need several thousand in stock to cover you for a period of shortage in the stores, but otherwise not be overly concerned. I always have enough to cover several trips to the range without buying more, if I choose to do this, so that I can cover temporary shortfalls, but not beyond that. I wonder how many folks drop dead with a few thousand dollars worth of unused ammo, only to have some family member who is not into shooting sell it off quickly for almost nothing just to get it out of the house. Of curse, once your dead I guess it doesn't really matter anymore what happens to your ammo.
 
I just inventoried my ammunition. I have enough to last me a long time, but I don't go through a ton of ammo either. Basically, I will buy range ammo as I need it and shoot that, as long as its available and not outrageously priced. If (a) its not available or (b) the price is absurd and likely to come down, I will dip into my ammo reserves as needed. What I won't be doing is buying any more ammo just to store.
 
The supply chain will probably catch up but prices will go up.

Around here - 9mm and 22 LR are hard to find but Cabelas had plenty of 9mm. 45 ACP is not hard to find. 223 is.

The crisis buying will probably saturate in a bit.
 
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