Getting out of shooting

It seems as if gun owners are the new homosexuals. Go into the closet now.
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I'd argue the exact opposite. If anything, we demonstrated during this recent crisis that we're not the minority, and that the gun culture represents a huge and diverse swath of the American population. Politicians' attempts in the media to portray us all as a bunch of tobacco-spitting hillbillies really backfired on them.

Many of the people who are frustrated and talking about "getting out of shooting" are folks who just came on during the panic (and usually as a result of it) and who just don't have the patience to wait out the current shortages.
 
Ain't no way I'm giving up my guns. Or ammo. It's a little more expensive to shoot, but I've found a way to get cheap range time, so I can afford a little more on ammo. There's lots of ammo out there for sale, you just have to pay the gun-show sharks a little more for it.
 
I'd argue the exact opposite. If anything, we demonstrated during this recent crisis that we're not the minority, and that the gun culture represents a huge and diverse swath of the American population. Politicians' attempts in the media to portray us all as a bunch of tobacco-spitting hillbillies really backfired on them.
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I agree with what you say is the truth, however, many of the uninitiated and uninformed people see the lies as the truth. I see this all around me.
 
"If you are a member of a shooting club, you can leave your guns to them in your will.
Clubs can auction them off to their members, and use the money for range maintenance and improvements.
Heck, if enough money is raised, maybe they'll even name one of the ranges after you. "

You mean like the Green Berets movie, i.e. Provo's Prives
 
Well I have no plans on ever "stopping" but as a college student with a young family, both my time and budget has always been stretched by shooting. It's expensive. I've got about 100 rounds of .22 left right now and have no plans to buy more at .25 cents a round, honestly. I might start putting Persian garbage ammo through my Mauser, though its corrosive and half the rounds probably wont work (this is according to the website selling the ammo :0 ) I just can't afford it $35 a box for Remington (under loaded anyway) and even my old favorite PPU has gotten to be $1.50 a round :( The only ammo even sold locally is the S&B at my local cabelas and it doesn't feed very well in my gun, jams all the time.

At least 12GA is still widely a available. I'll probably do a lot of clay shooting this year.

Sigh
 
Owning, carrying, and shoot firearms is MUCH more mainstream today than it was decades ago, and it is just not hunters sighting in rifles anymore. It is people target shooting for fun, and to practice for self defense.
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Pilot are you sure. I remember days of walking into a K-Mart I think, back around 1980 and seeing long racks of rifles on display right up in the front of the store. They weren't hidden in the back corner or in an ancillary sporting goods department but right there up front and center. You pretty much had to walk right by them to check out.

If I had to characterize it I'd say that back in those days gun ownership was perhaps at it's zenith until the AWB. But it was just such an ingrained part of all our lives that no one made a big deal of it. It was just there because it always had been there. Then we had some dark years and this on-going gun control fight and now we have enough people who have grown up in gun restrictive areas or adopted this idea that guns are those ugly things we sometimes need. It puts things in a new light but doesn't show the reality very well if you ask me.
 
Owning, carrying, and shoot firearms is MUCH more mainstream today than it was decades ago, and it is just not hunters sighting in rifles anymore. It is people target shooting for fun, and to practice for self defense.
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I don't think so. Here in the mountains, firearms have always been as much a necessity as a telephone is to city folks. Most of the people I know have firearms and most of them have had them for decades and/or were handed down by family members.
 
I have considered myself getting out of the gun hobby. I am lifelong lover of rifles but the ammo shortage, prices on ammo and reloading supplies don't make it very fun anymore. Shooting is becoming more like an obligation than an enjoyment. I have stuff but I wonder how much it will cost to replace the ammo and components once I shoot it up. It certainly won't be as cheap as it was.

Talked to a friend the other day who told me in the last two years how much ammo he has bought. He counted off all the cases of 22 rimfire he had, thousands of rounds of numerous centerfire calibers. Only a few minutes before I was kidding about hoarders who are lining their walls with boxes of ammo. Who would have guessed I was talking to one of them.

To think a person stores all that ammo for an end of the world scenario only to have a tornado or fire destroy your home or you get a serious illness. All that ammo won't protect you from any of that.
 
My heaps of ammo were bought-starting in '09-because surplus .303 was drying up for good, and recently familiar with the CMP, their ammo prices won't last forever (nor their supply of Garands). Over a year ago 8mm Mauser also went up a good bit.

Some of us were prepared with extra ammo to easily weather this latest panic and the next few (we will have more-human nature and
lack of personal initiative).

Mostly I want to have a good bit for retirement in a few years at '09-'12 prices.
If the house burns up, we will have much bigger problems.
 
If people don't have places to go shoot, ammo to shoot, time to shoot, a shooting community to be part of, our numbers of active shooters may indeed dwindle.
 
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To think a person stores all that ammo for an end of the world scenario only to have a tornado or fire destroy your home or you get a serious illness. All that ammo won't protect you from any of that.
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I figure on letting my homeowners insurance take care of the tornados, fires, etc. I'll let my medical insurance worry about the serious disease.

If there is an "end of the world scenario", what are your plans for ammo? I'm covered there also. ;)

My kids and grandkids laugh at me because the boxes of Federal 550 .22 bulk we're currently shooting have $4.89 Wal-Mart price tags (how long has it been since Wal-MArt used price tags?) on them. Those 20 year old boxes of .22's seem to be doing an excellent job of protecting us from the high prices and unavailability of current .22 ammo.
 
People complain about anti gun legislation but for me the biggest threat to my gun ownership are gun owners themselves. I use to go shooting every week and buying 1000 rounds of ammo was no problem. Now I shoot once a month and, due to price hikes, buy only 500 rounds if I can even find what I need. Some calibers I quit shooting all together just to cut expenses and I will sell those guns if I have to go a long time before I can shoot them again.

Panic buyers and the business' that think nothing of taking advantage of them have done more to price me out of gun ownership than any anti gun law ever has.
 
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People complain about anti gun legislation but for me the biggest threat to my gun ownership are gun owners themselves. I use to go shooting every week and buying 1000 rounds of ammo was no problem. Now I shoot once a month and, due to price hikes, buy only 500 rounds if I can even find what I need. Some calibers I quit shooting all together just to cut expenses and I will sell those guns if I have to go a long time before I can shoot them again.
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You sound like people I remember when we had the worst gas shortage. They drove a lot less and sold their pick-ups and large cars to cut expenses and because gas was difficult to get (and they sold them cheap). When gas became available again, they missed their big vehicles and bought replacements for far more money than the ones they sold. Don't do anything you will regret later. Shortages tend to not last long.
 
Don't do anything you will regret later. Shortages tend to not last long.
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That's fine if the shortage doesn't last long but if they keep coming back again and again then I won't regret selling off some guns. The last buying panic took over a year to end here and this one is worse than the last. What good is a gun if you can't shoot it?

For that matter what good is a vehicle if you can't put gas in it. I sold my full size pickup truck when gas started getting above $2 a gallon and bought a smaller truck. I have never regretted it just because of the constant gas price increases. Your right, I do miss having a bigger truck but I don't miss the high cost of gas eating up my money every week.
 
too much trouble? its more trouble to go buy a loaf of bread than it is to go target shooting. Where do these people live? New York City?
 
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