larryh1108
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I wish to visit this thread but without politics or whatever.
I am also 58 years old.
I am also getting ready to retire in a few years.
I also want to be able to shoot whenever I want without the need to buy any ammo. This ammo crunch put a damper in my plans to stock up as much as I can now, while the prices were still reasonable. I do reload so when I say stock up I mean with primers, powder and bullets. I have all the brass I need. I do feel I am a bit too late to finish my stockpile at the pre-panic prices but if I can have the components for what I think I'll need when I retire then my goal will be met. Supplies are beginning to come back though the prices are still a bit higher than I wish to pay right now. I feel they will come down as supplies catch up but never to the prices of a year ago.
22LR will be a tough find to have what I want for retirement. Hopefully it will return to a normalcy where I can buy 1K here and 1K there, as funds allow, so I won't have to worry about any crisis that may come or any legislation that may occur when I am in retirement.
When I see people who have 30k-50k of centerfire ammo on hand I think that they are ahead of the game. If they are in their 50s or 60s then they can rest a little easy unless they shoot thousands of rounds every month because they can. Shooting 2k rounds a month is easy if you have the time, money and/or ammo. Thats 24,000 rounds a year. 10 years of shooting is 240,000 rounds. That's at 500 rounds a week. It looks like I have a long way to go to be set I guess...... sigh.
I am also 58 years old.
I am also getting ready to retire in a few years.
I also want to be able to shoot whenever I want without the need to buy any ammo. This ammo crunch put a damper in my plans to stock up as much as I can now, while the prices were still reasonable. I do reload so when I say stock up I mean with primers, powder and bullets. I have all the brass I need. I do feel I am a bit too late to finish my stockpile at the pre-panic prices but if I can have the components for what I think I'll need when I retire then my goal will be met. Supplies are beginning to come back though the prices are still a bit higher than I wish to pay right now. I feel they will come down as supplies catch up but never to the prices of a year ago.
22LR will be a tough find to have what I want for retirement. Hopefully it will return to a normalcy where I can buy 1K here and 1K there, as funds allow, so I won't have to worry about any crisis that may come or any legislation that may occur when I am in retirement.
When I see people who have 30k-50k of centerfire ammo on hand I think that they are ahead of the game. If they are in their 50s or 60s then they can rest a little easy unless they shoot thousands of rounds every month because they can. Shooting 2k rounds a month is easy if you have the time, money and/or ammo. Thats 24,000 rounds a year. 10 years of shooting is 240,000 rounds. That's at 500 rounds a week. It looks like I have a long way to go to be set I guess...... sigh.