"Trump Slump" and reloading...

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People can be irrational...and think chaos will ensue if there is an attack on the US...and they may have to defend themselves in some ridiculous breakdown of civil order.../ so they "hoard" reloading supplies and ammo in general...

( their Tin Foil hats are just on way too tight ).. !!
 
I rarely have the money for 8 or 16 pounds of powder at a time and I refuse to pay hasmat fees for only a pound or two. Awhile back the were talking about dropping the hasmat restrictions on powder and if that happens I, I'd order powder online. I still have notification alerts in at all the usual places I order gun stuff on line but have yet to see any results from that.

Anyway I'm good for now. I had a half a pound on hand when I bought the new can and I haven't loaded any .44 mag loads since before that. If I had a close by place to shoot, I suppose I'd burn more powder...

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Maybe I'm just dense, but I don't get the North Korea reference. What does a "possible" missile attack have to do with people buying reloading supplies? Do they think they are going to be called on to go fight in Korea or defend our shores here? Really....
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Irrationality, by definition, cannot be understood by rational explanation.

But here in Mississippi, absolutely no change, no concern, no
 
Personally, I don't want the business to continue the way that it was during the Obama years.

Nice to see things on the shelf.
 
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I was wondering if anyone else had seen an uptick in buying reloading supplies?
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The two places I buy reloading supplies are from sellers in the northern suburbs of Dallas and a couple of local gun stores in North Central Arkansas. The stores in the Dallas area seem to be pretty flush with reloading supplies The small store I stopped at in Sharp County, Arkansas was very well stocked with powder. They had had a run on primers over Thanksgiving and only had Winchester and CCI. No Federal or Remington. The owner said he had not been able to get Remington from his suppliers for some time.
 
No observed shortage of anything here. I started reloading right after the first Obama panic, and I've pretty much lived with scrounging for powder and shooting with what I could find. I used a lot of less popular powders like hs-6 (actually a superb powder for warm 357 and hot 9mm loads) and 700x form pistol, and win 760 and reloader 10x form heavy and light rifle respectively. What I'm seeing now is mainstream powders on the shelves so I'm not reaching for appropriate load data. Primers are abundant. Life is good right now. Stock up.
 
I have reread the OP a couple times, originally thinking it was a false premise. I now think it all is related to the bad press for ugly black rifles and resulting interest is banning them. That implicates .223 and the reloading components for them.
 
I took inventory of my primers and powder at the beginning of the year. I have about a 10 year supply of pistol and rifle supplies. I also took inventory of the loaded ammo I have and I have a 3 year inventory stacked away for pistol and 8 year for rifle.

The only thing I have purchased this year is pistol projectiles. I got a 9 month supply on a memorial day sale and a 6 month supply on Black Friday.

I am planning to cut my loaded ammo down to a 1 year supply and primer/powder down to a 5 years supply. The dark years had me impulse buying powders and primers that I should have passed on. Times are good if you are low on supplies but since I am well stocked the only time I will buy is when supplies are dirt cheap.
 
Mentioning a credible reason for more people buying more guns and ammo is legitimate. Going on about it, not so much.
 
Based on this thread...I did my inventory early
Went looking to replenish primers....boo most of my go to places local and on line are out of my desires

but have enough for a few years

I much prefer to get primers local... haz mat fees are killer


ok worthless post...carry on
 
Another 'Horder' just went broke, Sunday I'm going to a dealers sale where 1,400+ firearms & a semi trailer load of ammo is going up for sale...
The entire 2-1/2 story home was stacked floor to ceiling with firearms & ammo when he had a stroke and is now in state care...

This happens every year or two around here, but we don't hear about the private liquidation most times...
 
Wow. We have one neighbor who hit the store on powder day during the shortage (grrr) and bought all they had.

His house must be like one huge fizzler ready to go.
 
Another 'Horder' just went broke, Sunday I'm going to a dealers sale where 1,400+ firearms & a semi trailer load of ammo is going up for sale...
The entire 2-1/2 story home was stacked floor to ceiling with firearms & ammo when he had a stroke and is now in state care...
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So if this is the standard, I am nowhere near horder status. Lets assume each firearm is conservatively worth $500 on average....That would be $700,000 in guns.

Next A 48ft wedge trailer has 3566 cubic feet of storage space. A 50 cal ammo can will hold about 2,000 40 S&W rounds, 1,000 .223 or about 650 .308 rounds. Lets go with .223 just for arguments sake for the estimate. A 50 call ammo can is .3125 ft cubed....so about 1,114 50 cal ammo cans could fit in a tractor trailer give or take and assuming you could stack easily without the handle.

That would be approximately 1.115 Million rounds. And, at about .25-.30 dollars each, you have at least 250-300,000 dollars in ammo. Not counting all the other areas of horded supplies.


So quite literally, this dude has millions of dollars in inventory.
 
I live in W/C Michigan no shortage of anything here, I load daily and do not have to want for supplies two LGS are well stocked !!
 
I'm late to the party, I just heard about this/got invited on Monday, they have been having sales for 5 weeks now.
One 30' box truck of ammo went with one dealer, one semi trailer got sold to there dealers, another trailer load going this weekend.
I have no idea how much is there, the last guy that did this around here had 8 million rounds & over a ton of powder in jugs.
I missed out on all that, didn't hear about it until it was all long gone.

So far, 1,400 or so rimfire rifles have sold (I thought 1,400 was the total at first) and they still have some. Too bad, rimfires make good gifts for the kids.

They are going to try and get rid of 1,400 more this weekend, mostly military based crap, lots of ARs, lots of Nigants, lots of SKS & AK, thousands of mags...

I have my eye on a Russian sniper rifle w/optics and if any of the ARs aren't total crap, maybe some of them. I'm also interested in the 'Odd Ball' ammo, .44 mag silver tips for $5 a box, some .45-70 for a friend that's a big fan $5 a box, not really interested in the loose 5.56 or 7.62 nato rounds, but there are 8"x4' PVC tubes of loose ammo going for $25 to $75 a tube depending on age/condition.
Might pick up some 9mm or 45 if there is any left...

Apparently the guy had cases of Colt ARs still in the box dated from the 70s all the way up to the 'Farm Store' ARs currently sold... A Colt 'Collector' wound up with everything Colt the first weekend.
I'm interested in two .223 Ruger ARs & two .308 Ruger ARs, not the usual crop of farm store junk.

I'd like to pick up a nice Mauser 98 or two if they have them, but haven't seen any in the pictures, and I'm really interested in the civilian wood stock bolt rifles & shotguns they aren't selling this weekend, so I'll make a second trip if I'm not broke after this weekend...

This guy *Supposedly* bought $200k to $250k a year of this stuff, for years on end.
If I had $200k-$250k of 'disposable' income, I sure wouldn't be busting my hump for a living!
 
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If I had that kind of money to spend on guns and ammo... I would have the time to burn it off! Not to kick the guy while he's down, but... what rationale do you have to have to dump money like that on crap that just sets?
 
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