sirgilligan
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What have we learned over the past 10 years? Take yourself back to 2008.
I posted this on another forum and within 4 posts it had turned into a rant about voting. No one shared any wisdom about their firearms and other choices. Maybe this forum will go better.
The firearm industry grew from $19 billion in 2008 to $31 billion in 2011.
Some events to help you remember:
July 2012 shooting at theatre showing Bat Man.
Sept 2012 Benghazi Attack
Dec 2012 shooting in Sandy Hook
Jan 2015 Charlie Hebdo Shooting France
Some things that affected this community directly:
The Great 22 LR Ammo Depression
The difficulty finding primers and powders.
The price surge on anything we thought might get banned, including magazines, certain types of firearms, suppressors, types of stocks, etc.
The difficulty in finding ammo for 9mm, .223/5.56, .308/7.62
What have you learned? What would you have done differently? What are you doing right now?
I learned that buying the common NATO calibers was cheap in good times, and very troublesome in times of concern. I was able to buy .30-06 any day I wanted over the past 10 years. Not so with my NATO calibered firearms. So, the advice to buy NATO because it will always be available is not what I experienced. Of course there is no worries for those prepared, but everyone has to start some where on some day and there is a young 21 year old right now trying to figure out what they want to purchase. What would you share with those just starting out? Which general purpose hunting rifle? Which handgun for protection? Those kinds of things. I would recommend a .30-06, a 9mm, and a .357 Magnum.
Here we are in a lull so to speak, and I find myself a little bit uninterested in things. I am tired, a bit mentally fatigued so to speak. But that is when my mind says, "Today is the day to prepare for the rainy day coming."
So, I ask yet another question. With prices and supplies being the most reasonable I have seen in years what are you doing? Maybe you are going out and shooting some of that $60.00 22 LR ammo and replacing it with new stock? Maybe you are gifting that $1800 AR to a son or daughter and getting over the apparent loss on the value and buying something you consider better for less? Maybe it is time on these long winter days to take inventory and see what you have, and make a plan to cycle through some things?
As the pendulum surely swings, it will swing back to 2012 conditions one day, what can we do to not have a panic buying spree again?
I know lots of questions, but I have a lot of questions on my mind right now. "It's time to make hay while the sun is shining"
I posted this on another forum and within 4 posts it had turned into a rant about voting. No one shared any wisdom about their firearms and other choices. Maybe this forum will go better.
The firearm industry grew from $19 billion in 2008 to $31 billion in 2011.
Some events to help you remember:
July 2012 shooting at theatre showing Bat Man.
Sept 2012 Benghazi Attack
Dec 2012 shooting in Sandy Hook
Jan 2015 Charlie Hebdo Shooting France
Some things that affected this community directly:
The Great 22 LR Ammo Depression
The difficulty finding primers and powders.
The price surge on anything we thought might get banned, including magazines, certain types of firearms, suppressors, types of stocks, etc.
The difficulty in finding ammo for 9mm, .223/5.56, .308/7.62
What have you learned? What would you have done differently? What are you doing right now?
I learned that buying the common NATO calibers was cheap in good times, and very troublesome in times of concern. I was able to buy .30-06 any day I wanted over the past 10 years. Not so with my NATO calibered firearms. So, the advice to buy NATO because it will always be available is not what I experienced. Of course there is no worries for those prepared, but everyone has to start some where on some day and there is a young 21 year old right now trying to figure out what they want to purchase. What would you share with those just starting out? Which general purpose hunting rifle? Which handgun for protection? Those kinds of things. I would recommend a .30-06, a 9mm, and a .357 Magnum.
Here we are in a lull so to speak, and I find myself a little bit uninterested in things. I am tired, a bit mentally fatigued so to speak. But that is when my mind says, "Today is the day to prepare for the rainy day coming."
So, I ask yet another question. With prices and supplies being the most reasonable I have seen in years what are you doing? Maybe you are going out and shooting some of that $60.00 22 LR ammo and replacing it with new stock? Maybe you are gifting that $1800 AR to a son or daughter and getting over the apparent loss on the value and buying something you consider better for less? Maybe it is time on these long winter days to take inventory and see what you have, and make a plan to cycle through some things?
As the pendulum surely swings, it will swing back to 2012 conditions one day, what can we do to not have a panic buying spree again?
I know lots of questions, but I have a lot of questions on my mind right now. "It's time to make hay while the sun is shining"