357 sig ammo

[timothy]

I've noticed something interesting over the years. Often times I've found a big pile of 357sig ammo sitting on the shelf of small gunshops throughout my area. Granted its probably years old but who cares? I figure years ago someone orderd it and they sold everything else and now its just sitting there. People always say the ammo's hard to get but I always run into a pile of it in the strangest places. One time I was in a fishing shop and the only ammo they had was 25acp and a huge pile of hornady 357sig the were blowing out for 10$ a box. So for those who would like to try that caliber you could probably get by that first year easily shooting up all that ammo in stores in your area.

[Mikey]

Hmmmm, that's interesting.  Sometimes you encounter strange situations like that.  I once visited a small gunshop in a small village on the edge of the Vermont/NY border and found, of all things, an enormous supply of 30-30.  Darn shop was sold out of just about everything else except the 30-30s.  When I asked why, the owner said that years ago when they changed his area to shotgun/pistol only a lot of the old timers hung up their 30-30s and he still had a bunch of ammo around.  

He also had 7 full boxes of Winchester 30 Luger on his shelves that were marked at $5.99 each.  Now, that was old stuff but it was still nice and shiney.  I bought all 7 boxes and still have 3 left.  It works my 7.65 Luger very well.  

I guess this is why a lot of us have a penchant for sniffin' around old gunshops - ain't no tellin' what goodies you'll find.  Mikey.

[rockbilly]

Another good place to find ammo is at estate sales.  I recently went to an estate sale near Snyder, Texas, they had about 30 guns and tons of ammo.  Most people left after the guns were sold but my son and I hung around.  They pulled out twelve boxes of 5mm, very few people bid on it, I finally managed to walk away with all of it for thirty five dollars.  Later at a gun show I seen the same ammo (Remington) for forty-five dollars a box.  I felt like I had found a gold mine..............