Things I thought I'd never see.

[mannyrock]

 
  At the local gunstore yesterday, zero boxes of .22LR, 9mm and .45 acp.
  40 boxes of 5mm Remington!     :-)

[magooch]

That's part of what happens when you have a gun-grabber commie in charge, which is something I never thought I would see.

[Oldshooter]

I only thought I'd see that kinda stuff if there was a war or sumpn..............OH I forgot ..........there is sumpn. and it just may be a war.

[zero]

We're all sold out of 22, 223 and 9mm. Abundance of 40s, and a good bit of 45s

[guzzijohn]

Quote from magooch:
"That's part of what happens when you have a gun-grabber commie in charge, which is something I never thought I would see."


This is what happens when a large group of gun folk start hoarding.
GuzziJohn

[Oldshooter]

I'd say it is more than a "large group" unless every one in the country everywhere that owns firearms is just a "large group".  And are you not "gun folk"? 

[guzzijohn]

I am a gun folk but I don't have need to pay double or triple or more for my guns and ammo. I have enough ammo and reloading supplies to get me by until this all settles down and things get back to close to normal.
GuzziJohn

[two-blocked]

I'm in pretty good shape except for Wolf Match which I use when we shoot benchrest at the club.
Hoping things settle down by this summer.

[mannyrock]

 
  I can only speak about the people who bought some ammo from me a the last gunshow.
 
   Virtually all of them began the conversation like this:  "Man, these prices are high.  I've already got 10 boxes (or even bricks) of this ammo, but I just feel like I should get some more."
 
   These folks were not what I would call ordinary gun owners.  They were hoarders.  Worse than that, they were horders in a cold sweat panic.  It was, in my estimation, pure mental illness.  Neurotic compulsion.  Mainly young men in their twenties and military types.
 
   Let me repeat what I posted a few days ago.  I personally saw them paying up to $100 for a  single brick of the cheap .22 LR Wildcat or Thunderbolt ammunition.  That, my friends, is mania.
 
   There was only one customer, and older couple, who said they had just bought a new gun (9mm pistol) and were looking for a box of ammo to go with it.  They bought ONE box.
 
   I told several people that all of the ammunition companies in America were probably working two shifts, seven days a week, cranking out ammunition in millions of rounds, and that as soon as this panic hording stopped, it would all be back on the shelves at regular prices everywhere.  They didn't believe it.
 
  Mannyrock
 
 
 

[FPH]

I know a young guy who just had his second child, just bought a house, is just scraping buy, and he goes and buys an AR and ammo at about triple what they should be and probably will be again.

[SHOOTALL]

those buying now are late commers , fence sitters they didn't even know they needed a gun or ammo until there was talk of taking guns. They will be selling them when the credit card comes due.
The really silly thing is the Govt/Obama caused alot of the created need for guns . So out go people buying guns that otherwise would not have. Now the silly part some want laws where they can't sell them . Talk about a nightmare .

[guzzijohn]

A coworker told me that he read an article about commercial ammo production. According to him ammo companies only run one line so they produce a certain number of rounds of a certain caliber that they estimate will fill the need for a period of time. They then retool the line for another caliber and repeat. I wonder if this is why it is taking so long to restock ammo?
GuzziJohn

[lakota]

  At the local gunstore yesterday, zero boxes of .22LR, 9mm and .45 acp.
  40 boxes of 5mm Remington!     :-)

Is that 5MM rimfire ammo? I thought they quit making that stuff. Saw a nice old 5mm remington on the used rack a while ago. I thought it was now just a pretty paper weight.

[SHOOTALL]

tons of the stuff comming in from Mexico I think.

[lakota]

Hmmm... I might have to go have another gander at that rifle if it is still there.

[dakotashooter2]

The 5mm stuff has been on the market for quite a few years and is actually reasonably priced.....(Century Arms- $15-$20/50)
Given the lack of availability of the common stuff it may not be such a bad idea to buy up a stash of odball stuff if you run across it and then find a gun for it....................................
One of our local stores has almost a full case of 7.62x54r and no one has touched it.

[SHOOTALL]

back in the 70's in a magazine called American Survival Guide a writer I believed named Finn Abergard or such wrote an article that said just the same thing. His thought was people when looting stores would leave it as they had no use for it.

[mannyrock]

Sh
ootall,
   That was Finn Aagard, one of the most famous big game hunters ever, and a writer for G&A.  His theory was that in a civil emergency, you wanted a rifle in an oddball, though not extinct, cartridge, because everyone would just leave the ammo lying in the stores, and anybody that picked it up would readily trade it off.
 
    Finn was originally a big game guide in Africa.  He killed just about everything in Africa, except elephant, hippo and water buffalo, with a plain jane FN Commercial Mauser in .30-06, with a surplus military barrel on it, steps and all.  He bragged that it would only shoot two inch groups at 100 yards, but that if you were a good shot, that was all you ever needed.  (He wasn't into punching paper. He thought it was silly.)
 
  Mannyrock
 

[SHOOTALL]

That's the guy ! thanks
That was a good magazine in some respects