762x39 heads up

[Lloyd Smale]

its getting real hard to find ammo anymore. Palmetto has 700 round spam cans for 285 bucks. Better get it while you can. 

[Ranger99]

Thanks for the heads up
Still have a good bit myself
All the AKs went away, and the
SKS piggy popper is all that's left

[Lloyd Smale]

I had to jump on a couple cans. I was down to 200 rounds of ammo! Dont shoot the ak much but a gun without ammo is just a club.

[Ranger99]

I bought the crates back when it was
reasonable, plus probably a 5 gallon
bucket of various hunting stuff.

I don't think the hunting type ammo is
$2.00 / 20 anymore though

FWIW the Academy store has the 520
cans for $229.99 and in stock

[Ranger99]

All my bulk is in strippers
I don't think they sell it like
that anymore

One of the local guys (of the few left)
had a quantity of the old 5.56 in
the cloth bandoleers with the magazine
adapter before Christmas, but I'm
sure it's long gone

[Lloyd Smale]

had to laugh yesterday. I was in the local ace hardware store (gun dealer too) and was talking to the owner. He said he just bought bulk 2k 556 ball and it came loose in cardboard boxes. he had glad bags of 100 for 100 flipping dollars and said he had to limit it to one bag per customer per day because he cant keep it on the shelf. Said he only puts 6 bags out a day. That way he gets people to come in often and they tend to buy other things. Yup hes a tight sob and would probably steal from his own mother. Heck id consider selling a bunch myself at that price.  In muzzle loading season people were having problems around here getting 209s. He had a bunch of old HERTERS! 209s and bagged them up 10 in a pack for 8 buck a bag. Cant imagine risking a hunt on 40 year old primers. But i guess for many it was that or stay home. 

All my bulk is in strippers
I don't think they sell it like
that anymore

One of the local guys (of the few left)
had a quantity of the old 5.56 in
the cloth bandoleers with the magazine
adapter before Christmas, but I'm
sure it's long gone

[Ranger99]

I can't imagine what I would
need personally ammunition
wise, or black powder shooting
supplies for the rest of my
lifetime.  I bought stuff back
when it was priced reasonably
and not the stupid gouge prices
people are paying now.
Somebody was asking me a
while back " Hey, you've reloaded
a long time. What all do I need to
buy to get started?"
I told him to find a time machine
and go back a couple of decades
and I'll make you a list. And pick
me up a couple of thousand large
rifle primers while you're there
( I did tell him to save up and I'd
show what all to buy and how to
use it. JMHO- I would buy loaded
ammo myself in 2022 since there's
no longer a financial advantage to
reloading like when I started)

[Lloyd Smale]

Im pretty much stocked too ranger. Just light on 762 because i got rid of my aks years  ago and the ammo too and my neighbor and friend died a couple years ago and his son gave me his ak. Its been sitting in the closet since and its time to give it a work out. To some having a 1000 rounds of ammo is a lifetime supply. to me with guns like aks and ars its lucky to last a month. Ive got enough 556, 9, 40 and 45 ammo to arm an platoon for a year but that doesnt keep me from buying more brass bullets and primers. Bottom line is these shortages effected me. I have less ammo then i did 5 years ago and will have even less 5 years from now if things dont get back to sane. Sad thing is i didnt have enought to by 5 cans of it. I know one thing. 762x39 is NEVER getting back to good old day prices. Russia quit using it and that dried up most of the cheap surplus. typical today is 20 bucks for a 20 round box. I have dies and have loaded for it before but i always like cheap surplus for it. It was one gun i could take to camp and blast the crap out of and not have to bend over to pick up brass and back then your couldnt load cheaper then you could by surplus. Surplus 762 used to cost what 22lr cost today.

[O-mega]

Back in the good ole days I stocked up on brass cased, boxer primed ammo for my AK and SKS.  It doesn't get used really, as I am more of an AR fan, but as was said, if not able to shoot it, it's just a club, a heavy club, but a club nonetheless.  After the last shortage crisis, I also made sure to have casting supplies for every caliber I owned...and some I don't.  Primers will eventually dry out, but I have enough of those to keep me going for quite some time, and hopefully by that time, some will become available to do another restock.

[mcbammer]

I can't imagine what I would
need personally ammunition
wise, or black powder shooting
supplies for the rest of my
lifetime.  I bought stuff back
when it was priced reasonably
and not the stupid gouge prices
people are paying now.
Somebody was asking me a
while back " Hey, you've reloaded
a long time. What all do I need to
buy to get started?"
I told him to find a time machine
and go back a couple of decades
and I'll make you a list. And pick
me up a couple of thousand large
rifle primers while you're there
( I did tell him to save up and I'd
show what all to buy and how to
use it. JMHO- I would buy loaded
ammo myself in 2022 since there's
no longer a financial advantage to
reloading like when I started)

  Yes Sir, it would probably cost triple  to get set up for reloading  today . Plus I think they will eventually make it illegal to roll your own or ban the sale of primers & powder .

[phalanx]

Just one more way the left is attacking our ability to have guns. They always said they were going to stop the flow of ammo. I don't do as much much plinking anymore.