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Now to wait for my precious. 22lr to come down.

 KingCracker wrote:
Now to wait for my precious. 22lr to come down.

You and me both. This is getting ridiculous.

Why on earth did people panic buy it? Was it cheap so they figured they could buy more of it, or did they just confuse it with .223 and think that it was an "assault rifle bullet"?

On the bright side, at least I can find 9mm for decent prices. And I finally got a membership to the local club so I can go shooting outdoors again.

 MrMoustaffa wrote:

 KingCracker wrote:
Now to wait for my precious. 22lr to come down.

You and me both. This is getting ridiculous.

Why on earth did people panic buy it? Was it cheap so they figured they could buy more of it, or did they just confuse it with .223 and think that it was an "assault rifle bullet"?

On the bright side, at least I can find 9mm for decent prices. And I finally got a membership to the local club so I can go shooting outdoors again.

Its an easy substaitute when you can't get something else.

Then scammers saw the price bubble and started buying it up and reselling it on Gunroker etc.

 Frazzled wrote:

 MrMoustaffa wrote:

 KingCracker wrote:
Now to wait for my precious. 22lr to come down.

You and me both. This is getting ridiculous.

Why on earth did people panic buy it? Was it cheap so they figured they could buy more of it, or did they just confuse it with .223 and think that it was an "assault rifle bullet"?

On the bright side, at least I can find 9mm for decent prices. And I finally got a membership to the local club so I can go shooting outdoors again.

Its an easy substaitute when you can't get something else.

Then scammers saw the price bubble and started buying it up and reselling it on Gunroker etc.

Its even hard for gun stores to get ammo. We cant even get a solid date from the manufacturors as to when orders will be filled.

Academy and Walmart have regular shipments. Those shipments are then taken and resold. Walmart especially has been accused of having employees intercept and resell ammo.

 Frazzled wrote:
Academy and Walmart have regular shipments. Those shipments are then taken and resold. Walmart especially has been accused of having employees intercept and resell ammo.

Its driving me bananas. I can't find target 9mm anywhere. I can find 40 plenty easily, but my 40 isn't my carry and I'd like to target shoot more often with my carry....sigh...

Went to the new Gander Mtn Firearms Supercenter in Minnesota the other day. And Cabela's.

Cabela's had tons of .223 around which is nice. No 9mm ball though. Gander had tons of both and a nice stack of .22lr, just not minimag

sparkywtf wrote:
Went to the new Gander Mtn Firearms Supercenter in Minnesota the other day. And Cabela's.

Cabela's had tons of .223 around which is nice. No 9mm ball though. Gander had tons of both and a nice stack of .22lr, just not minimag

Yeah, my Cabelas is selling Bushmaster AR's with 2 or 3 30 round mags for $750. Thats half the price it was 4 months ago here. I might pay rent late this month

We've had to limit two boxes per person to make things stretch.

 Inquisitor Lord Bane wrote:

sparkywtf wrote:
Went to the new Gander Mtn Firearms Supercenter in Minnesota the other day. And Cabela's.

Cabela's had tons of .223 around which is nice. No 9mm ball though. Gander had tons of both and a nice stack of .22lr, just not minimag

Yeah, my Cabelas is selling Bushmaster AR's with 2 or 3 30 round mags for $750. Thats half the price it was 4 months ago here. I might pay rent late this month

I'd be with you, but my girlfriend said no more spending money till I get out of some of my debt.

The only guns i'll ever need are a basic shotgun, a basic rifle, and a revolver.

I wouldn't turn down a .30 caliber browning machine gun however.

 surixurient wrote:
The only guns i'll ever need are a basic shotgun, a basic rifle, and a revolver.

I wouldn't turn down a .30 caliber browning machine gun however.

You miss all the fun though of variety!

Like, I don't NEED a .357 1911, but after firing one, I really really really want one.

 Frazzled wrote:
Academy and Walmart have regular shipments. Those shipments are then taken and resold. Walmart especially has been accused of having employees intercept and resell ammo.

Mine have been accused of this quite a bit.

I've actually considered getting a job there at times just to figure what the heck is happening to the ammo, because I know they're getting it.

I live within a couple ours of a couple of the largest gun stores in the country, and getting my ammo hasnt been very difficult... especially seeing as how all the shops in the town I live are perpetually sold out of the ammo I need (the soul killing .45acp, and .380)

The Bass Pro shop in Nashville was just as useless, though it would seem that large gun specific stores have greater pull with the ammo manufacturers than do big box sporting goods stores.

In this area, (rural PA), the ammo shipments to Walmart come Wednesday or Thursday evenings. Ive noticed the same group of 4 guys who buy it right off the skid. Walmart limits people to three bricks, these jackals all buy three each at $24/box, then flip them at the gun shows for $60-80 a pop. Ive made friends with the manager, and every now and then buy a brick of 22. Sad, considering I work part time at a gun store.

Exactly.

I lucked upon a couple boxes of 9mm about a month ago at walmart. Grabbed them up real quick. For whatever reason I never grab pistol ammo in bulk. Most I ever bought was 250 rounds of wolf 9mm before the latest panic. Think I still have 3 boxes left. Lucked out during the panic. A buddy sold me my Springfield Armory 1911 $500 then casually mentions he was looking to move 420 rounds of IMI xm193 ammo. At this time 420 rounds of 5.56 of any kind was an easy $400. He tells me he just wants what he paid for it.....$150!!! Deal was so good, the wife didn't even complain about hitting the atm. Its sealed up in a 30cal can right next to another can with 450 rounds of xm855 from lake city.

All my factory 556 is Lake City 62gr. I'll never put Wolf in any of my arms (one reason is because Wolf is dirty, and the other reason is they dont use brass). We have a 1000 box of Tula for $350, but I t'aint touchin it LOL.

My reloads, I use Hornady V/Zmax 55gr or Sierra match bullets and CFE powder and CCI primers (it's a harder primer).

Just today I saw the price on frangible ammo, holy canoli!

I can find .22lr in federal bulk (which is my preferred shooting round) at the local gun shop, the problem is this. They clearly get the 550 round boxes, and split them up in bags of 50 rounds and then sell them for $5. Youre only allowed 2 bags per stop, so the wife and I will go together and get 200 rounds for $20. The problem is, when people werent asshats with the 22.....you could buy that same 550 round box of federal for $20, so they are making twice the profit off the same box. Its fething theft IMO

 KingCracker wrote:
I can find .22lr in federal bulk (which is my preferred shooting round) at the local gun shop, the problem is this. They clearly get the 550 round boxes, and split them up in bags of 50 rounds and then sell them for $5. Youre only allowed 2 bags per stop, so the wife and I will go together and get 200 rounds for $20. The problem is, when people werent asshats with the 22.....you could buy that same 550 round box of federal for $20, so they are making twice the profit off the same box. Its fething theft IMO

Thats is theft!

We were selling American Eagle 50rd boxes for $3, and Federal for $3.99 and CCI for around $4.59

We sold out the last two boxes today of AE today. We have about 5 boxes of CCI subsonic left.

This is gettin terrible :(

 Spacemanvic wrote:
All my factory 556 is Lake City 62gr. I'll never put Wolf in any of my arms (one reason is because Wolf is dirty, and the other reason is they dont use brass). We have a 1000 box of Tula for $350, but I t'aint touchin it LOL.

My reloads, I use Hornady V/Zmax 55gr or Sierra match bullets and CFE powder and CCI primers (it's a harder primer).

Just today I saw the price on frangible ammo, holy canoli!

My ar's have never seen a single round of wolf in the chamber. I know people say it's not a big deal, but I've seen enough fte's to stay away. Figure I spent that much on a boomstick, whats the sense in saving a few cents round. My ak's are a different story....wolf all the way!

I have one AR that gets fed nothing but wolf. It was built as a test to see exactly how far I could push the platform. 2000 rounds of the stuff without issue thus far. The other one, my 6940, has been fed a little to make sure it can run steel cased....If it can't run steel cased in a pinch, I ain't keeping it.

 SOFDC wrote:
I have one AR that gets fed nothing but wolf. It was built as a test to see exactly how far I could push the platform. 2000 rounds of the stuff without issue thus far. The other one, my 6940, has been fed a little to make sure it can run steel cased....If it can't run steel cased in a pinch, I ain't keeping it.

It should do fine, but you'll have to clean it more often and Im betting the carbon will be a pita to scrape off. Plus your gas system will probably foul quicker. Also the powder used is pretty corrosive, wouldnt be surprised if it leads to quicker barrel wear.

All these reasons, plus the fact it is steel cased (which means I cant reload it - waste of resources and environment) makes me wave off Wolf/Tula for my ARs. They'll work in the AR platform, but I dont think the long term cost justifies its use. At least for me......

yeah, .22lr is the only thing getting scarce up here, I cannot seem to find any of it in any quantity anywhere.
223 went up from 27c rnd to 30c/rnd
.45 is still 33c/rnd

it feels odd having more/cheaper ammo then the yanks for once....

Well at least I've got cheap 9mm. I could live without 22lr if I could just find a good source for 9x18 mak. It was easy to find when the panic first started but now its harder to find 9nm.

.40 is always available here, and 9mm is getting more available. Good luck finding .45 however. Same with .22 - if you can find it, it's expensive. The guns themselves are getting more available. The local Walmart as three AR-15s right now, and two of them are Colts with rails for about $1400.

The wife and I went pistol shopping today. We were just looking around and we are almost certain we are putting a lay-a-way in for a pistol for her and myself as well. Im in love with the Ruger SR9 and shes wanting an SR22. I cant get over how nice the SR9 feels in the hand. But while browsing we were shooting the breeze with the salesmen and checking out this and that, when I mentioned I never held a Glock before. So he laughed and said "Judging by what you said you like, I bet youll hate it" so we went over to give it a fit. Yuck! What a strange feeling gun! It just feels so wrong in every way possible. I didnt like it at all.


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 mega_bassist wrote:
.40 is always available here, and 9mm is getting more available. Good luck finding .45 however. Same with .22 - if you can find it, it's expensive. The guns themselves are getting more available. The local Walmart as three AR-15s right now, and two of them are Colts with rails for about $1400.

Yea my local gun store is getting plenty of panic buyers reselling their panic buys Some of the deals they have are pretty impressive. Im talking, my cheap ass self is looking around wondering what I can sell

 KingCracker wrote:
The wife and I went pistol shopping today. We were just looking around and we are almost certain we are putting a lay-a-way in for a pistol for her and myself as well. Im in love with the Ruger SR9 and shes wanting an SR22. I cant get over how nice the SR9 feels in the hand. But while browsing we were shooting the breeze with the salesmen and checking out this and that, when I mentioned I never held a Glock before. So he laughed and said "Judging by what you said you like, I bet youll hate it" so we went over to give it a fit. Yuck! What a strange feeling gun! It just feels so wrong in every way possible. I didnt like it at all.


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 mega_bassist wrote:
.40 is always available here, and 9mm is getting more available. Good luck finding .45 however. Same with .22 - if you can find it, it's expensive. The guns themselves are getting more available. The local Walmart as three AR-15s right now, and two of them are Colts with rails for about $1400.

Yea my local gun store is getting plenty of panic buyers reselling their panic buys Some of the deals they have are pretty impressive. Im talking, my cheap ass self is looking around wondering what I can sell

My girlfriend and I both love the SR9. She sold it a few months ago when we were moving out east, now we miss it since we ended up staying.

$250 shipped for 1000 rounds of 7.62x39mm from Center Fire Systems

Speaking of ammo I saw the most amazing sight while at the shop. A literal drum barrel, of 5.56 for sale. It was 7 grand for 12,500 rounds if I remember correctly. Ive never seen so many bullets in 1 spot


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sparkywtf wrote:

 KingCracker wrote:
The wife and I went pistol shopping today. We were just looking around and we are almost certain we are putting a lay-a-way in for a pistol for her and myself as well. Im in love with the Ruger SR9 and shes wanting an SR22. I cant get over how nice the SR9 feels in the hand. But while browsing we were shooting the breeze with the salesmen and checking out this and that, when I mentioned I never held a Glock before. So he laughed and said "Judging by what you said you like, I bet youll hate it" so we went over to give it a fit. Yuck! What a strange feeling gun! It just feels so wrong in every way possible. I didnt like it at all.


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 mega_bassist wrote:
.40 is always available here, and 9mm is getting more available. Good luck finding .45 however. Same with .22 - if you can find it, it's expensive. The guns themselves are getting more available. The local Walmart as three AR-15s right now, and two of them are Colts with rails for about $1400.

Yea my local gun store is getting plenty of panic buyers reselling their panic buys Some of the deals they have are pretty impressive. Im talking, my cheap ass self is looking around wondering what I can sell

My girlfriend and I both love the SR9. She sold it a few months ago when we were moving out east, now we miss it since we ended up staying.

Not surprised, everyone Ive talked to about the SR9 or read/watched reviews on the gun seem to think its a fantastic pistol. It doesnt help that I apparently have a hard on for anything Ruger