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Posted: 5/23/2024 7:36:21 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By Morgan321: To be fair, I do think ammo is nearly as cheap as it will ever be again so it's a good time to accumulate what you might want for the foreseeable future. Pre-chinaflu I could buy 9mm for $10/box locally. It's currently $12.50 locally(down from $13.50 last month) - only 25% increase while gas is up over 50% and groceries are up nearly 100%. I am in buy cheap and stack deep mode. Have seen it and bought recently for $10.50 I am I buy mode as well and my ammo fort is overflowing |
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Posted: 5/23/2024 7:42:20 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By DocApocalypse: Here's what Sam Gabbert has to do with this, for those not familiar with him He is a tool. Quit buying from that dickhead right around covid |
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AL, USA
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Posted: 5/23/2024 7:43:08 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By ar154all: Trump is gonna win. No hoarding necessary. Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By ar154all: Originally Posted By chase45: Because they sitting on a fuck ton of it Even academy has shelves stocked full It doesnt even feel like we are rolling into an election season with all the ammos out there right now Trump is gonna win. No hoarding necessary. The whole election hoarding thing has proven useless. Buy because you need it or it's a good price or because we all know prices will go up due to inflation. Found this about 2 months ago. 
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Posted: 5/23/2024 7:44:08 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By doc540: welcome to last week https://www.ar15.com/media/mediaFiles/183309/Varget6-3221705.jpg Now I know who's been hogging all the Varget... Quit it! 
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Posted: 5/23/2024 7:52:04 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By ServusVeritatis: It’s currently Salad Days. You’ll kick and scream and try to deny it…..but it is. |
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Posted: 5/23/2024 8:11:19 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By SmokeEater2: You do realize one of the latest "GarandThumb-approved" rifles is a M1A Scout Squad right?  Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By SmokeEater2: Originally Posted By Nick_Adams: Glad I still have 3K rds of that janky Radway-Green 7.62 shit I bought for cheap in the early 1990s. The young AR dudes with beards and forearm tats were dogging' me at the range for not running the latest GarandThumb-approved 5.56. Sad. . 'Cause I thought my all-G1 parts S.A. M1A (built 1989) shot pretty good from the 200yd line. You do realize one of the latest "GarandThumb-approved" rifles is a M1A Scout Squad right? Yeah and it's gggaaaaaayyyyyy.  Sell me the vltor rail. |
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Posted: 5/23/2024 8:38:38 PM EDT
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Do I have enough ammo, probably not.
Do I need to buy more, without a doubt? What I need is a place to shoot. I now have housing developments downrange where I normally shoot on two sides and an inadequate berm for handguns. 
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Posted: 5/23/2024 8:53:05 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By 03RN: I feel like I was buy 9mm for 10cpr back then. Winchester white box was $99 /1000 back in the early 2000's or about $180 in today's dollars but that shit was garbage. I want to say that when I chrono'd it the spread was over 100fps….crazy. |
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Posted: 5/23/2024 8:54:04 PM EDT
[#9]
I still buy when I can
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Posted: 5/23/2024 8:55:35 PM EDT
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Posted: 5/23/2024 8:58:44 PM EDT
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Originally Posted By DocApocalypse: From a post on -X- just now: Tom Gresham @Guntalk · 1m I keep getting intel on this from industry insiders. Bottom line. In months or a year you will wish you had stocked up on ammo at today's prices. I'm buying now. This could have been stated at any point in the last 20 years 
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Posted: 5/23/2024 9:02:13 PM EDT
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I've got two full clips for each gun, I'm good.
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TX, USA
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Posted: 5/23/2024 9:14:10 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By Sorry_Your_Girl_Lost: I'm picturing GDers diving into an ammo pile and swimming like Scrooge McDuck, but never spending a shot. I'm about there. I buy way more than I shoot. At this point my non existent grandkids will be shooting ammo I bought. |
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KS, USA
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Posted: 5/23/2024 9:46:56 PM EDT
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I sure wish PSA would get around to that Grendel ammo.
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Posted: 5/23/2024 9:51:21 PM EDT
[#15]
Drop the price and be a little more realistic on your profit margins, until then, not taking your bait.
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GA, USA
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Posted: 5/23/2024 9:59:19 PM EDT
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Copper just set a new record high because of production shortages among other reasons.
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FL, USA
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Posted: 5/23/2024 10:00:57 PM EDT
[#17]
I subscribe to the ABBA method
Always Be Buying Ammo |
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FL, USA
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Posted: 5/23/2024 10:03:01 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By ar154all: Trump is gonna win. No hoarding necessary. Lol |
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Posted: 5/23/2024 10:03:17 PM EDT
[#19]
Jokes on them, I buy a case every month
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Posted: 5/23/2024 10:09:47 PM EDT
[#20]
Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By 2tom2: Copper just set a new record high because of production shortages among other reasons.  Attached File |
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Posted: 5/23/2024 10:15:49 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By AttachedFile: The whole election hoarding thing has proven useless. Buy because you need it or it's a good price or because we all know prices will go up due to inflation. Found this about 2 months ago. https://imgdump5.novarata.net/su2wkn.jpg Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By AttachedFile: Originally Posted By ar154all: Originally Posted By chase45: Because they sitting on a fuck ton of it Even academy has shelves stocked full It doesnt even feel like we are rolling into an election season with all the ammos out there right now Trump is gonna win. No hoarding necessary. The whole election hoarding thing has proven useless. Buy because you need it or it's a good price or because we all know prices will go up due to inflation. Found this about 2 months ago. https://imgdump5.novarata.net/su2wkn.jpg Fuck, hope you maxed out your credit card |
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Posted: 5/23/2024 10:16:51 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By farmer-dave: I sure wish PSA would get around to that Grendel ammo. This is what I've been waiting on |
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ABW
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Posted: 5/23/2024 10:19:23 PM EDT
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Some big sale of a company for 1.9 billion is going through. (May be wrong on amount) just popped up.
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Posted: 5/23/2024 10:21:48 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By Subpar: I’m not doing anything until Sam Gabbert weighs in. Beat me to it. |
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Posted: 5/23/2024 10:35:05 PM EDT
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Nahhh eff all that.
I’m going to hold off until after the election, WWIII begins, and an ammo panic like never seen before occurs, then create a thread bitching about SG Ammo not giving me a secret handshake discount on 358 Winchester ammo. |
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Posted: 5/23/2024 10:41:37 PM EDT
[Last Edit: SnoGoRider]
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By Strela: I've got two full clips for each gun, I'm good. That's not much ammo for the M1 Garand with 2 clips. 
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Posted: 5/23/2024 10:45:53 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By MFP_4073: anyone still have Guat or SA 5.56mm on-hand from back in the day ??  I hated that shit. |
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AZ, USA
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Posted: 5/23/2024 10:59:06 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By Duck_Hunt: There was at least one ammo shortage/run during his term pretty sure there were 2-3. Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By Duck_Hunt: Originally Posted By ar154all: Originally Posted By chase45: Because they sitting on a fuck ton of it Even academy has shelves stocked full It doesnt even feel like we are rolling into an election season with all the ammos out there right now Trump is gonna win. No hoarding necessary. There was at least one ammo shortage/run during his term pretty sure there were 2-3. I don't remember one, much less three. Maybe I'm being subconsciously selective, but I only remember panics/shortages when a (D) controls the White House. |
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Posted: 5/23/2024 11:06:27 PM EDT
[#29]
The world is conspiring against me, just about a month before I escape to the land of mail order ammo
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USA
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Posted: 5/23/2024 11:36:45 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By MikeMilligan: Basements kind of full already... |
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USA
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Posted: 5/23/2024 11:39:35 PM EDT
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I am stocking up but only because I believe WA will eventually put a stupid tax
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Posted: 5/23/2024 11:44:07 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By HRoark87: I don't know who Tom Gresham is or why he would know, but tipped match kings are finally readily available and I'm just looking for an excuse to buy a case, so thanks op host of Gun talk, and has some other shows now. His son also does a bit of it. |
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Posted: 5/23/2024 11:45:46 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By SnoGoRider: That's not much ammo for the M1 Garand with 2 clips. Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By SnoGoRider: Originally Posted By Strela: I've got two full clips for each gun, I'm good. That's not much ammo for the M1 Garand with 2 clips. Recalibrate your sarcasm meter. |
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Posted: 5/23/2024 11:51:47 PM EDT
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I have a 20 round box with 14 rounds left in it
I should be good for another 7 years of deer seasons, or more. Why would I possibly need more ammo than that? |
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Posted: 5/23/2024 11:57:30 PM EDT
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We'll see. We just got out of a couple years of panic, it always slows down and stays a bit lower after that. I'd be surprised to be the crazy high prices again this soon.
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Posted: 5/24/2024 12:02:14 AM EDT
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Because all the US ammo companies sold a fourth of their shares to leftist Blackrock whose primary goal as a business is to hurt conservatives.
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Posted: 5/24/2024 12:05:27 AM EDT
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By -OdieGreen-: Because all the US ammo companies sold a fourth of their shares to leftist Blackrock whose primary goal as a business is to hurt conservatives. Shit like this is why I keep buying ammo regardless of prices. God bless PSA, but they can't produce enough AAC to meet the demands of the whole country |
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Posted: 5/24/2024 12:06:57 AM EDT
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By MikeMilligan: Basements kind of full already…maybe after my next move. I wish I could say that. Basements are few and far between here. 
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AL, USA
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Posted: 5/24/2024 12:49:01 AM EDT
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There is a legit shortage of the main component of gun powder.
Who knew importing that from China was a bad thing and not having any domestic production? |
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Posted: 5/24/2024 12:51:30 AM EDT
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By chase45: Because they sitting on a fuck ton of it Even academy has shelves stocked full It doesnt even feel like we are rolling into an election season with all the ammos out there right now Yeah, I had time to kill today before a DR's appointment so I wandered thru Sportsman's, large local gun shop and Scheels. All three places were packed to the gills with ammo. |
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Posted: 5/24/2024 1:11:43 AM EDT
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Eh Tom is probably right.
I think GD and Arfcom fall into the trap thinking gun owners in general are a lot like them. But I don't think that's the case. I think most Arfcom folks buy ammo/components routinely to keep their ammo fort up to date. But I submit there is a whole different class of gun owner out there that outnumbers arfcom 500:1. This gun owner only buys ammo when he needs it or when he feels panic. Goin' Huntin': Buy 20 rounds Shootin' some birds: buy 2 boxes of 25 rounds. Need ammo for new AR for home defense: Buy 40 rounds to load a 30 round mag. But when panic sets in, like the Summer of Love, a school shooting, impending legislation then it's: BUY ALL THE AMMO, CLEAN OUT THE STORES!!!! NECKBEARD ALL THE 22, I MUST HAVE IT ALL....!!!! And when this really kicks off then stocks hold out for usually about 48-72hrs in stores and online then EVERYTHING is cleaned out. Face it we all have family members/acquaintances/co-workers like this. When this happens again (and it will) it could get interesting if ammo companies can't re-supply their powders like they always have. |
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Posted: 5/24/2024 1:45:11 AM EDT
[#42]
Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By Shootindave: No. Buy ammo yesterday, today is too late. |
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Posted: 5/24/2024 2:02:02 AM EDT
[#43]
I try not to get too caught up on the panics anymore, but I was once guilty. I have a set amount I'm looking to spend per month on ammo budget, so sometimes that gets me more and sometimes that gets me less.
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Posted: 5/24/2024 2:31:17 AM EDT
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By Efl15: BRB, panic buying .40 S&W, .22 WMR, 5.7, .45 ACP, .30 SC, and 350 Legend. It’s your funeral. You forgot 45GAP. |
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Posted: 5/24/2024 2:54:47 AM EDT
[#45]
I'm good. Gonna buy some more suppressors instead.
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Posted: 5/24/2024 4:37:18 AM EDT
[#46]
Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By MFP_4073: anyone still have Guat or SA 5.56mm on-hand from back in the day ?? I still have 4 and a half tubs of the SA 2700 rd brown tubs left. No more Guatemalan stuff though. I have a bunch of the Radway Green 30 cal cans full of RG .308 I bought the summer after Y2K. Bought a bunch at yard sales for around $10-$15 per can full. Shoots great out of my 2 FALs and Scout Squad M1A. |
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Posted: 5/24/2024 4:42:08 AM EDT
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By Southernman077: I'm good. Gonna buy some more suppressors instead. I was on a spare parts binge for a while. Now it's suppressors. |
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Posted: 5/24/2024 5:58:43 AM EDT
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friend and i bought 14k rounds of 9mm a few months back when academy had a “sale” on monarch 250rounds boxes.
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TX, USA
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Posted: 5/24/2024 6:04:46 AM EDT
[#49]
Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By ar154all: Trump is gonna win. No hoarding necessary. The Democrats are liable to see to it that Trump wins the same way he won back in 2020. I'm certain he did win back in 2020. |
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VA, USA
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Posted: 5/24/2024 6:09:25 AM EDT
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By -OdieGreen-: Because all the US ammo companies sold a fourth of their shares to leftist Blackrock whose primary goal as a business is to hurt conservatives. Wtf? What kind of mouthbreathing fucktard would do that? |
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