Posted: 3/16/2013 12:29:21 PM EDT
Went to a gun show in Hayward WI. Got there when they cracked the doors . Got in and went the oppisite way of everyone else and managed to find 7 boxes of 100rd federal 55gr FMJ. Scored them all for $325. Finished walking through the show and a guy at the other end had the same ammo for  $100 a box. I'm extremly happy. Since I usually pay the $39.95 each at wallyworld plus tax. The $325 total for 700rds isn't to bad.
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Apparently everyone's hoarding the traditionally cheap ammo...22 and FMJ stuff.
Was at GM yesterday and not a single round of FMJ anything, but plenty of hunting and personal protection rounds. Why aren't people hoarding $30+ boxes of Critcal Defense/Gold Dot or stuff like that? |
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Apparently everyone's hoarding the traditionally cheap ammo...22 and FMJ stuff. Was at GM yesterday and not a single round of FMJ anything, but plenty of hunting and personal protection rounds. Why aren't people hoarding $30+ boxes of Critcal Defense/Gold Dot or stuff like that? Hoarding is such a nasty word to me. My father has been telling me for 0ver 30 years to buy ammo, buy ammo, buy ammo. So, I have. I have a few rounds of everything. Enough to carry me for the next 30 years? Naw, Hell I'll be dead in 20 or less anyway. I'd rather think of it as stocking up for a rainy day. Or a day when you can't find it anywhere, at any price. Like now. 
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Apparently everyone's hoarding the traditionally cheap ammo...22 and FMJ stuff. Was at GM yesterday and not a single round of FMJ anything, but plenty of hunting and personal protection rounds. Why aren't people hoarding $30+ boxes of Critcal Defense/Gold Dot or stuff like that? Hoarding is such a nasty word to me. My father has been telling me for 0ver 30 years to buy ammo, buy ammo, buy ammo. So, I have. I have a few rounds of everything. Enough to carry me for the next 30 years? Naw, Hell I'll be dead in 20 or less anyway. I'd rather think of it as stocking up for a rainy day. Or a day when you can't find it anywhere, at any price. Like now. Funny I do that with Weber products... 
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Very true, But for now not much else you can do if you want to shoot and not stare at your weapon. We're supposed to SHOOT these things? Damn, I've been doing it wrong.  Yea... Its been a staring contest with my new Panic Rifle since I got it. I was lucky enough to have gotten some ammo from Cabelas online before they went dry... but now I wish I bought a crap more than I did... |
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Apparently everyone's hoarding the traditionally cheap ammo...22 and FMJ stuff. Was at GM yesterday and not a single round of FMJ anything, but plenty of hunting and personal protection rounds. Why aren't people hoarding $30+ boxes of Critcal Defense/Gold Dot or stuff like that? Hoarding is such a nasty word to me. My father has been telling me for 0ver 30 years to buy ammo, buy ammo, buy ammo. So, I have. I have a few rounds of everything. Enough to carry me for the next 30 years? Naw, Hell I'll be dead in 20 or less anyway. I'd rather think of it as stocking up for a rainy day. Or a day when you can't find it anywhere, at any price. Like now. Funny I do that with Weber products... No kidding. 
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Ahh.....I love reloading. I currenty have 1000 Zmax and 1000 Vmax waiting for me to load for prairie dogs. Me too. I've got 500 Winchester .224 - 55FMJ bullets that I bought (like 4 years ago) just sitting on my reloading bench. Also got 500 Winchester (WWB) once-fired brass - de-primed, trimmed, resized. 500 CCI small rifle primers, 3 lbs powder all just waiting to be put together. Problem is.... when I loaded some up 4 yrs ago (1st time reloading .223), about 1/3 wouldn't chamber easily in either of my two rifles (DPMS & Armalite). I had 80 loaded, stopped to do some test firing, and found there was a problem, so stopped right there. I could not find the problem, so I pulled the bullets, saved the powder & primed brass... then set it all aside to "figure it out later". I had enough other 'easy to acquire' .223 ammo that finishing these was not a pressing issue. Now it would be nice to have them, so I ordered a .223 case guage from Dillon last week to attempt to find the problem.  Dies are Lee, and are .223... all my rifles are chamdered 5.56, but all the brass was fired through one of my rifles when it was NIB ammo. I compared case length of good vs bad with a dial caliper, and they're all the same. I even pulled a bullet from an unfired NIB cartridge and compared them to that one... same exact length as my resized brass. 
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Ahh.....I love reloading. I currenty have 1000 Zmax and 1000 Vmax waiting for me to load for prairie dogs. Me too. I've got 500 Winchester .224 - 55FMJ bullets that I bought (like 4 years ago) just sitting on my reloading bench. Also got 500 Winchester (WWB) once-fired brass - de-primed, trimmed, resized. 500 CCI small rifle primers, 3 lbs powder all just waiting to be put together. Problem is.... when I loaded some up 4 yrs ago (1st time reloading .223), about 1/3 wouldn't chamber easily in either of my two rifles (DPMS & Armalite). I had 80 loaded, stopped to do some test firing, and found there was a problem, so stopped right there. I could not find the problem, so I pulled the bullets, saved the powder & primed brass... then set it all aside to "figure it out later". I had enough other 'easy to acquire' .223 ammo that finishing these was not a pressing issue. Now it would be nice to have them, so I ordered a .223 case guage from Dillon last week to attempt to find the problem. Dies are Lee, and are .223... all my rifles are chamdered 5.56, but all the brass was fired through one of my rifles when it was NIB ammo. I compared case length of good vs bad with a dial caliper, and they're all the same. I even pulled a bullet from an unfired NIB cartridge and compared them to that one... same exact length as my resized brass.
Thats why I always load up 3 of each grain weight then test fire for accuracy then try different seating depths. Gives me the most accurate for each gun and makes sure everything fits good. I dont know what would be wrong unless you didnt size right. that the only time I have seen issues. |
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I dont know what would be wrong unless you didnt size right. that the only time I have seen issues. That's what I figured too, it's why I ordered the case guage to check things out. It 's a "random" issue, and I was loading them on a single stage press. I also have a brand new sizing die I haven't used yet, waiting on the case guage. I've ruled out OAL case length and OAL of loaded cartridge as the issue, as both are same or less than new ammo. BTW... it wasn't a bullet seating issue. I ran into that once when reloading .280 Rem. I had the bullets seated too shallow, and the bullet was contacting the rifling preventing it from fully chambering, even though they were within OAL specs. I found out that the ogive on Hornady 7mm 140gr SST bullets made it necessary for them to be seated about .015" deeper to chamber correctly in my rifle. But these are Win bullets, same as in new ammo (I think). Sorry for the hi-jack... back to the original purpose of the thread.
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