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OK, I'm a recovered gun nut, but my friend just bought a nice Springfield TRP 1911 so he's all hot and bothered to go shooting.
Wow, you can't find .45 ACP anywhere for a decent price! At the range, they have some but sell it for $32 for 50 cartridges!
Usually I go to Big 5 and they were out, the guy said that in the past months, it's been like "the great famine" apparently just around the time that we got a new president, gun and ammo sales went insane and you couldn't get your hands of ammo of any type.
This morning, I thought I'd just go to Walmart since it's kind of on the way to work and traffic on 101 was stacked up anyway.
When I got to the sporting goods section the ammo cabinet was completely empty except for some rifle ammo. Oddly the case was open too. So I was wandering around looking at stuff and I hear a guy talking to the sales guy asking for 9mm and the sales guy asking him how much he wanted. So I went back to the case and he was stocking it! Woo! At Wallmart it's $17/box of 50. Sweet! He asked me how many I wanted, so I said um, 2 boxes. He says "No really, how many boxes? If you don't buy it now, you won't get any for a few months". Uh, OK, how about 4 boxes? "Are you sure?" OK, 5 boxes. "Seriously, how many do you want".. OK, 6 boxes. "Um, well you know we won't have any by the end of the day?" I stuck to my guns (ha ha!) with 6 boxes. Holy crap, I just bought $100 worth of ammo and I barely even go shooting anymore (like once every 6 months maybe).
I asked him what's up and he said ... well one guy "A tall white man" comes in and will buy ALL the ammo, $1500-$unpacket2000 worth. He owns a shooting range and he re-sells the ammo there for twice the price. Another guy "Some Asian guy" also will come in and buy everything and he sells them on eBay for a huge profit. Another guy was really paranoid and bought up $1000 because next year there will be fingerprinting necessary to buy ammo.
Wow, there are such things as ammo scalpers! They buy up all the ammo then sell it to you because you can't find it anywhere else (because they bought it first!).
I told my friend who ran off and bought 10 boxes and said there were only 5 boxes of .45 acp left at Walmart! I guess that there won't be any for the next month at least and only if you can get there before the "scalpers!"
Is this insane?
Two nights ago, I opened up my mothballed Dillon 550B and I'm thinking about where to mount it! I checked my old reloading supplies and I still have a metric crap ton of brass, primers and some powder.
My stupid friend has me getting all gun-nutty again.
I think it's time to pick up a .22 or a 9mm. Sheesh. (not because there is more 9mm, but it'll be cheaper to shoot/reload for and .22lr is still cheap, you get 500 rounds for the price you'd pay for 50 rounds of .45).
OK, gun nut mode off.
V
Which reminds me, i need more 45's. I remember now why I havent been to the range for a while.
Even out here in the sticks it is tough to get. Especially 9mm! Cheaper to buy and everyone wants some. I'm not shooting enough right now to justify reloading since I would have to buy all new equipment. I have a brand new S&W 1911 I've barely even fired with .45 ammo because I'm hanging on to my small stock of ammo. Been almost impossible to catch .45 around here...Bought a .22 conversion for it because at least I can get .22!
Great .... you read this thread, under that domain name....
A bunch of gun totin, pot smokin, nudists.
And the "BA" in the thread did not help.
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Some ranges have pretty cheap reloaded ammo. Have to use it there though - in theory.
Which reminds me, I wanted to buy a shotgun!
No problems getting shotgun shells around here...thank goodness! Makes my Mossberg happy...
Vlad, you want a shotgun?
I've never done any skeet shooting (or clay shooting or wahtever you call it) That would be fun, but I think you need a double barrel, not a pump shotty.
Shotguns are pretty cheap compared to pistols...go to Big5 and check some out!
V
I've been wanting one for awhile. Hard to get wife acceptance on this topic but I need to get it going.
You can shoot skeet with a pump just fine. On doubles you even have time for a third if you need it. I haven't shot skeet in a long time but would be down if others were interested.
I went to Arkansas last winter for ducks but it was all frozen up for the week I was there. Might try again this year??
I have a friend who gets his stock of ammo when he's in Reno
Part of the hobby should include loading your own shells. I guess its like mixing saltwater, you could buy premixed water but its not the same, eh?
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