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I was cleaning up under some of my stuffed animals and found a stray 9mm round. That's not quite gold but at the cost of 1.5-2.5 a buck a round.......it is getting up there.
I am hoping this time for ammo shortages is temporary for it does seem we hit the big whammies all at once with the "Standard" buying of an election year, then civil unrest increasing gun buying by a few magnitudes, a pandemic shutting down the singularly MAJOR source of gun powder in the world, and then all the new buyers not realizing what ammo SHOULD cost..............
...................but what if, HEAVEN FORBID, it isn't? Does it start with ammo and guns and move into other things that we use to consider "a dime a dozen" (if, relatively speaking)?
Fifty years ago I bought all the surplus 9mm I wanted to shoot at less than three cents a round. I wish now I had bought a few cases and set it aside. You guys are getting screwed to the wall if you aren't rolling your own.
I was cleaning up under some of my stuffed animals and found a stray 9mm round. That's not quite gold but at the cost of 1.5-2.5 a buck a round.......it is getting up there.
I am hoping this time for ammo shortages is temporary for it does seem we hit the big whammies all at once with the "Standard" buying of an election year, then civil unrest increasing gun buying by a few magnitudes, a pandemic shutting down the singularly MAJOR source of gun powder in the world, and then all the new buyers not realizing what ammo SHOULD cost..............
...................but what if, HEAVEN FORBID, it isn't? Does it start with ammo and guns and move into other things that we use to consider "a dime a dozen" (if, relatively speaking)?
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Originally Posted by cuebald
Fifty years ago I bought all the surplus 9mm I wanted to shoot at less than three cents a round. I wish now I had bought a few cases and set it aside. You guys are getting screwed to the wall if you aren't rolling your own.
Well, even "rolling your own" is rather a situation of "getting screwed to the wall" for the prices and shortages involved there.
We can probably sum all that up under "arms" with what is like gold in that category.
Ammunition being expensive isn't anything new. When a couple of hours at the range started costing 200.00 my husband pretty much stopped going but continued to buy some here and there. If you are planning on using the ammunition to hunt or protect yourself I don't think you need that many do you?
Ammunition being expensive isn't anything new. When a couple of hours at the range started costing 200.00 my husband pretty much stopped going but continued to buy some here and there. If you are planning on using the ammunition to hunt or protect yourself I don't think you need that many do you?
Marksmanship is a very perishable skill. I can be legally judged to be reckless if it came up in court and it was found that I only fired once every 4 years at qualification time. Say qualification requires 50 rounds (I don't know, I haven't checked because my line of thought is to always be perfect)........do I really only need 50 rounds every 4 years?
Marksmanship is a very perishable skill. I can be legally judged to be reckless if it came up in court and it was found that I only fired once every 4 years at qualification time. Say qualification requires 50 rounds (I don't know, I haven't checked because my line of thought is to always be perfect)........do I really only need 50 rounds every 4 years?
Maybe for some...I have gone about seven years once without shooting and within 10 rounds was back to hitting a quarter sized target consistently from 7 yards with my .45!
Maybe for some...I have gone about seven years once without shooting and within 10 rounds was back to hitting a quarter sized target consistently from 7 yards with my .45!
Seven yards is not much, neither to shoot at......or to stop someone heading at you with a knife.
I train to engage at 15, 25, 35 yards.....sometimes 50. When I haven't been shooting for a while, it is at 15 and 25 more than the other two.
FURTHER, I am training over several different pistols (2 .45s, 5 9mms, 1 .380, different .22s) in several different firing modes (2 handed strong, 2HW, 1HS, 1HW, those modes in heavy winter gloves, broken finger scenarios, multiple magazine engagements, decock drills, flashlight, others).
So, to be perfect, that takes more than 50 rounds every 4 years, it takes more than 10 rounds when I get back to the range.
Fifty years ago I bought all the surplus 9mm I wanted to shoot at less than three cents a round. I wish now I had bought a few cases and set it aside. You guys are getting screwed to the wall if you aren't rolling your own.
Maybe for some...I have gone about seven years once without shooting and within 10 rounds was back to hitting a quarter sized target consistently from 7 yards with my .45!
I'd gone for about four years until recently My son and I went out and I took my old friend my 1911 out and was sending spent shotgun shells flying at 25 yards right out of the gate.
Two misses low and left a quick adjustment and there I was. Now am I as fast on a competition draw and speed array? No. But plenty fast enough and its accuracy that counts I could still compete at the top of A class.
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