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Until then, I did get a nice pellet rifle with a very nice trigger and pretty accurate that is nice to just go to a bench in my back pasture and kill paper with.
So far, there's not a real shortage of pellets, and I buy tins of 250, and a lot of them. Plus, I don't really need ear muffs to shoot comfortably. I've been looking for a good pellet pistol, but haven't found one I like yet, but I'll keep looking.
What caliber pellet rifle do you have?
For many years I thought they only came in .177 and .22, until someone enlightened me, showing me they come in at least a half dozen calibers.
I think it was Guns and Ammo magazine I saw today. the cover said "shoot it up" and had several calibers and shells on the cover. "They'll make more".
My advice to anyone right now and for the future is to NOT shoot ammo. Keep it safe. Store it dry. Get a video game or an app for target practice. Dry fire.
Conserve your ammo. It will be gold in the future.
I posted an article on a gun site that intervened the CEO of a large ammo manufacturer and he said ammo shortage will continue through 2021 (probably well into 2022)
For those people who have not lost all of their guns and ammo in a boating accident, yet...
I wrote a paper a few years back, advocating that you should always gear your practice consumption so that you never have less than three years of practice ammo. In other words, if you practice once a quarter, you should not expend more than 12% of your remaining supply, each time. If you practice once a month, you should never expend more than 2.75% each time. Unless you have tens of thousands of rounds, I think it would be better to go the quarterly route, and do some dry fire practice and other exercises, in between.
Now, I wonder if anyone from that scuba school found any of my stuff at the lake...
We bought a SERT laser Glock 17 and the software for practice.
For many years I thought they only came in .177 and .22, until someone enlightened me, showing me they come in at least a half dozen calibers.
22. Nice for plinking, it'll take out a gopher with a head shot, but the ammo is cheap. I like the 22 better than the 177 just because it does work on small varmints where the 177 doesn't have the energy.
I've shot .30, .45 and .50 caliber air rifles. Impressive, but too spendy for my wallet.
I've reloaded for what seems forever as I lived in the sticks and win mag ammo was hard to find and expensive. Now I've had the presses running again since the anti gun theme started with the shootings. I have either enough ammo, or components to last my lifetime and probably my kids.
Ammo shortage? What's that? Too bad all my guns got burned down in a typhoon.
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I'm afraid a tornado took mine, so the munchkins in Oz are well armed now.
I use archery tackle a lot for big game and slingshots for small game and varmints, so since I can make arrows and use them over and over, (I shoot recurve and longbows so I don't need composite arrows), it really helps with the ammo shortages, but keeps my eye in for firearms when someone loans me a gun of course.
It sounds kinda strange, but even shooting rocks through my slingshot at a gopher works the concentration and hand eye coordination. Just being out shooting whatever you have helps exercise muscle memory and technique so if we can ever get to the point where we can just enjoy shooting without worrying it may be the last time, we'll still have our old skills.
Until then, I did get a nice pellet rifle with a very nice trigger and pretty accurate that is nice to just go to a bench in my back pasture and kill paper with.
So far, there's not a real shortage of pellets, and I buy tins of 250, and a lot of them. Plus, I don't really need ear muffs to shoot comfortably. I've been looking for a good pellet pistol, but haven't found one I like yet, but I'll keep looking.
MT - Story for you. We occasionally get pigeon problems. Awhile back one was sitting on my back patio wall. I got my wrist rocket and a pretty hefty ball bearing. I missed the damn bird by a foot, hit my block wall, denting it, the bearing bounced back about 40 feet across the yard and shattered the $60 globe on one of my patio fans!
MT - Story for you. We occasionally get pigeon problems. Awhile back one was sitting on my back patio wall. I got my wrist rocket and a pretty hefty ball bearing. I missed the damn bird by a foot, hit my block wall, denting it, the bearing bounced back about 40 feet across the yard and shattered the $60 globe on one of my patio fans!
Ooops!!
Know your target and beyond....
My worst was a riccochet that went almost exactly 90 degrees left after hitting the dirt, travelled nearly 50 feet and took out a headlight on the ranch truck.
Yeah, I've done good on keeping my stock of ammo at a comfortable level, prior to 2020 AND buying whatever I can find. I.ve definitely cut back on shooting to conserve my ammunition since May/June, when "I" started to see all the craziness hit my location.
Anyway, I'm hoping to hit the range within the first week of March and go through 200rds of 9mm and 100rds of .45... Maybe 50rds of .38.
I'm not knocking those lasers or other training devices, but for me, retired Army and retired Law Enforcement, "I" need to actually shoot a firearm to consider "myself" training.
Not knowing the future of the ammunition supply for the civilian market or if there will be some massive tax on ammo, in the near future, I'm still in my conserving mode and probably go shooting only 2-3 times a year for awhile.
You know its crazy when Russian "steel case" .223 is going for a dollar a round... At least in my part of the country!!
My worst was a riccochet that went almost exactly 90 degrees left after hitting the dirt, travelled nearly 50 feet and took out a headlight on the ranch truck.
Didn't even get that rabbit for dinner.
Oof I was swinging on a ditch pigeon as a kid with my 410 and touched off on it right as it passed some old tractor tires we had stood up for a cow rub. All the pellets that hit it came back about the same speed. That was not pleasant but lesson learned.
I was actually referring to what people were saying about Beanie Babies when they were a hot item. "Going to worth tons in the future", "Don't take the labels off"....
I was just poking a little fun at what people think is going to be worth tons in the future. Its not always what you think it might be, despite all the logic applied to the reasoning.
Case in point, on a backpacking ice fishing trip, the person that sharpened my auger blades put them on backwards. We had nothing to take off the lock nuts holding them on. I had all the fuel, matches, food, etc I needed, but did not have a wrench to remove the lock nuts. A wrench would have been worth gold to me at the time.
Something is only worth a lot if someone else needs it, and there is a short supply.
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