tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32768818.post3294636379596041155..comments2024-03-24T18:18:35.272-05:00Comments on BALLSEYE'S BOOMERS: Are You Buying Ammo...Glenn Bhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16677859688487279914noreply@blogger.comBlogger8125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32768818.post-29670789334236807152021-03-08T20:26:46.509-06:002021-03-08T20:26:46.509-06:00I have a 4 or 5 year supply of all components exce...I have a 4 or 5 year supply of all components except projectiles and a 2 or 3 year supply of loaded ammo. I can make bullets as I do it a couple of times a year. I can make gas checks out of spent 22LR cases. I will wait out the craziness of the current market. <br /><br />I have a a few 1 lb powder jars of spent primers. With phosphorus sesquisulfide, antimony trisulfide, potassium chlorate, sulfur, and potassium chlorate I can re-build spent primers. It is simple chemistry. My re-man primers are equivalent to rifle/magnum primers. The Powder is a different story. I can make black powder but it shoots dirty and very smoky. Fine for one shot but The air needs to clear after three quick shots. I do not have the expertise for the smokeless nitro-cellulose as I understand the theory behind the manufacture but not the garage lab method for producing it. tsquaredhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02737130316088634658noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32768818.post-26634258421904369532021-02-24T01:14:02.975-06:002021-02-24T01:14:02.975-06:00Old NFO,
Odd or less popular calibers are evident...Old NFO,<br /><br />Odd or less popular calibers are evidently being produced. Why, I have no clue. I have seen some not so popular calibers for sale at Academy Sports such as 28 gauge shotgun shells; they have had them in abundance for months and just got more recently (over the past couple of days I think) even though it seems me and one guy I spoke to today seem to be the only people buying it. They have also had 10mm pistol ammo (not quite mainstream), 450 Bushmaster (not very popular as evidenced by the fact it stays on the shelves for days to weeks after they get a shipment and other ammo sells out in only hours or even sometimes minutes after the store opens). I also have seen a good deal of unpopular ammo on sale online. Target Sports USA has (as I type) these rifle calibers: 375 SOCOM, 416 Rigby, 458 HAM'R, 458 Lott, 500 Nitro Express, 6.5 Remingtom SAUM, 7.92X33MM Kurz Mauser, 7X74MM Brenneke, 7X65MM Rimmed. Not the most unpopular calibers but certainly not something you'd expect to see a good number of shooers shooting regularly at a local range. I mean when is the last time you went hunting for Cape Buffalo with 500 Nitro Express! Now granted, some of that probably has been in stock since last year but some they got just recently such as the 7X74MM Brenneke as I recall suddenly seeing it available maybe a week or two ago. I think the 500 Nitro Express is a recent addition as well.<br /><br />I would have thought, like you, that only very popular calibers would be produced right now. That seemed true when the bird hunting seasons were open here in TX. There was an abundance of shotgun ammo then. They had it in 12, 20, 28 gauge and 410 bore in shot sizes from from #4 shot up through #9 shot but now its very difficult to find anything but the occasional 12 gauge 7 1/2 shot trap ammo and some leftover 3 1/2" shells. Well that is except for 28 gauge. I figured once the manufacturers dropped back in production of shotgun ammo, we'd see an increase in calibers like 9mm and 5.56 but that seems not to be the case. I imagine with all the increased buying, components may be in short supply.<br /><br />As far as it being a year before things kind of get back to normal, I think that is not going to happen under a Joe Biden administration if ever again. As I recall, the article I read (authored by some ammo company reps or at least based on info they gave out) said that it might go back to normal within a year if President Trump was reelected and if the panic buying slowed down. They did not expect it to do so should there be a democrat landslide with the demons of democracy taking control of all three houses. <br /><br />I see it getting much worse before it gets better. That is why, just within the past week or two, I have spent as much or more (and more is more likely) than I'd probably have spent in 6 months on guns and ammo in normal times. I may be a pessimist but if my prediction comes true, at least I will not wind up being a very disappointed optimist when the demonkrats place a 50% tax on ammunition and/or when they outright outlaw certain calibers or type of ammo. If I wind up being wrong, then I'll be happy that the bad things did not come to pass and I'll be out some cash but that is the gamble I am willing to take. Now that they control everything, I cannot see them not doing so with ammo taxes especially since they have the unwavering support of scum sucking RINOs like Mitt Romney to name just one of them.<br /><br />Buy while you can get it so long as you can scrape up enough to make the purchases is my philosophy on this subject. <br /><br />All the best,<br />GBGlenn Bhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16677859688487279914noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32768818.post-8909924081068184082021-02-23T20:35:20.784-06:002021-02-23T20:35:20.784-06:00The higher electric bills are coming, someone has ...The higher electric bills are coming, someone has to make money on all the carbon credit schemes.Glenn Bhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16677859688487279914noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32768818.post-38816767536962306502021-02-23T20:34:33.471-06:002021-02-23T20:34:33.471-06:00A possible not so clever attempt by the IRS or ATF...A possible not so clever attempt by the IRS or ATF to try to get me to admit I am selling anything. If not that, then: As for the prepubescent disrespectful attitude you displayed in your first post here - bugger of pal.Glenn Bhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16677859688487279914noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32768818.post-2277451104577026462021-02-23T17:25:36.914-06:002021-02-23T17:25:36.914-06:00If you're not selling into the hysteria, you&#...If you're not selling into the hysteria, you've got it backwards. I don't want to call names but the terms "Victim" and "Loser" come to mind. Better examine your choices and change your ways if you want to survive.Stuarthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09875771168878913283noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32768818.post-45977108858402266262021-02-23T11:32:17.840-06:002021-02-23T11:32:17.840-06:00News from most of the manufacturers is that they a...News from most of the manufacturers is that they are a year or more back ordered. Part of the problem was the Remington plant going offline. It should be back online this year, which will alleviate 'some' of the problems, but if you're not shooting a 'standard' round, good luck in the foreseeable future, as all of the production is going to be 'standard' calibers until the backlog is cleared. This is/will be a continuing problem for those 'odd' calibers. Old NFOhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16404197287935017147noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32768818.post-1977939539075079752021-02-22T18:40:34.102-06:002021-02-22T18:40:34.102-06:00Got into the game late as in MA you can't buy ...Got into the game late as in MA you can't buy until you have your LTC. So since then I've bought a lot but I've found private sales are cheaper than online. Though I did spend a fare amount at higher prices because I had none for my new shiny toy. Now I have what I consider a good supply for the next year and am just jumping on the best deals I can find sub $0.60/rd is a buy right now. And it can be found.<br /><br />I think you might be right but I can only spend the cash I have. Now when that stimulus check comes in...Stephenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14013262296874201158noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32768818.post-44320552357271793732021-02-22T07:15:03.657-06:002021-02-22T07:15:03.657-06:00Can't really blame you for stocking up even at...Can't really blame you for stocking up even at inflated prices. I haven't been buying ammo because I reload, but I did spend a lot on components when the prices started rising because of pretty much all the reasons that you gave. I lucked out a month or so ago and picked up 5000 small pistol primers and 9000 small rifle primers for $1000 total from a small shop that was liquidating their reloading supplies. That averaged out to $.07 each for the primers which is about 2X to 2.5X the normal price. Sounds like a lot, but now they are going for 10X. A few months before that I bought a few thousand large pistol primers at 1.5X normal. I have no regrets. I've also gotten tens of thousands of component bullets for .380, 9mm, .38/.357 and 10mm plus oodles of once fired brass. Even if prices come down in the near future, which I don't see happening, I needed somewhere to spend my social security money...... taminator013https://www.blogger.com/profile/02635084701986840255noreply@blogger.com