And folks still wonder why there is a shortage. We have met the enemy - it is you and like minded kooks of all persuasions. Yes, each of you has fabricated rational of why your unreasonable hoarding is good for yourself (and nobody else). Eventually someone will coin a name for that type of mental illness.
The fear of want is a fear that even the best shrinks can't fix. The good news is that you are helping create jobs and high profits in the ammunition industry.
The bad news is that you are freezing youngsters out of the sport when we now and in the future will need every pro-gun vote possible.
You should feel ashamed of yourself.
It’s out there. I saw ONE box at a local Walmart a few months back ($24.99 - last time I bought was $8.99, maybe five years ago) but I was/had been looking for .22 Mag and they had three boxes. 3 Box limit. Didn’t occur to me to go out to my car and come back for the lone box of Federal .22 LR I didn’t really “need.”
I’m down to about 10,000 rds right now, maybe 5k of subsonics... you never know when the SHTF or you’ll need a thousand rounds to entertain family shooting steel critters at the local range. So you buy it when you see it, right? Only thing is, I never see it.
Buffalo Head replied:
“I’m down to about 10,000 rds right now”
And folks still wonder why there is a shortage. We have met the enemy - it is you and like minded kooks of all persuasions. Yes, each of you has fabricated rational of why your unreasonable hoarding is good for yourself (and nobody else). Eventually someone will coin a name for that type of mental illness.
marktwain comments:
Buffalo Head, if you look at what Normbal wrote, you will see that your theory that he and people like him have caused the shortage, is incorrect. Note that the last time he purchased .22 ammo was five years ago, long before the shortages. People who stockpile ammunition, such as Normbal, actually reduce shortages, because they do not buy when the demand and prices are high, thus reducing demand a bit, because they have prudently purchased when prices are low.
Normbal’s purchases during times of low demand actually help maintain production during those periods, which maintains a higher capacity to produce ammunition, which again helps reduce shortages.
Storing when times are good for when times are bad is just prudent human behavior, not a mental illness.
I’m a pistol instructor. Had you read my post you’d know I can easily go through a box of 500 rds in a single day.
I bought a box of 5,000 rds through midwayusa about five years ago.
Back when I owned an American 180 I could go through 300 rounds in under a minute. It’s all relative.
Not a hoarder.
You missed the point.
Please take a remedial reading/rhetoric course.
Your discourse pains me.