not enough...Many gun owners are on the horns of a dilemma: Do I shoot up my precious ammo training at the range, or do I hold onto it for CWII?
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Anecdotally, given the wild swings in the market, a brick of .22 ammunition has been a much better investment than silver over the last couple of decades.
Full disclosure - I am NOT a financial advisor
“...Do I shoot up my precious ammo training at the range, or do I hold onto it for CWII?...”
That is the question that only each of us can answer for ourselves.
It depends on how much ammo one has versus how much range time do I really need to keep my target eye sharp.
IF Chairman Jao prevails and the Senate flips, none of us will ever have to be concerned about buying ammo, primers or any other reloading components ever again. They’ll all be outlawed.
Apparently not enough. I have an 18 pk of 2 ply Charmin TP I’d be willing to trade for some .38/.357. :0)
If you already have the basic skills, then 100 rounds/month for pistol and maybe 50 for rifle is sufficient to retain your edge and muscle memory.
If just now picking up your skills, or trying to up your game then more is necessary, obviously.
I'm holding on to mine. I already know how to shoot a rifle. If CWII happens, it's not going to be a biathlon. It'll be fighting up close.
And then guns and ammo will be plentiful and laying all over the streets.
About three months ago, gun shop just a couple of miles from me received an entire pallet, stacked full of 1,000 round boxes of .223; which was selling for $500 a case, and was gone in a matter of days.
I was in Walmart the other day. One Savage, and almost no ammo.
Reloading components are still reasonably priced. A tad higher than before, maybe a 25% increase in prices over the past 10 years. Primers that were $30 are now $40. Bullets that were $35/100 are now $45/100.
Factory ammo, however, is NUTS!
Good quality ammo can be $1.00-$4.00 a round. Even target practice ammo is at least 50 cents a round.
Of course I have a very good selection of powders, primers, and brass along with hundreds of pounds of lead to go along with this. I have quite a bit of flexibility to produce whatever type of ammo that I currently have a need for. For example if I run out of one type of powder I usually have a substitute that works just as well. The same is true of primers, I have tried most of my recipes with various brands and classifications. So if I for instance was to run out of standard pistol primers, I can substitute in magnum pistol primers and I already have the data from testing with a chronograph to use a slightly less amount of powder or a slower burning powder to get the fps at the muzzle that I desire.
MY SUSPICION IS THE DEEP STATE IS DELIBERATELY SUCKING UP AS MUCH AMMO AS POSSIBLE TO KEEP IT OFF THE CIVILIAN MARKET.
IT GOES WITH BANNING LARGE PUBLIC GATHERINGS AND FACE MASKS.
WHY?
FRUSTRATE ANY ATTEMPTS AT A PUBLIC REVOLT AS THE DEMS, DEEP STATE, AND GLOBALISTS TRY TO STEAL THE PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION.
Not enough.
I’m pinging Liz as her tagline is relevant and epic.
A lot of people who shoot at the range, reload their own, or are higher income.
2018 - 8.7 billion rounds
2019 - 9 billion rounds (est.)
2020 - 9+ billion rounds (est.)
I suspect that far less than 10% of the purchased rounds have been expended during target practice or hunting.
Prior to the War Against Trump, there were already trillions of rounds in the possession of the 100+ million law-abiding human citizens. Lots of Ammo from WW-II days is still suitable for use.
Yet, comes now the 10 or 20 million mentally ill, sub-human communist Democrats, globalists, and other such, begging for their apocalypse.
The Leftists hate arithmetic.
Shoot rimfire only, for now. It's more fun anyway.
The have a couple 7 million dollar orders from the US Gov. That part of the issue.
Doesn't the military produce their own mil ammo at McCalaster OK and Lake City ?
“The same goes for reloading components.”
A member at our gun club is selling CCI 34 primers for $90/thousand. And he’s getting it.
Insane.
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haven't reloaded since 2015. I dug everything out and was shocked how much I had; good feelin.
before AWB in 90's; I buried a few ars, dumb move. Never again, and I ain't going to my grave licking the hands that feed me neither.
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