7.62x39 AK ammo shortage?

4/9/06 | mylife

[mylife]

It looks as if the supply of AK 47 ammo has just dried the heck up!

Does anyone have any idea why? I hear venezuela is snapping it all up

[TheOracleAtLilac]

from a note on jgsales.com:

762x39 availability - Thursday March 02, 2006
The Russian factories have been filling large military contracts the last few
months and had stopped shipping ammo to the USA for commercial sale. We
have now started to receive small shipments and are sending it out to those that
have backorders placed. If you want some of this ammo make sure to get your
backorder in and we will get to it as the ammo arrives. The Russians expect to be
shipping large amounts into the USA again later this spring.

[JRandomFreeper]

LOL!

No pistol ammo in my list for a reason. I'm just not that good. Trill was...

I always said "Yes, Ma'am".

/johnny

[mylife]

If its not razor sharp its not in my kitchen.

I dont have to do 8 hours of prep a day so I never considered weight, but your point is well taken

[mylife]

Thanks for the info

[P8riot]

The trick is to have an open purchase order at jgsales or ammoman.com with a monthly replenishment requirement so you always have some on backorder.

[mylife]

Now I wonder just who it is that the Russkies are supporting with military sales vice selling to American sports enthusiasts?

[PeteB570]

As per the ShotGun News

Wolf 7.62 x 39 is $134.90 per 1,000 rounds plus shipping. Some people hate Wolf ammo but it's cheap and works well in anything with a large extractor (military type).

[I got the rope]

I heard about the Venezuela thing too.

Have you seen this:

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/1611967/posts

[JRandomFreeper]

I had to do 8 hours a day during my internship. You choices were $120/Jap or $12/ACE-MART. I can live with either, but with experience, I can do more with the Japanese blade. Like shaving lemon zest.

And it works better with my other AFSC. (MOS for ground pounders).

/johnny

[mylife]

The American left is having a field day blaming anti-Americanism in Latin America on George W. Bush, the Iraq war and even the Cold War. But what has gone little noticed is the fear Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez is engendering throughout the region.

Indeed, Chavez is making hay while we are preoccupied

[JRandomFreeper]

have an open purchase order at jgsales

I miss those days. A lot.

/johnny

[Godebert]

"Try to find some 5.45x39 for AK 74...there is none in country"

Nonsense. Plenty of the stuff around. AmmoMan has it for $149 for 1,000 rounds.

[mylife]

Hmmm deadly in the kitchen eh?

[mylife]

If they do Im surprised, I havent seen a single round in months.

My dealer cannot locate it and he carrys lots of sovietsky stuff

[mylife]

Just looked "sold out"

[JRandomFreeper]

No-one has ever died. Ever. Even on KP (they might have, listening to the griping...).

Never had a food poisoning incident. Ever.

I run a tight kitchen. And the marines, soldiers, sailors, and airmen tend to like what I cook for them.

Clean food, clean water.

I'm too damn old to be the tip of the spear, but I can take care of them that are.

That is good enough during a war.

/johnny

[Godebert]

"My dealer cannot locate it and he carrys lots of sovietsky stuff"

Maybe it's time to find a new dealer then.

; )

[mylife]

I wasnt taking a poke at your cooking.

I was suggesting that you may have alternate training for those knives L0L

[JRandomFreeper]

Nobody make movies about cooks.

/johnny

[mylife]

Never had a food poisoning incident. Ever.

remember the sienfeld where Frank Costanza has the flashback about giving FP to his troops in korea? I about busted a gut laffing