Posted on 03/31/2009 5:17:17 AM PDT by kellynla
NO, I always keep plenty on hand .... ^_^
Dont answer that
No.
If I did have any, it would be an investment.
I got 9 mm ammo for my son for Christmas. Tried to buy more this weekend, couldn’t find any in my small city.
My stimulus plan: Going to Black Wing Shooting Center (Delaware, OH) to buy a Springfield XD40 and a Mossberg 500. Gonna make it a family event.
My suggestion is to stock up on cases of Spam.
No, I am stockpiling.
There is a difference.
I practice also.
Go the the NRA web site - they’re offering a FREE one year membership. We need to show power in numbers!
Here's my tip of the month: there is still a great pistol and ammo deal out there waiting for you. If you have waited too long to arm up, or are on a tight budget, look at the excellent milsurp CZ-52 pistol and 7.62X25 Tokarev ammo.
You can get a CZ-52 for about $200 at any gun show or at many gun stores. The ammo can be had for as low as 11 cents a round in any quantity you want. Extra mags are from $12 to $20 each.
The milsurp ammo is full metal jacket, firing an 85gr bullet at 1,600fps. These will go through car doors, kevlar helmets, kevlar vests etc like an icepick through butter. OTOH, they will also go through one bad guy and maybe hit a good guy behind him.
However, you can buy hollowpoints ("Wolf Gold" with brass shells) for about $19/50, or half the price of comparable 9mm JHPs. My test "Wolf Gold" JHP ammo expanded to .60 caliber, the same as my test 9mm JHPs.
So for $400, you could buy a CZ-52, 1,500 rounds of assorted ammo, and a few extra mags. OR, you could buy about 2/3s of a "brand name" pistol, and no ammo.
It's just a thought. This is a great bargain. The ammo is cheap and plentiful at all of the internet catalog sites. Don't wait, the libtards will soon slam the door on foreign gun and ammo imports, and the prices will go way up.
Another benefit of this pistol is that it is very accurate, with very fine sights. WIth this flat-shooting ammo, you can hit at 100 yards with ease. Downsides are brittle firing pins (buy a spare, and don't dry fire) and a decocking function that you should not trust. Just lower the SA hammer like a 1911. The safety works like a 1911, so if you are used to 1911s, it will be very easy to use the CZ-52
Or 22 ammo to shoot food with...
Think of it as
“Post-Free America currency”.
...which is why my daughters and wife will take station with their weopons, knowing it's to the death.
Someone estimated that for any protracted El Cruncho lasting a year or three, someone trying to hunt to support his family (assuming the small and medium-sized game didn’t disappear all at once) would need to lay in about 3000 rounds of each type of ammo he used, in the pre-crisis season of plenty.
No, but I wish all you guys would quit hoarding it so I can lay in some more — for responsible use of course. /sarc
The same thing is going on with reloading supplies. Primers are out or are being rationed (100 primers per person). Bullets are in limited supply and higher prices. Powder is out or in very limited supply.
I saw a guy at asking at the counter about a powder he used. None in stock. How about a different powder. Nope. Then he named several more powders. The seller had one pound of one of them. He started putting it in the buyers bag. The buyer said, “How much is it? — uh, forget that — just put it in the bag and ring it up.”
I have a CZ 52 myself, it’s a great little weapon, though I would think it more for home defense than concealed, as it is a little on the bulkier side. The recoil is negligible and the report and muzzle flash will make someone think twice if you don’t hit them.
gun ping
You're no good dead.
Might just as well let them take your stuff (but not your kids for "Americorps"), and go tell it on the mountain that the raids have begun.
Then, you go to your pre-arranged SHTF rally point, someone lets you borrow an "extra" that they have, and you organize resistance.
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