Posted on 03/31/2009 5:17:17 AM PDT by kellynla
“Billy Bob loves Charlene”?
Given how aggressive Walmart is on their pricing demands to suppliers, I'm going to guess that ammo suppliers will ship to regular gun shops first right now.
In December 2008, I started trying to buy newer ammo for my home and self protection guns.
Walmart and the other local retailers have been out of the specific ammo on most trips.
I’m about there after about 4 months. Specific ammo for pistols and 00 in various 12 gauge lengths have been hard to get, and I still need to buy some more ammo in these categories.
Hopefully, I should be finished with the updates this week.
Now, there is a bigger question:
Who/Whom where you live, would you trust to back you up if something happened in your neighborhood.
Like my older son, I’m the only gun owner on our cul de sac and he on his. Our younger son lives about a half mile away as the crow flies, and he is in the same situation. He will be moving about 20 miles away in April.
My older son’s best friend and his cousin live in this area. They are in the same situation re being the only gun owning conservatives on the blocks where they live. They purchased nice trailers during the recent gas price raping and have installed them on their dad’s and uncle shared farm/ranch, out of sight and below the line of fire from the road. They have food in the trailers and their Dad’s storage areas. They have heavy duty water filtering capabilities for the two trailers to use the water from the good size pond. They have stationary generators and solar panels on the trailers to help charge the storage batteries.
Last but not least they have set up plans for their wives to take their kids to their grandparents in case something happens during a workday or the guys are out of town. They have two roads off the main hiways to get to the ranch and 4 X 4 trails on their Dads’s and neighbor’s ranch’s to come in back ways.
My sons and I need to discuss our options and how to get together and where.
I purchased what I thought was going to be an unbannable rifle...
When I looked at the new and improved ban that gets filed every new session, I look at the Appendix “A” which lists the weapons they would like to ban, and it showed up...I about blew a gasket...
The Marlin 1895’s are now considered an “assault rifle” according to the latest filed bill...At least the pimped out SS version...
I too enjoy launching gigantic hunks of flat nosed lead...It lowers my blood pressure and creaes a sense of calm that is extremely therapeudic...My doctor totally agrees with my regimen...
CZ52s also are prone to having certain pins that hold them together back out. Make certain they are peened and monitor them closely. If you do that, this becomes a non-issue.
I also had the bottom of a surplus magazine drop out and I never found base or the spring. I have never heard of this happening to anyone else, so it is probably unfair to label it as a problem.
I have several. They are fun to shoot, and feed or ejection failures have been non existent with any of the nasty surplus ammo I have used in any of my CZ52s.
One more comment — the Bulgarian surplus is not well regarded. Romanian is almost the same price does not have the issues [serious over pressures?] that seem to have been attributed to the Bulgarian stuff.
From local gun shops to WalMart to sporting goods stores, the story is the same: When the store gets a shipment of ammo, particularly .45, 9mm, and .38 handgun ammunition, “people come in and they buy it all.”
I was through Wally World Saturday. Outside of hunting ammo, there was one lone box of .357 sig, one of .30 Carbine and a few boxes of .380. No other pistol ammo. No bulk .22LR. No .223, 7.62x39 or .308.
Am I hording? Sort-of.
Since the midterm election I've been buying more ammo than I shoot, a box or two every paycheck. Lately concentrating on bulk .22, powder and primers for handloading, and bullet molds for casting. Also adjusting my collection.
No, it was more like, “The Varsity Seniors love Charlene!”
No, ya wouldn’t want that on the water tower for long.
Alternate means of communication will also be needed, a CB will work fine but consider other types of radios like using a Marine radio or shortwave, I have a company radio that goes through a repeater, during the day its of course used by other drivers but at night its wide open, all it requires is a filtered 12v supply and a transceiver the same as in the trucks and a small antenna, the public does not usually use that frequency and it may be off the radar so to speak, it has a good range of 60 miles depending on terrain.
I have some advice for reloaders I’m willing to share, Barnes has and is shipping free if order is over $75 most of its line including old stock at closeout prices, I just bought a fair amount of .400 155gr M/LE tactical all copper bullets, these are rated very high for barrier penetration and controlled expansion, they are identical to the XPB.
I got a CZ a couple of years ago as a backup gun. Compact, reliable and cheap.
If he lived beside me, I’d tell him...
“Your looting career will end quickly and with extreme violence if you try and take anything away from my family.”
Overheard a WalMart clerk, around 9PM, telling a customer “yeah, we’ve got a shipment of ammo X in the truck at the loading dock right now. If you want any, you MUST be here before 8AM or it will be sold out.”
Nonetheless, it is accepted as law. Proving it isn’t in court some 23 years after the fact is unlikely.
If you warn him, he might be better prepared when he shows up. Though with a waster like that, it probably doesn't matter.
Interesting. Hadn't seen that. Links? I'm curious, and concerned.
I wonder how NRA’s membership is doing. It soared when Gore ran for POTUS.
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