Posted on 11/22/2009 2:47:35 PM PST by An Old Man
In a year of job losses, foreclosures and bag lunches, Americans have spent record-breaking amounts of money on guns and ammunition. The most obvious sign of their demand: empty ammunition shelves.
At points during the past year, bullets have been selling faster than factories could make them.
Gun owners have bought about 12 billion rounds of ammunition in the past year, industry officials estimate. That's up from 7 billion to 10 billion in a normal year.
(Excerpt) Read more at washingtonpost.com ...
Lotta fairly cheap dry foods out there. Rice, pasta, egg noodles, beans. Just buy in bulk.
Shelf life is somewheres between five years and forever.
I haven’t seen any for sale in quantity for a long time. I’ve been lucky from time to time to walk into a shop that had recently gotten some in, but they prudently limit sales to a few boxes of 100 per customer. I draw a blank everytime I check any of the on-line venues as well.
They had tons of them at the gun show last weekend.
Not being a reloader-type dude, are they all the same or are there a bunch of flavors?
I couldn’t agree more.
I couldn’t agree more.
I recently came across most of a box of Montgomery-Ward Redhead brand paper .410 shotshells. They were stored in a military ammo can and look like new.
Follow buckshot to the upper-middle thorax/neck, groin or armpits with a slug or two if laying lower than the attacker. That should do it with a .410. New Maverick (Mossberg) 12 gauges are pretty cheap and hold up well. With those, you can follow 00 buck loads with hardened big game slugs to handle just about any likely defense situation.
We try to get to the gun shows early to stock up before the hoarders do!
I did my share today with four bricks of .22lr Federal Champions. Gotta keep the pet .22s fed, along with the more serious stuff.
Several flavors.
Hopefully you are doing your homework and if need be holding out and waiting for a good deal.... shouldn’t pay more than $.50 or so per round for pistols... some online stores will sell some for more than $1.20/rd. Holding out will reward you. I just scored some that I wanted for $.49/rd and ordered some boxes. Good thing target range ammo is back and cheap. Be vigilant, wise, and safe.
Apparently they do.... I need some .357 if someone has too many....
Handloaders are probably at least that many times over again just in bullet purchases.
I shoulda just went and looked!
I have .25, .32, .40, .223, .308 and .30 carbine...
Probably some differences there.
Gun sales increased 42% and ammunition sales increased 49%......so I can only presume there was a corresponding increse in crime, right????/sarc
Buy ‘em local, there’s a hazmat charge on powder and primers. Plenty around here.
Seems to me the price of ammo at gun shows is way high. You also have to add in price of admission which is about $7.00 here. I get better prices online from Cabelas. Check out ammoman.com The ammo is shipped free and prices are really reasonable . No tax either .
Thanks!
“In between, in the 12 months since last October, gun shops sold enough bullets to give every American 38 of them”.
I gave some out on Halloween, mostly a bunch of old Turk
8mm with corrosive primers though the cute chicks all got
an extra .338 lapua and a small tin of Ed’s Red.
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