Olin Announces Fourth Quarter Earnings (makes Winchester ammo)

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[itsahoot]

And every station signed off at midnight with some rendition of "The Star Spangled Banner".

They didn’t even have stations whe I was a kid. Radio did sign off at midnight too though. :)

[Lancey Howard]

I use Winchester Silvertips. In case of werewolves.

[exnavy]

Thank you Obayma-layma-ding-dong.

[Yo-Yo]

Can’t find it on YouTube, but yup, Shake-n-Bake commercial tagline from the 70s.

[monocle]

Elmer Fudd

[Condor51]

There's another factor that helped Olin's bottom line (iirc).

A little over a year ago Olin moved one of their ammo making factories OUT OF ILLINOIS after Governor Potato-Head (his real name, honest) raised taxes 66%.

It was in the southern part of the state and ONLY job around for miles and miles and miles. Unless you count 'crooked politician', that is :-)

[98% sure it was Olin, but other Firearm Industry Co's fled IL too.]

[crusty old prospector]

I backordered two boxes of Federal 525’s .22 LR three weeks ago and they arrived yesterday. So, they are still making them. The problem is that people are buying them off of the truck at first light.

[Ruy Dias de Bivar]

***The problem is that people are buying them off of the truck at first light.***

I remember back in the 1950s and 60s when people were so poor they did not have money to buy a box of ammo.

The hardware stores would break up a box and you could buy 3-4 rounds for hunting season.

There was no cheap ammo back then. I bought a box of .22 shorts for 45 cents in 1962 for my new $9.99 single shot Stevens rifle. I was 15 at the time.

[crusty old prospector]

I own some rural land out in East Texas and on most weekends, it sounds like WW III. Lately, the guns have grown silent as the empty shelves are starting to alarm people.

[demshateGod]

Winchester is .40 is $40/box at the local store. Just the regular target stuff.

[itsahoot]

The problem is that people are buying them off of the truck at first light.

I could find a lot of Nine mil, but at 50 cents a pop and 223 was a dollar.

I was tempted to buy a Ruger Mini Mag Stainless with the military laser. Loved that bolt sliding like the old M1 and M1 carbine we used in the military 60 years ago.

[cherokee1]

What they’re saying is that demand is up across all the market segments-—which is true from other sources as well. And you probly thot the military would buy a little less ammo now that Obamuzzie is winding down his favorite war? But it’s always training and training always takes way more ammo than combat.