Anyone helping to ease ammo demand?

I am helping by not buying any for the next 20 years . It is estimated when I will run out .

I have given my son-in-law a a couple of hundred rounds 9mm ammo and I gave his Dad some 22 Magnum ammo.
I gave a fellow THR member a bunch of .380 as he was in need and I no longer have a .380.
I did offer a co-worker some 9mm at my cost as he just bought his first gun and cannot find ammo but the poor guy has been in quarantine due to exposure so I haven't seen him.

When things return to normal (If applies also),I do not know what component or ammunition will cost under the new normal will be. I have a supply of commercial ammunition and components. Thus I am not into selling what I have. The other unknown is the duration of the latest Kiss Your Ass Goodbye that we are experiencing. With out knowing all of the previously mentioned I've decided to reduce my expenditure ammunition at range sessions.

I forgot that I gave a CAS Pard over 300 percussion caps. He couldn't find any anywhere so I shipped them to him so he and his son and friends could celebrate the New Year shooting blackpowder guns..

ms6852 said:

I am helping by not buying any for the next 20 years . It is estimated when I will run out .

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Given my family’s health history, and the fact that I’ll be 73 this year, if I had enough ammo to last me (no more than I’m shooting these days) for the next 20 years, my daughters and grandsons would probably be inheriting some of it. So what I’m doing to “ease the ammo demand” right now is not buying any. I’m not even looking to buy any. There no sense in causing quarrels amongst my offspring about who gets what once I’m out of the picture.
BTW, I do look at the ammo shelves in Sportsman’s, Cabela’s, CAL Ranch and every other store that sells ammo every time I’m in one of them. But that’s mostly so that I can participate in these “ammo shortage” threads here on THR - so that I can write about what it’s like where I live.

Ironicaintit said:

I like giving ammo as gifts, and that’s been especially true lately.

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Yeah, I gave the son-in-law 100 rounds of 38 Special as a Christmas stocking stuffer. I also told him to start saving the brass for the last time. Not like the S&W Model 15 we gave him a few years back throws the brass very far. I will only tell him so many times and then the free ammo is over and done.

Ron

I "happened upon/inherited" some .223 recently. I promptly gave 400 rounds to a friend who said he could use it. I saved plenty for myself on top of that I had loaded so I shared. It'll come back to me he's a good friend.

-Jeff

I'm not selling or giving away a single round of anything.

I keep reloading though.

I'm poor, so anything I have purchased or reloaded; I am going to be shooting...

.308 Norma said:

Given my family’s health history, and the fact that I’ll be 73 this year, if I had enough ammo to last me (no more than I’m shooting these days) for the next 20 years, my daughters and grandsons would probably be inheriting some of it. So what I’m doing to “ease the ammo demand” right now is not buying any. I’m not even looking to buy any. There no sense in causing quarrels amongst my offspring about who gets what once I’m out of the picture.
BTW, I do look at the ammo shelves in Sportsman’s, Cabela’s, CAL Ranch and every other store that sells ammo every time I’m in one of them. But that’s mostly so that I can participate in these “ammo shortage” threads here on THR - so that I can write about what it’s like where I live.

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Since before the Obama drought I would always by factory ammo every pay period. I never reloaded simply because I was in the military for over 20 years and moved around a lot or was always deployed somewhere. After I retired I than bought all my reloading components and continued to buy the ammo I do not reload...22lr and 22 magnum every pay period. I still have 30-06 and 30-30 ammo priced at $6.99 and $8.99 a box and all the brass from those calibers I have used over the decades. I have 5 gallon buckets of brass for every caliber I shoot and reload. Since I go to the range twice a week I always train with 22lr ammo 90% of my shooting is done this way with the last 10% of my shooting session done with center fire rounds of the particular caliber I carry, either .45 acp or .357.

I never bought ammo during the Obama days and am definitely not buying now either. I buy my rimfire ammo by the case so I’m sitting pretty well. I do take extra ammo like 22lr so I can help out fathers that take their children but than run out of ammo. I also take a rifle they can use if the parents allow it. It is amazing at the amount of people that thing that a box or two of ammo is enough and when they get there they run out of ammo within 20 minutes

johnandersonoutdoors said:

Anyway, are any of you doing the same or have any friends who are starting to sell part of their stash? Assuming you have enough that you feel comfortable selling a bit, at what prices would you start sell ammo and primers, or other reloading components?

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My youngest (39) didn't decide he wanted handguns until the panic. He bought a 9mm and a 45acp from a friend of his, then discovered the complete lack of available ammo. At Thanksgiving, he left with 9mm. At Christmas, 45acp. He hasn't got the second gun out of jail yet.

After Obama, I keep ten years of ammo on hand, so it didn't make a dent.

No, I am not a reseller. Once in a great while, back in the previous ammo MIA I sold, at the price I paid, a few Remington Buckets (I hate Golden Bullets) and here and there gave a box away. But, then, for the last four years there has been plenty of ammo and fixings to be had and anyone that did not see the red flags on the horizon and stock up over the last four years of plenty is now going to suffer the scarcity. Of course, the president of the Vista Group states and shows in a factory walk through that they are going gangbusters, as long as we support the resellers/scalpers, the empty shelves will continue. Just stop buying from resellers.

Reloadron said:

Yeah, I gave the son-in-law 100 rounds of 38 Special as a Christmas stocking stuffer. I also told him to start saving the brass for the last time. Not like the S&W Model 15 we gave him a few years back throws the brass very far. I will only tell him so many times and then the free ammo is over and done.

Ron

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I always add that caveat; bring me the brass!

Ironicaintit said:

I always add that caveat; bring me the brass!

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Yeah, we gave the kid a revolver so saving the brass is pretty simple. Put it back in the nice little reusable plastic cartons I gave it to you in. Good kid and hard working kid but give your father-in-law a break.

Ron