Ouch!
I agree. That's something that would keep me up at night.Ouch!
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I forgot that that reloading component thread existed. Gonna have to watch it.$4.99/50 rounds of CCI SV during the "Great Component Shortage" of 2013 (With daily limit of 2) and same price with current shortage.
Recently paid $6.64/100 for CCI No. 41 SR primers with limit of 2 (Now $7.30) and was glad to pay for it (It's the highest I ever paid for primers during my 30 years of reloading
I started shooting and reloading thinking that it would be cheaper than drag racing.
I paid a little better than $20.00 (including sales tax) for 2, 100 round boxes of CCI Mini-Mag .22LRs at Sportsman's Warehouse a couple of months back. I could have gotten by without them, but my wife and I were real busy exterminating ground squirrels on our friend's ranch earlier this year, and I didn't want our stockpile of .22 LR ammo to run low.
By now, the ground squirrels my wife and I didn't kill have all gone back down in their tunnels for their long hibernation periods, and we're not even close to getting into those expensive boxes of CCI Min-Mag I bought yet. Oh well - the ground squirrels will be out in force again next spring. And at my age, there's no telling whether or not I'll still be around to shoot them. It might be one of our daughters, or one of grandson's that's shooting ground squirrels on our younger rancher friend's ranch with that expensive .22 LR ammo.
That sounds like the perfect job for a PCP rifle! Plus, I don't think there is any regulation of silencers on air rifles here. This fella in South Africa thinks squirrels, dussies (his term for marmots, I'd say), pigeons, geese, and even monkeys are great sport, and helpful to the local farmers. They use .22 cal slugs, as I think anything larger is illegal in South Africa, but they do the job for just the price of the slugs. There are much cheaper PCP rifles available than this guy uses, and he even has a video review of the one I bought to jump into my first PCP, the Air Venturi Avenger. Check out one of his squirrel action videos, and view more if you like what you see!Naw man, I'd have worn out my arms, as well as my ramrod trying to exterminate ground squirrels with my muzzle loader over on our friend's ranch this past spring. While it's true that my wife's and my "main goal" was to "eliminate ground squirrels," there were (and still are) thousands of them. We were killing about a hundred ground squirrels in a couple of hours, two or three mornings every week. My muzzle loader would have been completely impractical for that.
The fact is, last year when our friends asked us to come over and shoot ground squirrels on their ranch, on our first trip over, I took my .22-250 along in case there were any "long distance" ground squirrels to shoot. And when we first got there, I actually did pick out a ground squirrel that was maybe 125 yards out and shot him. But as soon as I pulled the trigger, I thought, "Man, that was stupid - all of that noise and expense when there are hundreds of ground squirrels running around within 50 yards of where we parked the truck!" So, I put my .22-250 away, got my Ruger 10-22 out, and went to work exterminating ground squirrels.
A friend used to buy several printers each Black Friday just for the ink, and give away the printers.
$40.00 for 100 rounds of #7.5 dove shot
I remember walking into Walmart and looking at their 100 round packs of Winchester target loads for $22.50 and going "ehhh" I can find them a buck or two cheaper elsewhere. Plus, I preferred #6 shot for small game, and so I looked down on the target loads. I kick myself every day.
oh yeah! 100/#7 @ walmart $24 out the door, Trap field in Gastonia NC, $4.50 a round, afternoon of fun was around $50
