Anyone stocking up ?

What are you stocking up on ?

  • Nothing, I'm good

    Votes: 82 60.7%

  • Accessories (holsters, mag loaders, hearing & eye protection,etc)

    Votes: 14 10.4%

  • Centerfire Ammo

    Votes: 30 22.2%

  • Rimfire Ammo

    Votes: 22 16.3%

  • Extra mags

    Votes: 23 17.0%

  • Gun parts (springs, barrels, etc)

    Votes: 17 12.6%

  • Pistols

    Votes: 11 8.1%

  • Rifles

    Votes: 10 7.4%

  • Shotguns

    Votes: 6 4.4%

  • Downloading gunsmithing & how-to videos

    Votes: 6 4.4%

  • Other (something I forgot to include, because, well, I do that)

    Votes: 22 16.3%
  • Total voters
    135
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I picked up 600+ lbs of wheel weights last week. Working from home has made it easier to sort and melt them down into ingots during free time. I have been casting and reloading over the last couple of months so ammo and bullet stockpiles are sufficient for a while but the lead stash was running low.

I stocked up on a couple of boxes of .38 S&W and .32 S&W Long back in March because i realized I didn't have much in the way of factory ammo or reloads for those calibers. Last time around those calibers were out of stock for a long time because manufacturers focused on the more popular calibers.
 
SharpDog said:
I bought some .22lr, 9mm practice ammo, several extended mags and a couple of pistols recently in light of the current situation(s). That got me wondering: is anyone else stocking up ?
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You left off THE items that we need.

Toilet paper,cleaning solutions,masks,.

Really,did you expect that this group would actually need to get ready ???.
 
HB said:
Somebody is stocking up. There is nothing on the shelves.
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This right here. It's getting bad here. Less popular hunting rifle calibers (22-250, 257 etc) are still available, popular hunting rifle calibers (30-30, 308, 30-06, 270, 300, 338 etc) are pretty much all gone. Self defense calibers, with the exception of 10mm and 40sw, including 12 ga buckshot are completely gone. The only stuff left in 223/556, and 7.62x39 is that steel tula crap, and there is very very little of that. Even the high cost, boutique ammo in 9 and 45 are gone. Even 38/357/44 is pretty thin. A few handguns are still available, as are hunting shotguns, all others are pretty thin. Box stores are limiting purchases. Only the LGS still has reloading components in any selection/quantity; box stores are cleaned out.

If you haven't already "stocked up," it's too late.
 
D.B. Cooper said:
This right here. It's getting bad here. Less popular hunting rifle calibers (22-250, 257 etc) are still available, popular hunting rifle calibers (30-30, 308, 30-06, 270, 300, 338 etc) are pretty much all gone. Self defense calibers, with the exception of 10mm and 40sw, including 12 ga buckshot are completely gone. The only stuff left in 223/556, and 7.62x39 is that steel tula crap, and there is very very little of that. Even the high cost, boutique ammo in 9 and 45 are gone. Even 38/357/44 is pretty thin. A few handguns are still available, as are hunting shotguns, all others are pretty thin. Box stores are limiting purchases. Only the LGS still has reloading components in any selection/quantity; box stores are cleaned out.

If you haven't already "stocked up," it's too late.
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Yes, and that is why center fire ammo for me is going to have to be used sparingly. Most of my training will consist of using a 22.cal. For me, it will be the LCR22.And a focus to keep up the Point and shoot skills.
 
The day I realized that COVID was no joke and folks were getting itchy in a multitude of ways, I brought my AK to my LGS just a mile away. It had an issue with the bullet ramp that another LGS was useless in rectifying. These guys were far more skilled and after a few weeks I had it back in tip top shape. I built it myself from a Saiga, but the tap I was using broke off in the trunion. It needed some better hardware than I have. I actually secured the bullet guide with loctite and shot 100's of rounds through it like that.

I have many other guns but the thing is, I started to realize that if my neck of the woods was about to become like the Wild West, I really should start regarding my AK as more than just a combloc novelty. I had no idea how the next month or two would unfold if eveything was closed and if people were starving and realized they were free to do anything they want. I must tell you, around my area police became a rare sight for awhile. I'm sure they were just trying to keep their ranks healthy just in case they were needed in high numbers, and not because they were simply wimping out. Even during curfews and lockdowns they were seldom seen.

So anyway, that was really the only gun related move/purchase I made so far during all this; Got my AK ready for serious doodoo.
 
I was pretty well stocked up to begin with. When I thought there might be a possibility of being off work for a while, I did load up on reloading and casting supplies...more with the idea in mind that I may have quite a lot of time on my hands. Stocked up on other project materials as well. That was before things started getting nutty. In the end, not only was I not off work, but actually very busy. So I have loaded and shot more in the past 6 weeks than I have in the past 6 months. Have brought some.new shooters to the range and have been able to provide ammo without stressing my supply. Apart from normal hurricane season prep, I think the only other thing I may look into is a generator this year...if there was ever a year I would need one, I figure this dumpster fire of a year would be it.
 
Nothing is being expanded. Simply trying to replace ammo due to frequent use of a small Fraction 'ample' reserve stashes: .22 LR and a little 9mm.
* We live 12 min. from the private shooting club. That's the context. Replacing 7.62x39 will have to wait--I'm not going to pay the fairly high current market rates + shipping + sales tax.

If it were Not for self-serving anarchists and thugs looting/burning recently in multiple cities, the "panic price bubble" begun during the Chinese Virus panic might otherwise have begun to deflate a bit.
The fact that restaurants and many businesses reopened must have calmed some nerves.

When suburban Walmarts abruptly yanked ammo from the shelves of many of their stores during the riots, this also might have worried people. Their actual agenda might not be what it appeared to be.
 
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  • Offhand McFlan said:
    he day I realized that COVID was no joke and folks were getting itchy in a multitude of ways
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    When they cancelled March Madness and the NBA season I knew it was going to get weird. Corporate America doesn't like flushing billions just because of PR.

  • I came of age during the Obama years. In high school I shot bricks of $9.99 Federal .22. By the time I was 20 you couldnt find a .22 dud on the ground.
  • Ive been a lead junkie since my teenage years. I started working for a distributor by 25 (Sandy Hook panic). I was “allocated” a case of .22 to sell to my good customers. A 5.7 FN was gold and a pallet of ARs was gone to backorder.
  • Its a sales cycle. I feel bad for newer shooters but its like anything else... live and learn. I stocked up in 2017-2018 because I consume ammo at a higher rate than your average shooter. Most guys should buy a case of 9mm with first pistol and call it good. If your are an enthusiast and got caught flat footed it is 100% because you aren’t really a shooter.
  • I have had several buddies that want guns now that don’t even keep a can of fix a flat in their car. I don’t think they really get it but I’m happy to help. Because at one time I was in their shoes. I’m no trainer but 4 hours at a gravel pit, 200 rounds and stern words will serve them fine for 99% of 2A issues. I can’t imagine life in the 30s with barely a possum to eat. The 60s make 2020 laughable.
  • For years “guns” have been partisan issues. If you see a guy or gal at a store that seems clueless but intelligent this is our time to shine.
 
Ernie Bass said:
Yes, and that is why center fire ammo for me is going to have to be used sparingly. Most of my training will consist of using a 22.cal. For me, it will be the LCR22.And a focus to keep up the Point and shoot skills.
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FYI, Just made this order at TS.

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Shipping: Free (with Prime)
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savings on this order:
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D. B. Cooper
Dan Cooper is the pseudonym of an unidentified man who hijacked a Boeing 727 aircraft in the northwest United States, in the airspace between Portland, Oregon, and Seattle, Washington, on the afternoon of Wednesday, November 24, 1971. The man purchased his airline ticket using the alias Dan Cooper but, because of a news miscommunication, became known in popular lore as D. B. Cooper. He extorted $200,000 in ransom and parachuted to an uncertain fate. Despite an extensive manhunt and protracted FBI investigation, the perpetrator has never been located or identified. It remains the only unsolved case of air piracy in commercial aviation history.

If you were not born before the 1960's,you would not know of this :)
 
They did find some of the money floating around in a stream or something like that.

However, the trip down memory lane should cease and back to the OP. Yeah, I can remember 9 mm for 2.99 for 50, not 29.99 for fifty.
 
I started stocking up four years ago. I'm good on magazines and accessories. The only thing we're really buying is ammunition and I'm not about to buy it now.
 
Haven't been shooting as much lately, so I'm in decent shape.Will buy stuff if I find something I haven't found in a while or it's on sale (not often lately). If I don't buy anything else I'm set for probably a couple years at my normal rate. 10 years at the rate I've been shooting the last month or so.
 
I bought some stuff for a 7.62x39 upper I just put together including the barrel, bolt and GB/tube and of course then I needed some mags and ammo.
 
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