The best way to lower ammo prices is to stop buying.

.455_Hunter said:

+1000.

Now is the time for familiarization and basic skills maintenance ONLY.

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I'll take a hard pass on that. I'm still going to the range and shooting 300 to 400 rounds every week. I'm not going to cut back on my shooting just because some people didn't have the foresight to stock up. And if people want to pay $35 a box and blast away good for them.

reddog81 said:

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I'll take a hard pass on that. I'm still going to the range and shooting 300 to 400 rounds every week. I'm not going to cut back on my shooting just because some people didn't have the foresight to stock up. And if people want to pay $35 a box and blast away good for them.

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I guess that's fine if you have the stockage or components to back it up- it's your ammo.

The annoying part is when people shoot like you do, run themselves dry, and then complain about the situation with "What happened?"

.455_Hunter said:

I guess that's fine if you have the stockage or components to back it up- it's your ammo.

The annoying part is when people shoot like you do, run themselves dry, and then complain about the situation with "What happened?"

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If the situation hasn't improved by next summer I'll have to start cutting back some. There are lots of people out there similarly situated. Now is the perfect time to go to the range - the weather is great and crowds are minimal.

reddog81 said:

Now is the perfect time to go to the range - the weather is great and crowds are minimal.

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I agree 100%.

reddog81 said:

Now is the perfect time to go to the range

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.455_Hunter said:

agree 100%.

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I wonder how many are closed or at reduced capacity/hours. I shoot on my property and everyone else locally does as well. I have to drive 2 hrs to find a range. Really have no idea

crestoncowboy said:

I wonder how many are closed or at reduced capacity/hours. I shoot on my property and everyone else locally does as well. I have to drive 2 hrs to find a range. Really have no idea

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None were closed here in Florida - they were deemed "Essential Businesses" and remained open. The outdoor clubs I go to have zero restrictions - same for Georgia.

Your idea is a bit like the “gas out” days where you weren’t supposed to buy gas or use gas burning machines like lawn mowers and what not.

Sure I’ll play and then I will just buy gas tomorrow at the same price as I would have the previous day. So will everyone else.

OK let’s all stop buying ammo until the price comes down. As soon as the price comes down the vultures will strike and we are full circle.

daniel craig said:

The idea being that much of the demand comes from people who already have decent supply and they’re competing with the faction of demand that has limited to no supply. If we left the buying up to the latter for a while and the former ceased for a while, things would even out dramatically.

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Those of us who already have a decent supply aren't buying at these ridiculous prices. Why would we? We already have an adequate supply.

The panic is generated buy all you folks who we've been telling to stock up while it's cheap for the last four years.

As far as I'm concerned you can shoot Tula

Ignition Override said:

My only question is just where people imagine the hypothetical firefights (with rifles) are to take place in November etc.

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Kenosha Wisconsin?

Hartkopf said:

I grew up similar to what you described. My mom picked cotton as a kid so I've seen first hand how old timers save everything and it's rubbed off on me.
Luckily my dad had the skills to work his way out of the poor house so not all of my childhood was dirt poor.

I agree that most of these pack rats will die before they need what they have but we never know for sure. It's good for people to be overly self sufficient IMO. Venezuela was once fairly rich and prosperous. After the implosion, a carton of eggs cost $144 there. Now a political party here in the US wants to copy the Venezuela model. (insanity says they expect a different result) I think I'm going to channel my cotton picking ancestors and save everything I have, including guns and ammo. I'm agreeing with your observation, it hasn't mattered yet, but we know it still might matter at any time.

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My grandparents/parents survived The Depression and they taught us well. I remember my grandmother saving bread bags (I reuse them to take food to work) and rubber bands. I'm practice "buy cheap, stack deep" in pretty much everything.

daniel craig said:

Not entirely. It’s the idea behind boycotting.

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Well, we suck at boycotting. How many hundreds of companies are we boycotting and how many have changed their ways?

Try to get 100 million Americans to stop buying ammo. USELESS.

Trunk Monkey said:

As far as I'm concerned you can shoot Tula

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Now, now. Let's be civil.

Lol. Ive never seen tula anywhere in a brick and mortar but walmart. Haven't seen a box since they quit carrying it. All my guns functioned with it that I tried it in but it was some nasty stuff. The Golden bullet of the centerfire world.

Double Naught Spy said:

Well, we suck at boycotting.

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Yeah. I noticed Dicks sporting goods had record quarterly sales while Remington was dissolved, ....we sure showed them.......I did my part though. Can't say that I ever actually bought anything there before we boycotted either though. Never bought an official NFL or NBA product either that i know of. Wasnt boycotting...I just cant imagine me as a grown man wearing another man's name on my backside. Lol. Has any company "we" boycotted actually been hurt?. I notice I still get cheaper than dirt fliers....

Come to think of it I suppose I'm too cheap to really make a dent in any of this boycotting buisness