Keep it or Sell it?

NTSO2150 said:

I am a new member and this is my first post. It is a question.
These are strange days. Ammo is hardly available and neither are components. And when one does find the desired items, the prices are insane.

I happen to have ammo and reloading components for calibers that I no longer own, but my buddies do own.

Now the question. If you were in my shoes, would you sell those components and ammo to help pay the high cost of replacement for the cartridges you do own, or would you hang onto the items for the future, and perhaps share with your buddies?

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put it on GB and have a poker night!

They ain't eating no hay. I'd keep em and trade with buddies

Don't sell. That just gets you money, which you can't use to buy anything, because nothing is available.

Trade it for what you need.

Give it all to your friends if you no longer need it .

Some would take advantage of the market to make money while others trade amongst friends to help each other out. That choice is yours.

I prefer to help out fellow reloaders instead of taking advantage of others.

When you get access, take a look at the for sale section here and you’ll see who does either or...

I would trade or give to buddies if it was stuff they could use. I know my shooting/reloading buddies are the kind of guys that would help me out when I'm in need, so I do the same for them.

+1 for trading. Helps both parties.

I have been giving stuff away. It feels good to help others. Factory ammo I have sold, but not a whole lot and not at a very inflated rate. I told a few guys to only call me if they got desperate and they did. After asking them about a few stores that they should have checked they had actually checked and came up empty. I sold some 308, 9mm, 380, and 223 for about 10% over shelf price. Just enough to make them not want to keep paying me when things come back, but not scalper price either. With reloaded stuff I have given away a bit. I have been given about 500 rds of 32 long recently, and I paid that forward with similar quantity of 38spl for a couple ladies who are new gun owners. I believe I got more enjoyment out of giving the stuff away than I got for selling the stuff I didn’t need.

I vote barter because that's what I do. Exchange of goods for mutual benefit is as old as time.

find, buy, trade for the guns it fits and shoot em?

Seriously, it depends on your situation, do you need money to pay bills, or make ends meet? Then sell it for a reasonable rate, it will put money in your pocket and as long as you don't try to get rich, still keep karma in your bank.

If you are not in need of $, trade it, give it to your buddies, or keep it for a rainy day when there might be something you want to trade it for down the road.

Helping out a friend in need, is never a bad thing. You can also do some PIF here on this forum, or do a WTT here also for something you need.

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NTSO2150 said:

I am a new member and this is my first post. It is a question.
These are strange days. Ammo is hardly available and neither are components. And when one does find the desired items, the prices are insane.

I happen to have ammo and reloading components for calibers that I no longer own, but my buddies do own.

Now the question. If you were in my shoes, would you sell those components and ammo to help pay the high cost of replacement for the cartridges you do own, or would you hang onto the items for the future, and perhaps share with your buddies?

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Absolutely do not sell any of that stuff.

Maybe you can make $100 - shipping, by reselling a set of dies. But heavens, if you are on a gun forum you can’t be scrambling for $100!

Take a deep breath and come back to reality. If you have primers and dies and bullets in a popular caliber, YOU ARE KING OF THE TOWN!

Who cares whether you have the guns to shoot it right now. People with guns are a dime a dozen.

People with primers and dies are lords of the realm.

If you wanna leave this House of Lords and return to the thatched cottage of the peasants, with their empty magazines and their hangdog faces and their silent shooting ranges, you’re crazy

pairof44sp said:

Absolutely do not sell any of that stuff.

Maybe you can make $100 - shipping, by reselling a set of dies. But heavens, if you are on a gun forum you can’t be scrambling for $100!

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Never assume someone's finances that can change in the blink of an eye. Some people trade for things to stay in a hobby they love and share with their children.

I would hold on or trade for needed items.

What I find that makes no sense, is people continually shooting and burning thru ammo like nothing has changed. We are being very cautious and only using a few rounds here and there. Mostly letting our son shoot a dozen or so over a weekend to keep practicing and learning.

Deadeer said:

I would hold on or trade for needed items.

What I find that makes no sense, is people continually shooting and burning thru ammo like nothing has changed. We are being very cautious and only using a few rounds here and there. Mostly letting our son shoot a dozen or so over a weekend to keep practicing and learning.

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Maybe some of those people have a ton of primers and powder and are just gloating about their good fortune, by going pew pew pew with abandon.

I know I’m feeling pretty smug myself. Brazos lead bullets are still 3.2 cent a piece last I checked.

Sell the gear. If your buddies wast reloads, they can buy the gear and make their own. Convert unused assets to cash before they become of lesser value.

If you don't need it, give it to someone who does...it's good karma !

Sell to a Pawn shop! I heard they give the best prices anywhere!

yes, it’s time to Coffee and Bacon

mabey Grits too

I can only tell what I did and that was to treat the people asking according to their need. One of my co-workers is a member of a hunt club. They aren't any of them rich and the club doesn't have more than twenty or thirty members and a hundred acres of swamp the club owns for private hunting but, they aren't any of them hurting, either. They hunt for enjoyment. Fine by me and more power to them. When this co-worker came to me about his club not being able to get their yearly ammo order in time for the season, and would I be willing to sell them some of my "stash," I said sure. He brought me a list, which I was able to fill pretty much, and at $20/box for name-brand rifle ammo, it was pretty cheap for them vs. shelf prices. This was old ammo I got for $4-5/box way back when, some for guns I no longer owned. And, the club does donate meat to women's and homeless shelters so, it's not like they're bad folks. On the other hand, when I found out some of the people in my part of the county who own farms were having trouble getting ammo to protect their crops and animals, I started making calls and offered them what they needed from my shelf stock. Some of them needed ammo that I didn't have factory boxed stuff for and I had to tell them, sorry but I don't have any. I'm not giving reloads or my custom handloads out when I don't know the guns they'll be used in. My nearest neighbors... well, we've been trading reloads and guns for years anyway so all this situation has changed is how often we swap stuff.

Farmers have a real need, them I help without being asked. I recommend the same to anyone. Take care of farmers - they feed you. Club hunters just have a want but that's fine if it makes me a little stash of cash (in excess of $500 buckaroonies!) for no effort and nothing I'll miss.

Best I can tell you. Hope it helps.

If you don't think you will ever shoot or reload with it then move it along. Trade or sell. Whichever works best.

Trading is all well & good, but reality is no one else wants that stuff either. I mean that like they aren't equal for 1:1 trade in many cases.

You might find situation where someone actually does want yours and they just happen to have surplus of what you want. But with only a few individual caliber exceptions, I pretty much load what my friends & family do. So if I don't want it, they probably don't either.

But people tend to think in terms of:
"This .40cal die set cost me $50, it's worth the same as the 9mm die set you gave $50 for."
"This brick of large rifle magnum primers has 1,000, it's worth the same as the brick of 1,000 small pistol primers you have."
"This pound of Reloader 33 is worth almost 2 pounds of HP38."

So "trading among your buddies" in reality is screwing your buddies or making them feel uncomfortable about it or having them take a loss (even if everything cost you both the same 10 yrs ago). If I have 20 shares of Sears stock, you have 20 shares of Amazon stock, we each paid $100/share when we bought them years ago, is it a fair trade today to swap them 1 for 1?