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Would you join in stopping high demand ammo purchases?

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Males are competitive by nature....General Patton eluded to this in his famous speech.

"When you, here, everyone of you, were kids, you all admired the champion marble player, the fastest runner, the toughest boxer, the big league ball players, and the All-American football players. Americans love a winner. Americans will not tolerate a loser. Americans despise cowards. Americans play to win all of the time. I wouldn't give a hoot in hell for a man who lost and laughed. That's why Americans have never lost nor will ever lose a war; for the very idea of losing is hateful to an American."

For many the stockpiling of ammo is a competitive and patriotic thing....and they don't want to be losers.
 
Ammo Storage ?

Sorry if this has been covered before but I'm just to tired to search through a bunch of threads :what: I have my gun safe in the garage, it's not heated but fully insulated and doesn't get below freezing in the winters and in the N'East so summers aren't to bad for heat and humidity for any lenth of time.

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Is it ok to store ammo in it's original boxes inside for a long period of time( a few years, maybe more)

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I would like to also store some of my reloading supplies too, primers, powders and bullets.Powder is all in the original sealed 8# jugs.

3 Also, there will be some gun in there too :)

I will be using a Eva-dry renewable wireless mini dehumidifer inside, I thought about some .50 cal ammo cans but they will take up to much room and be to heavy once filled. Thanks in advance for any info.
 
This reminds me, I need to pick up a few more bricks if I find any.....

I have three .30 cal. ammo cans, one with Federal .22's, one with Remingtons, one with Winchesters. I get the bulk boxes and just dump them in the cans. None of the cans are full yet, but they're getting close. A .30 cal. can will hold a LOT of .22's! I need to keep at it until they're full. But then the grandkid and I just go out and shoot 'em up.
 
If you want ammo, try ordering some. I've had no trouble at all getting match-grade fodder...even the mid-grade stuff. Picked up two cases of RWS two months ago.
 
Word on the street is we are about to be invaded by REALLY small aliens. .22lr makes more sense than .30-'06. Marlin Model 60 is the new Garand.
 
toivo: "Except the Garand never came in synthetic/stainless..."

As a matter of fact, there was a rubber stocked Garand. There was even an aluminum-stocked Garand. No stainless so far as I know -- but plenty of chromed ceremonials.
 
If I was doing it I would put the ammo and the primers in the ammo cans and store it outside of the safe, the ammo cans will seal out any moisture, but I have a little more ammo than most. The ammo will be fine either in or out of the safe, but if you have it out of the safe there will be more room in the safe. :D
 
Ammo stored in an ammo can (maybe with a dessicant pack inside) will be better protected from moisture than a gun safe. Gun safes are not hermetically sealed. Your Eva Dry will become saturated fairly quickly.

The reason I store ammo in a gun safe are to provide ballast (making the safe heavier and more difficult to steal). Of course, at today's prices, ammo has become worth locking up because it's valuable.
 
If you want ammo, try ordering some. I've had no trouble at all getting match-grade fodder...even the mid-grade stuff. Picked up two cases of RWS two months ago.
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Key words there probably are "two months ago".
I was looking around online this week to buy ten or 20 boxes of CCI Mini-Mag 40-grain solids....all my normal places are sold out. I've still got a few boxes, but I hate to run out of Mini-Mags. Some of my semi-auto pistols simply run best on them. I may have to just buy some hollow-points locally. Saw some Green Tag though ;)
I've got plenty of Blazers and Walmart Federal Bulk-packs...I stocked up on a bunch of bricks when prices were lower and they were still available locally. Kind of wish I had bought more. I shoot a lot of .22LR.
 
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I picked up 100 rds of CCI CB Shorts yesterday at a local Academy for my trusty Mossberg bolt action. There were several boxes left. I had none in my stash but just wanted some on hand. $8! 22 shorts were somewhat hard to find before the current difficulties.
 
Stores near me usually have no .22 ammo. When they do have any in stock it's rarely .22LR, and even then it's rarely something that will cycle reliably in my Ruger 22/45 or AR-7. My kingdom for a brick of .22LR CCI Mini-Mag round nose! When Wally finally got some in, they restricted each customer to two 100-round packages, because local stores were coming in and cleaning them out. Dry-firing makes up a much bigger portion of my practice sessions these days.

It's ironic. There's no evidence that Obama had an intention to hike up the price of ammo or restrict its supply upon taking office. Apparently unhappy that the new president would not comply with their fears, gun owners decided to inflict these problems on themselves, by irrationally fantasizing about Obama's intentions.

So now we get to enjoy ammo shortages and ridiculously high prices -- and still blame Obama!
 
So now we get to enjoy ammo shortages and ridiculously high prices -- and still blame Obama!
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You think it would have happened if he had lost the election?

he won, and people have a reasonable fear of what he might try to do based not on mere supposition as you try to imply, but on what he has promised to do in the past.
 
Ammo stored in an ammo can
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Check seals on the can first. It can be worse for the ammo with a bad seal.

Store in a cool dry place. Orininal box fine, and with some preferred. wolf 7.62 comes in the box with paper dividing every 5 rounds protecting further from moisture.

With your safe being in the garage I'd be worried about my ammo and guns. Just my .02, but the temp difference you discussed I would imagine would lead to moisture and rust. Powder should be fine in the cold, but the warmth aint good for it.
 
Cheap ammo: A good teacher

I went to the range a couple of weeks ago with 100 rounds of Blazer 9mm (aluminum case). For the first time, my pistol was not ejecting the last casing. The ammo simply did not have enough kick to eject the case and lock the slide after the last round in the magazine.

Those 100 rounds taught me more about trouble shooting my firearm than all the other ammo I have spent.

So I still have 100 Blazer rounds left. I plan to mix them with my good target ammo and go to the range. If I’m lucky, I’ll get more practice dealing with ammo malfunction.

Does any one have other ideas on how to train to trouble shoot your firearm?
 
That does sound like a good training tool, however just be careful. It is still live ammo.

One of the things I do to train my students is to insert a dummy round in among the live ammo. You can really see who flinches or anticipates the shot this way.
 
Sigh. I've pretty much had it with shooting for now. I have searched and searched, but ammo and primers are simply not showing up. I have enough ammo on hand for hunting and emergencies, and I'm not shooting that stuff at the moment.

Guess I'll just have to find other things to do until this cools down. I do think a lot of people are truly hoarding, and I think it is well beyond being out-of-control at this point.

As someone else mentioned, I've also heard people bragging about how they bought a store's entire shipment of X, Y, or Z ammunition related items. Seriously, can't you leave something for the rest of us to buy?

I like shooting, I like my guns, and I'd love to do more reloading right now. But, for the time being I guess I'll just talk about guns on here. At least I get to shoot a couple of times per quarter at work... As of right now the police department still has some ammo.
 
Ammo Purchase Report/Analysis

Yesterday, for the first time in two years, I went to buy something at Walmart. Specifically, I went to buy some .22 shells, as my gun store actually had no bulk packs left (they only stock a few, as it's pretty dirty stuff) and I wanted to stock up on cheap .22 for the summer.

Walmart didn't have any bulk packs either, but they had plenty of other .22 in 100 and 50 round packages, as well as many other calibers. I actually bought some. Two 50 boxes of 9mm Blazer Brass at $8.97 each, two 20 boxes of .30-'30 Federal at $11.97 each, and one 100 box of Remington .22 at $5.47.

There is no ammo shortage.

I was particularly bemused to note that all of the true "rifleman" calibers were stocked to the gills -- tons of .30-'06, .308, .270, .243 and even some .223 (the expensive stuff). What was low or out was cheap 7.62x39 and cheap .223, and cheap .22 bulk packs.

People, the only stuff being hoarded is cheap ammo for ARs and AKs, and cheap bulk pack .22. The mall ninjas have convinced the nation that ammo is short, and that it's some sort of conspiracy. All that's happening is that the mall ninjas are hoarding the cheap stuff for their own cheap guns. Let them have it, and let RIFLEMEN alone with the rumors, gossip and conspiracy theories. There's TONS of ammo out there.
 
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