Don't over pay for ammo and reloading supplies

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Interesting the store I bought this at said they learned from the last ammo shortage. Groups of guys had their morning ammo routes. When one found ammo he'd call the others and they'd all come and buy their limits. So now when they get a shipment they only put part out each day and at different times to prevent the same people from buying it all up.
 
ford8nr said:
I'm not retired, off day and was headed for a Covid test ( stuffy nose and headache ) only time before work sends me home for a test - preemptive strike. Got lucky today, truck came last night.
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Hope you come out of it no worse for wear. Wife and I both had it, for us it was the weakest flu we've ever experienced. Understand some are not so lucky though.
 
Klaatu Barada Nikto said:
I watch the retirees at Hardees in the lobby at 6AM. Eating their biscuits and drinking their coffee. That's going to be me in one year and 5 months.
But I will choose someplace close to the best supplied ammo reloading warehouse in my area.
It is very tempting not to yell CORREGIDOR on the way out though.
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Sorry for my ignorance but why would you yell, "CORREGIDOR "?
 
Aim1 said:
Sorry for my ignorance but why would you yell, "CORREGIDOR "?
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I'm a veteran, they're all veterans but none of them are old enough to have been anywhere close to Corregidor or the Bataan Peninsula.
Think back to the series Soap with Billy Crystal, the old grandad was really far gone with dementia and would occasionally yell Corregidor.
Pretty sure he was always dressed in his old Army uniform as well.
These guys would have gotten it but may have taken offense, so I refrained, besides, they're all less than 10 years older than I am.
 
I find it amazing that people aren't stocked up, knowing what was coming!

I remember telling guys on another board to just stop buying ammo and that all they were doing was feeding the trolls. If you don't buy the need for all of this will go away. Did anyone listen? No, why would they! One guy said "but, I got to have ammo"!

There's just not enough face palms in the world to answer that back. Some people were put on this earth to prove that stupid exists!:cuss:

Just stop! Tell everyone that you know to stop! Tell everyone on every board to stop buying ammo at these stupid prices! Do you really need ammo right now? Can you take a break from shooting for a couple months, maybe 6? This is what's needed for this to end, the ammo on the shelves will come back and the scalpers will have no one to sell to.

Just stop, pass it along.
 
Just a few days ago my neighbor sent me a text, which I did not notice for about an hour, that some ammo had come in at a local store. As I arrived I saw six cars pull in right behind me and several in front of me. I managed my limit of two boxes. But what was interesting was that the group of about eight cars were a reseller group. One guy went in, grabbed his limit and I saw him phone out and as I was checking out I saw all of the men and two women heading to the gun department. I am sure they cleaned it out for ammo. And this happens over and over and when buying from these guys or ammo sourced from these guys, well, that is a good part of why we cannot find ammo. Most of us have other things to do than circulate among the various retail stores until we find something and then get all of our nar'do'well relatives/buddies to come in and clean it out.
 
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3Crows said:
Just a few days ago my neighbor sent me a text, which I did not notice for about an hour, that some ammo had come in at a local store. As I arrived I saw six cars pull in right behind me and several in front of me. I managed my limit of two boxes. But what was interesting was that the group of about eight cars were a reseller group. One guy went in, grabbed his limit and I saw him phone out and as I was checking out I saw all of the men and two women heading to the gun department. I am sure they cleaned it out for ammo. And this happens over and over and when buying from these guys or ammo sourced from these guys, well, that is a good part of why we cannot find ammo. Most of us have other things to do than circulate among the various retail stores until we find something and then get all of our nar'do'well relatives/buddies to come in and clean it out.
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I saw it too under BHO. A local retailer showing up to walmart with a gaggle of employees and family to buy their limit and then marking it up insanely, $10 box of WWB 9mm for $40. Not quite as insane as this time around, I don't think I ever heard of a $75 box of 50 Tula 9mm, that's a new one. But it really bugged me, I drove there specifically to buy ammo just to have it bought up in front of me by skirting the box limit and scalping it for insane profit. The kicker of it was that he bought it all tax free in NH and resold for a profit and would show up regularly.

If I had no ammo, I would be forced to pay ridiculous scalper prices, I would never not have ammo for my guns. But, I will never be in that position because I will always have ammo, and will always buy at reasonable prices. I've learned this lesson before. Some didn't.
 
h4350 and varget are going for $600 for an 8lb jug on gunbroker.

powder was in stock at powdervalley this evening. I missed getting some varget by probably a minute. I could have got 16 lb of h4350 but I’m pretty stocked up on that so I left it for others. I did buy some cfe pistol and titegroup since I am getting a little low on pistol powders.
 
There have always been folks who will exploit a market is uncertain times. Maybe we need to reissue Nixon's Executive Order 11615 to control prices !
 
Any physical good or service is only worth what someone else is willing to pay for it - that is how a price is determined - prostitutes know that more than most. In turn, the greed is the very behavior that will reverse and balance the madness, it will eventually burn itself out. People will always respond to their two basic , fundamental behaviors - fear and greed. Our great stock markets runs very well on those two behaviors every single market day - fear and greed set boundaries by default.
Most should be selling their firearms and shooting hoards - buy low, sell high - but they will not because it is a hobby and not an investment. Hobbies are designed to burn money - it is a hobby, it should be a source of fun - if the price is too high for a hobby item, then do not make the purchase - what a novel idea.
 
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When I bought my primers for $40 they had 3 boxes left. Wife asked why didn't you buy them all and resell, they sold on auction last night for $200. My reply was people shouldn't HAVE to pay $200 for primers. Told the clerk, "give me one box, I'll leave the rest for others."
 
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