Is it even worth it?

[c919]

s there ever gonna be a steady supply of decently priced handgun ammo? the only gun that i own and can ever find ammo for is my .40 cal.

im in the market for a small pocket/BUG gun. all of the guns i want are .380's and im beginning to wonder if its even worth buying one. if and when i get one, im going to want to test out ammo for obvious reasons.

i mean say i were to go out today and buy the .380 (CCW) that iv been wanting, i wouldn't even remotely be able to test it properly. if i did find ammo it would only be like 1 box and obviously thats just not sufficient when it comes to me trusting the gun/ammo.

so is there hope?

i wont even have my CC permit for a couple of months. so i have a while until il be carrying. the thing is i have the money now, and my LGS has both of the guns iv been looking at getting. they are both in new and priced very well so i naturally would want to get the gun now. that way by the time time i have my permit i will have done the necessary tests, and become familiar with the gun and trust it to carry. what to do......?????

 

[orionhawk]

well, if you're buying new, the gun should feed almost any major-name hollowpoint fine, as well as pretty much any range ammo with similar ballistics to the tactical stuff. I would just pick a well-known working ammo, and get whatever I could get for the range, test shoot both, and worry about something else if either was unacceptable.

I have only ever had one gun fail to cycle Gold Dots (or any other name-brand ammo, really), and that was a new-purchase CZ that wouldn't feed ANYTHING.

if you order from Midway or CTD, you have a good chance of recieving the ammo by the time you get your CCW.

I plan on picking up an XDm 9 as soon as I find a place to get it. I'll worry about ammo for it then (although I expect to be sticking with Gold Dot, and Winchester White Box for the range).

 

[MisterMike]

s there ever gonna be a steady supply of decently priced handgun ammo? the only gun that i own and can ever find ammo for is my .40 cal.

I guess one's experiences can vary widely, but it's not much of a factor for me. The shop I usually go to has most everything in stock, though not a lot of inventory. Another shop that's reasonably close that I checked out a couple of weeks ago had, honestly, thousands of boxes of ammo in every conceivable caliber. This obviously can vary quite a bit, but even if you're seeing shortages at this moment, it's a very transitory situation.

 

[c919]

that must be awesome. seriously, iv forgotten what its like to see anything but .40 s&w and 22lr.

i went into my favorite guns shop the other day and a friend who works there had 2 100 rnd boxes of 9mm fmj's in the back and sold me one for 30$. that was the first time iv been able to find it in forever! its sad really. and that was a great price for this time and place.....

 

[Hoxviii]

Surprised the heck out of me, I actually saw .380 on the shelf- about 12 boxes worth.

Since the guns themselves aren't that hard to get right now I'd work on tracking down a couple boxes of ammo first. Ifyou can, buy the gun.

Like you said, you have a couple of months to pull this off.