dogtown tom
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Not condescending, I'm just amused.I have to tell you, your post is coming across as more than a little condescending, and misses much of my point (if not simply ignoring much of what I said). I certainly didn't just have some "awakening" today.
It's not a nightmare for me. I didn't like the situation the first time I ran low ad made sure that I haven't run low since.....But, none of us can ever possibly and accurately predict the length and depth of the next inevitable shortage, and that makes planning a nightmare, at least for those of us who actually do any real shooting with the ammo we buy.
It's a nightmare for the unaware and those who planned poorly.
You aren't psychic ?I also couldn't possibly stock up for things like calibers I hadn't yet become interested in, or for types of shooting sports in which I wasn't yet participating.
How about calibers not yet invented? For guns not yet invented?
I think you miss the point of being prepared. Think what that means. If you are preparing for hurricane season and lay in a supply of food and water......do you really think it matters one bit that food "I haven't yet become interested in" wasn't what you stocked? Oh heck no. There will be that point where you would love an ice cold Coca Cola.....yet all you have is warm bottled water. Your neighbor has power and canned Cokes. What will you do?
You ever think that a case of 9x19 might be trade fodder in the future for something you aren't interested in right now?
Of the billions of rounds of .22 rimfire sold each year, "target" grade for small bore competition is a tiny fraction. Most rimfire is used for informal plinking and hunting. Oddly, that same target grade ammo can be used for plinking and hunting if needed.For example, I haven't competed in small bore rifle since college, so while I have 10's of thousands of rounds of .22LR plinker ammo on hand (the kind of ammo you mentioned in your example), I still wouldn't have the right type of .22LR ammo on hand if I were to rekindle an interest in shooting small bore again (because, let's face it, you aren't competitive in that area if you're shooting Remington Golden Bullet .22's, for example).
If small bore competition is your hobby, stock up on what you need at every opportunity. But good grief man, why buy what you don't need. Oddly I don't stock up pool chemical, pumps and pool furniture because I might install a pool in ten years. Thats faulty planning if not cray cray.
Oh good grief.I have good supplies on hand for the types of shooting I was doing regularly the last time things were plentiful. But, as I illustrated in an earlier post, I was caught in a pinch during a previous shortage because I had just switched from a .308 Win match gun to a .260 Remington match gun. That switch meant that I suddenly needed H4350 powder rather than the Varget powder I had been using. But, that powder became almost impossible to get, and it's not like I would have had it on hand for a gun I wasn't previously using.
Maybe you should think about the consequences of switching before actual switching.
It's not like theres no way to check availability and pricing of powder and components.
Well of course its aggravating if you let it be aggravating. Not sure how old you are, but you don't always get everything you want, when you want it and how you want it. Life ain't Burger King.These are the reasons that these shortages are aggravating, not because I was too dense to go and buy stuff when it was cheap... it's more about the fact that it's hard to predict what you might want/need in the future, and it's hard to explore new arenas of shooting when we're almost constantly feeling the pressure of the next shortage.
You have one person responsible for how ammunition and component shortages affect you.
So really you're jealous of the fat old guy? Well bucko.........HE ain't running out of primers is he? He's probably posting about the ill prepared millennial that he met at a match.On the other hand, yeah, I guess we could always choose to be like the morbidly obese 55 year old guy I met at a club level IPSC match one time who told me that he has over 500,000 primers on hand for his personal use, and was planning to double that supply. He probably won't live long enough to shoot through a tenth of that supply, and he surely isn't storing it to fire code, but he sure has it sitting there anyway, just in case.
Sorry, I have no sympathy for you and am envious of your fat man.