Sell it? or Stash it? A Seller's Market.

What to do with a stash of ammo you can't shoot?

  • Sell, Sell, Sell!!

    Votes: 114 50.2%

  • Hold onto it

    Votes: 113 49.8%
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So what if you had some ammo sitting around that you had nothing to shoot it in and no plans to buy anything to shoot it in?

The ammo market conditions at present highly favor the seller. I know what I have in this little stash of .40 s&w. I don't really forsee myself buying anything new to put it through.

Ideally, I'd like to trade on it for something I do want to feed but the number one rule is "buy low, sell high". I bought relatively low. I think I can sell relatively high.

So what would you do?
 
It's apparent, from what's going on around the nation, that the next carton of Winchester White Box you spot on the shelf is the very last box that ever will be produced again, so long as you live. :) Why on earth would you ever consider selling that, at any price? Sheeeeesh.
 
If I had no intentions of buying something to put it through in the future, I'd either sell it or trade it. Feel around for whatever way is going to have the higher benefit.
 
I'm in the same boat. I had to sell my 50BMG rifle and I still have about 250 rounds of 50BMG ammo. With the current economy I don't see me getting another 50 any time soon and expect them to potentially get banned before I can ever get one again. I was hoping to find someone to trade ammo with that has something that I can use.
 
Well now...we're all fellow shooters. So, if I had some ammo I'm not going to use, why wouldn't I make it available to someone who could get some use out of it. :confused:
 
That is more or less the way I'm thinking. I want to make it available to someone who does want it. I have a .45. I just got another .45. I don't see myself buying a .40 anytime soon. If I could trade it for .223/5.56 or .45 auto, I'd be willing to go 5:4 or 8:7.

I just got to thinking about it because I met a guy at the counter at Academy when I was fondling the glock 36 I'd end up buying that was interested in what I had to sell. kismet maybe. who knows?

I think I'm much more interested in trading on it than selling it for cash though. gold coins maybe..

where's my tinfoil hat?
 
How much have you got? What do you want for it? I'll take it. I voted keep it, but then I read your post and saw what you have. I'm down to about 400 rounds of .40 and can't even use it for fear that I won't be able to replace it. Keep in mind, When I go shooting, 200-400 rounds for practice is an average, so as you can see, I'm well below my comfort level.
 
I have a few boxes of .38 special laying around and no revolvers for it yet. I'm just going to hang on to it, once I buy my first .38 I would hate to have to look everywhere for some ammo.
 
I just picked up a case of .45 2 weeks ago. Debated selling it for a profit, but that's not who I am, or what I do. I just got what I needed and have a reliable supplier for when I need more.
 
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I'm in the same boat. I had to sell my 50BMG rifle and I still have about 250 rounds of 50BMG ammo. With the current economy I don't see me getting another 50 any time soon and expect them to potentially get banned before I can ever get one again. I was hoping to find someone to trade ammo with that has something that I can use.
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I would recommend building a 250 barrel gun to dispose of those all at once.
 
throttle jockey, pm me.

I've noticed .38 that's not +p is getting hard to find. I'd keep a stash of .38.

CoRoMo, you're right, I should have put a third: trade it!

That's what I vote! Trade it!
 
So, you're buying ammo that is in high demand right now, out from under your fellow shooters (possibly on this forum), for a gun that you don't own and don't plan on owning?

That kind of stuff pissed me off..:banghead:

I wouldn't have issue with it if you were buying it for friends or family. I don't think that ammo is going to run out permanantly, so why take ammo off the shelf so that others can't go to the range that day/weekend, just so you can make a couple of bucks?

Just because you can do something doesn't mean that you should.
 
hold on there.. I'm just leveraging one commodity against another. and not that it matters, but I sold the piece that I used to stock this stuff for over a year ago..

besides, there isnt anyone on this forum that doesn't wish they'd stocked up on 762x39 when academy had it for (what was it?) $75/500?? it was ridiculously cheap. someone in purchasing put an extra zero on a purchase order or something and they ended up with gobbs of it. I still wish I had sunk a few hundred in it when I had the chance and I don't own an sks or ak.

that's how the market works. so call me a captialist.. like that's a bad thing.
 
" doesn't wish they'd stocked up on 762x39 "

Me. I don't want any of it. I don't have room for the ammo I've bought during the past 10 years...I was going to retire, but didn't.

John
 
I wouldn't sell it, I am getting out of all paper assets.
I have lost all faith in the federal reserve's way of running things.

Trading and bartering, absolutely.
 
hold on there.. I'm just leveraging one commodity against another. and not that it matters, but I sold the piece that I used to stock this stuff for over a year ago..
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No, it doesn't.


besides, there isnt anyone on this forum that doesn't wish they'd stocked up on 762x39 when academy had it for (what was it?) $75/500?? it was ridiculously cheap. someone in purchasing put an extra zero on a purchase order or something and they ended up with gobbs of it.
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There's a difference in stocking up on something when it is in stock, when it is something that you actually use and when it is readily available

vs

swiping stuff off the shelves that people are having a hard time acquiring, for something that you don't own, just so that you can turn around and sell it to the same person that you just screwed out of for a hefty profit.



that's how the market works. so call me a captialist.. like that's a bad thing.
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No, that's how you work. If you were in the business and you acquire your product through suppliers and charge whatever you want, then fine. But if you're not in the business and all you're doing is stepping in front of someone to buy the ammo just so you can turn around and sell it to them for a profit, I have issue with that and I think most people do. It's a simple thing called ethics.

You're buying something that:

A. You don't need or have a use for
B. Other people actually do need
C. Is not your regular business
D. Is hard for others to get a hold of who want to use it
E. And selling it back to the same person who wanted it to begin with
F. Selling it for a profit (taking advantage)

If you want to be in the firearms business, then do it. But don't snipe a hard-to-get product from others. These are your fellow enthusiasts.
 
who are you to tell me how I can and can't direct my resources? or leverage what I've acquired in the open market? I guess I shouldn't be able to buy my way into the stock, bond and commodities market either just because trading isn't my everyday job... I suppose coin collectors are the only ones allowed to buy and sell gold coin now..

you sound like a Democrat.
 
I would definitely hold onto it!!! You never know when there may be a time when you desperately need it. I posted a blog a couple weeks back on why I believe that one day ammo will be worth more than gold.
 
who are you to tell me how I can and can't direct my resources? or leverage what I've acquired in the open market? I guess I shouldn't be able to buy my way into the stock, bond and commodities market either just because trading isn't my everyday job
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Umm, yeah, because that's whay I said, right? Nope.

From your post in the other "ammo shortage" thread, you're obviously not a businessperson, and this comment makes it clear that you're not a reader either.

Once again, it's called ethics, of which, you are lacking.
 
besides, which is more ethical? to sit on a stash that's not doing me any good just to sit on it or trade it to someone for whom it will do some good and get something to my benefit in return?

would I be more to your ethical standards if I went around and bought up every round of ammo I could find at the highest possible price and then find myself overstocked when or if prices ever come down again and sell at a loss??

the grasshopper in winter doesn't have the luxury of complaining to the ant that he overvalues what's taken all summer to stockpile.
 
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