Nobody got burned...what the heck are you even talking about? You're becoming delusional.
I did miss that post (apologies to the op), but I still addressed that circumstance by saying:
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If you have extra ammo left over from a gun that you had/have and want to sell it for whatever the market will allow, then all the power to you.
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Spend a little more time looking for ammo, and less time whining about everyone else that found it.
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There are lots of people who don't stock up on ammo and only buy it when they decide to go shoot. I am not one of those people...I try to have enough for a 2 or 3 range sessions.
Try reading one of the many, many threads and posts where people either can't find ammo or it is so expensive that it's not worth purchasing ($65/box .380 for example). Even the op makes it a point in another current thread. I have never stated that I haven't been able to get ammo.
Well, while I was trying to engender discussion, I did not forsee this kind of firestorm over a few hundred rounds of ammo. Not that I feel inclined to justify or explain myself but perheps it's instructive.
When I was stocking up on this particular batch of ammo, I'd go into academy and buy 100, 200 or maybe 300 rounds at a time (however much I thought I could afford at the time) and leave dozens of boxes on the shelf for the next dozen guys. Trips home would often net 2-3 boxes after I'd get done shooting for that week's trip. That was when I was shooting the 40 alot.
After I got my STI, I found myself shooting that little sigma 40 less and less and carrying it even less, almost never, in favor of the single stack .45. So when I had the chance to buy an AR at a good price, I leveraged that 40 that I hardly ever shot anymore against the cost of the new rifle. (best investment I think I've made, btw) I had a chance then to unload that ammo when I sold it but held off. Now I have the opportunity to offer more than half a case of fmj target rounds and a few boxes of shiny new golden sabre hollow points that it looks like nobody has.. and I'm not looking to take anyone to the cleaners either. I just want an opportunity to trade it to someone who wants or needs it for equitable value in something I want or need.
Maybe I'm the only one in that situation. I doubt it. Not in this crowd. It's interesting that the poll was heavily in favor of the hold it option early but now firmly in the lead is sell sell sell.
I don't know. I won't shoot it anytime soon. I don't even know someone with a .40 right now. everybody's 9 or 45 that I know. so I can't even really pass it off to a buddy and I'd probably give it to him at cost and a six pack of shiner. but that ain't an option.
I can either sit on it or get the most I can for it while I can and still feel good about the deal.
But I also said that as it bears on the fact that I have goods to offer, none of that matters. Let's take for instance the case where I had a chance less than a year ago to buy 762x39 for some stupid price, I forget how cheap it was. maybe someone remembers the great academy overbuy of '08. I seem to remember it was $75/500. so let's go with that. I don't own an ak. what difference does it make? You could have had them all day back then for 199 apiece. I could have had a rifle and a couple thousand rounds for around 500 bucks. What would someone pay for that right now? Twice that? more? What's 7.62 going for right now? how much are people willing to pay? north of 40 cents a round, it looks like judging by gunbroker.com. would you rather someone had the foresight to have been opportunistic, stocked up then and now had it to sell or not?
so what's a fella to do?
I ask you.