Shortage of 7.62x39 big time!

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I thought that improper purchasers of ammunition--mercenaries, rebels,
terrorists, black marketeers, etc--got phony "end user certificates"
by disguising purchases as legitimate government purchasers.
How often have "terrorists" actually acquired arms or ammo by
passing theselves off as commercial sporting purchasers?
 
It makes me feel all warm and fuzzy knowing that when i bought my SKS 4 years ago, i also bought 10,000 rounds at 72.00 a thousand. It makes me want to cry knowing that this time last year 5.56 was cheaper than dirt, and i only bought my AR 2 months ago.
 
oh yea,if anythings wrong just plame it on bush everyone else does ,if my coffee spills all over me ,I dont scream cusswords,I scream bushwords and really loud,if i get cut off driveing my kids to school ,thats bushs fault ,and i scream out my windo you son of a bush,then I drive past the gas stations and see that gas price so high ,first thing out of my mouth is that sorryassed bushy boycaused all this,,I stub my toe ,it had to be that sorry assed george bush made the curbs to ahort,for crying out loud,when are you foolish people going to quit blameing bush for any and all of your trivial little problems of this country on bush,Actually if you look at the deficet he has cut it in half now for several years now reduceing our natinol debt bettering our economy thru the tax breaks he gave us all that freed up more money to spend or invest and when taxes were paid on that money to the govt it reduced the national debit in half,When since we had the terrorist accack at the trade center have we been attacked ,not once since busch has been at the wheel,clinton let the world trade center get attacked and did nothing about it at all ,clinton never gave us our national healthcare program he promised with two terms to do it we are still waiting,he was two busy with intern training which aparently he handled that training personely,No wonder we got no heath care,now are any of you willing to give the clintons a 3 and fourth shot at it? LOL yea right I trust the clintons about as much as i trust Fidel Castro,jim
 
I thought I had a shortage of 7.62x39......
.......and then while moving my reloading bench into the house, I stumbled upon a box of 1,000 rounds of Wolf that I had stored away and forgotten about.

And I have about 760 rounds at work for 4.99 a box of 20.

Shortage is in the eye of the beholder :D
 
Yeah, the good ole chinese ammo of days gone past. Now they have made their own indigineous military rifle (a 5.7 mm, I think). Funny thing though, the ammo was designed by the chinese to purposely defeat U.S. type body armor. And here I thought we were all buddy-buddy with the chinese. If you look through walmart at all of the made-in-china labels, you would have thought that China and the U.S. were as close as Kissing-cousins. And our government is going to continue to lull the vast majority of Americans to sleep with the rhetoric that the Soviet Union is collapsed, and that communisim is dead. I'm afraid our country won't wake up to this fact untill the day we are on the receiving end of joint chinese-Russian pre-emptive nuclear strike, just a large enough attack to spank our country into keeping its' nose out of where it didn't belong. Ever wonder why all of a sudden just in the past month the Russians are getting really pissed off at Pres. Bush about setting up a missile defense program in old ex-soviet satellite countries to protect the U.S. from "rouge terrorist states". The Russians right now have enough ICBM's to effectively take-out 90% of our military, period. China is growing in tremendous strides militarily. This year alone, china has increased its military spending 17%. Are they fighting a war?? Is someone planning to attack them?? They are in the middle of a military build-up that is at a greater percent than that of Germany in the 1930's. They are in need of dependable oil supplies to keep their massive industrial revolution going. Could some Middle Eastern country be making deals with china, say for example, we give you the oil you want, you take care of the pesky U.S. for us one day. Yep, China is using the U.S. like some cheap whore. A good-time is being had by both parties involved, untill one day when they get all they want out of us, and they grow annoyed and pop a cap on us. Heck, ole Bill clinton years ago signed into law a stipulation that says the U.S. will absorb a 1st nuclear strike before we retaliate, and Pres. Bush has never rescended that order!! Maybe we could convince the State Dept. to allow the Chinese to ship over say, 10 ships full of cheap 7.62x39 ammo, and the chinese could really ice the cake by making the projectiles lead free, tungsten core ( they have the greatest tungsten supply in the world ). This would even make the enviromentalist happy. We all then would again be happy, untill the day our country receives the mushroom cloud - sucker punch, and then we will wake up and realize how futile it was to stock pile our ammo and purchase state of the art S.H.T.F. rifles, only to feel sickly unable to protect our loved ones from an enemy we can't see, who is shooting at us from the other side of the globe. Ammo, ammo, my kingdom for some ammo! ( Paraphrased from King Richard the Lion Hearted during the crusades, A horse, a horse, my kingdom for a horse! ) SORRY, I GUESS I REALLY WENT OFF ON THE DEEP END OF THINGS HERE.
 
What I find most interesting is that the wholesalers we have talked to say that the price of ammo from Wolf has not gone up inordinately considering the increased costs in shipping.

If this is true then I guess gun owners need to support trains and other forms of mass transit. Trains are an order of magnitude more efficient than trucks. I'd be afraid to see what ammo will be like if gas hits $6 a gallon the way some people think it will.
 
Wacki, then ya'd have to #1 get the railroads to charge less #2 get the federal laws prohibiting shipping ammunition by any means other than truck lifted......

I own a trucking company, the fuel prices are not doing anything new really, they aren't as good as 4-5 years ago but its not real bad in fact we stopped transporting regular freight entirely because the rates are way to low, to run my trucks I need $3.00 per mile at least which was the standard rate for the last 6 years now there is so much competition that the rate has dropped to as low as $0.65 per mile!!! So tell me how is your ammo costs higher as a result of higher shipping costs when the shipping costs are at an all time low for the decade? We now only transport specialized loads (oversize or super heavy etc...) as we simply cannot compete against all the big freight companies Like Swift, Yellow, Snieder, Dick Simon, Werner etc... who are running a hundred thousand trucks with fresh outa driving school drivers (yea thats confidence inspiring huh, I don't know how many of my trailers get hit in truckstops cause these guys can't drive!) They are running super low performance 65 mph trucks getting 7-8 mpg with drivers gettin paind a whopping $0.32 per mile so they have forced the freight rates down far below the cost of shipping by train.......

It cracks me up every time I hear someone claim the cost of shipping has went up and this is why this or that costs more...... in reality the cost of Fuel has went up but not really much more than we are used to paying but still enough that when combined with the lowest ever shipping rates it really sucks!

I don't know who would be getting all those extra $ paid for shipping but it sure isn't the trucking companies that are actually doing the transporting! Outa all the years I've owned this company the last year has been the all time low for shipping rates compared to the cost of operating the trucks...
 
I bought two each 1,000-round cartons for $189 plus tax at the hardware store in my hometown. I won't shoot it. Rather, I am waiting to use it when the "light blue helmets" come marching down Main Street to take our guns away on the orders of a certain Senator from New York turned Pesident. That's gonna be fun...
 
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