Experience told me that I'd better beat the locusts to Sam Walton's ammo fields before they were picked barren, at least if I didn't want to wind up breaking into my stash of big girl bullets to finish the class.
With enough ammo for the weeken now on hand, plus a bit extra just in case, I feel better. Now I can settle back in on the porch to finish reading Monster Hunter Legion
. (Which is awesome fun thus far, BTW.)
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I'll have some 3 gunners staying at the house for a big match at Rock Castle Shooting complex. They usually bring me some ammo. I'll be good for the first two waves of zombie DHS ATF agents trying to get my assault machineguns.
Rule #8 at work is no one can talk about MHL until everyone is done reading it. We almost had a fist fight about MHA after somebody got loose lips.
Gerry
As long as they're not those assault machine guns with !
Dum-dum-doom BWAhahaha!!
Doesn't sound like it could be any closer, and close IS good. I did a
Pat McNamara/TAPS class last month for the same reason - Aside from
KB'ing a 92F, it was a good course...
Larry Corriea... nice!
"...I'd better beat the (other) locusts..."
Fixed it for ya. ;)
PB
PB,
"Fixed it for ya. ;)"
See, I didn't go buy a thousand rounds because I thought Obama was gonna ban all gun and ammo sales tomorrow and I'd better run out and spend the Camaro payment on some WWB, but rather because I had a class this weekend that required a thousand rounds of ammo and I didn't have the stated required amount on hand.
Camaro? The Zed is dead?
I keep a rolling stock of ammo. Just picked up 2k 9mm for Ayoob's November class. Won't actually shoot it in class, but the older 9mm that will roll out will be back stocked.
Question- just talkin' basic on-site ready locker, not fancy Crimson Trace night shoots or gun skoolz, what would be considered "standard supply quantity" in the ordinance bunker at Roseholme cottage? for the "serious" stuff, not nessarily the odd-ball collector's stash.....
Cletus! Put that case of boolits back and leave it for them that Needs 'em!
PB
I've got a two-day with Louis A. this weekend and picked-up an extra century-box of Winchester White at Wally's. Maybe I'll bring my Zombie Hornadys and maybe I don't want to get my head bit-off... The Ed Brown she runs.
I wants an "Abomination" and the ammo to go with it. Oh yes, I does!
Al T.,
"Camaro? The Zed is dead?"
The Zed Drei is still fine, I was just making a disparaging reference (as PB is chiding me for) to the Cletii who run out and blow all their cash-on-hand on guns and ammo every time the word "ban" gets mentioned on the news.
The stuff goes unused for six months before getting dragged out and sold at a gun show for half what he paid for it, and then the cycle starts again next election season.
Remember when the panic buyers sucked the supply chain dry all the way back to the component manufacturers, causing the Great Ammo Drought of Early '09? It'll be that and then some if Barry wins again. Mob psychology at its finest...
"...the Great Ammo Drought of Early '09? It'll be that and then some if Barry wins again. Mob psychology at its finest..."
Yes indeed. And that little blurb is garndamteed to psych the mob right here into some visits to Wally's and/or their fave online ammo depot.
Because as you said in the prior post, Perception definitely is Reality, or becomes it pretty quick in times like these...it's the only damn reason that shooty stuff gets scarce/pricey and gold is sixty bucks a gram.
And that being true, doesn't it behoove one to stock up? Whether srs shooter or hoarder (and who's to say which is which?), if they don't now they might not be able to later. And when the N word gets tossed around (Need), we're edging up to a very slippery slope.
PB
PB,
"And when the N word gets tossed around (Need), we're edging up to a very slippery slope."
I believe you confusing the "N word" (Need) with the "L word" (Law).
Big difference.
I think you NEED that .50 cal Deagle like you need a hole in your head, but I'll happily go to war over your right to buy dumb shit.
I buy stuff I don't NEED all the time, myself, and I'm sure other people think owning guns for which nobody's loaded ammo in sixty years is the height of idiocy.
They should start their own blog and make fun of me for it!
And yeh, I just did that to name-drop anyhow - but sometimes I just feel the need to actually buy stuff at WalMart, so I got some incandescent bulbs too - and not the twirly-kind of eco-bulbs.
Oh. See, my Perception was that in Reality when you said...
"...I didn't go buy a thousand rounds because I thought Obama was gonna ban all gun and ammo sales tomorrow and I'd better run out and spend the Camaro payment on some WWB, but rather because I had a class this weekend that required a thousand rounds..."
...it meant that you Need that ammo and Cletus doesn't.
Please forgive my mistake.
Oh, and as to preserving history being idiocy? Let me know when you find the next candidate for which nobody's loaded ammo in sixty years and I'll be in for twenty again to help you give it a loving home.
PB
Hey the great ammo drought of '09 worked out fantastic for me.
My son was just getting into shooting and loving it. So I was doing everything I could to feed his adiction to make sure that it stuck and didn't become a passing fad. We were shooting a little 45acp, .223 and 30.06, a fair amount of 9mm and a pretty good chunk of 38 special (cowboy action shooting) and a metric boatload of 22lr every month.
Then suddenly ammo was not to be found. We were reloading the centerfire stuff, and had plenty of components so we were good there. But we couldn't find 22lr anywhere. So our shooting was down to about 25% of what we had been doing.
Then one day I walked into Walley World and found the clerk opening a case of 550 count 22lr bricks.
I stood there for a second staring like a kid who had just walked into the living room and found Santa Claus filling his stocking. Then I recovered my admittedly small and seldom used wits and hurried over to help her.
It is helping if you move the items directly from the case to your cart without stopping on a shelf somewhere isn't it?
After I grabbed the third brick, she stopped me and said "I can only sell you three of them. There is a shorage on and we have to make sure everyone gets some."
I choked back a "Screw communism, I need it all" comment. Smiled and paid her for my 3 bricks. Went outside, put them in the car then went back inside and bought three more. The clerk flashed me her best condescending smile and told me that those were the last ones she would be able to sell me that day. Seeing that there were two other guys standing in line with three bricks in their hands and on their cell phones telling their frineds that there was ammo at Walmart I knew I was probably done.
But just on a whim I stopped in again the next morning. The shelf was empty. No clerks were around, but just out of morbid curiosity I pushed the call button and waited for one to appear.
Eventually "Doc" showed up. Doc is a retired old guy, tells great stories, moves slow, used to be the greater out front. We chatted for a moment then I asked if they had anymore 22lr. He sighed, told me he would look and shuffled off. He came back 20 minutes later with a cart with four 10-pack cases on it. "This is all we have. They screwed up, we were supposed to get in one case yesterday and they sent 10 by mistake. The other 6 got sold out pretty quick yesterday." he said.
I helped him maneuver the cart down the aisle then asked "how many of these will you sell me?"
He stopped, looked me up and down, then looked around the area and asked "How much of it do you want?"
"All of it."
He sold me all of it. $12.95 a brick - 40 bricks. I had to delay buying that extra lever action cowboy rifle the kid and I were looking at, but we got along just fine sharing one for several more months.
When the drought lifted and ammo showed back up on the shelves it was $15.95 a brick, and just keeps going up. Those boxes are up around $20 now, and we're still shooting the $12.95 stuff, and still will be for a while.
That's a better return on my money than any bank is going to give me.
Thanks Doc.
We're grabbing dinner tonight at 6:30 if you'd care to join us. Sorry for the public invite, Ileft the computer home.
We're grabbing dinner tonight at 6:30 if you'd care to join us. Sorry for the public invite, Ileft the computer home.
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