Ammo … omylord!
I’ve been seein the price of rifle Ammo just skyrocket. If this keeps up I will be able to retire just by selling off my horde..
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(And) I thought my 7mm Remington BR rounds were expensive. ($3/rnd) 🙄
*I agree with @Frogdog below. I shoot more .22 (by a long shot) than any other Caliber. Like @Ditch-Runner, I am extremely frugal and hate to blow money, needlessly.
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That’s why I have more .22s than anything else. While I love all the other calibers, I have always had a hard time stomaching the costs to shoot at paper. Outside of .22 and (maybe) .556 and 7.62x39 (which are getting high now too), I rarely shoot other rifles other than for sight-in/hunting.
Shotgun is the same way. 20 years ago, a box of 12ga was $2.99 at Walmart. Same box now is 5 times that.
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Crazy price for sure
Ken is being kind calling me frugal
For me it was always i only had xx amount to spend on hobbies and it was not much
It took me long periods of saving to get a gun early on if I made to a gun show with a hundred dollar's I felt rich .
However i Have to agree the cost of ammo is becoming the downfall to just plinking reconational ammo wasting days
Many years ago and I do mean many I bought a 458 win mag long story, but short version as a kid of 13 or 14 yrs old I i just had to get one .Lots of elephant in Ohio
then one day at a gun show I was about 22 yrs old or so I stumbled on one a ruger and a few isles over a box of ammo karma was telling me here ya go lol
I traded in a ruger mini 14 in on it better term Gave away i I should say but the only way i could buy the rifle
but at the time the ammo 500 gr solid or soft nose was just over a dollar a round if I searched hard enought at gun shows At the time it was a crazy price For me any way
22lr was about 10.00 a brick at the time for comparison
223 was about 3.00 a box
last I checked on 458 win mag ammo was $7 to 10.00 a round
22 lr I have enough at my current rate of use to last several lifetime and i am sure it will get passed on same with about every caliber I have
Many Years ago I started putting all my ammo in military steel ammo out cans and tossing in several dry packs in each one it will be good many years after I am gone .
Very early on I would buy a gun thenaboxor two of ammo for it
My thought why have a lot of money tied up in ammo when I could buy another gun
because ammo was plentiful and common calibers was still some what cheap
Then prices and supply started getting high so I searched out sales and good deals and started to pack rat it away
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When all my Gun Buddies were buying the newest, greatest new Firearms at "Gunshows," I'd be buying Ammunition and magazines. Guess who is better off at this point? 🤔
When the "Ammo Shortage," hit they were all hitting me up for ammo - (at what I had paid for it.) Not even close to the going rate. Pass.
I am very precise, in the Firearms I add to my meager "collection."
*I have (a'hem) a few ammo cans upstairs, in my gear room. 👍😁
"My friends used to laugh at my stash." As @Tflogger has most eloquently said below.
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Next door neighbor/buddy, just communicated to me he just bought a GSG 16 Carbine. (.22lr) @Smokey Mtn. Gun/Knife works in Knoxville. (A couple hrs west of us.) Nice. 👍
*I'm going next door to sight in my Ruger Charger, here in a few minutes. (Why I communicated to him.) Sorry, No leaves will be involved. 😂 (Haven't shot em' in a couple years now.)
Bench set up, under his covered porch. Target stand 45 yards out. Multiple swinging 3"gongs (2 4pks) @ 50 yards. Gongs going up in to cleared lanes, out to 150-200 yards. Walk about 75-100' next door, there we are.
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In the past 10 years the price of reloading has reached what you used to pay for ammo. My friends used to laugh at my stash.
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You seen the cost of Fireball, Bee,and some of the rare ammo prices. Wow is not the correct reply.
Thank covid, bidenomics. and those that pay such outrageous prices.
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Lots of 'sellers' on GB looking for a SUCKER.
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