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Old 05-24-2010, 10:41 AM
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I didn't buy hardly any ammo over the past year or so, as I had plenty on hand. Since it's become pretty well available again, I buy when I see a good price. I've got some ammo dating back to the 80's, but I drag it out every so often to make sure it's reliable. Have never found any that wasn't. I recently had an opportunity to buy a few bricks of small pistol primers that are probably 20 years old, but I know where they came from and the old fellow quite reloading. Got them for a really good price. My philosophy is when any supply of ammo gets below an arbitrary level (I set depending on the cartridge, with .22's the highest usage), I buy whenever I see a decent price. Most centerfire I reload. I figure at my current level of shooting, I can go 3 to 4 years without buying anything, but then I will have to have a really long reloading session.
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