Who Is Still Hoarding?

[perrazi]

it's called preparing. lightweights indeed!!!!

 

[carnplanenut]

I would say that I keep an "adequate supply" of ammo and primers.

Jason

 

[500 Magnum Nut]

I'm proud to report that I just bought a case of 22LR for 219 incl shipping. 5000 rounds!!

still hoarding......

 

[Joe Kent]

Just remember, a handgun without ammo is a poorly designed hammer. You should always keep "enough" ammo on hand for all your "first line" guns.

 

[florida1098]

500 rounds is more than enough for me. We will share whatever ammo you carry coming onto my property wit ill intent. But to each their own.

 

[thedogfather]

I don't know if I "hoard" but I do like to keep a couple of ammo cans full at all times, rotating out the older stuff as I go. I might be "a little" over that right now. I do keep my eyes open for a good deal or something from my shopping list.

 

[Andy Griffith]

When you get past a million rounds of a given caliber, then it becomes hoarding. Until then, it's just hunting and gathering.

 

[DOEBOY1]

"hoard" i though that was what former hookers did. no stock piling at my casa i only invest in cooper, brass, and lead. i spend my money on pistols i just get to look at them anyway no time to shoot.

 

[kokopelli]

I didn't hoard when 'everyone else' did at the coming of the Anti-Christ, and now I wish I had! I reload .45 and .223 currently, and have most of what I need for 9, but can't find primers for either one. (well I can but I refuse to pay $60 bucks for 1k) Wally World has had .223 lately but even they have jacked their prices up; can't blame them for it. I just hate to buy factory ammo when I have a bucket of brass and boxes of bullets and powder waiting to go.

 

[Faulkner]

Fortunately I was well stocked before the great "Ammo Shortage of 2009". Even so, it caused me to realize I didn't quite have the supply of certain calibers for a prolonged dry spell. Therefore, I have been acquiring additional ammo so that at this point I probably have enough .22LR to supply me the rest of my life, my two sons, and my yet unborn grandkids.

 

[b3337]

I reload the pistol ammo so I don't really hoard, but I am getting low on primers and bullets.I may have to start casting my own bullets and pay the price for primers.The reason I started reloading was the cost of .38 spl. (7.00-8.00/50rd box)and I could reload at the time for 7.00/100.I do have plenty of .22 ammo in the type that I shoot and have been able to find it to replace what I shoot up along with a few 1000 extra.I would buy more .223 and 30/06, but I won't pay the price it seems to sell for so I may start to reload that as well.A few years ago I wasn't able to justify reloading the 223 as I would only have only saved 25.00/500, but with todays prices maybe I could save enough to justify it, if I can find primers.I may also have to rethink reloading 9mm as well.
With democrats controlling the administration, house, and senate I can see why hoarding/preparing may continue and I don't blame anybody for buying all they can afford and store.

 

[Out West]

Hi. My name is Steve and I hoard ammunition.

Out West

 

[gunlovingirl]

I don't hoard. Even when the frenzy was going strong I left some for the next guy/gal. If I run across half a dozen boxes, I'll buy two and leave the rest for someone else. But I don't mind hoarders as much as I dislike scalpers. Yeah, I know. Free enterprise and all that. But I hate it when someone buys up everything on the shelf, just so he can sell it for double or triple the price. I'll carry a stick before I'll buy from them!

 

[Andy Griffith]

This reminds me of my father telling me how hard it was to get shotgun shells during WWII to hunt with.

During the war, he said he only shot when he knew the round would be lethal on the game he was shooting, because ammunition was so hard to obtain, especially shotgun shells and .22 rimfire, but if you had something odd, you could likely find ammunition for it.

The only way he could get shells was because he was friends with our local state representative who was on the draft board, CD, etc. When the rep got a box of shotgun shells, he'd split it up and give five rounds to each of his friends that needed them to hunt. It went on like that until father was drafted in 1945. He was sent home from training when the war ended.

 

[sigp220.45]

I didn't hoard. I once bought all three boxes of .30 carbine in stock at Wally World when I only intended to buy one, but that was to annoy the mouthbreather behind me who had been rude to a woman and baby a few minutes before. I dislike rudeness, especially to kids. No ammo for him that day.

 

[Beejabbers]

There was short period of buy at any price on my part. Fortunately, that was short lived. My brother started buying hunting rounds before the prices felt the effect of the anti-gun lobby electing their dream team. Because of him, I had been shopping many sources. A few big purchases through mail order companies, before they went price crazy, helped. Also, I found a few good stores that stayed reasonable with their prices. Now that things are getting somewhat better I can shop locally with the stores that treated customers right during the worst of the crunch. As to the hoarding question. What is too much when using 500 to 1,000 rounds each month at the range?

 

[Chuck Jones]

65k primers doesn't seem like nearly enough to me

 

[Markcuda]

I hoard, when and if I can find some

 

[yanici]

Just bought 11,000 rounds of 22LR. Seemed like the thing to do.

 

[BSkerj]

I just started to reload right before the current shortage. I was able to build up 10k primers before the bottom fell out. Started to cast my own kind of by mistake..found a nice Lyman bottom pour for 15.00 and a 2x Lee mold. I just recently purchased a 6x mold and have access to all the wheel weights I need. Now I should have enough to get me through for a long time. I am replacing what I shoot as far as primers are concerned and have alot of brass on deck.