Ammo Hoarders and Scaremongers--Chill Please!!!

bearandoldman · Post by **bearandoldman** » Sat May 16, 2009 4:28 pm

greener wrote:I definitely have the hoarding bug. Went to the Richmond gun show this morning. Got there 20 minutes before it opened and got in 35 minutes later. Made a dash to the T&T Reloading booth and stood in line for 45 minutes to get 1000 small pistol primers. While standing in line, I noticed they had bricks of Federal 510 ammo at a reasonable price, so I bought 4 of those and 500 9mm fmj bullets. I didn't ask about the price of primers, but he had upped the price by 10% since the last show.

I don't like standing in line, so today, I stood in line, not once but twice, and paid for the privilege of standing in line. Then I bought primers at a higher price than normal and .22 ammo at prices that were higher than I normally pay. I then went to the range, policed all the .45 brass I fired, 9mm brass others were firing and did some trash can diving when I noticed a guy tossing hs .45 colt brass away. hmm

Good for you, unusal for someone to throw away .45 Long Colt because it is too easy to save.

Downeaster · Post by **Downeaster** » Sat May 16, 2009 5:07 pm

My name is Paul, and I'm a brass-aholic.

I ALWAYS come back from the range with more brass than I went with. I am simply incapable of walking past a piece of brass without picking it up and at least looking at it.

Last trip, I picked up 80+ pieces of .223 brass, and right now locally, you can't buy .223 brass at any price, there's simply none to be had.

Passed on about a 5 gallon bucketful of 9mm brass simply because I don't reload for 9mm and don't know anyone that does.

greener · Post by **greener** » Sat May 16, 2009 6:26 pm

My name is Bob and I'm a brass-aholic. I try to take more brass home from the range than I shoot. I hope, one day, to be as far along in the program as Paul. I take 9mm brass home and reload it.

greener · Post by **greener** » Sat May 16, 2009 6:28 pm

bearandoldman wrote:
greener wrote:I definitely have the hoarding bug. Went to the Richmond gun show this morning. Got there 20 minutes before it opened and got in 35 minutes later. Made a dash to the T&T Reloading booth and stood in line for 45 minutes to get 1000 small pistol primers. While standing in line, I noticed they had bricks of Federal 510 ammo at a reasonable price, so I bought 4 of those and 500 9mm fmj bullets. I didn't ask about the price of primers, but he had upped the price by 10% since the last show.

I don't like standing in line, so today, I stood in line, not once but twice, and paid for the privilege of standing in line. Then I bought primers at a higher price than normal and .22 ammo at prices that were higher than I normally pay. I then went to the range, policed all the .45 brass I fired, 9mm brass others were firing and did some trash can diving when I noticed a guy tossing hs .45 colt brass away. hmm
Good for you, unusal for someone to throw away .45 Long Colt because it is too easy to save.

Most of those .45 colt shooters are very selfish and do not leave their brass for us gleaners. Price at the gun show today for primed .45 colt brass was north of $20/100.

Downeaster · Post by **Downeaster** » Sat May 16, 2009 8:17 pm

I'm still building my stash of LC brass. IIRC, the last batch I bought from Midway was $24/100, UNPRIMED!

greener · Post by **greener** » Sat May 16, 2009 8:36 pm

Downeaster wrote:I'm still building my stash of LC brass. IIRC, the last batch I bought from Midway was $24/100, UNPRIMED!

Ouch. That's enough to make me want to run back to the gun show tomorrow and buy 100 rounds, since it is a deal. Last time I did a quick scan of stuff like that at Midway, all of it had "out of stock" labels.

greener · Post by **greener** » Sun May 17, 2009 1:52 pm

It was raining this morning and I made another run to the gun show to see if I missed any real deals. The only other .45 colt brass I could find was from Georgia Arms, loaded with 250gr lfp "cowboy loads" for $24/50. The reloading vendor I used was out of Winchester primers but did have some more CCI SV (1070 fps, 40gr lead) bullets. I bought another couple bricks. I believe this is the same stuff I was buying for $13/brick by the case a couple years ago. It is about twice that price now.

Green Top had primers for the first time in a couple months, and I picked up 500 sCCI mall pistol and 500 CCI large pistol, their limit per customer. They also had a supply of the CCI SV ammo.

Primer prices appear to have increased buy 15-20% over the past few months. I guess that's known as the law of supply and demand.

I've seen more CCI ammo this weekend than I have in several months. Maybe they are starting to catch up with the demand.

ruger22 · Post by **ruger22** » Sun May 24, 2009 7:17 pm

Ammo situation here in western part of Virginia doesn't seem to be improving. I am in habit of calling at least the three closest Wally Worlds almost every morning. Finally scored last Wednesday, first time in three weeks, when the nearest store had just gotten in ONE case of the 550 Federal HP packs. I bought two bricks and left the other eight. The guy couldn't believe I didn't want the four box limit.

Last checks at Gander Mountain, and the two best Mom & Pop gun shops, turned up zero .22, except for a few dozen Remington Yellow Jacket boxes at GM.

I have a good supply now, which would last into next year if I don't go too berserk at the range. But, not knowing what prices might do, I'll still scarf up a couple Federal bricks any time I can. I honestly don't like Wal-Mart in general, but I'll give them credit for staying cheap on ammo. The Federal bricks here are still $13.47. They could ask $19 and still be cheaper than anywhere else.

greener · Post by **greener** » Sun May 24, 2009 11:18 pm

.22 ammo has a way of disappearing. You think you have an ample supply and the next thing you know, it's all gone.

bearandoldman · Post by **bearandoldman** » Mon May 25, 2009 5:56 am

greener wrote:.22 ammo has a way of disappearing. You think you have an ample supply and the next thing you know, it's all gone.

they make it from poor quality of meterials and after a period of time, U beleive it just vaporizes.

Post by **Bullseye** » Mon May 25, 2009 7:58 am

It disappears even faster if you have the "Ultimate Cliploader"!

R,
Bullseye

bearandoldman · Post by **bearandoldman** » Mon May 25, 2009 8:30 am

Bullseye wrote:It disappears even faster if you have the "Ultimate Cliploader"!

R,
Bullseye

Got one of them and one for the 10/22's also, pumps levers and auto loaders sure do help too.

greener · Post by **greener** » Tue May 26, 2009 12:04 am

They seem to evaporate fast enough without mechanical assistance loading the mag. If I had a UCL, the rate would be more like water droplets on a hot griddle.

greener · Post by **greener** » Sat Jun 27, 2009 9:58 pm

Stopped into a wally world this morning and they had Fed Value Pak. Their limit was six boxes total of any ammo. They had 10, I only took 4. I'm not hoarding.

bearandoldman · Post by **bearandoldman** » Sat Jun 27, 2009 10:05 pm

greener wrote:Stopped into a wally world this morning and they had Fed Value Pak. Their limit was six boxes total of any ammo. They had 10, I only took 4. I'm not hoarding.

Went in the other evening and the dept manager, Jim, said stop in around 8 or so tomorrow, I have a case coming in. stopped in and he did, asked if I could have 4, he said you can have 6, so I took 6. Burned one of them up since then doing my best too get rid of it as fast as possible.

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