Ammo
The local talk radio this morning did an hour on the ammo shortage. They even had the proprietor of Gunny’s on the show. The Gunny basically said that all his suppliers tell him the shortage will ease up in May. Err, well, it’s May.
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May 1st, 2009 at 9:25 am
How long will purchasers of ammunition continue to buy everything on the shelves as soon as it appears?
This shortage will end when the price increases to ridiculously high levels, causing many to stop buying (like me). Alternately, it will end when the supply increases (remaining at a reasonable price level), to the point that people realize they can keep their next box of ammo on the store shelf instead of in their closet.
Since about 2001, I have bought about 1.5x to 2x the ammo I used for each shooting session, put a purchase date on each extra box of ammo, and stored it in a couple of ammo cans. I did this at first because I could not see the point of driving to my local sporting goods store again, before going shooting again next weekend, when I could pick up an additional box of 9mm Blazer practice ammo this week for less than $4 and keep it lying around.
Then over a few years the price per hour of range time doubled, from $10 to $20, and ammo prices climbed up to $5, $6, $8, and now $10.86 for that same box of Blazer 9mm. So my range sessions went from two or three hours to one hour per visit, and I used more 22LR ammo, which I also bought in excess in times of plenty.
I will shoot less, (but more carefully, trying for a specific training purpose each visit instead of just plinking or blasting away), if shooting remains so expensive.
May 4th, 2009 at 7:16 am
There’s still three weeks of May to go around …