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And just what are you going to do with all that stuff you hoard? Inquiring minds want to know.....

Good morning sunshine. Great to have you here spreading your usual cheer.

People are azzholes for hoarding.


People are also azzholes for not hoarding.

That about sums it up.

I keep enough on hand to get me through a few seasons of normal shooting, just in case my fellow shooters get a contagious case of the stupid like the one that is going on now. In addition to that, I keep enough on hand in the event anyone wants to visit their civil unrest on me. That strategy has never found me wanting or paying ridiculous prices.

Keep shooting like I always do...that's the whole point, ain't it?

Of course, I would be lying if I said I hadn't made a boatload off the excess I have accumulated over the years. I have been lucky, and fell into a number of "right place, right time" deals. With the market in its current state, seems as though the "right place" has happened again.

Supply and demand determines price. Always has. Always will. Those shooting supply businesses are not the welfare office.

Not always, Google up the word 'collusion'.

If you feel the need to buy right now, you get what you deserve. What gun enthusiast really needs more ammo right now? If you're buying you're hoarding. You are the problem.

The whiney bitch strikes again.....

LOL

I think that it would be interesting to talk with someone who was of shooting age during WWII (too young or too old to serve, of course) about that. From what I understand, ammunition wasn't so much hard to get as it was basically non-existent. Did people buy ammunition by the round because it was so expensive, or because they only bought what they needed at the moment? If it was expensive, did they do so because they didn't have their priorities in order? If an individual happened upon a store that miraculously had three boxes of ammunition, did he buy all three? Would the proprietor sell him all three? How would be be viewed by his peers if he did buy all three? Just some musings that came to me while reading some WWII-era newspapers.

"Relatively expensive" means relative to what most folks had to spend on ammo at the time.

I have an extremely difficult time taking the last of something...or taking all of something.


Drives my wife nuts.

As do I.

Somehow that manages to fall outside the long list of things I do that drive my wife nuts.

I have a hunch the two of you would be besties IRL. Neither of you are very bright and you have much in common with Jeff Dunham's Walter. Odd to see him launching the first salvo though.

I don't think a lot of this goes to hoarders.

Take for instance Remington thunderbolt 22lr 500 round box. My local store received their shipments from the distributer early this week/late last week. Meaning the manufacturer must have shipped. And wouldn't you know it, Gun Broker has a sudden ample supply of such ammo selling at $100+ a box when it retails at $30 a box (thats pretty steep I think). And its not just Gun broker.

Just like with the early covid face masks and hand sanitizer, folks are stock piling this stuff and trying to make a tidy profit off the resale.

Folks just need to stop paying these astronomical prices and let those folks sit on their stock pile for a bit. Then prices and store stocks will stabilize.

First, its none of your business, all my stuff was legally purchased through retail channels.

But, since you claim to have an inquiring (I think you actually meant enquiring, but whatever) mind, I'll tell you.

I'll keep shooting like I always do and not worry and whine about not having any components readily available. If I'm a bit low on a specific component, I won't use it up. It's called conserving one's resources.

Is it "hoarding" if I have a freezer full of meat and stored canned goods to last my family a month? Or is it being prepared for any unforeseen disruption in the food supply chain, such as what happened last spring?

Has society fallen so far that people have no concept of how to plan ahead?

I recall my grandfather mentioning that he could only get black powder shotgun shells during WW2.

Damn! A hundred dollars a box of 500? I'm burning through about $50.00 a week in .22 ammo, then. Of course, I bought it (i.e., a 10,000 round case) when they were going for cheap, but still, that was then, this is now. Kinda ruins the fun I've been having shooting my twenty-twos at the range. It's like shooting gold bullets now.