Howdy Steve,
I tried communicating with John via private message through this site and he never replied
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Ammo shortage
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I tried communicating with John via private message through this site and he never replied
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May have to start hunting AZ as lead is legal there as wellDoc,
Go "Woke"...Explain to the warden that you relate to living in Montana and lead is legal there........
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Good luck. Took me a year to find any and when I did I bought the place out. All 2 boxes of it.
What the shortage is doing is forcing CA hunters to AZ for dove, as they still allow lead shot for upland game. I have a fairly large supply of 28ga. lead, and it's hard to find steel in 28 anywhere right now. Also can't find the steel shot to be able to reload any of my empties.
Well the lack of availability of ammo sure made me shoot good for the first dove season. Close to 50% hits by some act of god... but knowing what a pain it is to find ammo I noticed myself picking good shots. And even shooting as good as I did I found myself cringing at some of the misses I did have.
I'm still skeptical if I'll be able to make the 12g #6 I have last though the rest of upland season on quail and dove again.
Still hoping to find some more Federal Upland or Kent Steel Dove in 12g #6 at non bend over prices.
I'm still skeptical if I'll be able to make the 12g #6 I have last though the rest of upland season on quail and dove again.
Still hoping to find some more Federal Upland or Kent Steel Dove in 12g #6 at non bend over prices.
I was at the Sportsman's warehouse yesterday in Murrieta....Plenty of duck & goose loads, but no low base dove or quail loads that I saw.
ps....Lots of 9mm & .22 on hand as well.
Went down to see My BBAR the other day and I was amazed no line to get in, 30 to 40 Rifles and handguns to sell, and a fair amount of ammo on the shelves. now to get these crazy prices down figure the cheep shit is 125 to 175 a round and any good none lead round 250 and higher a round.
I did fine some in 500 quantities that got it down to 1dollar a round
I did fine some in 500 quantities that got it down to 1dollar a round
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The fact is this is far from over, we should not let our guards down.
The reason it did slow down was the opposition that swelled up enough to raise concerns, we need to slowly stock up and avoid any Hoarding. we are coming back on line and do not want to provide a reason from them to shut things down again
Price of copper ammo should be going up to reflect copper price. I had one old copper pipe laying around for some time so I decided to clean up little around here, #1 copper $2.99/lb. scrap price. Grandson took his aluminum cans in and got $1.89/lbs.. He walked away smiling. $171.00.
The issue is that copper or otherwise ammo has been hyper inflated. It will not come down until the Market demands it does, so untill we stop buying stores out.
It is worth what we will pay.
It is worth what we will pay.
Absolutely everything is priced sky high right now. Have you looked into, not only new vehicles but used ones. It's crazy out there, gas, food, household goods, you name it it's out of hand. We always see ups and downs, but this time the downs may not go down as much as time past. Plenty of places have gas going for $5, around me it's pushing or over $4. Thanks Joe and all your liberal friends.
The Sportsman's Warehouse in Murrieta had a ton of .22.
I passed there today. Sadly no lead free 20g field loads.
well, they had one box of bismuth and I’m not paying $39 for a box of field shells. At least not yet.
I bought a .20 gauge pre pandemic figuring if the SHTF, all the .12g would get snapped up and I’d be sitting pretty. That didn’t work out too well. Managed to get a half dozen boxes of 7 1/2 last year simply by blind luck, no #6 to be found at any price. Same with my 22-250. Best I could do was 2 boxes at $50 a box from GunBroker. At the time, they were the only two boxes in the whole country!
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