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Originally Posted by The_Mentalist
Hoarding is a major issue. People grabbing anything they can when they spot it available. Another issue is the low life's that are buying in bulk by bringing their entire extended family with them to sell it at a gun show. Some of these know the delivery dates at the box stores or are padding the pockets of the box store employees. Then, they fill up an entire cart with high demand ammo and when they get to the register, each of the 15 relative buys 3 cases. In the mean time, #16 is standing by with another 48 cases on a different cart. Wen the first cart is loaded into the car/truck, they go in to a different cashier and do the same routine again. 3 boxes per person and a case counts as a box in the stores like bass pro. So, their shelves are wiped out and the guy has 93 cases of ammo to sell at a seriously marked up price come gun show weekend.
This problem will not resolve itself until people stop panic buying and buy only to replenish their "standard" stockpile. For me, that is around 5K total rounds for all calibers I need. Not 5K each, but total. That feeds 30 guns for 7 people including the grand kids. (All but 2 are my guns). I do plan on increasing the size of my stash because of this occurrence but not exorbitantly so. Bear in mind, that on rang day, all of us go through more than 2K rounds just for practice. These numbers do not include the 22 that we burn up. That is bonus plinking. Also, I plan on attending a lot of tactical training and will be using boat loads of 45 and 5.56 for a while with that.
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So you are shooting 40% of your total ammo inventory every time you go to the range, and wind up with less than 100 rounds per weapon on hand when you are done?
2,000 rounds will cost more than $1500 to replace, if it were available.
If this is the case, sorry, but I have to question your logic.
TR
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