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    Another sign the end is near....

    Today has proven to be very prophetic that is end is near... I managed to score 1,000 carbine brass cases on line, I got 1,000 small pistol primers at local Cabela's plus they had ALOT of .30 carbine FMJ and SP 110gr bullets on the shelf (of which I bought 400 SP). I could have gotten another pound of Alliant 2400, but I was out gun-stuff money until next payday. More importantly, the prices I paid are close to what they were in October before the election!

    I am seeing the signs everywhere that reloading items are starting to show up on shelves on a regular basis. Cabelas here in Fort Worth has gotten 4 large shipments of various types of primers in the last 14 days. Yes, they are selling out the same day, but the deliveries are starting to show up regularly. Powder is available in the area if you look around. Bullets are starting to show back up (even though I am still looking for some cheap 9mm FMJ for the range).

    Churchill said "Now this is not the end. It is not even the beginning of the end. But it is, perhaps, the end of the beginning."
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    I don't know what women you have been chasing, but guns are a lot cheaper! I quit chasing women and my bank account grew so fast I was afraid I was forgetting my mortgage payments.

    Good to see components coming back to the shelves. I am getting low on powders.

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    I bought 3 boxes of 38/.357 Hornady 158 gr slugs today, the first I have seen since the election last year. Some things are still not there in any real quanity but some are trickeling in a bit at a time. Maybe in another 3-5 months the panic buying will stop and the dealers will get enough in to re-stock the shelves. My local dealer is selling the last of his primers for 35 per thousand, not as much as at the gun show for 100 per thousand. He even has .22 ammo but not in large amounts and almost no .22 Mag, lots of 17 ammo.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Jim Tarletonicon View Post
    I don't know what women you have been chasing, but guns are a lot cheaper! I quit chasing women and my bank account grew so fast I was afraid I was forgetting my mortgage payments.

    Good to see components coming back to the shelves. I am getting low on powders.

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    Jim, I must admit that dinner and a movie will run you about $125 an evening.... but try and buy 1,000 primers, a pound of powder, and 1,000 FMJ 9mm on GB! The women I have chased ain't cheap, but I damn sure can't afford to go to the range!!!!

    The difference between a wife and a M-1 Garandicon is that while both can be deadly, at least the Garand has a safety to keep it from going off half-cocked!




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    I just walked out into my back yard and fired a max load 22 K-Hornet (13.5 grs IMR 4227 behind a 40 gr V-Max) and it is past midnight. Scared the crap out of the horses, and the pigs were looking at me a little strangely, but the neighbors don't care, and probably didn't hear it.

    If I bring a female over, my neighbors all show up at my door asking to borrow weird crap I know they never use. They will ask whose car is that in the driveway. My next door neighbor actually called me once and asked me to open the curtains on my kitchen window because she couldn't see in my house with the curtains closed (I had just closed them). I took the curtains off the windows and installed blinds!

    I fire about 20 to 100 rounds a day for days on end and no one says a word (I have my own range). Bring over some trailer trash and they all ask me if I am going to church Sunday. I can walk around armed to the teeth cutting the grass and they all wave and smile. Walk across the yard with some young "business" girl and they congregate in their yards whispering to each other and staring at my house. I keep tellng them they are my daughters. Not everyone has as many "daughters" as I do, so I tell them I was married a whole bunch of times.

    I just love living in a rural area.

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    Hmmmm....I just got an 8# keg of powder for $99. Primers were $45/thousand but available. Didn't check bullet prices since I cast most of my own. And the loaded cartridges that nobody could find were back on the shelves in limited quantities. Stuff is trickling in finally, but isn't back to where it was 2 years ago.
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    Went to walmart today and they had winchester .22 ammo, 500 rounds for 12 bucks and change.

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    Ditto in Huntsville, AL; WalMArt had four boxes of the 550 count bulk pack Federal .22s. No CF pistol ammo, though. These are the first .22s they've had in stock for about 2 months.

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