When guns become nothing more than steel and wood clubs?

[ScottR]

Redhand. may I ask how old you are and how long you have been shooting?

Scott

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[Redhand]

Scott, I've been shooting since I was 8 yrs. old and if my mind still serves me correctly, thats 52 yrs. After I posted today I went out and put 24 rounds of Wolf 9mm down range. I shot 12 rounds at 7 yds and 12 at 15 yds to prepare for qualification tomorrow. I would have ordinarly shot about 50 rds. of quality ammo but due to the insanity in the market, I only shot 24 rounds of non-reloadable ammo. Not to brag but all 24 rds were within a 3" group, at center mass. I'm ready for tomorrow and so is my pistol. I'll fire approx. 50 rounds of Wolf tomorrow. And as far as the price of metal goes, how much metal would it take to make say 50,000 rounds of ammo? And how much would that amt. of metal bring in the scrap market compared to the two months ago prices for a box of ammo? The panty waisted crowd on Wail Street almost took other commodities markets to ruin with their greed and now they are trying to do it to the Firearms market. A gun is useless without bullets and ammo is worthless without guns for their intended purposes, except for the scrape metal value.

[Redhand]

And as a side bar, I wished I had those 200-300 rds of 5.56 I expended the last 10 days of May, forty yrs. ago this month. Just think it didn't cost me anything and think what it would be worth today?