Darkhawk40 said:
Exactly. That really and truly was my point.
I bought my 715T well before the scare started and the ammo shortage began but because of work and weather, never really got to enjoy it much. And now that the weather is starting to get better and work is easing up on me a bit, I'd love to plink from 150 yards. Alas. lol. I'm down to about 100 rounds and it feel like I'm firing gold rounds.
If I could find a meaningful amount of ammo that I felt like I needed, I'd buy it on the spot. Matter of fact, I'd buy it on the spot even if you were standing in line right beside of me. (That's just how I roll LOL
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But since I was purchasing a little more ammo than I was shooting, after some time of doing that, I have a comfortable supply put back and haven't been pressured to pay these scalper prices, though like les has said, I'm not shooting nearly as much as I normally would because I know that I can't replace what I shoot right now and the well would eventually run dry if I did.
Coincidentally, I also haven't bought any ammo at all in several months now. Not that I could if I wanted to.
So, in my humble opinion, if you don't feel that you have enough ammo, you're either very young and new to shooting, or naive to think that ammo will always be available and grossly unprepared.
I hope you don't take that the wrong way, but it's really how I feel. Many of us guys who been around for a while have already been through this rodeo before and saw it coming well in advance and put forth an effort to do something about it. And if we are who you're blaming because you don't have enough bullets, you're blaming the wrong person.
It's like putting up food for the winter. Us older guys all knew winter was coming when the leaves were changing, and knew it's going to be a long time before spring and did something about it while we could and didn't wait until the last minute or get half way through the winter before you realize that you don't have enough in the freezer to make it because by then you're already screwed.
I admit that may be an extreme example, but it's early and I haven't finished my barrel 'o coffee yet and that's the best I've got so far.
I personally even made a decision to sell certain firearms I owned (and some very nice and expensive ones) that I seldom used or were oddball calibers in order to better consolidate what calibers/gauges that I needed to buy for so I could concentrate on my favorites and more popular and less expensive calibers so I could maximize my budget to get the most of what I could. That's how sure that I was that I was right. And I sadly must say that I don't regret it at this point.
And since I have bought ammo like that through the years, and we've not been in a shortage for years, I can say with just as much confidence that it wasn't people like me buying it all that caused all this.
I don't want to come across to sound like some kind of ammo guru and have a ton of ammo just laying around all over the place because I don't, but I do have enough extra put back if I decide to go hunting or skeet shooting or what-not every now and then I could.