anybody taking a hiatus from shooting due to ammo shortage?

Gunner3456 · Jul 23, 2009

I try to shoot some every day - a different gun each day. I've gotten into reloading and I have plenty of components. I mean "plenty."

I have an improvised 100 yard "range" with a good backstop on my own property.

I have a friendly neighbor about 1/4 mile down the road who has a better setup with benches and all. He does part time gunsmithing for people. I can shoot there too any time I want as long as I warn him first.

Life is good.

NK777 · Jul 23, 2009

Gunner3456 said:
I try to shoot some every day - a different gun each day. I've gotten into reloading and I have plenty of components. I mean "plenty."

I have an improvised 100 yard "range" with a good backstop on my own property.

I have a friendly neighbor about 1/4 mile down the road who has a better setup with benches and all. He does part time gunsmithing for people. I can shoot there too any time I want as long as I warn him first.

Life is good.

Nice! I wish I had your property but I feel lucky enough to have a pistol range (Hillside) off my back deck. 100 yard rifle range would be sweet but alas I only have 2.5 acres of wooded, hilly land and there is no way to have a rifle range with a decent back stop on it.

However there is a class 3 dealer just a few miles up the road from my place. I had him transfer a handgun for me awhile back. He's real friendly and has allot of fully automatic weapons I know he'd let me shoot on his property if I ever asked him.

Your right life is good! :s0155:

SheepDog223 · Jul 23, 2009

.22 conversion for my AR and one also for my glock 23. Came back from a run and gun with my buddy last shoot tired, sore, and $21.00 less in the pocket. The hardest part for me is to shoot the cci .22's as if they were real ammo and not just cheap plinkin stuff. Then I finish up with .223 and .40 to clean things out and make some real hits on paper.

NoAim · Jul 23, 2009

No. Buy in bulk.

Buy it cheap, stack it deep.

Only thing I've cut back on is bumpfiring.

MarkAd · Jul 23, 2009

Look on Sportsman Guide. They do have 22LR,, Don't wait to ask your wife like I had to for about 5 hours. They had the Thunderbolt for just over 3 cents a round. By the time I got back on-line too order with her CC They had soldout so I am having to wait 2 weeks for mine, I hope.

Also look at Graf & Sons, Tuesday they had Armscor 22LR. It is good stuff. a little over 4 cents a round.

I have about 2000 on hand. At least until my wife unlimbers her 22LR.

So no I have not slowed down much.

chiefchip · Jul 23, 2009

I haven't slowed I just switched to the 22s (i have alot of that ammo)

Natty Bumpo · Jul 23, 2009

Not really. I make an effort to have one GOOD range session per month with defensive handguns, to the tune of at least 200-300 rounds. My life may someday depend on it, so its a priority for me to engage in regular practice so as not to lose my edge I may have.

I shoot my .22 target pistols every couple of weeks of maybe 50 rounds just for the enjoyment of doing so. I wait till late summer to get serious about hunting rifle work, but that doesn't require all that much.

I think I am pretty focused on keeping a good stock of defensive pistol ammo stockpiled, replenishing what I shoot (and then some, at least these days) as well as keeping up my stash of .22. While it has been difficult (no, actually it's been a major hassle) these last several months, I have managed to acquire everything I need at reasonable prices. But, as I said, it is a priority for me and I have expended the necessary time and effort to make certain I have what I need to have.