What do you think will be the next hoarded item post-election?

[Provincial]

You should buy a 9mm carbine instead! It will give enough velocity to expand the Gold Dots, and be great fun to shoot! You can justify it as "Home Defense."

 

[BrandonOR]

For the first time I can remember, canning jars are impossible to find. Used to be you couldn't give them away.

It's Croptober, canning jars always disappear around now.

 

[Certaindeaf]

I mentioned a while back I gave up trying to buy some damn oven cleaner. Wanted to give the grill a good scrub. None of the stores here had it. Finally gave up and ordered some from Amazon. Sure I probably paid twice what it would have been if I could have found it but no one here seemed to be getting any
This is a result of decades of letting almost everything we buy be made in China. When supply gets interrupted like this it takes a good long while to fill the line back up. The longer stuff is not on the shelf the faster people grab it when they see it. Problem then feeds on itself.

Try the dollar store. I just got a can there.. for a dollar.

 

[jdub75]

Humility.
Sometimes we're wrong, but human nature kind of works against us learning from it and humbly admitting it, and moving forward.

 

[Alexx1401]

Try the dollar store. I just got a can there.. for a dollar.

I had not even thought of them.

 

[Devneck]

Weekly Costco trip this past weekend. No tp or paper towels again. Did I miss the panic again?

 

[Gene Rojas]

Looks every round of 9mm and .223/5.56 I have just hit $1 today. Lol

Geno

 

[Hawaiian]

I was at the Costco in Tigard early Friday am. They had TP and PT, but a limit of 1. Gotta go early.

 

[alim]

Hoarder and panic buy mentality never pans out for a simple reason, as old as the study of economics itself:

Supply, demand, markets, and prices.

Things always balance out when we're talking about commodities that aren't supply side constrained. Toilet paper isn't supply side constrained. We had shortages due to a short-lived panic buying scenario, but we have plenty of production capacity and materials that filled that gap. Firearms and ammunition are also not supply side constrained. Plenty of raw materials and manufacturing capacity.

The only situation where my argument is wrong is a true SHTF scenario where supply chains are damaged long-term or irreparably. It hasn't happened in my lifetime. Maybe someday. Or maybe long after I'm gone. Nobody knows, and if someone says they do, they have a monetary incentive to tell you that.

 

[Going Tits Up]

Bolt action rifles will fly off the shelves if Biden wins, how many here have one?

 

[alim]

Bolt action rifles will fly off the shelves if Biden wins, how many here have one?

Just one?

 

[The Heretic]

Bolt action rifles will fly off the shelves if Biden wins, how many here have one?

Regarding semis - except for rimfires and maybe those that would only have 10 round mags.

I am more or less trying to stockup on non-semis in the same chamberings as semis; E.G., .308, .556, 7.62x39 bolt and lever actions, and I am looking at revolvers in 9mm, .40 and .45 ACP but I want lightweight revolvers with 3-5" barrels. Would love it if Ruger made an LCRX with 3"+ barrel in 9mm, .40 and .45 ACP. Otherwise I may have to settle for a CA revolver if I can find one with the right barrel length/style.

 

[spider]

It is going to be ammo, AR15, AR10 and high cap magazines.

 

[alim]

Hoarding? It actually sounds like a great time to be selling. I remember the 2012 panic, where you could get 3x your money on stripped AR15 lowers and 5.56. Cash out, and buy back in when the panic settles.

A smart person once said: buy low, sell high. If you're buying in at the top, get ready for a ride down.

 

[HaveGun]

Bolt action rifles will fly off the shelves if Biden wins, how many here have one?

My ARs aren't going anywhere.

 

[Camelfilter]

Hoarder and panic buy mentality never pans out for a simple reason, as old as the study of economics itself:

Supply, demand, markets, and prices.

Things always balance out when we're talking about commodities that aren't supply side constrained. Toilet paper isn't supply side constrained. We had shortages due to a short-lived panic buying scenario, but we have plenty of production capacity and materials that filled that gap. Firearms and ammunition are also not supply side constrained. Plenty of raw materials and manufacturing capacity.

The only situation where my argument is wrong is a true SHTF scenario where supply chains are damaged long-term or irreparably. It hasn't happened in my lifetime. Maybe someday. Or maybe long after I'm gone. Nobody knows, and if someone says they do, they have a monetary incentive to tell you that.

Folks shouldn't confuse simply stocking up, with "hoarding" or panic buying.

Stocking up on things a family uses normally, saves both money & time. Moreso if done wisely, ie buying while items are on special & such.

Doing so also leaves "more" available for others if there happens to be a "run" on particulars (for whatever reasons), as folks whom have stocked up are not competing with others during said "run".

For whatever reasons MSM seems to be making a gross mis-association between folks whom stock up normally (a good thing) and "hoarders" (folks whom buy things in gross they'll never ever use, a bad thing).

They are not one and the same. One is wise, the other is wasteful.

 

[po18guy]

TP shortage? Good thing it's fall...

 

[edzz]

I heard rumor that Costco has been considering putting a display of flannel logger shirts where the presently depleted TP department typically resides.

 

[Tony617]

Weekly Costco trip this past weekend. No tp or paper towels again. Did I miss the panic again?

Strange I saw stacks of TP and paper towels in the Issaquah Costco. I went on Thursday so I may have missed the panic. I got there at 9:00 AM.

 

[bzltyr]

After tonight at Costco............T P again. Geez! Give me a break. At least Tylenol and Baby Yoda were in stock.