George Plimpton wrote:
On 3/23/2013 7:21 PM, Pete C. wrote:
Ignoramus28776 wrote:
On 2013-03-24, Pete C. wrote:
wrote:
On Sat, 23 Mar 2013 15:21:28 -0700 (PDT), clark
wrote:
20,000 people looking for ammo.
Midway has had 1,000,000 unique customers this year.
There is no where on the internet that is not out of stock for pistol bullets.
Magazines are sold out.
Ruger, the biggest gun manufacturer, is not taking any more orders.
Today I saw bricks of Rem Thunderbolt 22 ammo sell for $75 each.
And people were buying them.
There's a sucker born every minute.
What sane person thinks they need more than 100 rounds of ammunition
on hand????
All of them. Anyone who actually goes to the range with any regularity
knows that 100 rds is nothing.
I have several thousand rounds of 7.62 ammo, and I am damn glad I do.
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I'm fortunate that I ordered a few cases of selected calibers before all
hell broke loose. It's like anything else you might buy at Sam's,
COSTCO, etc. it's cheaper in bulk and it doesn't go bad.
I'm curious about that. Why doesn't it go bad? Why wouldn't the
chemical composition of the powder change over time? Perhaps slowly,
but I'm wondering why it wouldn't change.
It may well change over time, however sealed in the cartridges and
stored under reasonable conditions it doesn't deteriorate rapidly enough
to mater in human lifetime scale. The ammunition I purchase today will
be just as good and useable in 40-50 years when I'm expected to drop
dead.