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RicinYakima
High Steppes of Eastern Washington
Mid south had .223 left over ball ammo for fifty cents a round.
Reloader762
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Plastic money, $925 Billion dollars in credit card debt in the third quarter of 2022. At my LGS, Hodgdon and IMR powders are just as expensive as Vihtavuori, in fact some of the Vihtavuori powders were actually cheaper. Accurate and Alliant powders are the only ones that are reasonably prices in the lower to mid $30 range.
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Bret4207
At the casting bench in the sky. RIP Bret.
Bingo! Christmas sales were up despite everything. You know it wasn't done with cash. Plastic funded the Tech Boom of the 90's, back when I had a credit card with 2.9% interest!
L Ross
Well-Known Member
I never did realize how much some guys shoot until I started hanging around here. I do believe I come by my peculiarities honestly. My Dad liked to accumulate things and was loathe to use them. If you use them, they are gone. An irrational reaction to a childhood of near poverty I imagine.
I've probably said this before, because I've at least THOUGHT it every day since April of 2020, when I waited and waited for CCI primers to get back down to $22/k. FINALLY, after they sat at $24/k for about a week. "something(?)" nudged me, right out of the blue and said "BUY SOME!"
I did, and the next day they were all GONE, EVERYWHERE.
If I'd had any sense at all, I'd have bought all they had, paid the freight, given the driver $50 and my car to go have a nice meal somewhere while I unloaded them by hand. I don't have a forklift.
My home equity line of credit is sitting there with a ZERO balance, and THIS would have been god reason to leverage myself a very reasonable bit. It's have been paid off in a year. $5k would have gotten me 200K+ and I could have sold off 50k and paid off the HELOC.
Not that I typically think that way, regarding gouging my fellow shooters or going into debt, of course. Otherwise, I'd not be kicking myself.
Ian
Notorious member
I grew up in poverty. We had a couple of metal files and a wood rasp that I learned later in life were completely worn out, but we cared for them and got by. What we had around was what we had, if something needed made we made do with what could be scrounged. I still buy every bucket of nails, hardware, and screws that I find at garage sales because of some instinct that I'll need them some day and won't be able to afford or find them new. Same with old tools like hand saws. I hoard every scrap of wood, down to square 2x4 blocks....you never know! I don't trust electricity being available since we had none until I left home and even now with 200-amp service and two backup generators with fuel I somehow just don't think I can rely on it. I have plans to build a steam engine and wood-fired boiler for generating electricity and maybe even putting a line shaft in the shop, I think with THAT kind of system my anxiety would finally be calmed somewhat. It's weird, but I totally understand the "Great Depression Baby" mentality my grandparents and wife's grandparents had. Incidentally, we have most of their stuff which has been a great boon to our hoard.
Ian
Notorious member
That's funny and so accurate. I have four days off starting today and among the other projects I have in mind the main one is finally digging into that flintlock .45 my FIL had and seeing if I can't figure out why the cock won't lock at the full position and maybe learn something about flint and steel. I'm down to half a dozen cans of #11 caps so I might not be shooting the percussion guns much either.
RicinYakima
High Steppes of Eastern Washington
Not buying primers at $.10 apiece. Cap lock pistol and flintlock rifle until the surplus comes around again.
Bret4207
At the casting bench in the sky. RIP Bret.
Makes perfect sense to me.
I grew up on stories of the Depression and the lengths people went to in keeping the family fed and housed. Unlike the the history books would like to portray things, I had a grandmother that hated FDR worse than Hitler, Tojo and Mussolini combined. There was some real shady stuff done that cost some folks, like her family, their means of making a living. They ended up back on the farm with the parents, and lucky they were to have a place to fall back on. They found out the hard way that owning gold wasn't a sure bet to financial security. If it had been, I'd probably have grown up on Lake George and be in the hotel business.
waco
Springfield, Oregon
I have been shooting lots of LRP and ,22lr because that's what I have the most of. Not short on SRP either I just don't go through too many. I am waiting for prices to drop some to stock back up on pistol primers of both sizes. I can still wait a few more years if it comes to that.