Boy, I guess I just haven't been paying attn!

CZ93X62

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Gator Checks (I have 6mm and 30 caliber so far) are every bit as good as Hornady checks. I'm no trend setter, but the last several moulds I've acquired have all been plain-based designs.
 

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California's Central Coast Amid The Insanity
Lead's available is impacted in that lead wheel weights are banned in many states.
 

Petrol & Powder

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There's a difference between Stockpiling & Hoarding.

Maintaining a reasonable supply of provisions to support some activity is not hoarding. That's just provisioning.

Being driven by panic and buying excessive amounts of some item, at any price; is hoarding.

I grew up in hurricane country and maintaining enough food and water in the house to live for a couple of weeks was just normal behavior. That was not hoarding, that was just the normal state of provisions.

Hoarding is when people, driven by fear, obtain items in quantities far in excess of what could be considered normal.
We just saw that activity with toilet paper (still haven't figured out how that trend got started). We saw it with ammunition during the Obama years, particularly .22 rimfire. In some parts of the country we see hoarding of milk & bread before any predicted snow storm.

Right now, there are people in America with closets full of .22 rimfire ammo that they purchased at insanely inflated prices. They don't want to use it because they paid too much for it and they are afraid they will not be able to get more. They can't sell it for a profit because they paid WAY too much for it. But those same people will still buy every box of .22 ammo they find and start filling the second closet. - That's Hoarding.
 
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popper

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Maybe PCing is the answer to getting the "30 Plinker" to finally show some groups instead of patterns! It works. May need a harder alloy! Horiz was ME!

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Bruce Drake

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yep. shots from this weekend with the Enfield no 4. Its operator error on the side to side...
 

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Glaciers

Alaska Land of the Midnight Sun
:headscratch: I'm still shooting 22 LR ammunition that I paid $.89 a box/$8.90 a brick. :) Mostly, from the 90's.

Yeah $10 bricks. I only bought by the case of 5000. Good deal and quite a while back.. Thought I would sell some (have a lot) to make a profit, triple or quadruple my money, but, I don't believe in price gouging.. So I have enough for my family till the end of my time anyway.
Just saw an ad for a guy selling SR Primers for $150 a thousand..
 

358156 hp

At large, whereabouts unknown.
I started accumulating increased shooting materials and supplies several primer famines ago. I still have a lot of them that were originally purchased for around $10.00/1K. I almost backed off too far on SR & SP primers this time, but was able to return to a comfortable level before things got too crazy again.
 

Petrol & Powder

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One of the advantages of age is that you have more experience to draw from.

The panics, the shortages, the wild fluctuations in prices, etc.; are far more predictable and far less disturbing when you've been through them before.

Younger people see every blip of the radar as something to be terrified of. Older people have been through more and don't panic as easily.

After you've lived through gas shortages, hurricanes, tornados, earthquakes, inflation, heat waves, recessions, depressions, wars, pandemics, riots, unemployment, power outages, and flat tire or two...........you don't think the world is going to end because some idiot liberal tells you to be afraid of something.