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Pawpaw wrote: Sat Dec 19, 2020 5:43 pm

03Lightningrocks wrote: Sat Dec 19, 2020 5:50 am What I am a bit dismayed by is the number of people in America that have gone full blown Karen. What kind of person actually sends a hateful email to an ammo manufacturer because they can't get ammo? On top of this, there were enough of these whiney Karens to cause the ammo manufacturer to put out a video trying to calm these people down. I just shake my head at the absurdity of it.

Think of a person with average intelligence. Then realize that half the population is dumber than that.

Word.

flechero wrote: Tue Dec 15, 2020 3:23 pm Weather the storm as best you can now and when things come back, position yourself and family to comfortably weather the next couple storms.

And that is what I already did, long before the COVID-19 pandemic or the elections. My ammo buying philosophy: buy 1000, shoot 200; buy 1000 more, shoot 200; buy 1000 more, shoot 200; etc, etc, etc. Keep doing that, and pretty soon you have a LOT of ammo on hand. We’ve done that for both 9mm and .223/5.56, and to a lesser extent with smaller purchases in .308, .300 Blk, and 7.62x39. I wish now I had purchased larger quantities of 7.62x39, but it wasn’t really my thing. I bought the AK to help a friend, but it wasn’t my primary rifle interest. It came with 500 rounds of ammo, and I bought another 500 rounds later, but that was it. I wish now I’d bought a lot more when it was cheap.

ELB wrote: Tue Dec 15, 2020 12:22 pm

flechero wrote: Tue Dec 15, 2020 12:13 pm

ELB wrote: Tue Dec 15, 2020 11:11 am We need more, smaller ammo manufacturers.

I don't disagree but that won't help with the primer shortage... supply chains worldwide are disrupted so components are slowing production...

Ok, so we need more component manufacturers too.

A valid argument, but don’t forget to take into account the amount of time it will take to stand up an entirely new manufacturing plant.....even a relatively small one. And if it’s not well funded right up front, then construction will depend on the owners’/investors’ cash flow situation.

ScottDLS wrote: Sun Dec 13, 2020 6:45 pm Got 3 20 rd boxes of M855 green tip at Academy today. 9.99 a box. There was a 3 box limit or I would have bought more. 50 cents a round is merely lousy pricing vs. the obscene pricing seen online. I can seem to find 7.62x39 bulk in large quantity and at more reasonable prices online. Maybe because it's imported. Makes me want to buy an AK variant while I still can. Right now I only have an SKS.

I have an AK, and wouldn’t mind owning an SKS, but money is a problem. For whatever my advice is worth, you already have a reliable sample of a 7.62x39 rifle. If it were me, I’d spend that AK money on more ammo. That AK will be useless if 7.62x39 ammo stocks dry up ....like they already seem to be doing. Get the ammo now, while you can. Worry about the new rifle later. That’s my 2¢.