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I'm sure the shortage is intentional, just like everything else.
Yep. We even have the top brass of ammo conglomerates telling us that the solution is to just wait until prices decrease due to lack of demand.
The ammo companies have literally told us to stop buying their product. What real businessman would ever do that?
We have backlogs that will take ~5 years to clear
We refuse to expand production because we don't want to lose money when demand drops
The US ammo companies are holding both of these positions simultaneously. How can this be?
Thats weird because they were all talking about expanding during the shortages when Obama was elected.
Well i shouldnt complain. I have a shit ton of ammo for most of my guns. Really im good to go for many years. But i have a couple guns that im not well supplied for and it irritates me. Luckily theyre not guns i really need, just new toys that id like to spend more target time with and take out hunting a little. I have enough of the .450bm that im taking it bear hunting this season just for shits and giggles. Want to kill a bear with an ar15, just for something different. Still it would be nice to have a few more boxes of the 300gr to smack steel and paper with before the season starts.
We have a decent shooting range on our property and can't really use it as much as we would like due to difficulty restocking. I have actually considered getting a really nice sling shot and ball bearings, but practice with the clay balls, just to keep practicing.
I can shoot at my place, or on the state land across the road. But i prefer to go to my parents house so i dont disturb my little wildlife sanctuary here at home. My dad has paper targets at 25, 75, 100, 200, 300 yards, steel at 50, 75, 250, 300 yards, from an indoor shooting bench. Bench is inside a metal shop with a wood stove, pretty slick. But today after a break i went out to the shop to shoot more and first shot was freehand at steel so the muzzle wasnt outside the window. Forgot to put my earplugs back in. Shot a .450 bushmaster with a muzzle brake with no hearing protection inside a metal building. Kinda ruined my day. Felt like somebody jammed an icepick in my ear. Still ringing. Did the exact same thing with a braked .300wm about 10 years ago. Im a real dumbass sometimes.
I think they're just making less, due to a years long backlog of the common calibers.
One thing to try is go on Midway and Natchez, find your ammo and do the "notify when in stock" thing. Just be ready to rip that credit card when you get the email. But don't be surprised if the price jumped from the last in stock.
Oh im on the notification list several places.
Ar 15 and a bear? You are just gonna piss it off.
You need at least an ak with a 762.
.450 bushmaster ar15. Not a 5.56. Ive killed a lot of bears and im very familiar with what theyre made of.
handguns stop bear, I am doing my best to not be demeaning
AR15 stops polar bear
I understand the love for the 7.62x39 its an incredible round and I own and use it often. A rifle will put many animals down, an AR15 in 5.52/.223 will put down animals readily due to the ballistic advantage of velocity F=mv2. Your assertion is understandable and widely believed, however, it is incorrect.
Bring back swords!
Lol
Meh, the CEO of an ammo company did an interview a while back saying they'd increased production by ~30% and they still can't keep up. They can't ramp up production fast enough. Seems reasonable. Everyone I know that wasn't a gun person got red pilled by BLM.
30% was pathetic. Everyone in the USA knew since 2016 that ammo would be in high demand in 2020. By January 2020, everyone knew that ammo would be in sky-high demand due to the scamdemic.
Yet somehow the ammo manufacturers did not know? o_0
Ok, I'm a business fag, so the thing is I don't want to have production that exceeds the AVERAGE demand of the next 5-10 years.
Demand is up today, but will it be up next year, the year after? I want to eventually fulfill it, but not saturate it, if that makes sense. I know this is probably not what poal wants to hear, but this is how corporate fags think.
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