Primitive Archer
Main Discussion Area => Around the Campfire => Topic started by: Will Tell on November 26, 2020, 08:51:49 am
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I was shopping at Wallyworld for a seat cushion and noticed that there wasn't any ammo. I mean their wasn't even one box of shells left in any caliber. I'm not a much of a gun hunter but is there something goin on I'm not aware of?
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Welcome to 2020. My guess is that either people think ammo will be outlawed soon, or stores are afraid mobs will break in and steal it.
I've heard Walmart has sent their guns and ammo to a central warehouse, they probably just don't want any funny business.
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Google 'ammo shortage of 2020'. With the civil unrest, crazy political hysteria and people having lots of time on their hands due to pandemic shutdowns there has been a serious run on ammo.
I'd say I'm glad I reload for everything I shoot, but even finding components up here is very hard at the moment. Popular calibre rifle bullets are like hens teeth for the most part.
Mark
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Seems like we get this sort of "run" every election and period of social unrest! This has been a strange year!
Hawkdancer
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Doesn't affect me as i reload everything as well. I overstocked years ago on components and have recently decided to sell off some of my supplies.
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I overstocked years ago on components.
I did that as well, but am getting low on a couple of the bullets I use for hunting and am having a hard time finding more.
Mark
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Im of the understanding that walmart is looking to get out of gun sales and ammo completely. Thats coming from several Walmart employees through conversation.
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I have not bought ammo in my home state since Coumo passed an very restrictive law named the safe act. Save what I have and only use it for hunting. At my age, I do not expect to purchase much other than possibly pheasant loads. I feel sorry for folks younger and what the future holds.
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Seems like we get this sort of "run" every election and period of social unrest! This has been a strange year!
Hawkdancer
One of the reasons a flintlock has been moved up the ladder on my list of priorities. Potentially won't be subject to market whims...stump remover is cheap, charcoal can be made, snd I have yet to see a panic buy on sulphur. ;D
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Shhhh! Don't tell the Whiteman! Just be very careful when mixing those ingredients. Btw, I have the formula somewhere! >:D! If you have powder and lead, a flintlock is the way to go, most any rock will make sparks if you work it sharp (Ol' Scratch, Titus Bass in "Carry the Wind"). Strange times, indeed!
Hawkdancer
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I have around 100# of lead, at least 15# of Goex black and enough flints to last a lifetime plus I know how to knap more.
I have stockpiled ammo over the the last few years after the 22 bullet wakeup call a couple of years ago. I don't have much 9mm because I let all the ladies who come over who want to learn to shoot use my Taurus G2C.
Anyway, I have bows, I have flintlocks and enough modern stuff. They may take the modern stuff but I doubt if they will take my flintlocks. If I saw that on the horizon they would all be broken down into an unrecognizable pile of parts, I built them and could do it again with the parts.
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A friend of mine works at Wal-Mart he said one of the store's got all there ammo stolen so they pulled it all off the shelves
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I understand how well the black powder gun works as a survival tool, but yall should maybe consider a pellet gun too. You can carry 500 rounds in your hip pocket, shoot a 22 caliber pellet 1300 fps, and it required no powder at all, and as a result are very quiet. They can take any game smaller than a deer and maybe even a deer too if you had to try. But realistically, you won't be taking much deer in these situations. Squirrel, rabbit, and smaller game are easier harvests. anyways, thats my case I make for a pellet gun, if which I have 3.
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Yes I have made black powder before, it's not that hard to do. Hard to find potassium nitrate up here now
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My dad reloads and he's commented on the difficulty of finding components, too.
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Wal Mart here still has guns and ammo, they are not on display though. There was an announcement on the radio that Walmart made the decision to do that due to civil unrest. You have to look for the rudest most sour looking person you can see in the sporting goods section and ask if they have your choice of ammo so they can huff around and act put out that you asked them to do their job in assisting you.
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Morgan, that seems to be the way most retail works these days. I believe the companies think it's cheaper than trying to teach the associates the proper way to handle customers. ::)
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I agree, Pat! Being a gruff Ol' retired MSG though, I tend to not patronize those businesses that do not have good customer service, no matter how large or small >:D! A smile and a cheerful "How may I help you" goes a long way with me.
Hawkdancer
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Just your standard run-of-the-mill panic buying that happens regularly with the gullible.
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Let's hope so.
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I agree 100%, Jerry.
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I bought a home defense weapon and ammo when the Antifa riots were starting to make the news. This was a year or so before COVID.
We are having a TP shortage right now but I haven't checked the ammo shelves. I'm going to look this weekend.
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Any thing I say might be construed as being political, but ranger wrapped 30 round mags might be a precaution >:D (lol) (-P (-P
Hawkdancer
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I still have ammo, arrows and toilet paper. We have always stocked up on them. Never good to run out.
Bjrogg
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On customer service; I remember when a trip to the tool section at Sears was like stepping into heaven, the older guys that worked the department knew their stuff and where to find everything.
Fast forward 20 years and the slick faced 20 somethings that worked the department didn't know a phillips head screwdriver from a torx head. They would cluster around the register flirting with the cute 20 something gals working there and completely ignore customers. They literally didn't know where anything was, nothing, and would lead you on a wild goose chase up and down the isles looking until they gave up and you were on your own.
During this time Sears outsourced their tool production from the US to China and that was that as far a quality went. I was once proud to own "Craftsman" tools, now the brand didn't mean a thing.
Fortunately all my older tools are from the pre China days and are still something special to me.
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On customer service; I remember when a trip to the tool section at Sears was like stepping into heaven, the older guys that worked the department knew their stuff and where to find everything.
Fast forward 20 years and the slick faced 20 somethings that worked the department didn't know a phillips head screwdriver from a torx head. They would cluster around the register flirting with the cute 20 something gals working there and completely ignore customers. They literally didn't know where anything was, nothing, and would lead you on a wild goose chase up and down the isles looking until they gave up and you were on your own.
During this time Sears outsourced their tool production from the US to China and that was that as far a quality went. I was once proud to own "Craftsman" tools, now the brand didn't mean a thing.
Fortunately all my older tools are from the pre China days and are still something special to me.
I weed out the hardware staff by asking for a metric crescent wrench and gauging their response ;D
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Those are next to the left handed widgets and sky hooks! >:D (lol). Time to look for tools made in USA.
Hawkdancer
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Meso, I have a metric crescent wrench. I lost a $5 bet with my Snap-On salesman years ago when he bet me he had one. It was marker metric on one side and standard on the other. >:( I still have it. :OK
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Meso, I have a metric crescent wrench. I lost a $5 bet with my Snap-On salesman years ago when he bet me he had one. It was marker metric on one side and standard on the other. >:( I still have it. :OK
;D ;D ;D
I suppose I better go back to asking for a left handed smoke shifter or a magnetic infindibulator.
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Long weights/waits are also good (lol)
"Hey Mac, can you go out the back and see if the long weight I ordered has come in yet?" :OK
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Reminds me of my old army days and helicopters where we would send newbies out to look for a bottle of prop wash and a spool of flight line.
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And sending them to supply to ask for a gallon can of striped paint....
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Every now and then, you get a smart one who would just disappear for a while and then swing by supply and "put in the requisition"! Or supply would send him to the next echelon, and then he disappeared!
Hawkdancer
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I think we done hijacked this thread >:D (lol) :fp!
Hawkdancer
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On a more positive note, I finally got my rebuilt original radiator back from the shop. Now to install it in my 1967 VW Beetle.
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And sending them to supply to ask for a gallon can of striped paint....
We'd send them to admin to ask for an ID 10 T form, or medical to requisition 6 feet of fallopian tube.
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John, where does that mount on a 67 VW bug? Did you get a round toit for the instillation?
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It goes up front ahead of the air foil - has a direct feed to the number 3 cylinder!
Hawkdancer
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And sending them to supply to ask for a gallon can of striped paint....
We'd send them to admin to ask for an ID 10 T form, or medical to requisition 6 feet of fallopian tube.
Two of my favorites
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Walked thru the sport section at Walmart yesterday and they had ammo on the shelf.
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I have a soft spot in my heart for VWs, my dad bought one in 64, it was the only car I got to drive when I turned 16 that year. I had a girl friend at the time, even married her a few years later, a young couple could get into all kinds of meanness in a VW, fond memories.
When I got out of the Army in 69 my first new car was a stripped down VW, it didn't even have a radio and cost $1900.It was a good car until I started using it like a jeep and took into one too many mud holes, the engine locked up.
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I had an old VW, my first car. I had to go out of town so I left it with my girlfriend. She drove it until it ran out of gas and left it on the side of the road. When I got back in town I found it in the woods, stripped down to almost nothing. Needless to say I lost my car and my girlfriend after that trip. :fp
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my personal gun i shoot is chambered in 7.62x39 and it always seems to be in store at scheels. Out of all the guns we have it seems That my SKS is the only one that consistently has ammo on the shelves
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It was a good car until I started using it like a jeep and took into one too many mud holes, the engine locked up.
I had a similar experience with an '83 Mercury Marquis. Those make really lousy jeeps.
I had an old VW, my first car. I had to go out of town so I left it with my girlfriend. She drove it until it ran out of gas and left it on the side of the road. When I got back in town I found it in the woods, stripped down to almost nothing. Needless to say I lost my car and my girlfriend after that trip. :fp
Wow. Better to find out that kind of stuff before you get married... ;D
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John, where does that mount on a 67 VW bug? Did you get a round toit for the instillation?
Well that all depends on whether you got the original straight six cylinder or paid for the upgrade for the V8 VW.
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...and where does the Electra-glide transmission fit in?
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Next to the heater fan motor.
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:OK