Thread: Ammunition shortage

Been following this conversation and others and am in two minds about it all. For new shooters and reloaders it sucks and ammunition availability is now a very large consideration when choosing your first rifle.
As for the rest of us, you’d have to be living under a rock not to notice the supply/availability issues that have been transpiring over the last couple of years. This is also not the first time this has occurred either, arguably the worst though.
High round count users such as pest controllers etc aside, we should all have a general idea what our usage per year is and have allowed for it, to a degree, when buying your stash.
Patience, planning, and willingness to consider alternatives meant that right now I have a reasonable stock of reloading components to see out this current fucked up situation we all find ourselves in. Did I make a mistake in not taking the 1000 BR2’s I’d ordered instead just buying a hundred lot and leaving the rest for others, probably, but unfortunately as time drags on and no real end in sight, the difference between hoarding and having a reasonable amount for your needs is getting thinner by the day.

On the other hand, if you take the time to dig into it a bit, across a wider range of businesses, it’s increasingly becoming apparent that this is not going away for quite sometime.
I’m very thankful that I sold up and retired at just the right time and yes, a wee bit smug and giving the finger to those that mock me for being a bit of a prepper but for most it’s not unreasonable to be caught short. We should have been rolling out of it by now but instead we have a lot of different components coming together to create a situation that is worse than it should have been.
It’s a shit sandwich for some right now, but I would rather lock up my gun cabinet and walk away than pay the vermin on TM $200 for a pound of 2209 or even worse for a box of 143 ELDX’s. I know and understand the arguments both ways but it feels like screwing over family and I just won’t have a bar of it.
At this stage I think all we can do is duck and weave, continue to support each other as much as we can and above all else just go out enjoy and appreciate the hell out of whatever part of this you participate in. Prepare for the worst, hope for the best and continue to live is my motto and I’m sticking to it. A good stiff whiskey occasionally doesn’t hurt either!!!
Have a great one out there everyone.
Cheers, Sidetrack