National Ammo Day

[Dirigo]

http://www.ammoday.com/
Get Some

 

[Adam_MA]

Good thing I was planning on going to Four Seasons Saturday!

I think this might make a good sticky... On Sat. folks can post up what they bought and how much of it they got!

Adam


Here's the poster.

 

[Nickle]

My kind of people!

 

[Lynne]

I think I can manage that.

 

[FPrice]

IIRC, there was a move to do a lot of buying at Wally World in an effort to get them to stock more ammo. Don't recall where I saw that though.

 

[Jay G]

Adam,

What time are you planning to be at Four Seasons? I'm going to be there when they open at 9:00AM...

Maybe we should have a mini NES meet-n-greet?

 

[Moderator]

I picked up 100 rnds last night.

 

[Adam_MA]

I picked up 100 rnds last night.

UNACCEPTABLE!

You have to buy the ammo on the 19th!

I EXPECT we can count on you for another 100 rounds!

 

[Nickle]

I probably won't be buying any on the 19th. Is MAKING some acceptable?

 

[Adam_MA]

Adam,

What time are you planning to be at Four Seasons? I'm going to be there when they open at 9:00AM...

Maybe we should have a mini NES meet-n-greet?

Not sure. It will probably be somewhere between 9 and 10. I am planning to spend a few hours at the range with my rifle this weekend.

 

[Adam_MA]

I probably won't be buying any on the 19th. Is MAKING some acceptable?

Don't know bout that.... Maybe if you purchased some components.

I plan on buying some ammo, spending a couple of hours at the range, then reloading for a couple of hours.

Adam

 

[Nickle]

Well, I'll be out hunting anyways.

But, I can pick up some stuff at the shop for my own use.

 

[Dirigo]

I probably won't be buying any on the 19th. Is MAKING some acceptable?

http://www.ammoday.us/faq.php?id=P126

 

[Nickle]

I went to the website, saw their challenge. I've got my out. I need some cheap 7.62x39 anyways, so, it's time to buy another THOUSAND rounds from Midway. Might pick up some other stuff as well. Yup, need moulds for 7.62x38R bullets as well.

From the Website:

Another Year, Another Ammo Day/Week
In the very first year of National Ammo Day, we tried to track exactly how many rounds of ammo came into the public's possession on that day.

For various reasons, the closest estimate we could come up with was about ten million rounds.

In one day.

Now, much later, we expect that many millions more will be bought by you, our gun-owning friends, on or around November 19th, 2005.

There are several gun shows taking place around that time, and of course gun stores will be open on Saturday, November 19th -- so get out there and show the gun-fearing wussies that their attempts to disarm us will fail, forever.

Last year, there were three separate attempts to tax ammo sales (in California's case, the amount was pennies per cartridge), and while all such legislature has so far failed, let's not be overly-optimistic.

Remember, the more ammunition rests in civilian hands, the more impossible the task of civilian disarmament becomes.

Tell all your friends.

One hundred rounds, or more, on or around November 19th.

 

[Ray P]

My plan:
Done 100rds Win white-box 230 gr FMJ 45acp - Wallyworld
Done 100rds Win white-box 124 gr FMJ 9x19 - Wallyworld
Done 1# IMR 4198 - KTP

IIRC, National Ammo Day is also Kim DuToit's birthday.

Happy Birthday, Kim!

 

[Nickle]

Well, Midway was out of stock of cheap 7.62x39.

Have to buy something else.

 

[Ray P]

Try ammoman Plentiful 7.62x39 and no shipping costs.

 

[Nickle]

Try ammoman Plentiful 7.62x39 and no shipping costs.

And SKY HIGH prices for everything. You should see what I usually pay for ammo.

I'll probably get some more from Century, if they have what I need.

 

[Dirigo]

As one of my Readers said, when talking about Ammo Day’s sooper-seekrit plan to buy ammo at Wal-Mart at 3.30pm Central on November 19th, the plan is to make Wal-Mart’s computers “cough up a hairball”.

Here’s how it works, and this is why I’m temporarily suspending my personal avoidance of Wal-Mart, just this once.

Wal-Mart’s sales tracking system is one of the most sophisticated in the world—certainly, in terms of the “mass-merchandiser” channel, it is without peer—and they boast of how quickly they can respond to a sales “spike” in terms of preventing an out-of-stock condition (which is an anathema to any retail outlet, because it’s a “lost sale").

So… when a whole bunch of gun owners goes to Wal-Mart stores all over the country and cleans them out of a certain kind of ammo (in this case, Winchester White Box), this fact will be noted on Wal-Mart’s computers.

Well, so what?

There are two reasons why I think this is a grand idea. Firstly, it should be known that Wal-Mart doesn’t carry guns and ammunition because they’re staunch Second Amendment supporters: Wal-Mart carries guns and ammo because these items generate revenue and profit. (In fact, when Wally World has been confronted with local GFW government regulations, they’ve stopped selling guns and/or ammo, without a backward glance.)

So it won’t hurt to remind Wal-Mart that a.) there are a lot of gun owners out there and that b.) we wield a great deal of purchasing power, if we choose to.

That’s the first reason.

The second reason has to do with Ammo Day itself. If any of you know any non-GFW journalists (yeah, I know), email them and ask them to contact Wal-Mart on Monday morning (11/21), and ask whether they noticed a large increase in ammunition sales over the weekend. The followup question, of course, is this: does Wal-Mart know why the sales of ammo spiked on this particular weekend?

If Wal-Mart makes some noises about “hunting season” and “usual seasonal sales increase”, the followup question to that is whether the increase in sales was in typical hunting ammunition, or was it also handgun ammo?

And finally, ask Wal-Mart if they’ve ever heard of National Ammo Day.

Let’s see if the Press can do a little investigative journalism, shall we?

 

[Adam_MA]

DAMN!

Wouldn't you just know it... I went into Four Seasons with the intent on buying a good amount of ammo.... And of course what happens.. They had a couple of the Kahr K40 police trade-ins... So, you guessed it!

I put it on layaway for now. I'll probably pick it up next week!

I did get some ammo though, I'll post my totals later...

Now, off to the range!

Adam

 

[cdkayak]

DAMN!

Wouldn't you just know it... I went into Four Seasons with the intent on buying a good amount of ammo.... And of course what happens.. They had a couple of the Kahr K40 police trade-ins... So, you guessed it!

I put it on layaway for now. I'll probably pick it up next week!

Adam

Nice find. I've been looking at the Kahr MK9, it seems like a nice hadngun. I have to wait until I get out of work before I do any shopping though.

 

[Adam_MA]

DAMN!

Wouldn't you just know it... I went into Four Seasons with the intent on buying a good amount of ammo.... And of course what happens.. They had a couple of the Kahr K40 police trade-ins... So, you guessed it!

I put it on layaway for now. I'll probably pick it up next week!

Adam

Nice find. I've been looking at the Kahr MK9, it seems like a nice hadngun. I have to wait until I get out of work before I do any shopping though.

I believe they have on in the case at four Seasons.

Adam

 

[Adam_MA]

OK... Here are my totals for the day...

7.62X39 - 200
.308 - 180
7.63X54 - 40
.40 - 200
.45 - 200
16Ga. - 20

I believe that totals 840 rounds today.
And of course with the addition of a new handgun, I think I did my part.

How bout everyone else?

Adam

 

[Jeremiah]

Drove to the Quincy Walmart to see about buying ammo from them. Weird, wouldn't you know it, they don't sell ammo there. A customer in the store pointed me to the Weymouth Walmart a little further down the street. Again, no luck. The sporting goods employee said he didn't think Walmart sold ammo.

So, I gave up trying to buy ammo in my area, drove to Roach's in Cambridge and bought 200 rounds of .38 wc reloads for the range and 50 rounds of Federal 128 gr. hydro-shock jacketed hollow point .38 +P for hd.

 

[Adam_MA]

The sporting goods employee said he didn't think Walmart sold ammo.

All depends on the store... I got some of my ammo today at Walmart.

Adam

 

[Dirigo]

45 ACP- 100
12 gauge- 100
22LR-550

went to walmart, said i need some "45ACP". she said we only have 45 auto.

 

[Ray P]

I updated my original post, but for the record:

100 rds Win White box 45ACPm oops! 45 AUTO
100 rds Win WB 9x19mm

Both purchased from wallieworld at 1445 EDT.

Also 1# IMR 4198 from KTP

 

[USMA-82]

+250 rounds courtesy of Wally World:

100 rnd - 9mm value pack
100 rnd - .357 Magnum value pack
50 rnd - 44 Magnum

Only problem is that I don't have any .44 magnum firearms....

Damn, I'll have to fix that problem as soon as possible! Would put the world in some sort of cosmic imbalance if I don't go out and get a S&W .44 Magnum revolver immediately...

... specifically, a Model 29 Mountain Gun.

Dear Santa....

 

[sickone777]

ok i did my parts here are my totals

7.62x39 200 rounds
.40 s&w 1000 rounds
9mm 500 rounds
.45auto 400 round

so i think 2100 rounds should
be good for next week lol

no realy aleast 2weeks

 

[Jay G]

I posted my Ammo Day totals here: http://blog.rjwest.com/?p=2608.

Also got to meet Adam. Purely by coincidence, too. I wound up putting an order in on an Auto-Ordnance 1911, and commented that I'd been reading about it becoming MA legal on a gun board. The guy down the counter (ogling the Kahr) asked "which board?" I replied "Northeast Shooters" and he stuck out his hand and introduced himself.

Gotta love it when a plan comes together!