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Yup. Necessary when your textbooks are a total of 3000 pages or so per semester.
Or do what I did and skip buying the textbooks.
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Yup. Necessary when your textbooks are a total of 3000 pages or so per semester.
Or do what I did and skip buying the textbooks.
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The vast majority of the buyers are low information gun owners looking for one or two boxes of ammo.
My expectation is that because this is mostly the low information people buying ammo, ... they'll stop frenzy buying sooner than what happened in 2012-2013. They either don't know about online ammo or won't be able to find any....
Yeah I just noticed Win and CCI primers are sold out from my favorite vendor. The other vendor still has them in stock though.I wish that were true. Most of the training ammo online is sold out everywhere. Duty/competition ammo is still available, but slim pickings and some places are price gouging. Heck, even primers are starting to disappear from stocks online. This is more than just low information gun owners. I want to believe that the ammo logistics will stabilize, but they'll take a while to get back to where they were, and then we'll have the general elections. This is going to be at least a year drought I think. I had anticipated a drought coming up and stocked up a bit a few weeks ago, but I did not anticipate it on this scale or this early.
Yeah I just noticed Win and CCI primers are sold out from my favorite vendor. The other vendor still has them in stock though.
I wish that were true. Most of the training ammo online is sold out everywhere. Duty/competition ammo is still available, but slim pickings and some places are price gouging. Heck, even primers are starting to disappear from stocks online. This is more than just low information gun owners. I want to believe that the ammo logistics will stabilize, but they'll take a while to get back to where they were, and then we'll have the general elections. This is going to be at least a year drought I think. I had anticipated a drought coming up and stocked up a bit a few weeks ago, but I did not anticipate it on this scale or this early.
That reminds me, I need more popcorn and beerIf you think there are shortages now, wait until the coronavirus insanity affects food supply to major cities. If there is any looting or rioting that result in "LA Korean shopowner" levels of response, there won't be any guns or ammo on any store shelf in America.
Yes, the old textbook-or-fail cabal.Funny/positive story:
In undergrad, I was a peer tutor. Most people I tutored requested tutoring for freshman accounting, basically Accounting 101. I had one guy my last semester that the tutoring coordinator specifically wanted me to work with because we had the same professor. That professor ran the class by assigning us work that had to be completed in Excel. The textbook contained very specific instructions, that if followed, guaranteed you an A. If you didn't have the textbook or if you didn't use the textbook, you'd get a B- to a F.
And just like that, reloading seems like a great idea
You say that like its a bad thing........dont you ALWAYS feel like you need your ammo NOW?
Maybe he is looking to catch a Gimp.There’s an article in today’s Globe about the ammo run in RI, and there’s a guy who has never owned a gun, but went out and bought a shotgun for defending his family. The picture shows him holding a couple of boxes of #9 loads. While effective in stopping an intruder, someone needs to tell him about pattern spread and the existence of slugs and 00 buck. I reload my skeet and clays rounds with #9 - I don’t use it for self defense.
And "an idea" is about as far as it will go with most people.
LOL
Thats my point though.......NEED vs WANT........few of us NEED cuz we prepared.......WANT <more> is a whole different ball game
Too late or very soon to be too lateAnd just like that, reloading seems like a great idea
Not to be a nag, but if anyone new is really serious about reloading, please learn how to safely reload and work up a load. Don't need to blow your hand off. All the info is out there on the web to safely get started. I recommend Jonny's Reloading Bench and Panhandle Precision on youtube.
I reload .357/.38 , 10mm, 5.56, and 6.5CM and never took a reloading class.
True. And sad because you can buy a single stage Lee, Lee die set and scale for pretty cheap at any time. And the learning curve is pretty low if you are doing a caliber like 9mm. Buy any bottle of powder, read the label, buy the bullets listed and only use the charge listed.
Yeah you're not winning any bullseye pistol comps doing that, but you can certainly train and defend yourself.
I agree. When I first got into shooting in the 1970s I started reloading .38, .357, .380, 9mm and .45. I was meticulous in the process and never had an issue. I loaded and shot thousands of rounds. I stopped reloading and stopped shooting as frequently due to time constraints. Now that I'm moving to NH, I'm selling off all my reloading stuff as I have less space and enough ammo, I just need more time to shoot.Not to be a nag, but if anyone new is really serious about reloading, please learn how to safely reload and work up a load. Don't need to blow your hand off. All the info is out there on the web to safely get started. I recommend Jonny's Reloading Bench and Panhandle Precision on youtube.
I reload .357/.38 , 10mm, 5.56, and 6.5CM and never took a reloading class.
Being extra vigilant is all that it takes. Just like firearms, there isn't much room for mistakes.You can either pay attention to the post above or you can have an oopsie that will scare you into paying attention. I had an oopsie but can still count to 10
I ran an NRA Home Firearms Safety class two days ago. Had to make sure personal distance and other sanitation methods were in place. A number of people were procrastinating getting firearms training for a long time, and what's going on was pressuring them into action.
I have heard many PD's stopped licensing interviews altogether, however. That'll put a damper on people who are desperate for licenses.
I ran an NRA Home Firearms Safety class two days ago. Had to make sure personal distance and other sanitation methods were in place. A number of people were procrastinating getting firearms training for a long time, and what's going on was pressuring them into action.
I have heard many PD's stopped licensing interviews altogether, however. That'll put a damper on people who are desperate for licenses.
#9 is an excellent home def round. up close results are horrific, low penetration through walls. hope perp isn't next to anybody special, though.There’s an article in today’s Globe about the ammo run in RI, and there’s a guy who has never owned a gun, but went out and bought a shotgun for defending his family. The picture shows him holding a couple of boxes of #9 loads. While effective in stopping an intruder, someone needs to tell him about pattern spread and the existence of slugs and 00 buck. I reload my skeet and clays rounds with #9 - I don’t use it for self defense.
#9 is an excellent home def round. up close results are horrific, low penetration through walls. hope perp isn't next to anybody special, though.