sas762
08-07-2006, 01:32 PM
You guys crack me up. I have been shooting and buying ammo for longer than some of you have been alive. I have bought 7.62 x 39 in 20 round boxes mfg by Lapua for $7 ea., and still have some on hand. This was in the early 1970s when you could not give away Valmet AK rifles, and I had the only SKS ( bringback ) most people had seen. Rifles were cheap, ammo was high. I bought. I played. I trained. I had fun.
Ammo got cheap, rifles got expensive. I have paid $60 per case of 1100 rounds of steel core Chinese and sold it for $80. I have a pre ban Poly tech sidefolder AK I bought for $275 still new in the box. I could have sold it many times for almost $2k. Now it is not worth that much. Am I a fool? I did not buy it to speculate on or make money on, I bought it for a spare to my shooter. I have other rifles I paid a LOT more for.
I bought. I played. I trained. I had fun.
The point is, prices always fluctuate, due to the market. I have a lot of 7.62X39 on hand that I do not shoot up. I will pay a higher price for ammo to shoot while my stock sits unused. Does that make me a "fucktard"? My stockpile was not purchased for profit potential, but to have on hand should I need it in hard times. Right now, if I want some ammo to blast away with, I will buy at the current price. If I cannot find any, I will hang on to my stockpile, or maybe shoot a little. I will buy. I will play. I will train. I will have fun.
If you have no ammo, buy at the best price you can find, but have some on hand. Learn to use your equipment. I suspect most of you pay a lot of money every year for insurance of all kinds, money that you will never see again, but are not calling each other names for spending that money.
Some people chastise others for buying at what they consider an artificial high price. I have news for you, all prices are artificial. Each person decides to meet their own needs, and name calling is for children. Grow up. In the meantime, I will be playing, having fun, and training. And I will buy when I feel like it. And I will not waste time responding to name callers. Life is short, and I have training and playing to do.
Ammo got cheap, rifles got expensive. I have paid $60 per case of 1100 rounds of steel core Chinese and sold it for $80. I have a pre ban Poly tech sidefolder AK I bought for $275 still new in the box. I could have sold it many times for almost $2k. Now it is not worth that much. Am I a fool? I did not buy it to speculate on or make money on, I bought it for a spare to my shooter. I have other rifles I paid a LOT more for.
I bought. I played. I trained. I had fun.
The point is, prices always fluctuate, due to the market. I have a lot of 7.62X39 on hand that I do not shoot up. I will pay a higher price for ammo to shoot while my stock sits unused. Does that make me a "fucktard"? My stockpile was not purchased for profit potential, but to have on hand should I need it in hard times. Right now, if I want some ammo to blast away with, I will buy at the current price. If I cannot find any, I will hang on to my stockpile, or maybe shoot a little. I will buy. I will play. I will train. I will have fun.
If you have no ammo, buy at the best price you can find, but have some on hand. Learn to use your equipment. I suspect most of you pay a lot of money every year for insurance of all kinds, money that you will never see again, but are not calling each other names for spending that money.
Some people chastise others for buying at what they consider an artificial high price. I have news for you, all prices are artificial. Each person decides to meet their own needs, and name calling is for children. Grow up. In the meantime, I will be playing, having fun, and training. And I will buy when I feel like it. And I will not waste time responding to name callers. Life is short, and I have training and playing to do.