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 Re: I hit the JACKPOT!!!
[Re: mreed]
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09/30/14 01:59 AM
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Dave3575
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a man walks into a store and spends his earned money - buys ammo -> feeds the economy -> helps keep people employed -> gets to shoot with his kids and grandkids and you give him hell over it? .22LR is no different than toilet paper, you will ALWAYS need it. Do you buy 1 roll at a time or do you buy enough for the week, the month? I order TP by the caseload on Amazon, I guess I'm a hoarder too and I also bet my caseload caused a family somewhere to have to use their barehand to wipe..... come the [beep] on.
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Re: I hit the JACKPOT!!!
[Re: J.G.]
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09/30/14 12:32 PM
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I havn't purchased 22 lr ammo, nor shot any of my .22 lr rifles and pistols in two years. I used to shoot one of the rifles three or four times a week. If I have the opportunity to buy that much ammo in one trip I guarantee you I will. I will look at it as getting caught up. I don't care who it pisses off.
Well done, OP. I don't have a problem at all with a guy buying ammo for personal use...NOT ONE BIT! Now these guys who are going around and buying it up at national chain stores so they can turn around and sell it off their shelf is what PI$$E$ me off...... This box of ammo was from a store front location in Austin; NO I DIDNT BUY IT 
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Re: I hit the JACKPOT!!!
[Re: deewayne2003]
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09/30/14 04:20 PM
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I havn't purchased 22 lr ammo, nor shot any of my .22 lr rifles and pistols in two years. I used to shoot one of the rifles three or four times a week. If I have the opportunity to buy that much ammo in one trip I guarantee you I will. I will look at it as getting caught up. I don't care who it pisses off.
Well done, OP. I don't have a problem at all with a guy buying ammo for personal use...NOT ONE BIT! Now these guys who are going around and buying it up at national chain stores so they can turn around and sell it off their shelf is what PI$$E$ me off...... This box of ammo was from a store front location in Austin; NO I DIDNT BUY IT I just picked up three boxes of that last night at the Wal Mart down the street for just over 16 bucks a box. I lucked out, they were putting it out when I saw it. The crack smokingly high prices will eventually come back down barring any new panic situations and folks just refusing to pay whatever these idiots think they can charge. The market appears to be slowly correcting itself. 45 bucks a box is excessive and is around 10 bucks less than what I paid (including tax) FOR THREE BOXES. The folks out there that "had to have it at any cost" are just as much to blame as the ammo scalpers.
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Re: I hit the JACKPOT!!!
[Re: mreed]
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09/30/14 06:17 PM
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I remember being a kid with a 22 lr and a brick (525 rounds) of ammo. It was more like work than fun to shoot a brick in the 3 day weekend trip to my grandmas farm every labor day weekend. Some of you guys must have the 10/22 galin gun conversion no?
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Re: I hit the JACKPOT!!!
[Re: mreed]
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10/01/14 08:44 AM
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Good for you mreed I'm glad you were able to find some ammo and purchase it for whatever reason. I'd do the same thing and probably would have purchased the limit on my second trip, and so would my wife, and my son. It's for sale buy as much as you like.
�A hunt based only on the trophies taken falls far short of what the ultimate goal should be.� -Fred Bear
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Re: I hit the JACKPOT!!!
[Re: mreed]
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10/01/14 09:45 AM
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Nice find. I haven't bought any since before Sandy Hook, but I'd have bought that up as well. It's good ammo.
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Re: I hit the JACKPOT!!!
[Re: mreed]
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10/01/14 12:21 PM
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I will buy it everytime I see it. Good find!
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Re: I hit the JACKPOT!!!
[Re: Dave3575]
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10/01/14 12:58 PM
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a man walks into a store and spends his earned money - buys ammo -> feeds the economy -> helps keep people employed -> gets to shoot with his kids and grandkids and you give him hell over it? .22LR is no different than toilet paper, you will ALWAYS need it. Do you buy 1 roll at a time or do you buy enough for the week, the month? I order TP by the caseload on Amazon, I guess I'm a hoarder too and I also bet my caseload caused a family somewhere to have to use their barehand to wipe..... come the [beep] on.
Your analogy can not be supported. What if everyone started buying TP by truckoads, and then the people from E TX and Arkansas and W. Virginia decided they needed a toilet and started buying TP because they had more money than you have as disposable income. Easy to tell you are an online shopper so you don't have any magazines or telephone books to use for wipes. Just joshing with you, I could care less if you own all the 22 ammo in the world. And no, a person doesn't always need 22 ammo, not with some of the air guns on the market.
The Greatest Enemy of knowledge is not ignorance,
it is the illusion of knowledge.--Stephen Hawking
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Re: I hit the JACKPOT!!!
[Re: mreed]
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10/02/14 02:29 PM
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I only buy from Walmart, Academy, Cabella's, Bass Pro Shop or places like that. Would never buy from someone reselling it no matter what the cost. If people would stop buying from those reselling it or even stores that are gouging the problem would go away. And if a store is gouging, I vote with my pocketbook. I refuse to go into Cheaper than Dirt because of the gouging they did a couple years ago. They have good prices now but I have a long memory.
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Re: I hit the JACKPOT!!!
[Re: Kmcclain]
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10/04/14 04:12 AM
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I only buy from Walmart, Academy, Cabella's, Bass Pro Shop or places like that. Would never buy from someone reselling it no matter what the cost. If people would stop buying from those reselling it or even stores that are gouging the problem would go away. And if a store is gouging, I vote with my pocketbook. I refuse to go into Cheaper than Dirt because of the gouging they did a couple years ago. They have good prices now but I have a long memory. Good first post. And 
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Re: I hit the JACKPOT!!!
[Re: mreed]
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10/04/14 05:22 AM
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i went to walmart the other day and bought my three boxes and went to the next isle and went back to the counter and asked if they had any 22 shells and the lady said we sure do so i bought another three boxes 1500 rounds in 10 min $12 for a box of 250. called my local gun shop and they had 3 boxes of of 500 for $23 a box and got those to 3000 rounds in one day sorry must of been my day. and i would never pay for shells that are over priced got a few boxes of 250 for $50 a box Just kidding!
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Re: I hit the JACKPOT!!!
[Re: mreed]
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10/04/14 11:00 AM
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Have not bought any in long time or even looked for it... would buy it if I happened to see it though.
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Re: I hit the JACKPOT!!!
[Re: mreed]
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10/04/14 12:21 PM
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Good job! I used to buy all the AM in same lot numbers they had way back when. I ended up with a safe full which is very nice these days.
I woulda bought every box I could get my hands on.
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Re: I hit the JACKPOT!!!
[Re: mreed]
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10/19/14 02:18 PM
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Isn't the free interprize system great!
Next we ALL now have to vote out of office all the worthless AXX XXXX!
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Re: I hit the JACKPOT!!!
[Re: mreed]
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10/19/14 02:56 PM
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Recently read an line article on why 22 is so hard to find........
1. Only three major plants in USA - Remington, Winchester, Federal. Running 24/7. Kinda like refineries.
2. Can't keep up with demand.
3. Hoarding
For me, I used to pick it up whenever I saw it. Feel I have enough now. Son shoots 22 auto rifle and 6 shooter. I have deferred my limit of three if someone else was needing it when I bought it. SHARING. Now it seems like supply is catching up in all types. Even 22 mag!!!!
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Re: I hit the JACKPOT!!!
[Re: chrisr489]
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10/21/14 08:57 PM
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Great find! For those of you that are giving him a hard time, he has done nothing wrong. Any one of you would have bought a sixth box just because you could. Before this craze I always had between 30,000-40,000 rounds of just .22. I have two sons that love to shoot, not counting all their friends, and I have 6 nephews who only get to shoot when they are at my house. I also (in the past) kept between 500-600 hand loads to any given rifle on my property. And because of this I didn't have to freak out like the rest of y'all when ammo got scarce. If I stumble across ammo or reload supplies for my arsenal ten I buy them. I always and I always will. ARE WE RELATED???? Yeeee Haaa
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