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  It would be a good flamethrower.

  Will you take the 310, or the old "Bamboo Bomber'?

Went there last year.  I wasn't quite as excited as I was while driving through beautiful downtown Parsons.  Small, not many vendors, and of course most of them were in full panic-pricing mode.  Plenty of trinkets, jerky, smelly things and other items of no interest to me.  I have no plans to go there again.

Try the folks here http://forums.gunboards.com/forumdisplay.php?5-The-Military-Mauser-Forum If they can't help you, they can point you in the right direction for answers.   BTW, from what I can find, the model 66 was developed in 1965 and sold for several years afterword.

  I think you are referring to the exemption that allows soldiers stationed in Tn. to purchase weapons in-state without transferring.

  If he tells you, he has to kill you ...

  Don't worry hardknox, I've got a brother who is a software/computer guru/engineer/savant who talks like this.  I think all those guys actually take ancient Sumerian in college and throw that language in just to confuse the rest of us ...

Any color will do, to get rid of the evil "black rifle" stigma, it's for the children you know ...

  I think the price increases are inevitable, as well as necessary, as long as the excess demand remains.  My bet is that pre-existing contractual obligations with the mainstream retailers has thus far precluded much increase in prices; as new contracts are signed, higher prices will follow.  Capitalism 101 ...

For crosschecking, not to supplant a good load manual, all the component manufacturers also offer load data online.  All the name-brand manuals have some good reference materials.

The one time I went to the Dickson show, I did a one time walk through and was gone in 15 minutes...

  If you are a manufacturer, the best plan from an economics 101 standpoint is to gradually raise your prices on the ammo you can currently produce.  This increases return on investment of existing capacity, increases cash reserves to build a "warchest" for potential future expansion, and should eventually help reveal a market "top" pricepoint for calculating return on investment of capital prior to engaging in any costly expansion of capacity.  Once those figures are established, it's easier to make an informed decision as to whether your company should spend millions to build plants with increased capacity.  Thus, the problem from an economics viewpoint is that manufacturers aren't raising their prices fast enough to respond to the new market conditions, thereby leaving a void which the scalpers are able to fill.  I realize this view won't be very popular with the shooting community at large, as most want to see 22lr at 4 cents/round, I'm afraid that if you are correct, and the "new normal" is now, that pricing will never return.

  Except that according to the post on their blog, this is an expansion, not a relocation, thus those 300 jobs don't exist in Maryland, and therefore can't be lost.  Thus, it is a net gain of 300 jobs.  I do appreciate the irony in that imposing new restriction on firearms ownership in other states is driving manufacturers in the industry to do expansions in other states.

  Most are, but all are hesitant to invest large sums for what is essentially a temporary aberration in the supply and demand cycle.  Remember, after the last run on ammo in 2008-09, prices fell fairly quickly back to levels before the previous panic, and supply mostly stabilized (although 22lr has been fairly tight for years).  I have read several articles which explained in detail why expanding 22 production isn't all that feasible - it's rather labor intensive to produce, the profit margin is extremely small at pre-panic price levels, the machinery can't always be used to load other calibers, etc.  Bringing new lines up can take years, as new machinery is purchased, buildings have to be expanded or even new plants built, materials for components are already in short supply and costs are rising, other calibers are still being produced in record quantities and these are more profitable, etc.  It's my belief that 22lr will eventually settle at a "new normal" price that will be 50-100% higher than earlier years before the market will eventually settle down, and that ammo supplies will remain very tight for at least another year.

      Check the math.  It actually works out to 767 people buying 3 boxes/day. Having said that, nobody has to "hoard" anything, if the entire US production run yearly can be consumed by an average of 767 people per state buying 3 boxes of 22lr daily.  I'm amazed that there was ever any 22lr sitting on the shelves ...   ... and yes, it's been reported many times by the industry that total capacity of 22lr was around 4 billion rounds annually.  Apparently there are around 70+ million gun owners in the US.  This works out to 57 rounds of 22lr per owner per year.  Even if only 10% of all gun owners buy 22lr during the year, that's only about a brick per owner per year available at full capacity.   Just for fun, consider the fact that there are approximately 4000 Walmart stores in the US.  That means that the entire production run will supply each store with only about 28 boxes of 22lr daily.  Of course, there won't be any left to fill orders from any other retailers, let alone wholesalers and distributors, or to fill the backlog of orders that are already in the pipeline (many sources are reporting that the entire 2014 run is already spoken for).  I doubt that posting photos of loafers scooping up ammo at WalMart is going to have much effect on supply for a while.

This.

   And the net result would be that you sold your 50k rounds of 22lr for $1000, and the bulk of it would promptly be resold, for 5x that price...

  But... but, it's on the internet! :confused:

The WWII surplus Mosins which are commonly used today had one express purpose - to kill as many Germans as humanly possible.  The rifles were very effective tools for achieving that aim.  Target rifles they were, and are, not ...

About par for the refurb 91/30's and M44's today.  There are the occasional sales, and Classic Firearms regularly has their "Grade B" rifles for $99, but the quoted prices are near normal for most vendors now.  "Matching numbers" has many meanings, the usual connotation is matching after re-arsenalling; rifles with original numbered parts intact are extremely rare, and cost many times as much as these.

Homeland Security bought the entire production run, loaded it in black helicopters and flew it out to Area 51 ...

Never heard of that happening to anyone.

Lately, people have been reporting turnaround times of about 20 days.

No.  If you are not using the crimp die (and many don't) you set the amount of crimp with the seating die.  Look at the instructions for setting up the seating/crimping die and you can find the procedure.   Edit - here's a basic guide from the Lee site on setting up dies.  Find the instructions for the seating die.  http://leeprecision.com/cgi-data/instruct/RM3508.pdf   The seating die that comes with the Pro 1000 kit (as well as the sizer) is the exact same as the one you already have.