BigK

These are unusual times for Walmart and it's employees. They've never had anything on their shelves that was worth 3 or 4 times it's price and legal to sell on the street before. Having a friend/relative come pick up ammo before it hits the shelves isn't that risky. Then again, maybe I'm just getting old and jaded.

Seems like a man could make a fortune on the S&W forum selling extractors for their M&P 15-22. Seems they won't sell them and insist you send your damn gun in, which is a pain in the a$$ (free or not). There's lots of other good guns out there with sub-par parts that could be improved too. Also, there's a HUGE market for parts for older guns (firing pins, replacement sights, springs, etc). I think knowing enough about guns to make/sell hard to get parts is easier and potentially more profitable than repairing them, maybe?

I keep stocked up pretty good on components for what I reload the most (9x19, 9x18, and 45acp). The fringe calibers that I rarely shoot (32acp, 380acp and 7.62x25) are pretty low, but I only buy them on demand, so doing without isn't a big deal. I'm low on ammo for my recently purchased Type 53 carbine, but I got 7.62x54 on the way at normal prices. So, the only thing I feel "iffy" about is 7.62x39 for my other of my new rifle. I'd like to have > 200 rds. for it. Like someone else said, I'll just shoot less until this BS is over. Hell, I got plenty of other hobbies anyway.

coolest thing I made was a 2" wide strap for my range bag, but I let a buddy talk me out of it for $25

yep, gonna miss ol' Shelby

I sold monkey fist keychains for $15 w/ 1" steel bearings in them and 3 or 4 different kinds of bracelets for $5/10 each at work and to friends.   I quickly saturated my market, though, and went out of business.

dang!! me too

I thought every over-compensating gun nut already had a 50' pocket hose.

  I'm sure he's busy consoling Sean Penn and Danny Glover by convincing them he can turn our country into a big-a$$ Cuba by the end of his term.

I've seen the gov't spy helicopters overhead recently, chronicling our every move. To the casual observer, they look like run of the mill traffic/news choppers.   ...but that's what they WANT us to think.

At least Ted Harvey had it right. Plus, I'm sick of that dishonest 83:1 stat being used against women. The victim's gun isn't used against her 83 out of 84 times. They misrepresent that stat all the time and I'm sick of it.

True or not, I suspected this was happening. They see the lines of people and there's dollar signs in their eyes. I wouldn't be the least bit surprised if managers did it too.

For the record, a new gun shop in Franklin/Cool Springs had hundreds of 20 ct boxes of 7.62x39 for $8.99 each yesterday. Their brass .223/5.56 was going for $16.99 for the same size boxes..

Despite how my previous post sounded, I despise the scalping going on. Seeing a guy from a LGS buy 10 PMags at Academy that he plans to mark up 300% when he gets back to his store pisses me off too. Same with the Internet and guns show resellers. I just wish there were more ants than grasshoppers, so nobody would "need" stuff bad enough to pay those inflated prices. It just makes me sad that the ants are being lumped up with the scalpers right now.

If your respondents want to use current prices for theirs use current prices for yours. You can't roll back time, but you can at least compare apples to apples. IIRC they cost about the same pre-crazy, but this ain't pre-crazy. If you feel yours is only worth what you paid for it, demand an even trade. If you realize yours went up in value more than theirs, ask for 150 or 160 rounds of theirs.

Great pic! Always fun to see stuff like that.

If I owned the gun store, I'd rather sell a regular customer 1000 primers and keep his business in the long run, even if that offends the delicate sensibilities of the spread the wealth crowd.   What happened to the early bird getting the worm?

I've only bought primers by the 1000 twice. Once was SPP when I first started reloading and the other was LPP when I first started loading 45s. Every other time I've gotten cases of 5000...thank you DLM!   This shortage of everything sucks! It aggravates the crap out of me that this could last 3 more years.

I find it humorous that the last 2 times I was at Walmart the only pistol ammo I saw was .25 acp. Where I came from, that's the kind of ammo the criminals needed for the guns they carried.

If you wait til is starts, the lines at the liquor store will be shorter.

I'm definitely down with group rates, loaner Class III weapons/accessories, and Krystals. The streaming video is the best idea yet. That's a brilliant marketing idea. Who wouldn't want to post zombie kill of the week on YouTube? The "no dying / getting bit guarantee" goes against the whole spirit of things. That's like Internet hunting w/ a remote controlled rifle or video games. I was thinking more along the lines of forcing vacationers to sign a "you lose and you become part of the next guy's vacation package" waiver, LOL.

The bumper sticker on my truck that says it all: "The hardest thing about the Zombie Apocalypse will be pretending I'm not excited."   Like I recently told a friend, I'd sign up for a 2 week zombie infestation given that:        1) slow zombies only (them rage zombies scare the #### out of me),      2) a 6 month head start to get in shape (cardio is going to be important),      3) I want a gun-friendly administration for the year leading up, so I can economically stock up on guns/ammo (I can always make catch-up 401k contributions later)      4) Taco Bell and Chick-fil-A are zombie-free zones (I don't wanna waste valuable zombie killing time to scavenge for food)   Oooh, maybe a Disney-esque vacation spot for rednecks or a Six Flags Over Zombieland where we can kill zeds all day and sleep/shower in a 2 star hotel at night? I know it's just a dream, but how cool would that be?   If you could be on the planning board of the zombie vacation land, what would you want included?

  See that takes all the fun out of good apocalypse. I suppose there are no preppers in Bizarro Zombieland either and no [url="http://www.tngunowners.com/forums/topic/60712-small-portion-of-my-stored-ammo/"]whackos with half a million rounds of ammo they're hoarding[/url] (just kidding, jphilips63, I'm seriously jealous). 

I guess in retrospect, if the backpacker couldn't avoid a few zombies in the middle of nowhere, he wouldn't have been much help.

For the price I paid for my HF model and the extended warranty, I can replace it every 3 years, if necessary, with a new one and never touch the price on the high-end models. I'm sure the good ones have better parts, but you also gotta watch that too. From what I was reading when I was studying on which to buy, the really powerful ones actually vibrate fast enough that if parts clink together during cleaning they can damage one another. Must be true, I read it on the Internet.