Ammo Prices Are Up, Now What?
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- Опубліковано 28 сер 2024
- A off the cuff video I did with @Hoplopfheil regarding how we shift our priorities when ammo prices spikes.
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EDIT :For the comments that are spamming me and implying ammo prices haven't gone up. There are ammo price aggregators, prices are up by about 30-40%. If current prices seem normal. It means you were overpaying previously. A lot.
This was made about 3 weeks ago.
So it seems this ammo price spike is going to probably be pretty short lived. As they always seem to be (until they're not).
But the information is useful regardless. What is cheap for some, is still exceedingly expensive for others.
I assume these ammo spikes are tied to global events, and will die off as people calm down from the "hype"
Is 26 cpr after tax a “good” price in recent times? I’ve only entered the community recently
Edit: for 9mm
Eh... I've seen some stuff go up that I've been monitoring for months, like 110gr V-Max tipped .300 BLK has gone up $0.05 /rd in the last couple days.
This was the dumbest panic in ammo panic history. What were people even thinking? That Hamas was going to fly over the Atlantic and invade rural America with their paragliders completely unnoticed and then attack some rural county in America? I really think this ammo panic was 95% manufactured by the gun industry and like 5% people worried about hamas striking in the US. Either that or Americans really are every bit as consoooomerist as the memes suggest and just felt the need to buy something to make themselves feel better.
@@rezonatestorm for 9mm? yeah that's good. As long as it's "new" and not remans.
DO AS HOP SAYS NOT AS BROCK DOES
Hoplopfheil
Says as Brock hops not as hop brocks
Brock hop is the crossover channel we need
BROP
yooo what's the scope mount housing that vudu 1-10?
4:15 dry fire completely changed me on handguns. I really sucked with getting on sight quickly. After spending an autistic amount of time bringing up a good sight picture and pulling the trigger with no twitching or movements I was amazed at how much I changed when I finally went back to the range when I could afford more ammo again. Genuinely night and day difference. Any you don’t have to set up a time. I’ll just sit on my couch and “shoot” random stuff around my house. Light switch, on, pull… paper towels, on, pull. Idk I’m made it fun for myself.
My dog food container handle has probably 20,000 rounds of dry fire into it.
While I'm stuck and can only afford my hand-me-down revolver, I've dry fired enough to steady my fingers across a 12 pound trigger. Thanks as always for the tips during tough time.@@BrassFacts
Speaking of autism, as a kid I had one of those pot metal cap guns with a really heavy double action pull. While waiting for videogame loading times (no SSDs back then) I'd practice the trigger pull until I could do it without the sights moving.
I workout at home 5 nights a week. I almost always have a gun out to get dry fire reps between sets. If you do it enough you definitely will learn where you’re screwing up if you focus on sight picture as you pull the trigger
Agree with you 100%.
You know it's going to be a good video when it starts with dead-naming Hop.
Hop and brass facts are the beacon of legit content in a sea of bullshit
LARPING in your moms basement in full kit doesnt get affected by ammo prices. 😂
the key is larping in old abandoned structures now
It also has the benefit of learning first aid on the spot as you puncture your foot with a rusty nail
@@BrassFacts STALKER arc when
@@echo_43 I would die so fucking fast in a STALKER universe.
Straight into a grav anom 4 seconds in.
@BrassFacts you arent really in the Zone until you sprint directly into a grav anomaly
Post army life, I almost never load full mags for training. The actual shooting aspect account's for very little in terms of efficiency. Weapon manipulation and movement is where you really smooth things out.
Bruh, learn how to use apostrophes.
@@slappy8941be easy on him- he was in the army.
Movement, overt and covert, is probably the best thing to work on if you haven't got the ammo for drills at the range. Moving around quickly and efficiently in 30 pounds of gear with a weapon in hand, without falling and breaking your face, is a skill in itself. A very underappreciated one, if you ask me. Using cover/concealment, low crawling, camouflaging yourself, any kind of practical fieldcraft is good to work on when you want to limit the amount of actual shooting you're doing. When you've got friends to train with, hunter/killer is a great way to work on these skills, moreso if training with NV.
@@slappy8941your grammar autism needs more attention than his apostrophe usage. Priorities.
while i somewhat agree with this, shooting the weapon helps you learn how to control recoil better and control it while staying on target, shooting is more than a small part of training, you can dryfire all day long but if you cant control recoil while being accurate under stress, all that training wont matter if it comes down to it.
This is why I got into reloading. I can make 550ish rounds an hour on a progressive press. About 28 cents a round for cheap 55 grain 223 and about 35ish cents a round for 75 grain. The upside is they both shoot significantly better than factory ammo in that class of bullet the only 2 downsides is the time it takes and the cost to entry on getting a progressive press. After about 2500 rounds of 223 you come ahead. I only reload rifle rounds though because pistol ammo is too cheap and the difference between new pistol and my reloaded pistol ammo isn’t worth my time. Once you get into more expensive and boutique rounds like 6.5 Creedmoor, 300 Blackout, 8.6 Blackout and 308 Winchester as I did the cost to entry is quickly overcome.
Seems too cheap. Less expendive projectiles are 20-35 cents, 10 cents a primer, and 25 cents for powder. New brass 38-50 cents.(6.8 spc). Add another 10 cents for more powder and 5-10 cents for projectile if 6.5cm/308,
Idk I've looked up the prices for bulk brass, bullets, powder, and primers, and it was actually more expensive than store bought.
@@2A.Freedomsame, i priced it out and id have to maoe 2500rds to pay off the press and components
@@2A.Freedomreloading is only worth it if you shoot more expensive calibers like 300BLK, 6.5creed/grendel or 308.
What sucks is that after the Covid Craze, ammo prices got better but still never even got close to recovering to something that I and many people could afford to train consistently, just sticking to 5.56/.223 the best prices I could ever find were 40 cents a round (and most of the time it was $0.45+) for basic brass 55 grain, add on expensive shipping and taxes and even when it was considered 'better' it was still very pricey, especially for a round that is meant to fired in higher volumes out of a 30 round magazine. So the problem with this ammo 'crisis' is that once it cools off it's only going to return to the still hyper-inflated prices of the post Covid-recovery prices, which is just Covid prices minus maybe 10-15% depending on caliber.
Yeah, inflation and higher commodity prices be a thing. When manufactures' rebates start coming out that's usually a good indicator they have to push product.
It's hard to "call the bottom" in any market, in ammo I've given up trying.
Dollar cost average into a good position and generally you'll be fine.
Good luck!
You have Vista Outdoors and Olin to thank for that. They published notices to retailers that they are increasing prices as much as 15-20% right after the Russian ammo ban. It’s not like their materials costs went up or their machine time is increasing - they’ve remained relatively the same throughout COVID. It’s just what happens when you have a duopoly, corporate greed is guaranteed to happen.
Improvise, adapt & overcome 🤙
These cycles started with Obama. Before Obama ammo was steady for a long time. It was basically a commodity. I’m old enough to remember those halcyon days. Sub $100 surplus guns. $300 import AKs. $100 spam cans of 5.45, x39 and x54R. 5.56 was sub $0.20/rd. 9mm was $0.10/rd. .22lr was practically free. The Obama election permanently raised the ammo price floor by 100% almost overnight.
Check out the Runenation Cold Start. One of the best ways to start a range session. Get to the range, setup the target, hit the timer, and let it rip with the concealed carry setup you brought. No "warm-ups", no practice draws, no full size race guns or whatever. You'll find out real quick what you need to practice.
will do.
That battlefield la joke was so out of left field but killed me
When brass and hop speak, I listen and use it as a guideline for my thought process rather than a tactical bible
good. Don't ever view us a source without question.
Nope, I'm throwing away my 25 NX8s because you said it wasn't worth the money
... okay I'll let that one slide. Because that is object fact... (a brass fact)
Came for the dog, stayed for brocks commentary, comment for algorithms
DogComAlgo ... a tale as old as time
Can confirm. Nova is the real reason. Brock needs to dedicate a whole doggo video.
I try to do the trex arms 50 round carbine practice at least once every 2 weeks. I’ll change it up slightly every time, maybe on a hill, or between some trees. It is efficient, incorporates a reload, some movement, and it’s quick so I can fit it into a busy schedule. It’s fun to do with friends, and people who have never “run and gun” before end up going to the range more often. I also dry fire and try to handle my rifle as much as possible when I’m home. I have become comfortable and confident with my rifle, within a relatively small round count.
I get that the knuckle draggers would find it boring, buuutt I think it would be cool to see these dry fire drills you're talking about, and then maybe a cut to live fire on the drills, then compare the difference between dry firing before or just cold start, that would be sweeet
I only have access to a fudd range atm with a 200 yard max range, concrete benches at every station, and 1 round every 5 second limit. Because of that I switched to irons for the time being and I’ve managed to improve a lot for a relatively small amount of ammunition. Went from barely being able to keep my shots on a sheet of paper at 100 to being consistently 2 moa or better and MOA or better groups arent uncommon. Not sure how or if that’ll translate to anything when I go back to optics but if nothing else I’m a lot more confident of a shooter than I was previously
1 shot per 5 seconds!?!?!?! Find some BLM land bro
That's terrible
Are there no gun clubs? They're expensive sometimes, but it may be your best option.
That’s what this is. 15 and 25 yard pistol ranges then a 100/200 yard rifle range
What are you , Kidding me? I'm in my fifties , wear corrective glasses cause my vision is so bad . At 100 yards with irons I can do a 4 inch group with my 16 inch barrel , and that's on a bad day. Go get your vision checked.
Ammo, the new currency.
I think these ammo scares it actually makes sense to buy higher grade ammo (if you have to buy rn). 75 or 77 grain match ammo, while still marked up, are not nearly as gouged as the M193 or M855 varieties.
Yes. During cheap ammo times people skip past the high performance/more expensive ammo.. but for real usage you want that better ammo. I just bought some Hornady 300blk 110gr gmx rounds for just over a buck a round and full strength 10mm hollowpoints for 75cents/round
While its not the best for practicing recoil control I've found that having a semi auto 22lr is a great training aid. Not as a direct analog for shooting 5.56 but for training sight acquisition and specifically moving drills like bounding it is amazing. Also 5 cents per round and gives more feedback than just dryfire.
Mag dumps into trash is the only way to become a true operator, such as myself. When ammo prices go up, I just get another credit card.
I love paying almost a dollar a round for ammo 🗿
I'll add another comment for those thinking about getting into reloading right now, I've reloaded for 10 years and if you're going to load your own, it doesn't make sense to spend the time if you're not going to use quality bullets, primers etc. Components right now are high enough that it makes no sense to reload if you're looking to save money. If you had bought components a year ago or further back like me, it's worth it but I've done cost comparisons in the last week and it would cost me .80 a round to reload my preferred load if I went and bought the components right now! And then your time.
excellent points. I've been reloading for 2 years and agree with everything you said. Reloading offers you flexibility when the shelves are bare, despite the cost of components being high. Time is a factor, but I enjoy doing it and like learning skills.
I’d argue it’s not even worth it to reload for plinking anymore. Olin and Vista jacked the prices of primers and powder nearly 300%. At least projectiles remained relatively stagnant. But 9mm plinking rounds at 16 cents per round is tough to swallow. It’s only really worth it anymore if you cast and coat your own bullets.
Reloading is super flexible so long as you already have a bunch of bulk primers and powders. I crank out 9mm 147gr ammo by the thousands in an hour or less. Titegroup is cheap and will take ages to run out of. The brass is practically free. Could buy 147gr ammo in bulk but then I'm stuck with only that ammo and usually they are even dirtier then my own reloads. Can't trust manufactured ammo either, they either skimp out on good QC and blow up your gun or cause a baffle strike.
i like to use mags with only 2-4 rounds in them, load up a few with 2, 3, 4 rounds, shoot a course of fire that require movement and reloads. this A draws out the expenditure of rounds, and incorporates alot of good training value without blowing through 30 round mags.
I’ve started doing something similar. I load my rifle mags to 10 and my pistol mags to 5
@@LostSourdoughthe benefit to loading them with random round counts is you cant easily anticipate when your mag will run dry and force a reload. if you know its always for 5 or 10 in it, you anticipate the reload.
I have a gas airsoft CCW clone of what i carry. It does feel different in some ways but, airsoft BB is like 99.5% cheaper than a live 9mm round.
6:12 A basic Mantis Blackbeard setup is 240 bucks. It's so much fun. I probably put in a couple hundred trigger pulls or more a day with it. Shooting lasers at sticky pads throughout the house is better than sitting on the couch. It has definitely increased my performance. I think they're still working out the kinks, because I have had to replace mine. But their customer service is great, and they will replace it for free.
Very good buy but mine broke, dealing with their rma process as we speak.
Any holes in drywall from swinging around indoors?
@@armorers_wrench They'll take care of you. Send the old back in case you need another replacement. I think they're still working the bugs out.
@@Merril_39 Haha! No problem there. I've had more problems swinging swords around. I'm a member of the Ceiling Scratcher Club.
@@armorers_wrench if possible you should let’s us know how it goes, sometimes with weapon accessories, it’s very hit or miss whether it’s a 50 or 500 dollar accessory and I can’t say I’ve seen much on how RMAs go with most stuff out there.
The long-term trend is not that the price of ammunition or anything else goes up. The long-term tread is that the value of the dollar goes down.
Ammo prices are a good indication of money devaluation.
for sure.
But right now we're seeing a short term price spike. Which has to do with weird supply and demand issues.
That would be true if a truly fungable commodity, in a free market. But there are too few manufacturers, and too much government control for either to be true.
@@nobodynoone2500 that's why I said long-term trend.
I ignored speed when starting USPSA, and refused to speed up until i had my first "clean run"
Got a Mantis Blackbeard, and you're 100% right. I train with it at least once a week or two. However I regularly did dry fire practice beforehand. I think it one just buys the Blackbeard they get their money's worth by shooting it over the number of times it's worth (usually going for $250). If you look at it in terms of shot per round.
You could dollar cost average ammo over time. If your goal is to buy 1000 rounds every 6 months find the average cost of 1k rounds over the last 6 months, divide it by 6, and spend that amount on ammo every month regardless of the current price. What this does is you get more ammo when the prices are cheap and less when the prices are high with the goal of getting a decent average cost per round overall without ever running dry. Monkie brian stronk
From a aesthetically pleasing point of view, Hop's Larue railed rifle is looking mighty sexy these days.
god bless you sir
The ammo crunch of Covid and then the roller coaster of prices this year pushed me to get a strikeman setup. I realized late last year I wasn't able to shoot as much as I wanted due to cost so I picked up the basic setup with a 556 and a 9mm bullet and practice with it a few times a week. I find normal dryfire incredibly boring to do. This gives me some feed back atleast and allows me to train for way cheaper.
Dry fire does about everything you need other than recoil control and DOPE/distance shooting. I’m over simplifying it but that’s really mostly accurate
No magical free ammo time coming??
Now I am upset..
I bought wolf 5.56 for $4.99 at the beginning of Covid… the all my bounds cash every month. Great choice
Dryfiring handguns helps a ridiculous amount. I set up a shot timer app to beep at random intervals approximately every 10 seconds. First beep I draw, trigger press and hold on target, second beep I re-cock and holster so I'm not rushing it trying to catch the next beep. Repeat until satisfied. I take a piece of clear tape, paste it on a farthest wall I've got, and draw a dot on it. Great for getting those sights aligned on the draw, and for making sure they stay aligned when the trigger is pulled.
I’m just a random dude who’s been part of the primordial muck for a fair length of time now. The spiel about not trying to hit that perfect drill/time and just walk away from it for a while is so damn important and accurate for all things in life.
It’s not a great metaphor(I could make many as far as my various hobbies/skills) but I have played guitar for over half my life. Anytime I would get stuck on a really difficult sequence/song etc I’d try so hard in one sitting that I’d be worse than when I started. Once I matured a bit I would take a break, play/work on something else. When I came back to the frustrating thing the next day or several days later, amazingly it was easier or I nailed it in a few tries. TL DR consistent practice makes perfect.
Thank you both for another great discussion
Sometimes I hate you guys but it's because you're telling me what I need to hear instead of what I want to hear. Screw you and I'll see you next week
In the original What Would Stoner Do? series InRange did a video suggesting some drills but emphasizing setting your own par times based your own abilities. AND keeping track of it so you can know if you actually improve. The drills demonstrated in the video were more ammo hungry than others but I think those mentioned concepts are defenitely in line with your suggestions here.
The way you score paper drills (and you should be training this way for fast, sub 50yd shooting) is by shooting 5-10 iterations and then looking to see what your bullets are doing in aggregate. You don't need to calculate hit factor for every single Doubles or Bill drill you shoot, I only calculate HF for courses of fire that I'm specifically comparing my own performance to other people or past bench marks. I might shoot a single, cold Bill drill and record that HF but after that I care more about patterns than individual drill scores.
Loved the video but the mantis/blackbeard is honestly a ton of fun my wife and I will set it up in the living room like we used to the Wii back in the day 😂
yep they're great. But it's good to have a baseline training regime first, then buy training aids much later.
@@BrassFacts totally agreed dude! Give nova a scratch for me
@@BrassFacts have you ever messed around with the games/training courses they have? It's not so much long range but SBR/CQB it's a blast. I find that it's best use of my 7.5 inch upper 😂😂😂😂😂
G-Sight laser cartridge for dry fire and printing your own targets while only shooting 5 rounds at it.
Take your time to evaluate your shot placements at the range. I spend more time swapping out targets than firing at them. Paper is infinitely cheaper than ammo, yet I will see people fill a target with lots of holes that it’s impossible to see where your last shot hit.
Depression is high. Ain't that the truth...
Can't find a way to say this that doesn't come off as a nerdy fan, but I greatly appreciate the common sense you bring to the "prepper" side of the gun-tubers.
I can't say this video spoke to me as much, but it is the most recent, and I wanted to give you guys the props I think you earned.
If you guys ever touch up on any of the "BUG OUT" stuff again, you should look up how flammable the Pacific Northwest is 😂.... No governing force = 🔥 never underestimate respirators and a larger community for fire watch
Need to grab the cmmg .22 trainer for my outdoor days. I train mostly pistols but i need to get more comfortable on the long gats.
I was thinking of future proofing my ammo a bit by buying stuff to reload 223/556 but man is that a pain in the ass. I already reload 38 so my revolver training costs are about .12 cpr
Hop still rocking the Walkers, lmao
as a midwesterner in the plains, I envy that range every video. Great content.
Ammo will never be this cheap again. Is it worse that it was? yes. Will it get better? no. Keep buying, keep training.
Man I'm guilty of just wasting ammo. Granted I wasn't shooting piles of trash, but I didn't really challenge myself till I practiced the stuff that I suck at. Like one hand shooting, and one hand support hand.
@14:53 is where most people ought to listen great advice and it hurts a lot of us lol
.60 a round for green tip is quite expensive and should be avoided. Before I stopped going to gun shows and wasting time there 10 years ago I saw 62gn green tip going for $.90 a round. That's when I stopped going to those stupid gun shows.
Thank you for this discussion, I've been thinking a lot about how to do low round count training efficiently and effectively.
I live in a country where shooting FMJ is a luxury, 1 box of 9mm FMJ is around $75-90. So the only option for training is LRN which cost around $26 but it's still quite a spending since I can use that $26 to survive a whole week (My country minimum wage is $10 per day and 1 normal meal costs around $1.5-2). My current monthly quota are 50 rds for 9mm pistol and 50-100 rds for .22 rifle. I'm thinking about mixing airsoft into each drills, should get more reps while still keeping the (real) round count low.
Totally agree with you on not loading full mag. I prefer to load no more than 5 rds per drill, more that is a luxury.
Nobody wants to actually grind and do the boring stuff, but dryfire is free, and it actually does make you better.
The mantis is fun but after the newness wears off it makes a accurate range timer at a busy indoor range. Its a bit clunky to use but it works. Also a fantastic timer for airsoft dryfiring!
Ammo companies and retailers see panic and hop on that gouging train in 2 seconds, they absolutely have the capability to bring 5.56 back down to .30 cpr or lower, they don't though because there will always be a ton of panicked unprepared people who will throw money around wastefully... Heck I don't even believe that there is a shortage, they just hold onto stock like they do with oil reserves to keep prices up
I will always highly suggest dry fire and looking into someone or personally reloading ammo. Reloads will drastically reduce ammo cost but it cannot be stressed enough to find someone reputable and to be very wary of how your ammo acts and responds. This is especially true for worrying about squibs.
As for dry fire, I don't think there would ever be a wall or a plateau of improvement. It may be less drastic of an improvement but it will always be more reps than the day prior. Fundamentals are the most important thing. If you need to work on splits and transitions apart from what can be done with conventional dry fire, I'd look into running a mantis system or an auto resetting for your pistol if applicable. It helps a lot.
I always buy ammo like I buy milk. When I need to get more and have the cash for it.
That’s not really a good way to go about it then. Cause if you need to buy more, and the shelves are empty. You’re kinda fudged.
Thanks!
Just purchased my new Bowflex 9000 😎
based, now use it once and sell for a 75% loss.
@@BrassFacts exactly 😏
Brassfacts Friday 🎉🎉🎉🎉
I've reloaded many calibers for over 44YEARS. I'm reloading 20 or 21calibers now. no way i could afford to keep a good supply if i had to but good factory ammunition. i have successfully reloaded my primers. its slow, time consuming but when you can't get primers and it's definitely coming ill still be in the game. i tryed for 44years to get people into reloading they didn't believe these days would happen. it's worse than i thought it would be and only going to get much worse. reloading supplies the highest now its ever been and still much cheaper than factory ammunition and better ammunition. reload,reload,reload. Papa wishing you well 😊
I have a MantisX system and it honestly has helped a ton with live fire training. It’s definitely not a waste of money unless you just don’t use it at all.
I focus on round count for my printed receivers, so I can track wear and performance changes.
Voting Red so prices go down
Yep there up alright. 300blk is almost the same as 556
300 a week is my usual ammo budget and I probably shoot half of what I acquire.
This is a great video topic
No reviews in the queue? Get yourself a bren 2 so i can live vicariously through you
Also +1 to mainlining pistol when in doubt. Pat Macnamara said when he was on Delta even they spent most of their time on pistols because the fundamentals on rifle are the same.
I fell into Mantis products and dry firing during Covid cause all of my local ranges closed. Honestly, I think people really discount how much improvement dry fire can make.
If you have an ar which you should go get a cmmg kit 22 lr will always be the cheapest most realistic and fun training
I practice my draw and first da shot (m9a4) using a shot timer and the quantam xg (cheap) dry fire lazer with the app. I had to buy a tripod for 30 bucks to set it up but the most exoensive part by far was the shot timer. It improved my first da shot speed and accuracy from the holster dramatically. I can practice quick drawing at my local range and the speeds are identical to practice and accuracy is pretty close. I think the laser trainers are well worth playing with and they're pretty fun. I can easily kill a couple hours just timing my draw/shot. Still struggling to get under 2 sec from appendix with a button up shirt cover garment.
A newer thing they’ve been teaching in the army is to visualize what you’re doing before you do it, while the goal is muscle memory, visualizing the whole sequence of whatever drill you’re practicing forces you to know why and what you’re doing in a more thorough way.
Excellent video, we use clays for targets because they are cheap and they give us instant feedback with both rifles and handguns. They can be staged at any distance and they are great for multiple target drills that duplicate multiple attackers. Most importantly they are fun as hell.
The Kit Badger ones with cardboard knives or pistols are fun too.
I actually bought the blackbeardx and i love that thing.
You mean, 'There is no such thing as advanced shooting, its just doing the basics really really well?' What a concept.
Kinda like Valley Ridge course of fire.
Ammo, like so many other things, will never hit pre Covid prices. There is a concept in investing called dollar cost averaging. It’s buying roughly the same dollar amount of something every day, week, or month. People really should just apply this to ammo, because we can never truly know what prices the future will bring.
Is it just me or does Hop look like a young Pamela Smarts doppelganger.
I heard that little comment about the magpul dynamics video 😂 love those videos
An airsoft gun is a great way to both trigger a shot timer, and also get hits on paper, with the added benefit of not having to go to a range. You won't learn recoil control, but you will be able to draw from your holster and put shots on target, all for less than $100. Easily as effective as an expensive laser training system, don't ask me how I know.
really good for presentation + movement imo.
sorta the same level of benefit as a 22lR
The further the range the fewer rounds needed. The CQB 0-50M is a high speed and high standard of accuracy. Carbine range 50-300m is the most difficult to accuracy train for. Rifle range 300-600m is more about accuracy less about speed.
Y’all are some cool nerds
"Going zoom zoom on the trigger is fine, but yeeting your target is final" - Wyatt Derp
Here I havnt noticed a major increase in price in almost a year, and i bought some just yesterday
You were overpaying. Prices have went up about 20cpr in the past 2 months.
Looks like dry firing's back on the menu!
The “Battle: Los Angeles” tangent made me cackle
@2:50 is exactly how I ended up with a G40 (the real one on 10 Jfc)
rip
Ammo goes up, I buy more ammo. Ammo goes down, I buy more guns.
Why am I like this?
I chuckled.
Buy high sell slow.
Training until you get it right only proves that eventually you get lucky enough to get it. you need to start slowly making ALL your hits and slowly increase until you miss. the magpul dynamic duo harped on this. pros train until the point of failure. armatures train until the point of success.
The difference is that Brock and Hop do a tax write off on ammo(for their business). Most of the people dont do that.😅
correct, but note. I've only be doing this for 2 years. But I've been shooting seriously for about 8-10 years
My ammo strategy has not changed.
the .22lr adapter kit in question
Redcat is the shiz for dry fire
Something else to go over here in times of ammo scarcity/hikes. Is reloading. As long as you’re diligent and consistent about your loads you will get more consistent ammo with lower SDs (this helps with PRS shooting) and better yet you save money.
I've reloaded for 10 years and if you're going to load your own, it doesn't make sense to spend the time if you're not going to use quality bullets, primers etc. Components right now are high enough that it makes no sense to reload if you're looking to save money. If you had bought components a year ago or further back like me, it's worth it but I've done cost comparisons in the last week and it would cost me .80 a round to reload my preferred load if I went and bought the four components right now! And then your time.
Overall yes
But
Reloading should be a decision before ammo spikes. Not during. In the same way I suggest buying ammo when it's cheap. So should you buy primers, powder etc while it's cheap.
If you do it during, you're not going to break even for a very long time. Especially now that premiers are insanely expensive and hard to come by.
You factor in costs, and time investment and the break even is further extended
take it from someone that went down that path in the 2012+ ammo scare.
Reloading makes me shoot less because it’s a complete pain in the dick hole prepping brass
-economy of scale means you will not save money reloading vs. buying the common calibers
-reloading components go out of stock real quick, too
-it doesn't take up any less space to have reloading equipment and components sitting around vs loaded ammo
-if you hit hard times you can sell your factory loaded ammo (i've even sold off some for a profit during stupid high price periods)...vs nobody gonna buy your sketch-ass handloads
-the accuracy advantages gained from loading require you tuning a load for each and every gun you have, take knowledge you don't have yet and take a while to gain, and mean even more money and time and wear on your gun to figure out.
@@mattcomchoc2957 I sell ammunition as a business. Everything you’ve said is hitting the nail on the head. I was recommending it for folks that really do want to save. Not just save during scares. Trust me my old roomie and I shot his reloads during covid and saved lots and lots of money. Just being there when components are in stock is the hard part.
It’s the quality of the shots. Not the quantity of the shots.
While I day dream at work ill put together courses of fire or drills in a notebook, this way on range day I dont end up aimlessly burning through ammo with nothing to show for it.
Local gun shop in Wasilla Alaska wants 800.00 for a case of 55 grain .223 and 144.00 for a thousand small rifle primers. I simply went down the road 2 miles and got the same primers for 75.00....needless to say, I will never shop there ever again.
Hi mag change counts, only use 20s and consider calibers that can be cast. Literal poison bullets if you use wheel weights.. I guess, also gas mask training?
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a few months ago i bought reloading stuff, im glad i did...
Reject gold embrace ammo
Save your brass boyzzz.