Captain Bill Burt Posted November 11, 2020 Share Posted November 11, 2020 Any CAS is better than no CAS, and as Snakebite said I think we have to respect the decisions of club officers. With that in mind those type decisions aren't likely to influence my match attendance at local matches. I could potentially decide not to attend matches that are further away if round counts or stages are too drastically reduced, but that would not be meant as a criticism of what those clubs are doing, it would simply be me deciding if I'm willing to drive that far for that quantity of shooting. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Snakebite Posted November 12, 2020 Share Posted November 12, 2020 I agree with folks that prefer to NOT reduce the round count. I don't know what is best for everyone, but given a choice I would prefer to have a full match if I am going to make the effort to show up. I'm one of those that can continue to load for both myself and my wife and actually shoot all we want because I was prepared for this. My suggestions of possible ways to stretch things out didn't include Watering down the Stew. I just want to do WHATEVER is necessary to get us all over the hump without the game loosing too much air. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Beans Ahgin Posted November 12, 2020 Share Posted November 12, 2020 July, no offense taken! Shooter feedback often results in better matches. Your opinion matters, and you are not alone in that opinion. As one shooter put it: "Hell, at my age I don't buy green bananas...and I don't want any ammo left for the estate sale!" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
watab kid Posted November 13, 2020 Share Posted November 13, 2020 ill shoot what i have , load what i can in these times and would love to shoot it with 22s if thats what it takes to continue shooting , i have a lot of options and that one i have a lot of ammo for , hoping to start into 38s this year but i can wait another year if needed , i got plenty to do in the meantime waiting out the market stabilizations , Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hendo Posted November 16, 2020 Share Posted November 16, 2020 And here all along I thought California rolling reloading components into their ammo regulations was going to be my big problem. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Desert Pete SASS #42168 Posted November 16, 2020 Share Posted November 16, 2020 Funny thing, I haven’t shot since Winter Range. Primers, powder and bullets everywhere in my garage but no real chance to use them. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lucky Lead Pepper Posted November 16, 2020 Share Posted November 16, 2020 I managed to snag these at my LGS Friday. Maybe they will start trickling in again. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
El Chapo Posted November 16, 2020 Share Posted November 16, 2020 I have enough reloading supplies to shoot for years. Everything is locked down, so there are no matches anyway, but as long as I have a supply of scrap lead, I could probably shoot until my guns fall apart. If you don't have way more primers than you can ever use on hand, wait until this shortage is over and stock up. There is no reason your supply of pistol primers in the size you use most should ever drop below 5k. Ideally all of us should have 2 years of powder and primers on the shelf at least. Powder is easier in that if you can't get what you want, you can usually get something that will work. But primer manufacturing capacity is limited, not easily expanded, and the bare shelves we are seeing now will probably persist for at least two years. 5k primers might not be enough to last two years for some of us who shoot a lot, but even if you have to cut back your shooting a bit due to component shortages, getting to shoot 5k rounds over a two year period isn't so bad even if you would regularly shoot more. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tequila Shooter Posted November 16, 2020 Share Posted November 16, 2020 I started shooting Frontiersman a couple of months ago along with FCD so I’ve been fortunate so far. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
John Boy Posted November 17, 2020 Share Posted November 17, 2020 Here’s the company that controls the backlog and forecast it’s not going to get better ... https://www.gunsamerica.com/digest/vista-outdoors-announces-1-year-1-billion-ammunition-backlog/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Diamond Jake Posted November 17, 2020 Share Posted November 17, 2020 9 hours ago, John Boy said: Here’s the company that controls the backlog and forecast it’s not going to get better ... https://www.gunsamerica.com/digest/vista-outdoors-announces-1-year-1-billion-ammunition-backlog/ With guns and ammunition markets being more influenced by emotions and politics than other products, the following parallel may only partially apply. Back in the 1970s there was a huge shortage of industrial bearings. Items that used to have a 4 to 6 week leadtime suddenly were short everywhere, so people began to order more and farther out into the future to be sure they had some on order. This influx of order backlog caused leadtimes to go even farther out, so even more people put more on order. Leadtimes eventually reached almost two years. When the manufacturers of bearings finally started shipping orders, customers no longer needed all their outstanding purchase orders and began cancelling them, and leadtimes dropped, prices dropped, and inventories grew. So just because the article above says they have a year long backlog of orders, that doesn't mean we won't be able to buy any until 2022. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Uncle Ethan # 94321 Posted November 17, 2020 Share Posted November 17, 2020 I just received my order from Choice Ammo. Placed it several months ago. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Three Foot Johnson Posted November 18, 2020 Share Posted November 18, 2020 Sportsman's Warehouse in Missoula had Federal Small Pistol and CCI Small Rifle primers in stock last night... for a few minutes anyway. 1000 per customer per day, so I bought 1000 of the F100's. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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