AMMO. Buying, selling or nothing

[Rafe]

I've been periodically looking for some premium SD 5.56 ammo. I have several "that'll do" products on my wishlist, including Speer Gold Dot 62gr or 64gr soft point, Federal 62gr Trophy Bonded, Federal PowerShok 64gr soft point (.223), Hornady 62gr soft point Frontier, Hornady Black 75gr InterLock, Hornady 73gr FTX Critical Defense (.223). Mainly from close-to-50-yard home defense type stuff; heavier, expanding bullet. I'm pretty good on ball and green-tip (even bought a couple of cases of Wolf steel case back in the Obama panic-buying zone...as a very last resort to shoot or as trading stock).

But I'm too light on what I'd most like for home invader scenarios. Only 100 rounds. Don't want to mix and match various brands/weights in charged magazines, so want to buy a minimum 200 rounds. But for the past couple of months I haven't found anything available, even at a premium markup. Nada.

[Syntyr]

I am buying I have stocks in everything except my two newest calibers 300 aac and 308.
I can find 308 out there and I am buying little by little. Object is 5k. I can’t find 300 AAC for the life of me.

[Tex1961]

My original post was July 18th... I was getting a bit taken aback when people were trying to sell 9mm at 20 cents per round... Wish I had 20/20 vision. Less than 1 month later and I'm looking at an add for 9mm at 41 cents per round and the sad part is that is actually somewhat reasonable conpared to other ads I've seen... I'm still hesitant to buy right now though... I'm still decently stocked up on most all of my normal calibers and even some of my off calibers...

I snagged a pristine Ruger GP100 yesterday from TGT and the guy threw in a full box of .357 mag with it... Even though I got the gun for $600.00 (which I though was a pretty decent deal, this was the older version with the rubber and wood grips). The free box of ammo added at least $30.00 value to the gun... I think I was more excited about getting the ammo than I was the revolver.

[Tex1961]

I can’t find 300 AAC for the life of me.

Makes me glad I bought a .30-cal 225gr mold

HMMM.... I do some resin casting and 3d printing... Maybe I should start casting some plastic bullets for training rounds... I wonder what the law is for manufacturing and selling plastic bullets.. I would assume that there wouldn't be any issues.... No different than airsoft pellets I would think...

[Tex1961]

I use a hot-glue gun for that.

No legal issues just selling the plastic/rubber/glue/wax bullets, I would think.

True... But I could do fun shapes and colors....

Years ago I had some plastic 357 cases and rounds.. You just threw a primer in the case and pressed a new round into the case... They were powerful enough to put dents into sheetrock (sue me, I was in my early 20's) I've not actively looked for those in years, I wonder if they are still made...

[SQLGeek]

9mm hot-glue bullet (used multiple times, shot into a target backed by an old towel)

You drill those out for shotgun primers yes?

[SQLGeek]

Oh duh...I was conflating this with something else.

What I meant to ask was do you need to drill the flash holes out?

And yeah, SPP are about like hen's teeth right now.

[LTUME1978]

After reading these posts last night, I looked around on line to see what is available. Primers (accept for large rifle match magnum) are not there at the reasonably priced vendors. Same with pistol bullets. However, pistol and rifle powder are abundant. Brass is easy to find at normal prices as are rifle bullets (I ordered some of both last night). I realize that without primers, the rest is useless but this is nowhere as bad as when Obama got elected. I think the primer issue will resolve soon as they are being bought up like toilet paper was a few months ago. I hope those ******** that did the mass buying to jack up the prices get stuck just like those that bought the toilet paper.