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Re: Any signs of a new run on gun purchases yet?
« Reply #425 on: March 11, 2013, 07:32:50 PM »
Don't need 'em.  I've got 5 factory magazines, and a pile of KCI, now rebuilt with decent springs.  I'll be OK.

A shop in the next town south of me put their business on hiatus back in Nov.  Some financial manipulation, to get them out from under a building they couldn't afford.  Anyway, I got word they're back open, in a new location, so I went to see what they had.

Nothing.  A few scraps of ammo, some AR parts, and not much else.  They're trying to get stock in.

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Re: Any signs of a new run on gun purchases yet?
« Reply #426 on: March 15, 2013, 12:08:36 PM »
I had a .223 ammo sighting last night at the local Fleet Farm.
20 rd boxes of WWB 55gr for  $10+change- thy must have had 30 of them in stock. More than I wanted to pay.
I didn't buy any, but I ended up buying a spam can of 54r ammo.
Sort of regret not buying a 5.45 upper+mags- they had about a dozen spam cans of 5.45 ammo in stock.
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Re: Any signs of a new run on gun purchases yet?
« Reply #427 on: March 15, 2013, 01:21:23 PM »
Interviewing for a job in two hours in Menominee Falls, which will give me good proximity to FF during lunch breaks if I get it.

It's about the ONLY decently priced place in SE WI to buy ammo off the shelf.
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Re: Any signs of a new run on gun purchases yet?
« Reply #428 on: March 15, 2013, 03:57:11 PM »
Interviewing for a job in two hours in Menominee Falls, which will give me good proximity to FF during lunch breaks if I get it.

It's about the ONLY decently priced place in SE WI to buy ammo off the shelf.

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Re: Any signs of a new run on gun purchases yet?
« Reply #429 on: March 15, 2013, 04:16:33 PM »
I had a .223 ammo sighting last night at the local Fleet Farm.
20 rd boxes of WWB 55gr for  $10+change- thy must have had 30 of them in stock. More than I wanted to pay.
I didn't buy any, but I ended up buying a spam can of 54r ammo.
Sort of regret not buying a 5.45 upper+mags- they had about a dozen spam cans of 5.45 ammo in stock.
I guess I am working on my 5.45 upper.  My 5.45 Spikes Tactical upper won't shoot the surplus stuff.  1 in 5 rounds went off despite fairly deep dimples in the primers.  Same ammo went off just find in my Tantal.  I got a high power hammer spring in this week to try.  Not sure what the next step is.  I have a rail and red dot on the way for my AK and plenty of ammo for my AK as a backup.  Some rays of sunshine in a ammo poor world.

THere is a gun show weekend after next in Houston.  I think I'll continue to pass on them until at least wholsale prices and stocks recover a little.
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Re: Any signs of a new run on gun purchases yet?
« Reply #430 on: March 15, 2013, 06:17:05 PM »

Me-no-monee

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Re: Any signs of a new run on gun purchases yet?
« Reply #431 on: March 15, 2013, 06:32:05 PM »
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Re: Any signs of a new run on gun purchases yet?
« Reply #432 on: March 15, 2013, 07:49:39 PM »
I tried to find that tune on youtube but have no idea what the title is.  :laugh:
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Re: Any signs of a new run on gun purchases yet?
« Reply #433 on: March 15, 2013, 07:52:08 PM »
I tried to find that tune on youtube but have no idea what the title is.  :laugh:

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Re: Any signs of a new run on gun purchases yet?
« Reply #434 on: March 15, 2013, 07:54:06 PM »
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Re: Any signs of a new run on gun purchases yet?
« Reply #435 on: March 15, 2013, 07:57:12 PM »
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Re: Any signs of a new run on gun purchases yet?
« Reply #436 on: March 15, 2013, 08:50:03 PM »
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Interviewing for a job in two hours in Menominee Falls, which will give me good proximity to FF during lunch breaks if I get it.

It's about the ONLY decently priced place in SE WI to buy ammo off the shelf.
Ah. I should have mentioned that I was at the West Bend store. The Germantown store is much bigger, but the West Bend store gets a lot less traffic...Hope you had some luck at that store.

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I guess I am working on my 5.45 upper.  My 5.45 Spikes Tactical upper won't shoot the surplus stuff.  1 in 5 rounds went off despite fairly deep dimples in the primers.  Same ammo went off just find in my Tantal.  I got a high power hammer spring in this week to try.  Not sure what the next step is.  I have a rail and red dot on the way for my AK and plenty of ammo for my AK as a backup.  Some rays of sunshine in a ammo poor world.

Check your hammer spring. Its really easy to install it upside down. It will look mostly correct and will still dimple your primers really well, but it won't set them off reliably. Worse, when you buy a LPK, some drunken monkey/gremlin/deranged practical joker will more often than not already have the spring pre-installed on the hammer upside down.
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Re: Any signs of a new run on gun purchases yet?
« Reply #437 on: March 16, 2013, 12:18:39 AM »
Ah. I should have mentioned that I was at the West Bend store. The Germantown store is much bigger, but the West Bend store gets a lot less traffic...Hope you had some luck at that store.

Check your hammer spring. Its really easy to install it upside down. It will look mostly correct and will still dimple your primers really well, but it won't set them off reliably. Worse, when you buy a LPK, some drunken monkey/gremlin/deranged practical joker will more often than not already have the spring pre-installed on the hammer upside down.

Yeah, I'm sure the Mana-manah or the Germantown store is going to be picked over, but it'll still be better than Walmart, Gander, or the other chain, Farm Fleet in Waukesha. I could also probably swing in early in the mornings on my way into work if I get that job...

BTW birdman, I know how to spell Menomonee Falls,  =D I was at a Starbucks waiting for my headhunter/pimp to show before going to the client for an interview, and my Android phone just autocompleted it in the other way the tribe spells it with an "i", vs. the municipality and I didn't notice.

Considering my phone knew stuff like "Wauwatosa", "Waukesha" and "Oconomowoc" right from the box, I just presumed the autocomplete was pulling from Google location services of some such. :P
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Re: Any signs of a new run on gun purchases yet?
« Reply #438 on: March 16, 2013, 09:26:17 AM »
Yeah, I'm sure the Mana-manah or the Germantown store is going to be picked over, but it'll still be better than Walmart, Gander, or the other chain, Farm Fleet in Waukesha. I could also probably swing in early in the mornings on my way into work if I get that job...

BTW birdman, I know how to spell Menomonee Falls,  =D I was at a Starbucks waiting for my headhunter/pimp to show before going to the client for an interview, and my Android phone just autocompleted it in the other way the tribe spells it with an "i", vs. the municipality and I didn't notice.

Considering my phone knew stuff like "Wauwatosa", "Waukesha" and "Oconomowoc" right from the box, I just presumed the autocomplete was pulling from Google location services of some such. :P

Fair enough.  Want to have fun?  Ask non-SEWI folks how to spell mukwonago. 

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Re: Any signs of a new run on gun purchases yet?
« Reply #439 on: March 16, 2013, 09:37:56 AM »
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Re: Any signs of a new run on gun purchases yet?
« Reply #440 on: March 16, 2013, 11:32:09 AM »
Ah. I should have mentioned that I was at the West Bend store. The Germantown store is much bigger, but the West Bend store gets a lot less traffic...Hope you had some luck at that store.

Check your hammer spring. Its really easy to install it upside down. It will look mostly correct and will still dimple your primers really well, but it won't set them off reliably. Worse, when you buy a LPK, some drunken monkey/gremlin/deranged practical joker will more often than not already have the spring pre-installed on the hammer upside down.
I'll certainly check it.  I installed the trigger and put the lower together so I could only blame myself.  The rifle works fine with Wolf or Silver Bear 5.45.  I realized I hadn't ever shot surplus through it and did so the other day only to see it misfire.  I haven't actually asked Spike's about it yet either.
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Re: Any signs of a new run on gun purchases yet?
« Reply #441 on: April 04, 2013, 08:58:34 AM »
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Any signs of a new run on gun purchases yet?

From today's keepandbeararms.com news page: 70,291,049 Background Checks for Gun Purchases Under Obama.

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The FBI conducted 14,409,616 background checks in 2010, 16,454,951 in 2011, and 19,592,303 in 2012.

Add to that the first three months of 2013 (2,495,440, 2,309,393 and 2,209,407, respectively) and the total number of background checks under President Obama comes to 70,291,049.
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Re: Any signs of a new run on gun purchases yet?
« Reply #442 on: April 04, 2013, 09:41:37 AM »
Fair enough.  Want to have fun?  Ask non-SEWI folks how to spell mukwonago. 

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Re: Any signs of a new run on gun purchases yet?
« Reply #443 on: April 14, 2013, 07:26:03 PM »
I think the hardware side of the business is starting to cool off. My local gun stores have ak mags, ar mags, and some rifles and accessories in stock.

Ammo is still scarce, especially 22lr.
7.62x39 fmj and hp are available in some stores.
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Re: Any signs of a new run on gun purchases yet?
« Reply #444 on: April 14, 2013, 10:36:01 PM »
I think the hardware side of the business is starting to cool off. My local gun stores have ak mags, ar mags, and some rifles and accessories in stock.

Ammo is still scarce, especially 22lr.
7.62x39 fmj and hp are available in some stores.
Things are still tight but seem to be loosening up. LGS has EBR's, priced a little higher than normal but not enough to make you laugh at them. Ammo trickles in and runs out, but it's getting there and slowly but surely it's calming down.

Was at the local flea market yesterday and saw a reasonable amount of ammo available and still getting packed up at the end of the day. A couple of months ago they could have been selling their $22 50 round box of 9mm FMJ by the truckload, not so much now.
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Re: Any signs of a new run on gun purchases yet?
« Reply #445 on: April 14, 2013, 10:46:00 PM »
The local Cabela's had a handful of gen 4 9mm and .40 S&W FDE Glocks for $599 when I was there today.
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