Has anyone NOT learned their lesson?

[Laufen]

I guess that is true. I've often wondered the same thing. You read threads about the days when WASRs were $300. Maybe in a few years we'll be reminiscing about the days of $500 PSA ARs? My vision is also clouded by being on ODT often and somehow thinking the average person has as much stuff as the average ODTer.

In a college psychology class, we conducted an study to determine the most compelling motivators for consumers to make a purchase. We looked at different methods of marketing a product from celebrity endorsements, "sexy" babes, fear, etc. Fear (usually that a product would no longer be available) was by far and away the strongest motivator for purchases, especially for impulse buys.

 

[zesty]

I find it difficult to believe that there would ever be a magazine or AR scare again. It seems everyone that wanted an AR before has one and people are ban-weary. I haven't been aware enough during scares prior to 2012 to really understand the cycle.

I talked to a guy just the other day that said he was thinking about buying an AR just to have one before they're banned. He'll probably procrastinate and get caught in the next frenzy. I know of a few more that sat back and watched the last panic. They were shocked by the ammo situation but haven't stocked up much since. I don't blame them really. If you have $500, should it go to debt or 1000 rounds of ammo when prices are still falling and you rarely shoot?

 

[mtdawg169]

Yeah, it hurt my feelings to pass up on BrassMaxx yesterday at WalMart but I just don't have room for more 9MM. Or 45. I have two large ammo cans completely full of both, am working on a second can of 40 and a third can of 5.56 and 7.62X39...I'm slowly building a bunker just out of ammo cans. And my damn gun safe has stretch marks. Would like a few more AKs though...and have the hardest time not buying more Glocks.

Don't waste your time with brass maxx. I bought 300 rounds from Walmart a couple of months ago. They made otherwise 100% reliable pistols into jam-o-matics. The cases were trimmed so poorly that they caused constant failures to feed. The rounds would bind in the chamber and prevent the slide from going fully into battery.

 

[Patronus]

Yep. Hence the run on toilet paper. I dread a world without toilet paper.

 

[Patronus]

Don't waste your time with brass maxx. I bought 300 rounds from Walmart a couple of months ago. They made otherwise 100% reliable pistols into jam-o-matics. The cases were trimmed so poorly that they caused constant failures to feed. The rounds would bind in the chamber and prevent the slide from going fully into battery.

Thanks for the tip. I bought some but it went straight into the stockpile. I'll have to get it out and Glockerize it.

 

[Laxguy59]

In a college psychology class, we conducted an study to determine the most compelling motivators for consumers to make a purchase. We looked at different methods of marketing a product from celebrity endorsements, "sexy" babes, fear, etc. Fear (usually that a product would no longer be available) was by far and away the strongest motivator for purchases, especially for impulse buys.

Wow college was pretty hardcore in the 1920's

 

[mtdawg169]

Thanks for the tip. I bought some but it went straight into the stockpile. I'll have to get it out and Glockerize it.

Mine may have been a bad lot, but the issue was constant through all three cans. The case mouths had a burr that you could feel with your finger. It stopped an HK & M&P dead in their tracks. Those two guns have never had a single stoppage that wasn't ammo related. It ticked me off so bad that I just started smacking the back of the slide and shooting it. Otherwise, I'd have had to toss at least 30-40% of the rounds in the trash.

I'd recommend putting it into the "shoot it" pile and replace with better stuff for the "stash it" pile.

 

[Laufen]

Wow college was pretty hardcore in the 1920's

lol, yeah man. I'm still struggling with suffrage.

 

[albatros43]

In a college psychology class, we conducted an study to determine the most compelling motivators for consumers to make a purchase. We looked at different methods of marketing a product from celebrity endorsements, "sexy" babes, fear, etc. Fear (usually that a product would no longer be available) was by far and away the strongest motivator for purchases, especially for impulse buys.

I can see that. While things are prevalent and cheap we all think that will somehow last forever.

 

[mtdawg169]

We are sitting on piles of cheap guns and ammunition (aside from .22lr) right now. All of the calibers that were previously difficult to get, are easy to obtain locally or online. Guns are as cheap or cheaper than they have been for years, save Colt snake guns and a few others.

Is anyone still sitting on just 100 rounds of 9mm, 2 mags of .223, and a box of .380?

Is anyone that has been wanting an AR still waiting for prices to drop even lower?

$6.99 AR mags at PSA....do you think there will ever be a time when there is a mag scare again?

The only thing that I've had trouble keeping stocked up on is 9mm. I've increased my pistol shooting to about 1k per month. I've managed to build a very nice stock of 22lr since January at an average of about $0.07 / rd and started the year with less than a brick. As far as AR food goes, I don't think I've bought anything in about 22 months, except for a case of Wolf @ $225 to my door. And I am still sitting on about 8k quality brass 5.56 NATO, despite regular range trips to the farm. Finally, I was good on mags (a few dozen) before Newtown, even sold a few early on. When the prices started bottoming out, I picked up about 30 more Pmags and USGI just to be sure that I'd never be in need, even if they banned them tomorrow and my stash had to last me, my kids and my grandkids a few decades.

Ammo prices appear to be finally approaching par with where we were before the last panic began, so I'll probably start restocking early next year.

The only purchase I've made in the last 2 years was a Shield 9, not long after they were released. At the time, they were selling for $500+ and the panic was still in full swing. I paid $450 and knew it was over msrp. Now, when I see them for $370, I just grin and bear it.