Would you sell some ammo? (multi choice poll)

Would you sell?

  • Yes

  • No

  • Need the $

  • Don't need the $

  • Thinking about it...

  • Can't sell reloads

  • I'm a putz and don't do polls


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Here is my take. Flame me as you’ve done before.

I have found good deals and shared them here.

If I want to rip somebody off, I’ll take it to gun broker. But I’m not doing it here.

I don’t need the money bad enough. If I did. Again armslist or gunbroker. If a friend said I need some, I’d give it to them but alas I have no friends so its a moot point.
These prices are ridiculous and I don’t want to participate out of fear or a feeling of desperation.
So I wait.
 
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I’m the first Yes, I’m sorry, the people that are complaining about the prices being so high are no different than the rioters or protestors that don’t get their way. I worked hard and when times are good I sell a lot. People on both sides NEED to realize you responsible for your own situation.
Instead of buying drinks at the store I bring my own. I drive a car that been wrecked so it still serves the purpose. I choose to smoke but I buy generic. I try to buy everything generic. I wear clothes and shoes until they are worn out.
Because of the ways I save money I’ve sold over 8k rds of ammo in the last 2 months. I still have all I need to carry me for a while. I haven’t even started 22 yet. I have Appx 15k set aside for that when I think the time is right.
You bought all that ammo and chinese Ak’s with shoe money didn’t you? :p
 
I’m not selling or giving any away, I have screaming and shouting about what is happening right now for years!!! Noah preached over 100 years about a flood is coming and what did the people do? They laughed and called him crazy, so with that said sometimes you have to own up to your mistakes and reap what you have sown.

if we get through this maybe, just maybe...
 
I gave 5 loaded 556 mags to my fil this weekend and would do the same for close friends or family in need. I have enough for myself (for a little while) and would like to have the extra cash from selling some but just can’t bring myself to sell and not be able to replace it.
 
I have a bunch of steel core 5.56 I can’t shoot at indoor ranges and it’s not good for steel. I sold some just to turn it into 10 times the quantity of Precision loading components
Don’t sell it all, it may come in handy someday...soon!
 
If I were to sell it would be “just enough” to a good friend or someone looking for .22lr for his kid ... and at what I had in it ... karma is a bitch and I don’t need any bad karma in the firearms area.
 
My 5.56 stash is good
My 9 mm stash is low ( 800 rounds) but I don't shoot much 9mm.
A guy from work called me last week asked if I would sell him a couple of boxes of 9 mm because he didn't want to pay 30.00 for 50 rounds.
My answer was no, he said I thought we were friends,
I told he had mixed up the definition of friends with the definition of aquaintances.
He's no longer speaking to me.
No big loss
 
I could but I won’t. I have never seen anything in the hobby as “investing”. What I have is because I want it. not to eventually turn a profit on. That’s just me. Although the money would be nice. Watched someone pay a buck a round for blazer brass .223 locally:confused:

crazy times. But I guess at least ammo is available. Unlike last time when shelves were barren...

I do occasionally give away ammo to new shooters and have been known to leave a bulk pack of .22 with a friend whose child is learning their first rifle.

Most interesting/frustrating and annoying is the number of acquaintances from work or otherwise who ask about my reloading. Wanting me to sell them some since reloading is cheaper.....

For one, illegal to sell reloads, for another I wouldn’t want to anyway (no issue in thousands of reloads) but the moral liability is something I want no part of. Then the third is some people are danged chatty cathys:mad::rolleyes:. There are few at work who even know firearms are a hobby of mine directly from me...
 
My 5.56 stash is good
My 9 mm stash is low ( 800 rounds) but I don't shoot much 9mm.
A guy from work called me last week asked if I would sell him a couple of boxes of 9 mm because he didn't want to pay 30.00 for 50 rounds.
My answer was no, he said I thought we were friends,
I told he had mixed up the definition of friends with the definition of aquaintances.
He's no longer speaking to me.
No big loss
I think the mistake here is that he knew you had ammo. Just sayin'... ;)
 
I think the mistake here is that he knew you had ammo. Just sayin'... ;)
He didn't know it for a fact just went on a fishing expedition and came home empty handed.;)
When I worked part time at the guns store I had advertising for the store on the back of my truck and became the gun guy at work, I haven't worked there at the lgs in a couple of years but I'm still the gun guy it's a monicker I can't shake
 
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I would to a friend at a decent price if he was having trouble finding what he needed. I also gave a box of Critical Defense to my buddy for his new to him handgun. Told him he needed to pay me for any missed shots in a home defense situation. So, keep on target. Cheaper that way...
 
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Yes. But just enough to cover a new item on my “want” list. Thought I’d sell enough at the Hickory show yesterday, but it didn’t happen. Might post it here, or maybe Canada, or even Armslist.
 
Ole Pard, you have been overtly generous here. This is my promise to YOU....I got ammo, you got ammo. Just lemme know.

I ain't done nothin' yet, but I do appreciate what you two have done for us. The way things look right now, if things go pear-shaped, we might well be close neighbors anyway. ;)
 
I have been entirely too generous in the last 6 months or so. Took my guns for a couple of shoots with my staff and ended up with empty ammo cans and dirty guns.

I'm keeping the remainder unless one of my kids are in "serious" need.
 
I guess if it gets so bad that I can sell aluminum 9mm for $1/round I'm possibly going to. Problem is, it gets that bad is it a good idea to sell?
 
I guess if it gets so bad that I can sell aluminum 9mm for $1/round I'm possibly going to. Problem is, it gets that bad is it a good idea to sell?
Unless someone has bills that are going unpaid, I’m not sure how selling ammo really makes sense in the current climate, which is honestly unprecedented in our lifetimes to my way of thinking.

If you could sell 5000 rounds of 9mm that you paid $.16 a round for, let’s say, $.85 a round you’d clear just shy of $3500, that you may or may not be able to replace anytime soon at anywhere close to what you bought it for.
 
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Not to sound internet melodramatic, but right now, there are three types of people with whom I would share ammo (selling being a non-starter):

1. Those with whom I am hunting (or who would hunt in my stead);
2. Those with whom I am fighting (or who would fight in my stead).
3. Those with whom I am preparing for #1 or #2.
 
Well, way I see it, the ranges nearby don't like green-tip ammo, so I have no problem selling that.

I have two friends that are going to get guns in the next few months, one a pistol and one a shotgun, so I'm saving some ammo back for them. On the whole, though...hoarding.
 
This^^^^^^^ Yesterday in Charleston at the gun show 9mm was selling for $35-40 a box. Today it will be $50+. They are hauling it out. Buying cases at $40 a box.
Soon rifle ammo will be back at $1.00 a round for fighting calibers.
I'm with @Jeppo on this!
As some of you know, I was at the Charleston show all weekend, so I saw first hand the people buying up ammo like it was Doritos at a marijuana festival. I talked to a lot of people as we sold basically all the ammo we had, Which wasn't a whole lot. It was sort of interesting the different stories/reasons that they shared about why they were buying. No reasons were solicited, but the most common reason was to blame their purchasing on everyone else. I heard all weekend "If everyone wasn't hording ammo, there would be plenty for all of us", which is true, but now they have become part of the problem. Some didn't care one bit about cost, they just wanted ammo. One gentleman bought his first gun from us, a Glock 9mm. I forget which model but was what his instructor recommended. He came up, said do you have this model, bought it and said he would like to buy all the 9mm ammo we had, never once questioned the price. Like some others, he is convinced there is going to be some sort of civil unrest or even a civil war and he wants to be prepared. Most of the dealers were selling 9mm for $30-35 a box and .223/556 was going for around $700 per 1k and 762x39 in steel case was going for around $450 per k. There was one dealer who had at least a pickup truck load of these 3 best sellers and his prices were almost double and he was sitting back waiting on everyone to run out so he could hit a grand slam. Glad to say, most of his inventory was still there around 30 minutes before closing. I know the majority of the dealers that were there and I'm satisfied that none that I know was gouging, they were just making their normal markup based on what they are having to pay. I was glad to see that there was available ammo there even at closing and maybe this is a sign that it might not be quite as bad as some see the future. Its going to be more expensive for a good while I'm satisfied, but as the availability gets better, I think the price will come down. From what I understand this is the first show since the pandamnit that had ammo left in the building when the show was over.
 
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I see a lot of ammo for sale recently. With all thats going on politically, and Covid wise, the prices are high.

If you had extra would you sell?

(Pick up to 3 choices)
There IS no extra.

If a friend was desperate, and had no other way to get some, I would maybe give them some, or sell for what I paid for it. Otherwise, NO.
 
Given the ignorance of rioting and stealing with today’s mindset of voting for a socialist I’m not sure what my number would be for enough for me. If Biden wins ammo demand will not come down for many years. You can count on that.
 
A guy from work called me last week asked if I would sell him a couple of boxes of 9 mm because he didn't want to pay 30.00 for 50 rounds.
My answer was no

I had someone pull the same thing on me. Told me I should sell it to him at what price I paid, not "what they're selling for now" because "you have enough". Sorry, this isn't the 3rd grade and the nun isn't going to smack my hand for not sharing.
 
I might sell some in a couple of weeks when the 9 I ordered from Natchez yesterday comes in. Depends on how much fools are paying for it then!
 
That is one of the most ignorant comments I've heard said.

I even told the guy to buy some ammo earlier in the year. He said if he needed any he could just go get it at FG&G.

It does explain a lot of what's wrong with our society. Told to prepare, has no knowledge of history so the warning is played off like crazy talk, then when the problem occurs, justify why they should get theirs from those who prepared because they dared to prepare.
 
I've been thinking on it. I've been sitting on a stash of Norinco steel 7.62x39 for years that I've never shot, and likely won't. I'm thinking there's probably someone out there that wants it more than I do.
 
I voted no, because I really have kinda kept my "stash" situation on the down low to most people I know. They know I have guns, they know I have ammo, but I haven't let but a very, very small group of people know exactly what that means.

That being said, if I ran into a situation where a friend of mine were to buy a firearm for defense, I would make sure they had enough to at least test its function and then have a box to defend their family. But I wouldnt sell it to them. If they wanted more than that, then I would.
 
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