Been busy.

Newsflash: Ammo shortage. More local regurgitation of "breaking news" from the AP.

Aim Right is moving!

My favorite gun shop is moving closer to my house! Aim Right is moving to downtown Fort Mill.

Well it’s finally going to happen

We are MOVING

The Gun shop will relocate to Main Street Fort Mill.

The new address is 237 Main which is at the top of Main Street.

Should be in and ready to sell guns by the first of September.

We look forward to seeing You there.

Fatjak & the boys

Jack has informed me that the "big moving sale" is "Buy 1 for the price of 2". Ha.

Snubby ammo choice

James @ www.Hellinahandbasket.net has a great post about snubby ammo selection http://www.hellinahandbasket.net/2009/07/quest-for-ammo.htm

I carry a S&W 642 as my CCW. I spend a lot of time in busy, populated places so I load it with 5 of the overpriced Blue Tip Glaser Safety Slugs (not +p). I've got a couple of Bianchi speed strips with Remington Golden Saber 125 grain +P JHP on and/or around my person for reloads.

I have not shot the requisite 100+ rounds of the Glasers, as I could easily purchase another pistol for what that would cost me. Doom on me. I am working my way towards 150 of the aforementioned 125 gr +P JHP, but they kick like the proverbial whipped mule and aren't any bargain to take to the range either.

The Glasers don't get a lot of positive comments on boards. Not at all. I am going to risk a smack-down over on Hellinahandbasket and ask the smart guys what they think about them.

Update: the more I read the more likely that there will be some Glasers for sale on GB soon.

Update 2: My question to James got a whole post as a reply. With polar bear pic goodness.

Found some .22LR at the Wal Mart by work today

4 Federal big box o' 550 22LR at Wal-mart. $17 a box. My new friend Todd at the sporting goods counter (I see him almost weekly, so we are practically friends...really) said that the 4 boxes had been there since...gasp...Monday! Could this be yet another sign that the ammo shortage has calmed down?

I bought 3.

Going plinking this weekend. Yep.

Ammo Search

Based on some ongoing research, I've decided to increase the stockpile of .22LR by about a factor of 10. Lucky me - the local Wal-Mart had yet to be picked clean today and I was able to pick up 400 rds of CCI Mini Mag 36 Gr HP at around $6.50/100 round box. Not really a bargain, but I didn't have to pay shipping.

So there is that.

These 400 rounds represented the entirety of the inventory available at this Wal-mart, so I didn't buy up the 10 or so boxes of Standard Velocity 40gr RN Winchester that were also in the (mostly empty) case.

I should have taken a pic, but the only other ammo they had was .22 short, .17, a solitary box of .45 ball, a solitary box of .44 Mag, and 5 or so boxes of .223 ball. This is actually an improvement over the last time I visited this store.

I pondered the .45 and .223, but it wasn't priced any kinder than the other stuff I've got stockpiled, and again, asides from food, seeds and .22 LR I need to calm down a bit with the firearms and ammo as I'll run out of expensive things to barter fairly quickly if I don't focus on the basics.

9mm ammo search

Local shops have marked up their range and carry ammo to the point that buying online in bulk has become not just smart but necessary. 

But even in bulk, .45 and .40 S&W ammo is priced several notches higher than 9mm Luger.

So I bought a G17 to have something somewhat more affordable to shoot recreationally (and someday perhaps competitively), my first ammo purchase was a case of Federal 115gr ball. This is more than decent ammo that has reloadable brass and at the equivalent of $12.50 a box is far cheaper than a box of Wolf at the range. 

So I am so busy patting myself on the back by finding a relative (these days) bargain that I forget that since the G17 is in my Bug Out Bag, it might make sense to have something other than ball in all of those extra magazines that I have stashed all over the place.

So I go to Cabela's, Cheaper Than Dirt, and Sportsman's Guide (who, by the way have a decent deal on Remington Golden Saber in several calibers).

To make a long story longer - I ended up back at Gunbroker and I bought 100 rds of Federal Premium LE Tactical 9mm 124 Hydra-Shok ammunition as I already scrounged one ancient box of Hydra-Shok from the cache. 

Good call? 

Who knows. It's a royal pain finding reasonably priced ammo. Even in bulk. 

No more ammo for me for awhile (unless I run across an unpillaged rural Wal-mart). Must buy more food.

Magic Mexican Bullets

A chuckle from New Jovian Thunderbolt:

It's a Magic Bullet! It hunts down blue uniforms that are covering a bullet resistant vest. The bullet then grabs the Law Enforcement Officer by the collar and slaps his face a bunch of times until said cop calls the bullet "Mommy." Satisfied the police officer is sufficiently humiliated, it then backs up a few feet and goes through the kevlar armor as though it were tissue paper and seeks out the heart. It then bits down on the aorta until the unmanned peace officer expires. Another tragedy that could have been averted if we only had more laws. Like one against murdering people.