What's that? You wanna chit chat? Welcome to the whore thread!

[RJ_]

My mom convinced me to go with her to Walmart on Thanksgiving last year to get a gift and I begrudgingly agreed, mainly so that she didn't get mugged.



Nope. Never again. It was a disgusting, absurd, zoo.

Plus, any sales they get only encourages them to keep opening earlier. No thanks.

[F30lolz]

When I met my wife back in 2004, she was a assistant manager at Best Buy and that Black Friday she had to be in work at 3am before the 5am opening. I thought that was absurd but I mean if they are going to open up at 3pm on Thanksgiving day, why not just open at 7am the day off? They are screwing with the workers so why not just jam it right in harder?

[UncleWede]

I was at Dick's last night, looking for .22 ammo while the wife tried on some shoes. Guy told me they have 15 cases, but it goes on the floor at 6pm on Thanksgiving. I *MIGHT* have to break with tradition and go shopping after turkey.

[F30lolz]

Originally Posted by UncleWede

I was at Dick's last night, looking for .22 ammo while the wife tried on some shoes. Guy told me they have 15 cases, but it goes on the floor at 6pm on Thanksgiving. I *MIGHT* have to break with tradition and go shopping after turkey.

Banned

[UncleWede]

Originally Posted by F30lolz

Banned

At least I wasn't one this morning!!!!

[RJ_]

or

Originally Posted by UncleWede

I was at Dick's last night, looking for .22 ammo while the wife tried on some shoes. Guy told me they have 15 cases, but it goes on the floor at 6pm on Thanksgiving. I *MIGHT* have to break with tradition and go shopping after turkey.

BANNED!

[C5driver]

Originally Posted by UncleWede

I was at Dick's last night, looking for .22 ammo while the wife tried on some shoes. Guy told me they have 15 cases, but it goes on the floor at 6pm on Thanksgiving. I *MIGHT* have to break with tradition and go shopping after turkey.

I stacked them deep when wally world had them for $8/brick.

[RJ_]

Why does everyone stack .22 like it's going out of style? And if it's so in demand, why don't these manufacturers just make more of it and make bank?

Is it the SHTF hunting round of choice?

Why not 9mm, 5.56, or 12ga.? They seem much more common and useful.

[Mr Tonka]

Originally Posted by RJ_

Why does everyone stack .22 like it's going out of style? And if it's so in demand, why don't these manufacturers just make more of it and make bank?

Is it the SHTF hunting round of choice?

Why not 9mm, 5.56, or 12ga.? They seem much more common and useful.

You can quietly kill a lot of animals with an accurate .22 rifle, yes.

But for me, it's just cheap to plink with. With the advent of nice .22 AR platforms, it's cheap training as well. Give it to the wife, she has fun plinking around while also unknowingly being trained on the AR platform.

I bought a 10,000 a while back for .04/round before it became scarce. I've still got about 5k rounds left. That's about 1000rds a year or so, maybe a little more, costing roughly $40/year. Though to beat cost wise.

That same round count in 9mm or 5.56 will run you about $200 to $300 a year. Not to long ago those calibers would run you about $400 to $700 a year for shooting 1000rds.

Maybe a lot of people stock the .22lr for when the next "ammo scare" happens. Then they can just shoot more .22 until the other caliber prices settle back down. ??

[RJ_]

Originally Posted by Mr Tonka

You can quietly kill a lot of animals with an accurate .22 rifle, yes.

But for me, it's just cheap to plink with. With the advent of nice .22 AR platforms, it's cheap training as well. Give it to the wife, she has fun plinking around while also unknowingly being trained on the AR platform.

I bought a 10,000 a while back for .04/round before it became scarce. I've still got about 5k rounds left. That's about 1000rds a year or so, maybe a little more, costing roughly $40/year. Though to beat cost wise.

That same round count in 9mm or 5.56 will run you about $200 to $300 a year. Not to long ago those calibers would run you about $400 to $700 a year for shooting 1000rds.

Maybe a lot of people stock the .22lr for when the next "ammo scare" happens. Then they can just shoot more .22 until the other caliber prices settle back down. ??

Thanks for the explanation. That makes sense.

So is it so scarce because even if the price is "high" for a .22, it still makes financial sense to plink with it rather than more expensive rounds?

while also unknowingly being trained on the AR platform

[Mr Tonka]

Originally Posted by RJ_

Thanks for the explanation. That makes sense.

So is it so scarce because even if the price is "high" for a .22, it still makes financial sense to plink with it rather than more expensive rounds?

I don't know what the cost of .22 is these days per round. The last time i looked was a while ago but i recall something like $.14/rd if you don't scout all the local wallyworlds. It's probably a bit lower if you can find it. Again, i haven't had the need to look for it in some time. But 9mm is getting close to being under $.20/ round for FMJ. And a decent target round of 5.56 is getting into the mid to low$.20s/ rd too. Before long some proposed legislation will come about and once again, anything gun related will be worth it's weight in gold for a while.

[///M Power-Belgium]

Originally Posted by Biorin

Bird today had phenomenal aim. Thanks, bird.

Time for revenge...

[MrPrena]

After USPS and Lunch, I took my kid to GameStop. I think GameStop is her 2nd favorite place to go after ChuckECheese.

Stayed there for 45minutes. My leg are sore standing up for that long.








*Ha! While I am posting this, CNBC is reporting about Gamestop (GME) about horrible #s.

[C5driver]

Originally Posted by RJ_

Why does everyone stack .22 like it's going out of style?

Because I have two kids and we shoot a lot.

Originally Posted by RJ_

Why not 9mm, 5.56, or 12ga.? They seem much more common and useful.

I shot approx 5K rounds of .45 at a training class one time. Unless I get free ammo, I'm bringing my own for any training, which means anywhere from 1K-2K rounds for a 3 day carbine or a few hundred for shotgun.

[RJ_]

I see, some people just shoot a lot.

I was under the wrong assumption that it was just stockpiling for the sake of having it on hand.

[MrPrena]

People tend to hoard before election, so that they don't need to pay 80-100% premium when they want to go out to target practice that time.

[C5driver]

Originally Posted by RJ_

I was under the wrong assumption that it was just stockpiling for the sake of having it on hand.

Not at all. Some people might be stockpiling.

[F30lolz]

Originally Posted by MrPrena

People tend to hodor before election, so that they don't need to pay 80-100% premium when they want to go out to target practice that time.

Fixed.

[ASBSECU E93]

Originally Posted by MrPrena

After USPS and Lunch, I took my kid to GameStop. I think GameStop is her 2nd favorite place to go after ChuckECheese.

Stayed there for 45minutes. My leg are sore standing up for that long.








*Ha! While I am posting this, CNBC is reporting about Gamestop (GME) about horrible #s.

You and I are strange 'financial' twins in a parallel Earth somewhere...

[MrPrena]

Originally Posted by ASBSECU E93

You and I are strange 'financial' twins in a parallel Earth somewhere...

Hey, I am not multi-millionaire (*ahem* $92m+all other transction spiff/comm) yet. Will see you there soon.

Lending vs securities. Still finance is finance.
BTW, I am hearing rumors about Urban Lending Soln side of BAC is going to be written off? It is not on any newspaper or articles. Anything?

[ASBSECU E93]

Originally Posted by MrPrena

Hey, I am not multi-millionaire (*ahem* $92m+all other transction spiff/comm) yet. Will see you there soon.

Lending vs securities. Still finance is finance.
BTW, I am hearing rumors about Urban Lending Soln side of BAC is going to be written off? It is not on any newspaper or articles. Anything?

They need to realize a loss against their profit....looking for items to write down against having to pay Corp taxes....

Then blame 'the economy' when they raise fees in their customers....

[RJ_]

Where was this two months ago???

I love my E92, but a well-priced 6-speed 335xi? <3

http://grandrapids.craigslist.org/cto/5323663263.html