I can't say I'm a hoarder, of at least commercial ammunition.
However, it's hitting even us died-in-the-wool reloaders squarely in the solar plexus.
I sat at the reloading bench the other evening, with the intent of cranking out a few hundred .38 Spl. 148gr HBWC loads for my S&W 52 and Steel Challenge race revolver.
I got the Dillon SDB all set up, and then pondered whether I wanted to use those two little trays of small pistol primers for .38 Spl. or save them for something else.
In years past, I would never have given that much consideration. In years past, I could just go to the Ammo Box or Mountain of Geese and pick up another 1000 or so primers, no problem.
Bummer.
Scout is correct, surplus guns and ammo are exactly that - surplus. That leaves Wolf and their their contemporary steel-cased ammo manufacturers as the pipeline, since surplus caches have dried up pending new finds.
That's why I didn't go full-tilt boogie on a 5.45x39 AK. I didn't lay in a personal stash of ammo, and all the ammo has to come from overseas. There are no reloading components stateside, and it's not easily formed from other brass.
One little hitch in the git-along with respect to importation of 5.45x39, and the pipeline's shut off. Zip. Nada. No mas.
