(01-05-2023, 10:35 PM)ABNARTY Wrote: I am with you.
I love to shoot and reload. However, I am not a wealthy person. I cannot justify the cost when I have to pay for other things too. Like food.
I started shooting a lot more archery, pellet guns, and even sling shots. More quiet and cheaper. The ammo and firearms stay in storage for the day I may need them. Reloading supplies are tucked away too. No clue who is buying ammo these days. The cost is insane. That's probably all in the plan to squeeze people out of the hobby.
As far as the prices of everything else? We all saw this coming. Print up trillions of dollars and guess what happens to the economy? Start unnecessarily messing with food production? Not a mystery what happens next. Screw up the world flow of oil under completely manufactured pretenses? It worked very well at screwing over the untermensch.
I am very grateful my family supported my weirdness with a stocked wood pile, freezer full of beef, and non-splendid lifestyle. We might just make it.
When I was a kid (I think it was my mom) bought me a BB-gun. A cardboard box and a floor mat kept all my BBs contained. I'll tell ya, you can get to be a damned deadly shot just practicing with something like that.
Have to admit, I never got good with a slingshot (and I did kind'a try). Like you, I spent this Summer and Fall brushing up with my bow. I thought I was going to get up to a 70lb draw weight, but couldn't. Actually hurt myself at Thanksgiving messing around with it and I think I had it cranked down to about 65lbs.
Looking at all this ammo I've been building, am realizing I haven't been shooting anywhere near as much as I had been. Had a lot less time to do that over the past three years. If I keep up with my bow, I might not need anymore expensive components. Well ... maybe a couple more kegs of powder to replace what I used up.
That money printing business does make me worry a little about my retirement funds. I saw an ugly story coming out of Ron Paul. He said Biden was about to re-tax retirements. I guess everything they're taking and blowing on non-sense is just a disguise for breaking the dollar and ushering in the CBDC. Ya can't win.
Biggest thing on my mind lately is this generation of kids who grew up in 0bama schools. They learned a whole 'nuther set of values from what we were brought up on.