Reloaderfags:

It's Sunday. More than most shooters, you look ahead. Making things go bang is good … but not as important as making things that go bang. Lots of people can pull the trigger. Lots and lots of 'em. When it comes to pulling the handle on the press … not so many.

Might I suggest that you spend the rest of this afternoon taking inventory and, to the fullest extent you financially can, stocking up? I am convinced that there is a better than even chance that supplies will dry up, by legislative fiat if not by natural market forces, in the immediate future and not return until our version of "The Troubles" has run its course and faded into history.

You are likely quite familiar with what happened to completed ammunition a few years back … and the follow-on shortage of reloading tools and components.

I have many thousands of cases prepped, for instance, but only enough propellant for about half of them. As for projectiles, I've been loading as fast as I could get them in the door, basically just loading whatever was available while I waited on backorders of the "magic underwear" projectiles to arrive. I'm waiting on delivery of "vin ordinaire" projectiles at the moment. (extremebullets.com if you aren't picky about what the box they come in looks like. Right now, if they say it's in stock [limited], it's out the door and on the truck in 2 days.)

Check your equipment for function. Clean the shit out of it and check it again. Load a couple hundred of whatever you have handy. If it's gonna have problems, you don't want the problem to show up on November 4.

Inventory your spare parts and if you spot a shortage there, address it. Don't guess. The part may never break – but that won't stop you from losing it.

Check your dies. You want to have at least one set of ALL the common calibers and two sets of the common military calibers (.223/5.56, .7.62x51, 9mm). Starting recently, that may include the 6.5 Grendel.

Any finished bullets or components you don't need can be sold if things don't go to hell and bartered if they do. Prices on components have gone up, but they will never go up faster than the prices of finished ammo.

Consider that liberals are likely buying many of the new firearms because they've just now realized that it's a bad idea of fire the cops and release the criminals at the same time. They can't get ammo to save their asses. Pretty soon it will dawn on them that closing ALL of the lead smelters in the US was a bad idea, too. Wait until they realize that the high prices of gasoline were not the result of camel jockey's ripping us off, but the EPA making opening new refineries to replace the old "end of life cycle" refineries impossible.

They've shot their ammo already. Now it's our turn.

BTW … I know most of you didn't need to be reminded / prodded. This post is for those two guys in the back corner who have been looking out the window and daydreaming the past couple of years.