Erich

Do you need to add value? I imagine they could argue they are by increasing availability from a highly localized area to a national offering as the seller does not make it available for online purchase. Exactly what Amazon does with some food stuffs. But yes, it would be nice is someone smacked them on the pee pee. Like the cat dude was saying, they recognize regulars, it would be nice if they put limits on them like grocery stores were. May stop some even if unenforceable. Are these guys camping out at the stores the night before? How is that rush in the AM. They wait in the car and when the first guy exits there is a mad spring to the door? I'd almost like to see that.

Ah...no wonder. I had no idea. Haven't bought ammo from a brick and mortar for many years. So its the online guys tripling down.

No issue out of that MOE version in any of my AK's. Hair tight in my Polish AK. They dont fit a couple speed loaders designed for the smaller metal form factor. If you like poly mags, I recommend the Bulgy poly's. They are metal reinforced and fit well in pretty much anything and are inexpensive. I have some steel Bulgy's that wont fit my Polish but good in others. If you look at tanker size 20 rounds. The PMAG version I tried (4 of them) would spring bind at 19 rounds FWIW.

Are the margins that good after tax to make it worth it? What does 1k rnds of brass 9mm go for there nowadays?

Amen brother. I was thinking I might have to move to an air rifle if this keeps up much longer.

CZ 75 Seriously though, who puts foreign Austrian junk before Italian junk. The sacrilege of plastic before metal. Maybe it’s a good thing to have stopped it in its tracks!! At least no one has the insanity to mention the steaming piles coming out of Croatia. /sarcasm off

ah come on, it could be interesting. regardless, it was a great sentiment.

Maybe most will pass it on by. I have no idea what ruckus caused the enough is enough, but the stink of it may keep it toned down. I trust some who dont see it as a problem to say will be along. This topic almost always devolves into US made vs Foreign junk or some kind of brand alignment deal. We shall see.

Love the sentiment. But it has it own politics! In the spirit of playing along. I've had a metric ton of things, which is only a smattering of what I'm some of the more life experienced here have had. To make this more fair, you really have to consider platforms that you have run several thousand rounds thru to get a good sense of new vs worn in, and issues with mag designs as they age. Across mine, only one has never every failed to go boom in about 30+ years. My 92 with 15k+ rounds thru it. Even old worn mag springs dont seem to stop it. I've had a couple nose dives from Glocks, but that is considering I run 6 or 7 different ones and was more mag related. Never had a problem out of a CZ, but dont have nearly the round counts thru me compared to others. Generally I think most are pretty damn good. I could say, there is one platform that I love (and so does pretty much everyone else) which I WISHED was more reliable. Because it is a political thing, I ain't gonna say it out loud. But its not hard to guess what every serious American gun owner has or has had over their time.

At some point my 501's turned into 550's and 560's as I started to be challenged with my....err...density level? When Levi's started to be less attractive, my wife, who is a huge fan of Kohl's sales brought home a pair of jeans by Chaps. They were more just a bit more generous in the seat than the relaxed Levi's without giving you the pooped in your pants look of some relaxed fit jeans. The 5 or 6 years that's my preference when she has coupons. I've noticed that in the last few years, almost all brands have gotten worse about size variation. Which doesn't play nice with my size variation. So I prefer to go to the store to pick them out. I take one of those 3ft mini tape measures with me and confirm the waist and and inseam are on the right side of the number, Sometimes that extra inch isnt you! ...but most of the time...yeah, it is.

I'll second that. I found the lacquered stuff leaves some residue in hot chambers of AK's. My first CZ527 had a tight chamber and after a few rounds, tended to be hard to chamber/extract with lacquered Golden Tiger, but ran fine with non lacquered.

These are the ones I was referring to for my trade ins. They are OEM for Sig Sauer as well, so having used them in my Sig 1911's it was a known quantity for me. The issues generally are related to the mag bodies having some forming variation causing the excellent mag follower to hang up in the top third of the tube. All easy to sort out though if you run 8 round mags.

There is a wide range of behavior, and it does not generalize well. There is a marked difference between opportunists who seek out and buy up high demand items during a (perceived) crisis versus selling excess or items you planned to sell and you are afforded the rare opportunity to break even or profit instead of taking the usual loss due to market conditions. We are talking the differences between in timing, scale, and intent. Plus value judgements. Are you moral for selling home in a down market vs immoral for selling when the market is high? Closer to home. What about the guys who simply enjoy buying and selling characterized by going to auctions or prowl the classified for deals, and later selling them at a profit? The difference being a year and half ago they were just a gun enthusiast doing a classic buy low sell high without issue. Now they sell, and make a bigger margin due to increased demand we need to view them differently. Is the expectation they should take all items off market and wait until a republican is in office and there is a glut? Economics does not make someone evil. Not that there aren't those who you'd love to see hung by their junk. The guy last March who bought up the 18k bottles of hand sanitizer for example. The flip side of that seems to demand you never accept something discounted. Is that not the buyer taking advantage of market conditions? We all seek out to pay full price at all times, right? Whether its someone who is forced to sell on a timeline for cash versus or someone selling during a glut, anyone buying is therefore just as immoral. Some even "stack it deep" on speculation without that same value judgement. May be a touch hypocritical.

That is the one advantage perhaps in going with an auction. You can set a starting price that is a good deal. If it goes for more, that is not on you. I generally start an item here under market, no takers than I try auction. Id rather have it stay here, but we all know what cheapskates we all are I like to think it’s not rationalizing scalping. It cuts both ways, it’s not like someone is going to offer me a solid the other direction, right? Say, “hey,...whatever you want you get at historically low prices no matter what or when you buy it “ If I choose to buy today of my on volition, I don’t think I’m being taken advantage of. Buyers determine their own needs in a free market.

They are fine, you may have to adjust the body width or the area where it transitions to the feed lips to get proper function and pass all the standard 1911 mag checks. This is an annual deal with EB. I swapped about 20 mags a couple years ago. I think I had 7 out of that batch that had follower bind. Slightly out of spec body, but easy enough to open up. After that, all work just fine the 4 1911’s I tested them with.

Hell ya you should. Daddy needs a new pair of shoes.

My take Last year was like investing in 2009, you didnt have to know anything to win big with the preceding beatdown. There are some good value items that are good bets over the next 2 years in the sectors that the virus is keeping pressure on. Finding them takes a heck of alot more research. Sector consolidations and M&A make is something to look out for in those sectors though. Finding them before they get mentions from the investing media is key. I have one on my watchlist I was researching this last week and it just got a pop from a brokerage article a couple days ago...waiting for the next dip if it comes.

Lol. Hypocrisy you say. Nooooo. Nothing new for the seat of power. Toe their line, you must. Come on, lets admit it. 1A was really problematic anyway. Now no one ever has to worry about being butthurt by words or thoughts ever again. To be good is Gamma, because Gamma is good! Google + Apple + Amazon, how much of the web backbone infrastructure do y'all think they control? Deregulation had its consequences. It would appear capitalism and freedom of speech were not terribly compatible long term. Man, I hope they aren't working on brain scanners. Then we'd really be porked.

That’d be great! Appreciate any incites. I’ve got myself overwhelmed when I consider it to the point I dropped it. That kind of info should be a nice frame of reference.

No doubt. Too many examples to list. And yet everyone seems complacent with it because of their addiction to the shinier parts they like. I imagine as long as folks just go along with it why expect much else. All good, other peoples kids are a kind of a pain in the butt anyway

As a first time buyer, I think your experience / thoughts might be off great benefit for those who don’t currently have any. Background about the selection process, tips, and lessons learned. Its not a topic that’s well covered without a metric ton on googling. I’ll have to check arfcom, maybe they have a forum, but its potentially a good subforum.

But they can sure deliver all those Democratic ballets like nobody’s business, can’t they? Joking aside, they are one of the poster children for the downsides of the crazy times we live in. i tried to talk a GB buyer out of selecting them to deliver a rifle about a month ago in favor of Fedex. But he wanted usps. It was lost for 2 weeks until it’s status changed to ‘out for delivery’. We were both relieved. 2.5 weeks for 2 day priority. My wife’s Kohls order from Black Friday shipped on 11/29, showed up yesterday. I’ve had an amazon order lost having never lost anything using usps in over 40 years prior to 2020 craziness. I’ve been avoiding them for the last 3 months, there issues are too well documented to have confidence until they get things back on track. the big change I’ve seen, and local po manager told me when I called on the rifle, is they have stopped scanning most intermediate events as policy to speed things up. And of course, let it be for at least a month as you heard. Hope your package shows

Best wishes for a quick recovery.

Garanimals, bell bottoms, and corduroy...thems was the days. Thanks for that swamp