Time Traveling

Digging through some old catalogs last night and came across a Cheaper Than Dirt issue from August 2009 and this caught my eye.

I had to rub my eyes and take a 2^nd and 3^rd look – were those magical bullets?  Sterling Silver core?  No – this is how much Lake City SS109 was selling for late that summer - $729 for 1000 rounds….you can get the same thing today for $409 from CTD.

I know that a couple of folks have mentioned this – Ah, it was two of my favorites -  Commander Zero AND Tam from View from the Porch and I also saw a piece over at SurvivalBlog too - If you are just now freaking out with your pantaloons all in bunch – well, Tam says it best:

Okay, is it just those of us who've been shooting since '08 or earlier? Yeah? Good...

Then why in the name of Mars Pater did you wait 'til now to stock up?!?

You were around during the circus that was gun shows after Election '08 and you're just now waiting to stock up on magazines and buy that extra AR? You experienced the Big Ammo Drought and you've allowed your reserves to drop so low that you feel compelled to go make a panic purchase?

I am still buying when I see good deals – beans, bullets and band-aids and I have ammo and mags for guns I don’t own – but Tam and the Commander are right – we have had years and years to prepare. 

Things might get better, but more than likely they are going to get worse.

At one of the local Wally Worlds – you can buy a new Windham Arms AR-15 M4 clone (link to review) for the same price as that case of August 2009 5.56…..just saying….

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