Random air gun thoughts

[Blackdog]

I'm sitting here looking at my shinny new very bad-ass 2289 and thinking how nice it would be to shoot it.  But I can't because the noise freaks my dog out.  She's willing to attack any cat, coon, skunk or coyote but the vacuum cleaner or air gun is just too much. 
I went down to a few stores this morning to check on the availability of .22LR ammo.  Every once and a while you can get lucky and score some but it has been over 6 months since that's happened.  It's nice knowing I've got an air gun now, the airs free and the pellets are $8.00 for 500.  Kind of like "sticking it to the man".  I had the same feeling when I converted my International Scout to propane.  I was free from gas stations and didn't pay any road tax.  We have electric cars and main stream electric motorcycles are just around the corner.  BMW, KTM and others make them now but there not the norm.
Take away our gas and ammo and we'll soon find a replacement.  And sometimes the replacement is an improvement.
I'm attending a class on "How to make a world class electric motorcycle" next week.  It's put on Brammo who makes the worlds fastest production motorcycle.
I've been out of the air gun market for 20 years or so and it's nice to see the tremendous progress being made.  With the ammo shortage I see many powder burners converting to air.  Are air guns on the battle field yet?  Give it time they will be.

That's all.

[mudduck48]

If you want pellets, go to Pyaramyd air. They have pellets for you gun.
http://www.pyramydair.com/?utm_source=bm23&utm_medium=email&utm_term=www.pyramydair.com&utm_content=09%2F06%2F2013&utm_campaign=AG+Doorbuster+Deal%3A+Stoeger+Arms+X50+Air+Rifle

[Blackdog]

If you want pellets, go to Pyaramyd air. They have pellets for you gun.

I have no problem getting pellets, I get them at Walmart.  It's the damn .22LR ammo I can't get.

[mudduck48]

I have no problem getting pellets, I get them at Walmart.  It's the damn .22LR ammo I can't get.

You and everyone else in the USA, except rws. LOL

[Blackdog]

You and everyone else in the USA, except rws. LOL

Most agree it's the hoarding that has caused the shortage.  I'm guilty of that too.  I just keep thinking how much a box of ammo is worth when you can't buy it. 

[mudduck48]

Me, I don't shoot anything but my air. So, I am going to buy as many pellets that I can with my Soloist security. I went into the Walmart here today and found 4 tins of pellets, 2 rifles, one box of 15 count CO2 and that was it. Cleaned out. I have a B day next mo. and I'm going to buy pellets.

[Blackdog]

So, are people hoarding air gun supplies too?  I haven't noticed that here but I just started this air gun thing.

.22 LR is very difficult to get.  .22 magnum, forget it not available at all. 

All this made be move to 17HMR.  Ammo is always available. 

[mudduck48]

I live in California, lead is all but banned here. No lead wheel weights, no lead ammo for hunting after 2016, the list goes on. They are even trying to make you get an ammo card ($50) to buy ammo. This will eliminate mail orders for ammo and probably pellets too. The pellet is like a round of .22lr to me, I can't make either one, so, I have to buy them. People will say that you can make your own pellets, but you can't make them like H & N  or RWS. 

[BDS]

As one Ruger marketing fella said to me a year or so back... " NY, Michigan, California and Illinois are not part of our long term sales plans"

All we can do is continue to support the NRA and the NSSF guys in legislation and law suits and live where you can buy what you want, shoot what you want and not be forced to hide in the shadows from Jerry Brown and his ilk. (ie: AZ, MT, WY, ID and others not yet victims of the socialists)

Attached: My June outing with the IAWCA on private property in Idaho (137 acres). first is the .30 caliber Browning MG, second pic is the sad recipient of the .30 MG 

[Old Dog]

Woo-hoo

[Tater]

Those are some awesome pics Brian.   

[BigErn]

That was a sweet Camaro! Lol... great pic of that MG 

[Flex]

As one Ruger marketing fella said to me a year or so back... " NY, Michigan, California and Illinois are not part of our long term sales plans"

It's too bad that the basically good people of the rural and "non-metro" areas of the above mentioned states suffer the consequences of the ner' do wells that congregate in Detroit, LA, Chicago and NYC. While there are certainly "good folks" that live in those areas (as well as "bad folks" that live in others), their decent, law abiding behaviors are no match for the ever increasing lawlessness of the criminal elements in those cities .

RE: that poor Camaro (may it RIP), don't you think that you could have at least spared those alloy rims? They must have some value since most of the Camaros that I see are up on blocks (i.e. no wheels)
Flex

[BDS]

It's too bad that the basically good people of the rural and "non-metro" areas of the above mentioned states suffer the consequences of the ner' do wells that congregate in Detroit, LA, Chicago and NYC. While there are certainly "good folks" that live in those areas (as well as "bad folks" that live in others), their decent, law abiding behaviors are no match for the ever increasing lawlessness of the criminal elements in those cities .

RE: that poor Camaro (may it RIP), don't you think that you could have at least spared those alloy rims? They must have some value since most of the Camaros that I see are up on blocks (i.e. no wheels)
Flex

Very true Flex... Michigan is a great (sad) example. The lefties in the 3 biggest cities, including the burned out and abandoned ex-capital of the car world, spend big money to elect (hire) more lefties to the state legislature and ba-bang more anti-gun laws spawned in Detroit and hatched throughout the state. As for the Camaro, it was donated by one of the members who owns a wrecking yard, or to use the "PC term" in those states we are chatting about, an Automotive Recycling Center. He still has a sign at his place that simply states Burns Auto Wrecking and Salvage, I love it! 

[Old Artilleryman]

Re Michigan:
Actually things do not seem that grim to me here. We have the MI Coalition for Responsible Gun Ownership working for us in the legislature. They and other pro-2nd Amendment groups have put BIG heat on the leftists/"progressives"/statists/socialists in our fair state. Exceptions being the aforementioned former Motor City--now looking much like an artillery impact area--and other (same list) enclaves such as the former great city of Flint, the pit of socialism and anarchists, Ann Arbor, and a few others. Grand Rapids is getting there. If we could cut away four counties (Wayne, Oakland, Washtenaw and Genesee), this place would be a Conservative heaven!
I'm not naive; we must remain ever vigilant and hard corps ("corpse" to our president) enough to squash these defilers of our Constitution!