Panic-proof Calibers

I recall .17 HMR, 20 Guage, and .22-250 still being readily available.

>>35041605
For rifles, all the fudd hunting calibers like .270, .243, 30-30. etc. Lots of .40S&W tended to hang out on the shelves at Walmart. Most other calibers were available at gun stores local to me, but at inflated prices, like $20/box for 9mm.

>>35041605
>everyone else is buying up .223/556 and 9mm by the pallet.

I'm one of those people so I don't have to give a fuck what is on store shelves or if there is a panic.

BUY IT CHEAP AND STACK IT DEEP.

>>35041605
12 gauge. It's cheap, everyplace has it, and all the mall ninjas think they're too tacticool for it.

>>35041699
Same here. I'm about a decade ahead of the panic game on all calibers except for 22lr which I barely shoot anyway. Sandy hook barely effected me.

Correct me if I'm wrong, but 762x39 and 223 were the worst normal calibers effected, and I don't remember it lasting very long with them. I think AR food was gone for longer though.
I'm pretty sure that 308/54r were still around plenty. And anything shotgun was available too.

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>>35041605
Carry a .40 S&W pistol like the M&P. When the shelves are bare of food, the ammo is all gone, you'll still be able to walk in and they'll be trying to sell that shit at a discount to get someone to buy it.

>>35041605

7.62x39 in my area went down in price ( by a few cents ) during the whole thing. I was able to get boxes at the stores for abound 4.50$.

>>35041605

.40 S&W master race.

>no limits
>always available
>always cheap

>have Beretta CX4 in 9mm
>can't find ammo
>some guy offers $1500 for it cuz "obama gonna ban it"
>sell it to him
>find a brand new CX4 in .40 a few months later for $619+tax
>have no problem feeding it

>>35041844

This. Literally have an ammo can full of .40 S&W pistols. LGS can't give them away half the time. I've got two Hi Points in .40 he sold me for $60 each because he paid $50 for them and nobody would even buy them at $75-100.

>>35041605
The only panic-proof caliber is the caliber you have stored, retard.

>>35041905
Shh. Grown ups are talking.

>>35041605
.444 is always stocked at my local big box stores
>tfw no one wants to kill dinosaurs

>>35041605
No matter what happens my lgs always has a few boxes of: 50 BMG, 7.5 French, 32 ACP, and 22 mag. No clue why

>>35041605
.45 LC, .38 special +P, and .357 mag will still be on the shelves in 2100 when Cyberbama Clinton bans high capacity blackpowder derringer assault guns

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>>35041951
Or gooks

>>35042061
Not so sure about the 38 special. It's like there's some other guy who tries to my by rounds when I'm going to grab boxes.

Hurricane hits your town, looters are about. You have to go out and fend for yourself for food and supplies.

What weapon do you grab for?

>>35042136
SKS, it's the only gun I've got.

>>35042136
All of them

>>35041893
>>always cheap
.40 S&W is about 20% more expensive than 9mm right now though

>>35042136
>looters are about

no they aren't, because i live in a suburb.

Fudd calibera. Most my handguns are in 9, so I have a small stockpile. I own a 380 lcp(gym bag gun) and a box of HST, and 15 ish fmjs. My shotguns are in 12, I have 100ish rounds of buck, 50ish slugs and a, and a bunch of cheap shells. It's jut about stocking smart when you have the cash.

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>>35041605

I loved the Sandy Hoax .22 LR shortage for only one reason. It successfully demonstrated that for any good/product you don't need a real shortage, only rumor of a shortage, to actually have a shortage. This counts for any good/product, including food.

Imagine if there was a rumor of a food shortage. You're not the only person thinking "I better get to the grocery store and stock up." All of a sudden a few people own all the food and supply chains can't keep up. Things would get spooky real quick.

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7.62x39mm was readily available in my area everywhere.

>>35042194
personal anecdote:

I live in a very peaceful middle class suburb that's like 30-45min away from the nearest city.

i live in the midwest and a few years back a tornado hit a couple miles down the road from me.

People who heard about it on the news were literally driving out to try and loot the place for days afterwards. People had to block off roads and form neighborhood watch check points just to keep their shit safe. We haven't had a homicide in 20yrs but we still had looters will be shot signs, everybody armed, the whole nine yards. And that's for a small occurrence that didn't even really strain let alone disrupt the community.

I'd be cautious operating under that assumption if shit goes down.

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>>35042310
Joplin MO?
That sounds exactly like what i saw when i volunteered and was a part of the first wave for clean up

>>35042310
Where were the would-be looters from and who were they? Local tweakers, big city niggers... who?

>>35041605
.38 Special, .30-30, 20 Gauge, and hunting rounds that weren't .30-06, .243, .308, and .270 were still around after each big scare.

9mm, 5.56, 7.62x39, .40 S&W, and .45 ACP were all gone. .308, .30-06, .270, and .243 were also all gone after the previous calibers ran out.

Everyone should have a Winchester 94 or Marlin 336 and a .38 Special or .357 Magnum revolver just because you can still feed them after big scares and keep your AR/AK and semi auto pistol ammo in reserve for when you really need it.

>>35041750

This was my experience also.

No .22, 9mm, 223/556, .308, or the like. Occasional .45 and .40.

All the practice birdshot you could carry, almost the same for buck and slug rounds.

>>35042310
Oklahoma bro?

>>35042225
literally just happened in central texas
someone started a rumor that there was a gas shortage because of harvey and people ate that shit up
almost ran the town out of gas and caused a shortage where there was none

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InnaCity: .45LC was the only pistol caliber readily available. .300 Win Mag and 7mm Mag were always available. .22-250 and .243 were usually available. Birdshot was always around, but slugs and buckshot were hard to find.

>>35041605
9x18 mak unironically. Places like academy have metric fucktons of cheap steel-cased Russian shit on the shelves, and it'll stay there because you'll likely be the only person with 100 miles interested in it. Additionally, most guns that use it don't care about ammo quality, so long as you keep them clean.
>>35042292
Slavic master race

>>35042623
9x18 was available in my area at first, but then completely disappeared. My guess is people just started buying up whatever was there even if they didn't have a gun to shoot it with.

>werth mor than gold when SHTF, hurr durr.

>>35042576
the stores near me always have 45LC to feed my circut judge ,the common cals zip out overnight
sometimes 12ga slugs are not available during normal states
the 410 @ 20ga shells have dust ontop of the boxes.

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>>35041844
>Carry a .40 S&W pistol like the Hi-Point.

>>35042683
yeah, hasn't happened by me yet, but I plan on buying a little bit every time I stop by, just to build up my own stockpile. I guess the lesson to be learned from this thread is to have a respectable amount of your own ammo instead of waiting till SHTF to find some.

>>35041605
40 for handguns then fudd calibers like 7mm .270 etc

>>35042536
Except there is a shortage because alot of oil rigs got hit real bad down there which so happens to be were we get our gas from the most.

>>35042061
>.357

this because everyone collectively forgot it exists

>>35041605
.357 SIG

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>>35041605
300 blackout

>>35041605
.40

Bought my first gun a year after Sandy. Went to the Dicks and Walmarts in the area (didn't know you could buy ammo online) and my jaw dropped. Only thing on the shelves was buckshot and .40 cal. For months.

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>>35041699
>BUY IT CHEAP AND STACK IT DEEP.

A-fucking-greed.

>>35041605
Shotguns and shotgun ammo seem to be the most panic buy proff.

>>35043115

Centerfire got some decent shit right now senpai

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>>35042536
People are lemmings
This happened to me about 12 years ago.
Listening to scanner radio when I hear from some police dispatch that there is a gas line break and to buy gas asap. I live 3 minutes from gas station, drive over and there's a rush of cars buys fuel, filling up the station with cars and causing lines to form!! Nothing became of it it was a rumor!

>>35042169
Lol no

>>35042536
Happened in North Texas too, Dallas area.

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>>35044337
lol yes

>>35042105
>It's like there's some other guy who tries to my by rounds when I'm going to grab boxes.

That would be me. I buy up all the .38 Special I see.

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>>35044420
>tfw your local legs does have any .38 cheap in stock so you buy all the .357 cheap stuff

>>35045383
Phoneposting worst posting.

>>35041605
Not sure but I had a hard time finding .380 and was pissed, didn't get to go shooting for a while.

Should I have gone 22 ?

>PPK/s

>>35041893
>60$
oh you triple nigger
where can I get something that cheap

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>>35041605
>what calibers could you still commonly find in stores?
7.62x54r.

>>35043241
This is what I observed

>>35043061
Honestly I have seen this to confirm.

>gander mountain goes out of business
>ammo finally goes on sale
>rifle ammo shelves are empty save for real oddball stuff I rightly don't remember and fucking 300 Blk.
>still had the whole shelf stocked could have swore there was dust on it

>>35041605
7.62x39mm, if you run out of this then your next best source of ammo will be Rocks fired via musket.

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>>35041605
>what calibers could you still commonly find in stores

12 gauge, 20 gauge, .410, .336 TKM, .22lr, 9x18mm, 9x19mm, 5.45x39mm, 7.62x39mm, 7.62x54mm R, 9.3x62mm, .223, .308, .338, .357.

>>35042292
>>35046248

How much does it cost in America? Here a box of 20 7.62x39 cartriges costs $4-4.5

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>>35041605
Surprised no one mentioned .45 GAP

>>35045383
The entire reason I bought my LCR in .357 instead of .38 was so that I *could* use .357 in a pinch if I had to. It tacked an extra hundred bucks or so onto the price of the gun, but I'm still happy I did it.

>>35042136
>hurricane
Nah. Worst that happens here is snow storms. And no one goes out in those.

>>35044177
>gas line break
>buy automobile gas asap
Are you trying to make a pun on "gas line" as in an underground pipe carrying gaseous fuel commonly used for domestic heat and cooking vs "gas line" as in a line at the fueling station to put gas in your car? If so, it wasn't funny.

>>35046455
This is a "post sandy hook ammo shortage" thread, if you don't live in the US then you weren't affected by the sandy hook ammo shortage and your post is meaningless.

>late 2000s
>peak ammo panic
>shelves Venesuala bare
>fully stocked slot of .45 gap stares me in the face

Glock 3d chess

>>35042136
gp100

>>35042483
Which would you recommend between the Winchester and the Marlin? Always wanted an excuse to buy a lever gun.

>>35041873
Same in my area, but the price stayed the same. No .22lr, .223/5.56, .380, 9para, .40, .45, .308, or 12g on the shelves but plenty of x39 and 9mak everywhere

>>35041750
12 gauge is the ultimate shtf gun. so versatile. from birdshot to 000buck to magnum slugs.

>>35047983
i have a Marlin 336A circa 2006 before remshit takeover. loading gate and side extractor definately nice.

.270, .243, and 12 gauge target loads

>>35047983
Pre 64 Post War Winchester 1894 is arguably the best American made lever gun ever. You've got the iconic 1894, but it's made out of modern materials with the best craftsmanship. I really like winchesters, but marlins are nice too. My dream gun is an 1894 trapper model.

>>35050498
pre-1964 is a meme, post-1964 guns are functionally fine compared to their pre-1964 counterparts.

>>35051146
They're made better in my opinion. Maybe I'm just fucking petty and don't like that Winchester wanted to fuck with a time proven design.