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  1. #31
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    Actually, I'm shooting more since the panic. The only place locally with ammo and parts in stock is the range, making it easy to replace what I shoot.

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    I personally have found myself doing more "dry" practicing as in practicing changing magazines, clearing malfunctions, and other similar tasks with snap caps. As a poor college student, money is hard enough to come by let alone spend on ammunition with how the market is right now. That being said I have a bit of ammo tucked away and decided to hit the range for a few hours today for the first time in a while. With any luck once the price of ammo falls back to where it was before this mess I can use the pennies I've been stacking on a case of .223 and a class or two now that I have the time. There are many better and numerous places to train here than back east haha!

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    I have a hard time thinking that ammo will ever be "back to what it was before". As far as I can tell it's ALWAYS gone up, in "good" times and bad. I'm just hoping it becomes available and doesn't cost as much as the mortgage.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Karcas View Post
    Pick up a .22 and shoot the hell out of it until things calm back down if you're low on 5.56.

    Shot 300 rounds with the 15-22 yesterday. Cost less than $20.
    This. Dry fire and drill with your primary and then work live fire with a 15-22. In my case, it is one of the rare times I actually get to work on actual failure drills (non-staged), it sometimes chokes on HP's.

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    I haven't shot a round of 7.62 or .223 since all this started. Those rifles were for fun. At the possibility of shooting dollar bills out the barrel, I will find my fun elsewhere.

    I upgraded my 10/22 to make it more comfortable and have my fun with.

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    i live in the city and only get time to go to shoot/self train about once every week or two, i did however order a cmmg .22 upper about six weeks ago that should be in sometime this week because i wanted to save my 5.56 ammo for classes and stuff(especially now)

    after watching a travis haley video i'm considering getting a quality airsoft ar to setup to match my rifle's for practicing in my back yard a few times a week with the biodegradable airsoft pellets. the only reason i hadnt thought about it in the past was that i didnt know they made desolvable ammo for them and didnt want a thousand little bb's scattered throughout my yard lol

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    I do love my .22lr upper. Even gives me the occasional malfunction drill that my "real" uppers don't.

    Dry fire works too.

    I haven't stopped shooting real ammo, but I do think about it more.

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    Honestly the rifle is used to fight my way to my pistol,,, I like shooting pistols way more than any rifle I have ever shot. So I hardly ever shoot rifles.

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    Nope, I haven't stopped practicing. Like others have mentioned, the AR is meant to be used and practiced with. I don't look at a firearm as an investment or as a fiscal asset unless it is a collector's piece. Even then, it's like any other machine, they aren't going to be a great investment unless it's a one of a kind type piece.

    I say keep on practicing to stay proficient. You never know when you might need to be skilled with it when something goes bump in the night. That's worth far more than anything it may realistically be worth.
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    Quote Originally Posted by SteveS View Post
    Honestly the rifle is used to fight my way to my pistol,,, I like shooting pistols way more than any rifle I have ever shot. So I hardly ever shoot rifles.
    I am the exact opposite.

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