Sold gun due to no ammo?

[spainy79]

I tried a search for this and came up with nothing. I'm wondering if anyone has sold of a firearm lately (or in the past) due to a lack of ammo available? I'm pondering parting ways with one for this reason. I have found ammo for it but because of the current market I can't justify paying what people/businesses are wanting for it. Pre-pandemic it was sub $1.50 a round (hunting grade); now it's more than double if not triple and in some cases it is quadruple. I'm finding it difficult to spend the coin for this ammo for what it is. The best I've seen was a business in Texas had 200 rounds for $700. I don't know if I can bring myself to it. I really don't have a connection to this gun but at the same time I don't want to sell it. It boils down to it continues to take up space in the safe while I (we all) wait for a possible drop in ammo price (which will more than likely never happen) or I part ways with it and use that money to buy more ammo for a different one?

 

[Lpherr]

Will the reason you want to sell, prevent someone else from wanting to purchase, or drive down the price they're willing to pay?
It might be better to hold onto it, at least a little while to see how ammo prices do. You might regret selling it, if you didn't want to in the first place.

 

[DoggyDaddy]

I've not done it so far. I have a rifle for which ammo is practically unobtanium (6.5x53R Dutch Mannlicher bicycle carbine), but I was able to source some brass made from .303 Brit brass and make my own. I have gone the opposite direction too and bought ammo for which I didn't have a gun to fire it (6.5x54 Mannlicher) in the hopes that I would eventually find a gun for it.

 

[fullmetaljesus]

So what is it? Maybe I want it!

 

[76Too]

You people are sick in the head.

I would never buy a rifle just because I had ammo for it...I’d but at least two or three in case something happened to the one!

 

[Grogmister]

I had an AR .458 socom when they first came out around here. Could NOT find ammo anywhere and never pulled the trigger on it. Traded and bow for it. Ended up making stupid $$$ on it when I sold it to a guy in TX that had to have it. He Paid all the FFL fees and shipping so I jumped on it.

 

[BiscuitsandGravy]

I'm getting old and my motto is to not sell anymore. Regretted it a couple times. Put it in your safe and stop worrying about it.

 

[BiscuitsandGravy]

I had an AR .458 socom when they first came out around here. Could NOT find ammo anywhere and never pulled the trigger on it. Traded and bow for it. Ended up making stupid $$$ on it when I sold it to a guy in TX that had to have it. He Paid all the FFL fees and shipping so I jumped on it.

That makes sense if the opportunity is there. I do have my price even though I don't sell anymore.

 

[Ark]

I'm getting old and my motto is to not sell anymore. Regretted it a couple times. Put it in your safe and stop worrying about it.

No sell, only buy. It is known.

 

[jsharmon7]

I’ve avoided buying something because it would add a new caliber I didn’t have and couldn’t find, but that’s as close as I’ve gotten.

 

[DoggyDaddy]

I’ve avoided buying something because it would add a new caliber I didn’t have and couldn’t find, but that’s as close as I’ve gotten.

Chicken...

 

[jsharmon7]

Chicken...

Sell me some 7.62x39 at 1990s pricing and I’ll join the AK army!

 

[Mgderf]

O.k.
Don't tell us what it is.
Can you find components?

Would it be worth rolling your own?

 

[DoggyDaddy]

I have indeed sold a gun (Polish TT-33 Tokarev that I regret selling) plus all the corrosive surplus 7.62x25 ammo I had for it. Then just a couple of years ago when I started seeing modern 7.62x25 SD ammo become available (and modern fmj too), I decided to get another Tokarev, but settled on a Romanian when somebody had them on sale.

 

[Mgderf]

Sell me some 7.62x39 at 1990s pricing and I’ll join the AK army!

Should have bought some in 1990

 

[DoggyDaddy]

Sell me some 7.62x39 at 1990s pricing and I’ll join the AK army!

What did 5.56 sell for back in the 90's? (I have no idea - I didn't start getting into guns again until about 2010) Maybe we can work a trade? Or better yet... got any 6.5x53R Dutch? I'll trade you 3 to 1!

 

[Biggredchev]

Yep. 2 of them.

 

[jsharmon7]

What did 5.56 sell for back in the 90's? (I have no idea - I didn't start getting into guns again until about 2010) Maybe we can work a trade? Or better yet... got any 6.5x53R Dutch? I'll trade you 3 to 1!

I’ll check my ammo box, but the magical 8-ball is saying “outlook not so good.”

 

[DoggyDaddy]

I didn't start getting into guns again until about 2010

I just reread this. And thought of my collection. I may be a hoarder.

 

[DadSmith]

I'm hanging on to all of mine. Never know when things will change. Or you run across a few thousand rounds at a yard sale for cheap. Stranger things have happened.