[TheRealThing]

This has really screwed me. I love target shooting, and hasn't in a while because I can't even have some of the firearms and magazines I own where I live in Virginia. I was stunned when I went to look for ammo yesterday in Pikeville, and couldn't find any ANYWHERE. I was looking for 5.56 (or 223) and .22, all I found after visiting 5 stores, including Walmart, was just one box of 556 which was priced at $40, crazy high.

Thankfully I bought ammo in bulk for the other firearms I have of different caliber, but the ones I prefer target shooting with are my .22 plinker and AR, which I course I can't find any ammo for. I just like to try to hit targets out past the AR's effective range, that's it. I'm not a risk of hurting anyone, and definitely not with any type of weapon. This is just absolutely ridiculous.

I don't target shoot with my pistols often, but I've found it even harder to find ammo for them. I have a .22 I target shoot with (the .22 has always been cheaper than most other rounds, that's why I have two plinkers, I obviously didn't see ammo getting so expensive lol). I also have a .40 I just keep at home, only fire a couple times a year. I'm kind of glad I ran out of ammo when I did, had no idea it had gotten this bad. They are ALL much more expensive than they used to be.

Looks like I'm going to have to start reloading my own...smh.

Yeah, I thought the same thing. You gonna melt down your own slugs?

I've never reloaded any ammo but, it looks like that will be happening in the very near future. I'm wondering if skeet shooting, rabbit and bird hunting will even be able to continue for many folks who have older guns or use chokes. I'm going to have to spend some time schooling up on whether it's okay to use steel shot in my own guns. This is ridiculous, has nothing to do with the harmful effects of lead and everything to do with gun control.

This whole deal seems to fly in the face of logic. We use lead in far more items than ammo. Batteries, lead shielding for everything from nuclear reactors to x-ray and CT Scan rooms. The list is long.