So long 7.62x39mm!

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As you may have guessed things have gone crazy. With the exception of 1 distributor who has some 1100 round cases, 7.62x39mm supplies are gone in the distribution chain.

So I can jump ahead of the "your just trying to create panic and drive up the price" crowd, save your breath, we are sold out of everything so we have nothing to gain. Just letting you know the reality.
 
Yes, there will be no more ammo coming from there or Russia. China will most likely hold onto theirs.

The bigger factor is people are buying more than normal, and the people who do not stock up, are stocking up. There was a man whos wife hates guns and likes to limit what her husband buys. In the last week she forced him to come buy all the ammo we had in his calibers. Strange times.
 
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Yes, there will be no more ammo coming from there or Russia. China will most likely hold onto theirs.

The bigger factor is people are buying more than normal, and the people who do not stock up, are stocking up. There was a man whos wife hates guns and likes to limit what her husband buys. In the last week she forced him to come buy all the ammo we had in his calibers. Strange times.
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That's funny. World's gone mad.
 
Funny was just down in ammo room checking quantities, heading to Vancouver on the 19th, so figured if I need something, nows the time. But I, and more so my wife, were shocked to see I don't really need anything. 1000 + rounds of the 6 calibers I shoot. But 1 thing I don't have much of, and will now double in price and become unobtainable, now that everything else is gone, is 22s.
 
Non corrosive has been close to .50 a rd for a while now.
We will probably never see Barnaul ever again in any caliber. The best non-corrosive option now for the price is the norinco red box (I’ve never shot any but heard it could actually be corrosive, maybe someone knows for sure)

If this current skirmish breaks out into a full blown war, ammo will become hard to find let alone the prices.
 
Why would China hang on to theirs? They sell it because it's 50 or more years old.

If you're going to tell us you've sold out then that is fair enough but don't then act like you're in the Chinese command centre unless you've got tangible proof.

If China has any Taiwan grabbing urges I suspect they don't intend to rely on 50yr old secondary calibre ammo even in their worse case scenarios
 
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Why would China hang on to theirs? They sell it because it's 50 or more years old.

If you're going to tell us you've sold out then that is fair enough but don't then act like you're in the Chinese command centre unless you've got tangible proof.

If China has any Taiwan grabbing urges I suspect they don't intend to rely on 50yr old secondary calibre ammo even in their worse case scenarios
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Fair nuff
 
I still have 1500+ rounds of copper washed non-corrosive that was for my AR chambered in 7.62x39 .. I don't own an SKS so they're pretty much useless to me now. Thinking of selling.
 
CHINESE marked non corrosive is SOMETIMES but not always, maybe but may not be or could be. Do you feel LUCKY!

If you got ammo, why not just get a SKS?

Landsbrough auction on march 13/14 has SKS rifles, reloading dies, bullets Hornady, and brass in 7.62-39
 
Bratwurst said:
Why would China hang on to theirs? They sell it because it's 50 or more years old.

If you're going to tell us you've sold out then that is fair enough but don't then act like you're in the Chinese command centre unless you've got tangible proof.

If China has any Taiwan grabbing urges I suspect they don't intend to rely on 50yr old secondary calibre ammo even in their worse case scenarios
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Agreed. The OP seems a little dramatic, and OP please stick to the facts rather than speculating what China will or will not do with their surplus ammunition. Anyone who is shocked that ammo prices are up or availability is down has not been paying attention to the world around them.
 
Frontier Firearms said:
As you may have guessed things have gone crazy. With the exception of 1 distributor who has some 1100 round cases, 7.62x39mm supplies are gone in the distribution chain.

So I can jump ahead of the "your just trying to create panic and drive up the price" crowd, save your breath, we are sold out of everything so we have nothing to gain. Just letting you know the reality.
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That is a very likely scenario and it would not surprise me at all to see it go as high as a dollar per round on the Norinco, being that Barnaul is now out of the game.

On a side note, can you please check your PM, I had been trying to reach you several times this week with a question about one of my orders.
Thank you.
 
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