Is it normal to translate the price of everything into how much ammo you could buy? I find myself doing this all the time. I fill my truck with gas and think that would have bought 200 rounds of .223. Or I take my wife to dinner and I'm thinking if we ate at home I could buy 4 boxes of 9mm. :?

Boy, you've got it bad.

When I go to the range, ammo looses value and I shoot it like I got it for free :-P

Is it normal to translate the price of everything into how much ammo you could buy? I find myself doing this all the time. I fill my truck with gas and think that would have bought 200 rounds of .223. Or I take my wife to dinner and I'm thinking if we ate at home I could buy 4 boxes of 9mm. :?

 

Awesome... I like the way you think.

Yes, I do the same but with firearms. Especially since I am writing checks out like it is going out of style for my wedding.

 

Just sent out a S&W 686 last week for the photographer.

start reloading, it will not be so bad.

Yes it is normal. Wait till you equate every number you see into a caliber.

 

Reloading only makes it worse.

When I go to the range, ammo looses value and I shoot it like I got it for free :-P

That is exactly the way I am too. But I do equate larger sums of money to what kind of new gun I could have bought. This is quite the passion we all have, isn't it :shhh:

I do it too, only I have the half empty thing going. 20 bangs @ .44 cents a round... you know that kind of thing. Plus i don't pick up the brass any more which used to ease the pain when I was reloading.

Do you know how many guns or how much ammo i could have purchased with the checks ive been writing for student loans and car payments?? one word.... ALOT!!! In fact i just wrote a check to Subaru for a car payment. i COULD have purchased a Rock Island M1911 or an @$$ load of .22 ammo.

Off topic, RIA 1911 is my next purchase. I hear nothing but good things.

 

Okay...back.

right turn off topic, +1 on the RIA, next purchase. OK left turn back to topic. :mrgreen:

People actually still write checks?

People actually still write checks?

Nostalgia,

 

plus when you get into the 300's it has a lot of calibers to equate the check #'s to.

People actually still write checks?

Nostalgia,

 

plus when you get into the 300's it has a lot of calibers to equate the check #'s to.

 

I like mine in the 700 series. jk. =P

 

I think for my last 2 car payments i will make checks of 338 and Lapua cents.

Retired military are the worst when going through volumns of ammunition.

They shoot like Uncle Sam is still paying for the ammo.

Retired military are the worst when going through volumns of ammunition.

They shoot like Uncle Sam is still paying for the ammo.

 

Really Frank - it's not nice to talk about your wife like that.