^You and me both bro. I've just been lucky, and do a lot more local deals. Sold a bunch of stuff (ammo, parts, my eotech, most extra AR accessories) so i had a few dollars to work with. I sold and traded close to 1000 rounds of 5.56 and .223 in the last 2-3 months. Probably sold about 250 rounds of sd 9mm. Another thing i did was sell a lot brass. I saved all my 9mm brass for about a year and a half when i was going to reload for the 9. I probably had 3k in used brass, and sold 4-500 round lots for $35 per. Same with 5.56. Just by saving saving my brass, i probably came up an extra $250. Not much, but a nice reward for simply picking up my trash. It's just like sneakers, even used, you can still get most of your money back on things.
I Wish i had more 45 loading supplies. Right now I could load 1000 rounds. But I keep reading about dudes on forums who stocked up long ago buying 8 lb jugs of powder for 80-90 bucks, primers $25 per thousand, and i remember the groupbuy i got into last year, and 1000 plated .45 boolits were 70. Now pretty much all those prices have doubled. And reloading is still significantly cheaper than buying loaded ammo.
One day this week i'll post pics of my .45's (don't think ive shared), but just break up this wall of text. Bought a sight pusher off ebay a few months ago, best $50 gun related purchase I've made in a long time. Simple to use, pretty robust, Ive installed 2 sets of ameriglo hackathorn sights on my m&p's
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