>>15018 Covid is single-handedly responsible for 6.5 sneedmaor getting popular with boomers and redditors.

>>15049 as much as I love 6.5 creedmore, a good ol' 308 usually does the job the same.

>>15116 6.5 creed isnt even that niche. It's cheap and plentiful. Dumbest advice I got during covid was a guy who said to stock up on 32 ACP

>>15117 story? "Stock up on .32" seems like a normal boomerism, not a covid boomerism.

>>15018 Shits weak. Your covid inconvenience was childs play to the obama era desert

>>15151 I still haven't gotten over the shock of the price jump 22lr did after sandy vag

I remember a guy working at a pawnshop telling me what stores had 38 long colt in stock to use in 38/357.

I don't remember much branching out into unpopular calibers happening in 2020. Maybe I wasn't monitoring ammo prices as well, but it seemed like everything disappeared in a hurry and then I only saw 9mm and 5.56 in any meaningful quantity for a while. Even basic 7 1/2 shot was hard to find. >>15152 Prices for things like .22, primers, and soviet cartridges were forever ruined in 2013, but I think 2020 was worse for how long everything was gone. On top of that, powder is still 2.5x as expensive as it was in the Spring of 2020 and I haven't seen any Alliant Bullseye in 5 years.

>>15118 i guess, but usually they says stock up on 22, not 32. Shoots basically the same i guess

>>15168 I worked loosely in the industry for a couple years and word was that after 2020 powder companies like hogdon were being major kikes cause they realized how much they can control the supply lines

>>15018 Kind of tangentially related. There is a Bass Pro Shops a couple of counties over that, during the panic over the riots plus the Rice Rabies, had not jack shit for centerfire rifle ammunition left on the shelves but rows and rows of faded boxes of Norma 7x61mm Sharpe & Hart. I think they keep them in a warehouse somewhere and during ammo panics, like just after the 2008 elections, the 2012 elections, 2020 elections, etc., etc., when Boomers who don't even own guns come in with the credit cards a-blazing and buy out everything on the shelves that goes "bang" because some Internet video cretin told them that in "WROL" they'll be able to trade bricks of .22 LR for food. Their basements are still full of it, and the next time there's an election where someone who promises to disarm Whitey wins, the next time there is widespread "social unrest," they'll go out and buy another ten pallet loads of 5.56mm, 12 gauge, 9mm, and .22, then, when those have all vanished, everything else, Half of them will never so much as open a carton and all that ammo will sit in their basements and hall closets until the estate sale. The other half will neckbeard it on Armslist for beer money. "Dontcha like muh capitalism, bwah? Are you some kinda RED, bwah?" You don't hate Boomers enough. You think you do, but you don't.. >weird cartridges Back before I gave up on gun shows completely, which was several years before the Wu Flu, I had a surreal conversation with some Boomer fudd who was trying to hard-sell me on the virtues of the .38 Super 1911 he was trying to sell. Sorry, Gramps. 38 Super is ballistically essentially identical and indistinguishable from 9mm, especially if we're talking about a 1911 that doesn't feed hollowpoints worth a damn. Nobody cares about 38 Super but Mexicans, Boomers from west of the Mississippi, and insufferable Zoomer gun hipsters. It is a cartridge that was obsolete one year after its introduction. John Moses Browning had his hits and his misses. This is one of his misses. All the Internet shills trying so hard to shill 30 Super Carry a couple of years back come to mind, too, but that was after the Kung Flu.