Fire breathing dragon of a pistol (FN). Loved shooting it, but the ammunition has become absolutely retarded pricewise. If it were me, I would likely just buy the Ruger. Much less money. Neither is a good choice unless you have fairly large hands though. Rifle rounds stuffed into pistol grips means big hands.
Only if you had been buying projectiles and powder and primers before now. You will be very unhappy trying to even find them right now. Powder valley gets a shipment or two each week, but you basically have to be there at the right time to get anything. It's gone before you can blink.
I don't own an FN five seven, but my brother has two. A very nice shooting gun. Way more accurate out to longer distances than other pistols. But the ammo is ridiculously high. Especially now. (if you can even find it) It certainly not something you want to use as a plinking gun pumping a shit load of ammo thru unless you have deep pockets.
I can get the ammo. It’s expensive, but not 4x the price like 9mm is right now. Oddly enough, I was able to find the ammo in Los Angeles, but not in Dallas. Go figure. And it seems like a really nice weapon to add to my collection. I’ve already got 9mm, 10mm, 40 S&W and .45, so the 5.7x28mm seems like a nice change of pace.
I’m not worried about the hand size thing. I have large hands. I’ve just been contemplating buying one for a while but never knew anyone who’s shot one.
No shit. Primers are insanely overpriced right now. @Iamtdg, a box of 100 large pistol primers (if you can find them, since they’re normally sold in 1,000 increments) would normally cost around $6, but they’re selling for $25 (maybe more) depending on who has them. Brass is running 2-3 times its normal price (around $35 per 100 rounds right now), and powder is running $70 for a pound of it (which gets you roughly 280 reloads), when that normally runs about $15-20. Add all that shit up, and you’re looking at $0.85 per reload BEFORE the price of the damn bullet! So, depending on the round, it may even be more expensive to reload them then to buy FMJs.
That's insane.
Yep.
I think I have 5 or 6 boxes of the FN branded stuff at home, if you do buy the pistol let me know and I will check when I get off the rig.
I appreciate that. The other hard part will be finding a gun store with any inventory. I’d prefer not to buy it from gunbroker because the markups are terrible.
Definitely. I won't be using what I have though, so if you need it let me know. I bought it several years back for inventory, but not really doin any business these days, so it will be priced as it was "pre-dipshit fever".
The price for everything is going through the roof, which is what happens when you print money and then on top of it just hand it out to people. The people who have things to sell just raise the prices.
It also gets compounded when production lines slow down with increasing demand. It’s insane.
Yeah building materials are stupid expensive
How much you having to pay per 1000?
Magazines, amigo.
You know that I don't know what the hell I'm doing here...
A few weeks ago was $599
Magazines, sir.