Spree...

[Archer]

I don't buy factory ammo any more (unless I add a cartridge) and all factory ammo is expensive. Steel 7.62X39 is $0.40 per round and no one has .44 anything in stock much so...

I saw that import ammo ban coming . I've sold/traded all the x39 rifles except a CZ-527 my wife deer hunts with and it won't run dry for a long time.

I only own a couple 7.62x39 guns, An AR and an AK both guns I assembled.
I can change out the caliber on the 7.62x39 at any time by simply swapping the barrel OR by swapping the upper.
I'll keep the AK since I put it together out of new parts including a Nodak Spuds receiver.

I've got something like a K of brass cased ball ammo and another 500 brass cases. I have some .308 125ish projectiles but I'm light on .311 ~125 grain projectiles.

7.62x39 has never been a caliber I've been particularly fond of.

[Archer]

Picked up a few Grendel parts recently.

18" Faxxon barrel and BCG.
https://faxonfirearms.com/match-series- ... extension/
https://faxonfirearms.com/6-5-grendel-t ... p-nitride/
Gas tube and B.A.D lightweight gas block. 3X Kaliban 10 round mags.
https://www.wingtactical.com/firearm-pa ... gas-block/

I've got a Midwest handguard already and a spare upper.
Leaves me needing a charging handle, a compensator and maybe building a dedicated carbine lower for it.
IF I build a lower for it I expect I'll LaRue trigger it as I think I've still got a spare in the parts bin.
https://www.larue.com/products/larue-ta ... s-trigger/
Probably try to put a Radian Raptor charging handle on this one and may upgrade a couple other builds that I put together the past year or so.

Probably put a medium power scope on it.

[Archer]

Given the state of inflation, the costs of food and fuel and housing in particular, and the fact that there appears to be nobody awake at the nation's helm I haven't been too active in either acquisitions or builds. I did pull the trigger on a few more firearms related tools right before the latest push by the national socialist democrat party for more gun control but right now I'm sort of in a holding pattern...

[Archer]

I keep looking, but prices on what I'm usually interested in seem to be still jacked up 20% or more and ammo's still stupid expensive. I've got a few more tools in mind and a few more parts but I'm not sure about full up firearms...