I've lost interest.

Forgive me for this long rambling post.
I've never been a tacticool guy, my interest has always been accuracy so I shunned ar15s  until I shouldered one at a gun store, a dpms lite 16.  Dang, that felt right so it followed me home.  I loaded up my tried and true 52gr Bergers on top of some 322 powder.  Was I ever surprised! That stupid thing shot under .5 at 100  yards.  Thus began my quest with the AR-15 platform.  I've never competed in matches, only against my self. I don't give a damn about trophies.  Anyway, I ended up with my crowning achievement, a Bartlein heavy bbl  6.5 grendel thermofitted to a bcm blem upper. I chose the 6.5 because of the long history of success of the 22 russian based cases in the bench rest game. I like bcm uppers because they're slightly undersize requiring thermo fitting that results in great bedding. I don't care about lóoks just results. The blemished ones are far cheaper and adequate for my needs.
Surprisingly I bought a pencil thin bbl from gpc for $135 that came from a now defunct defense department manufacturer that the ATF shut down because of importation violations.  It's a chrome lined bbl and chromers aren't known for accuracy but that upper easily shot in the .7 range.
Anyhow, to sum it all up, I've lost interest in firearms and hang around here for the feeling of comradely.

I'm not sure whether it's loss of interest or loss of ability to pay for ammo to keep the interest up. In my case, that seems to be the culprit. Last time I did any serious target shooting was 2019, and ammo has just kept going up.

Lack of ammo- or primers and powder- is the easiest way to kill the shooting economy. You can hit things with a hammer even if there aren’t any nails, but a gun without ammo has very limited use (unless you’re a marine with a Garand and a fixed bayonet).

Even if you’re the 1 in (1,000?  10,000?  1,000,000) who stockpiled, if you’re the only guy at the range, you’ll stick out like a sore thumb.

Stupid high prices is almost as bad as completely unavailable.