The Reloading Component Draught, When Will It Rain Again.

[Matt_G]

These people want to know if there enough idiots out there to make these prices the new norm.
What I am afraid of is that the answer may be yes.
Anybody who pays those prices damn well better be prepared to pay them forever.

 

[dannyd]

Guy tried to sell 5,000 Winchester Small Rifle at the club swap meet last weekend for 750.00 dollars. Just laughed told this is a hobby no thanks.

 

[CZ93X62]

The last gasps of the profiteering (expletives deleted). This is a good sign, methinks. Stay the course, starve these parasitic jerks out. Prices stabilize sooner or later, I can think of at least five such instances over the past couple decades. The truth is, none of these components have ever been stocked in great depth, because it costs money to store stuff. "Just-in-time" inventory practices is the real culprit in these shortages, because as efficient as those practices might be as cost controls--they subject the supply chain to empty-out with even a slight increase in demand.

 

[Brad]

Let them ask what they want, if someone is dumb enough to pay then shame on them.
I can’t believe what factory ammo sells for these days. 50 rounds of 9mm for 40 bucks? I would consider not shooting at that kind of price.

 

[Rick]

One of the things of concern to me is that there are a huge number of brand new firearm owners. They desperately need to be practicing with those guns and with ammo prices like that it isn't happening.

 

[Ian]

I can’t believe what factory ammo sells for these days. 50 rounds of 9mm for 40 bucks? I would consider not shooting at that kind of price.

Yer startin' to catch on....

 

[fiver]

I'm just bent that I can't buy new 22's to shoot ground squirrels with.
the old bullets barely kill them properly, and even worse is I might run out in 10-12 years.

 

[RicinYakima]

Yep, dug out two cartons of Thunderbolt HP's to shoot grey diggers this spring.

 

[Petrol & Powder]

One of the things of concern to me is that there are a huge number of brand new firearm owners. They desperately need to be practicing with those guns and with ammo prices like that it isn't happening.

The vast majority of those new gun owners will shoot their new gun a few times (or not at all) and squirrel those guns away.
They purchased those guns out of panic. They perceived impending gun control, a breakdown in society, or both. Millions of those new guns, in their boxes, will sit unused on closet shelves and in the back of sock drawers; for decades.

The current shortage of ammunition and the high cost of ammunition will encourage the non-use of those new guns. Most of those people will move onto other pursuits.

There will be some new gun enthusiasts as a result of this huge expansion of gun owners but most people have the attention span of a gnat.
They will move on.

 

[dannyd]

I call the new shooters: sock drawer people: they buy a gun put in their sock drawer and sell it about 5 years later. The major new twist in this gun control movement was the attacks on law enforcement; we really never had anything like that even in the 1960’s. So they basically drove people to buy guns.

 

[462]

After the local range re-opened there were a lot of new shooters and most of them had newly acquired ARs. It was very evident they were not familiar with their rifles, by the trouble they were having manipulating them and clearing malfunctions caused by cheap Wolf/Tula lacquered steel cased ammo. Some even needed on-the-spot lessons in safe gun handling lessons. They'd blast through ammo at a rate of hundreds of rounds per hour, and not one of those who were shooting American made ammunition kept their spent brass. (Thank you!)

After a very few months those shooters quit showing up. The speculation among the few range regulars I talk to is that they blasted through their initial stash of ammo and can't buy more, or the rifle's perceived need diminished and they stored it. One opined that, after the country gets back to whatever its new normal will be, there will be a lot of lightly used guns for sale.

 

[Petrol & Powder]

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After a very few months those shooters quit showing up. The speculation among the few range regulars I talk to is that they blasted through their initial stash of ammo and can't buy more, or the rifle's perceived need diminished and they stored it. One opined that, after the country gets back to whatever its new normal will be, there will be a lot of lightly used guns for sale.

It would not surprise me to see a large influx of lightly used guns on the market in the near future.

 

[Brad]

Scheels had plenty of Win primers at 69.99 per K, limit 1 per customer.
Limit was likely due to credit limits at that price

 

[fiver]

that's only double what they should be.

 

[Petrol & Powder]

Patience Grasshopper.

 

[Brad]

I saw the price and told my wife that with prices like that I have enough in saving to retire now.

 

[popper]

Loaded some 30/30 with pistol powder for giggles and grins yesterday, I got LRP, SRP not so much.

 

[fiver]

weird thing I noticed yesterday.
pistol/shot shell powders are being listed at over 200$ [plus all the BS to get it] for one brand.
but 165$ is still enough to buy another brand.
from the same re-seller.
now neither one is really in stock, and the brand B stuff is rumored to not being made anymore [shrug] jus sayin what I heard.

so now I gotta sit here and watch to see if 200-220 is really the new price [you know and 300$ for rifle powder] or if even the hold out retailers are being forced to up their 'when I can get it next'
re-sale prices too, and they are updating their advertised prices now in anticipation.

 

[waco]

I’m just glad I won’t NEED to buy anything for years to come if it comes to that...

 

[Joshua]

I was buying primers last year for as low as 20 bucks per K before tax. I don’t think we will see them that low again. I think that 40 bucks will be the new low price when things settle down.