What Happened To?????
- Thread starter Smokester653
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The whole shortage thing was a little weird, part panic, part the economic downturn, part the election results, throw in a bit of profiteering and voila, guys are paying $100 per thousand for primers and beating the swampers to WallMart every morning.
I reload, but not for every caliber I shoot, and try to keep a supply of both components and ammo on hand. I've probably got more 223 than I'll ever shoot in the remainder of my life, same with .22 rimfire. Other calibers, I try to pick up a few extra boxes above and beyond what I shoot each month, keep a little more trickling into the inventory than going out at any given time. Same with certain reloading components.
One thing about these shortages, we can bitch about them all we want and complain about the politicians, the hoarders (sounds like that might be us!!), and the profiteers, but it seems there are shortages of just about everything at one time or another. I recall gas shortages, coffee shortages, sugar, flour, rice, lumber, and the list could go on. I think we tend to be pretty powerless to predict most of it, or to safeguard against all possible shortages or future events. I have a crystal ball on my office desk.......but it is typically cloudy!!
I reload, but not for every caliber I shoot, and try to keep a supply of both components and ammo on hand. I've probably got more 223 than I'll ever shoot in the remainder of my life, same with .22 rimfire. Other calibers, I try to pick up a few extra boxes above and beyond what I shoot each month, keep a little more trickling into the inventory than going out at any given time. Same with certain reloading components.
One thing about these shortages, we can bitch about them all we want and complain about the politicians, the hoarders (sounds like that might be us!!), and the profiteers, but it seems there are shortages of just about everything at one time or another. I recall gas shortages, coffee shortages, sugar, flour, rice, lumber, and the list could go on. I think we tend to be pretty powerless to predict most of it, or to safeguard against all possible shortages or future events. I have a crystal ball on my office desk.......but it is typically cloudy!!
senecaap
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Even if you panicked and bought and paid more than you should have....give it about three years and, if you can still buy it, it will look like a good deal, prices never go down.
Purchased 300 rounds of 45 ACP today on GunBroker, and the beat goes on. Thats $ 897.97 spent on ammo this year, so far.
