Prices in 2022
- Thread starter Prophet River
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Anyone read this?
ht tps://www.ctvnews.ca/business/gas-prices-could-reach-2-per-litre-in-parts-of-canada-next-year-analyst-says-1.5644672
If you looking for a new firearm bite the bullet today because you will not be able to afford it next year
ht tps://www.ctvnews.ca/business/gas-prices-could-reach-2-per-litre-in-parts-of-canada-next-year-analyst-says-1.5644672
If you looking for a new firearm bite the bullet today because you will not be able to afford it next year
Or save your money to pay for everything that will go up like the gas! If energy goes up, everything goes up!
BattleRife
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Economists have been predicting since the 1980s that standards of living in developed nations will fall. People seem to not have registered what this means.
It means your wages will stagnate while prices rise. It means the average person will have to live in a smaller house, drive an older car, and take fewer vactions. Future Canadians will spend more on basic shelter and food, and buy fewer optional products, like guns and ammunition.
This is happening because by 1980 it was obvious that world's economy was unbalanced. People in poor nations were getting paid almost nothing for their labour and living in poverty, while people in other nations were overpaid and living very well despite offering nothing especially unique to the world. It was unnatural, and unsustainable. Now the poorer nations are coming up, while the top nations are going down. This is not a surprise, and there is precious little you can do about it, except strive to be above average.
It means your wages will stagnate while prices rise. It means the average person will have to live in a smaller house, drive an older car, and take fewer vactions. Future Canadians will spend more on basic shelter and food, and buy fewer optional products, like guns and ammunition.
This is happening because by 1980 it was obvious that world's economy was unbalanced. People in poor nations were getting paid almost nothing for their labour and living in poverty, while people in other nations were overpaid and living very well despite offering nothing especially unique to the world. It was unnatural, and unsustainable. Now the poorer nations are coming up, while the top nations are going down. This is not a surprise, and there is precious little you can do about it, except strive to be above average.
Freedom shooter
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- Liberal Free Ontario
Oddly enough the looney left hasn’t figured this out yet. I know some hardcore Truduh supporters who just love the carbon tax. When you explain this to them and why it’s a bad idea, they just look at you with a blank face.
rifleman762
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- Southern Alberta
It doesn't help that our governments are intentionally working to reduce our standard of living through monetary inflation and opposition to wealth-creating industries. I highly doubt that our reduced standard of living will translate into increased wealth in the developing world... The wealth being extracted through inflation is going to the people who get the new money first. AKA bankers and billionaires.
I am not sure about this one. Ive been saying the same thing for years bu things dont slow down. For example, real estate in BC amongst the most expensive in the world. $1 million for a lot with a tear down home in coquitlam of all places. Prices keep going up and people keep buying. We seem to be pulling the money out of our a**es with no end in sight.
Elpolliano
Member
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- Surrey by the sea (nanaimo)
Just get a bunch of n133 and give me a call.... I'll buy all of it... nobody can beat me at I much if they don't have powder.... I joke.... but seriously we need n133
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- Lloydminster, Alberta
We have 12X 1 Kg of N133 en-route to us now.
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I'm on a work related trip to Illinois right now and I have stopped in to a couple sporting goods stores, a gun shop and a Walmart. In most cases, there is little or no ammo on the shelves (I am not kidding); colleagues have told me of prices in the US for powder of $200/lb. Compared to Canadian dealers, gun prices for most guns are the same in US dollars as ours in Canadian dollars or about 25% higher than Canada with the exchange. So are accessories like scopes.
It's a #### show.
It's a #### show.
I look at the increase in prices and shortages as another form of Gun CONTROL......
Honestly we all know it is BS the cost of these components just like the cost of fuel at the pumps. Thankfully some of us did hoard. An example, when our dollar was at par and even slightly above, that is when I spent my money on barrels. I have enough Bartleins that I may not be able to use them up.
When I see a store has stock in that I may need I grab 1 or 2 of this or that. I may not need it but it is there. If not for me, a buddy.
Honestly we all know it is BS the cost of these components just like the cost of fuel at the pumps. Thankfully some of us did hoard. An example, when our dollar was at par and even slightly above, that is when I spent my money on barrels. I have enough Bartleins that I may not be able to use them up.
When I see a store has stock in that I may need I grab 1 or 2 of this or that. I may not need it but it is there. If not for me, a buddy.
I read all of these posts reluctantly, but do appreciate PR's transparency, as someone else pointed out. Like most people (I suspect?) I picture myself being able to afford a certain $ amount-per-month to support my various hobbies, AFTER the bills are paid. In my own plan, I try to allocate a certain part of that going towards a new gun/scope at some point in the year, or perhaps an upgrade to an existing one. Sort of a 3-tier priority. With escalating prices, the "new gun/upgrade" is the first to go if things continue the way they are, then down the list..
Difficult to imagine being priced-out of the sport, but I can't help but feel the worst is yet to come. As it stands, I own at least one rifle that rarely see the light of day due to ammo costs, but I now have dies/brass/powder/projectiles to hopefully address that over the winter.
The temptation is always there to think of this through the lens of your own situation, but as someone else mentioned, this can't be good for retailers/distributors either.
In the coming days, I'll be taking a very critical look at the heap of ammo/reloading components in the lock-up, and contemplate a plan that might take me well into 2023.
Difficult to imagine being priced-out of the sport, but I can't help but feel the worst is yet to come. As it stands, I own at least one rifle that rarely see the light of day due to ammo costs, but I now have dies/brass/powder/projectiles to hopefully address that over the winter.
The temptation is always there to think of this through the lens of your own situation, but as someone else mentioned, this can't be good for retailers/distributors either.
In the coming days, I'll be taking a very critical look at the heap of ammo/reloading components in the lock-up, and contemplate a plan that might take me well into 2023.
Yeah sometimes our smaller market takes longer to feel the pain and sometimes our stock or re-stock lasts longer than down in the US.
