Ammo prices jumped 25%!!
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Jonesyatpl
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Wholesale pumped up all their prices, but so did Lebarons !
07blackwater
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It probably has a lot to do with the Canadian dollar tanking.
New Camper
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Inflation people... inflation... the symptoms you are seeing are caused by decades of consistently poor government that devalues paper - paper (now plastic and computer graphics) that only have "worth" because everyone thinks the same government will honour the words printed thereon. In essence, the increase is another tax: The commodities contained in ammunition are constants, but the worth less and less dollar is not holding any perceived value so it buys less and less of things tangible. And to put a delightful cherry on that cake we get shafted capital gains tax: A tax that is on the "appreciation" in dollars (that buy less and less, because they are worth less and less) that the constant (tangible things) appears to be increasing when valued in said dollars. A tax on the tax on how much you are being shafted.
Bring back the gold and silver standards.
EDIT: While not always the case, (but a great part at this time) the laws of supply and demand kick in, so while the above is still a problem, much of what we are seeing in ammunition/components is because of increased demand and no proportional increase in supply.
Bring back the gold and silver standards.
EDIT: While not always the case, (but a great part at this time) the laws of supply and demand kick in, so while the above is still a problem, much of what we are seeing in ammunition/components is because of increased demand and no proportional increase in supply.
blasted_saber
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Meh. It happens. By September it may be back down again.
Many, many times ive gone to gun shows and seen a box of ammo thats 15 years old with a higher price (original store sticker, not gun show price) then what I can go buy the exact same box of ammo for at a store. Hell, my dad gave me a box of 303 which is likely close to 20 years old and it was priced the exact same as brand new box right now.
My philosophy is when i see ammo for a price lower then usual to by it then and there. It might be February in a little mom and pop bait store I stop in while going ice fishing. It might June at a gun show. If its cheap, buy it.
Many, many times ive gone to gun shows and seen a box of ammo thats 15 years old with a higher price (original store sticker, not gun show price) then what I can go buy the exact same box of ammo for at a store. Hell, my dad gave me a box of 303 which is likely close to 20 years old and it was priced the exact same as brand new box right now.
My philosophy is when i see ammo for a price lower then usual to by it then and there. It might be February in a little mom and pop bait store I stop in while going ice fishing. It might June at a gun show. If its cheap, buy it.
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- Ottawa origanally Muskoka
And last year it was probably $17/box the prices are going to go up, up, up as panic buying cause shortages.
Not to mention the last of the lead refinery smelters being shut down in Dec2013.
When was the last time you saw a bag of 30-06 or 308 brass on the shelf?
How about lesser known brass like 270 or 6.5x55?
Its been a while here in Ottawa.
And since 270 is a special run for the bullets the availability of bullet selection will be limited and also pricey.
The 6.5x55 is cheaper now than 20 years ago for 3 main reasons;
1) because US manufacturers have started using necked down 30-06 brass
2) cartridges like 260rem,6.5 grendal,264 win mag,264 weaterby,6.5 creedmore,26 nosler have kept the caliber alive and regular bullet manufacturing runs
3) New guns are still being chambered in the cartridge and military surplus guns are still available
270 uses 30-06 brass but few other chamberings use .277" bullets. And while you may still be able to get a new rifle chambered in it newer cartridges have stolen much of its ground.
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- Ottawa origanally Muskoka
Noted. I have a cica 1990 box of federal 6.5x55 140gr bearclaws marked $54.99...though the bear claw was a premium offering from Federal.
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As previously stated , as the Canadian dollar drops , we can expect to see the cost of most everything made in the U.S. go up including ammo . The good side is that a lower Canadian dollar usually means that Canada will be able to sell more of our products into the States.....
Yep, the Canadian dollar is now $0.90 US, which is $1.11 Canadian to buy one dollar US.
Just under par last year. So, right off the bat, 11% more, plus fuel is also 11% more because oil is priced in US dollars. Basically everything is up 11%, plus add inflation, and 20% increase on imported products is to be expected this year as a baseline.
No, it won't. The difference is the value of the Canadian Dollar. Ammo supplies are purchased by distributors 6 months or more before they hit the store shelves. That means in September, ammo will likely be higher, becasue the dollar is lower today than a few months ago when the current stocks of ammo were purchased/imported.
This is like gas prices, when it started to go up peoples were looking towards the newspaper to see if a tanker sank or if there was a conflict somewhere in middle east. Now we know better, no one needs a reason to jump prices on anything.Remember when food started to go up cause gas prices were up, anyone noticed the price of food going down when the price of gas stabilized or went back down... It's a game of "you want it, pay for it" till no one can afford it. THEN they start to go down but only when it affects the sales. We live in a capitalist world, why would they sell something cheap when demand is sky high, financially speaking it would be stupid.
blasted_saber
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- A blue part of Ontario
So explain why I have 20 year old boxes of ammo with essentially the same price, or in some cases more then price of the exact same ammo made today.
New Camper
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- Lurking in the woods near SFRC.
270 brass can be made from 30-06 brass yes, however 270 is longer and 30-06 necked down would become even shorter... until expansion over a few reloads compensates. The 270 is also one of the most practical rounds for North America, if not the most practical round - it's a shame that greater efforts were never put into developing it for match shooting. I only know of one source for VLD bullets for .277 and that is Canadian source Matrix bullets. I haven't bought 270 rounds in years as I prefer my reloads. I haven't found prices to be much more than comparable grades in common calibers though: Reloading components are on par with others of comparable quality. Mind you, I don't have rifles in run of the mill calibers except 22LR, so while I observe, I don't pay much attention to them.
In time, the newer cartridges will finally be seen as just that: Simply newer cartridges with no advantages over the time tested and true, to eventually take their place in the obsolete section of cartridge publications.
.......shop around.
