How long before the falling Canadian Dollar pushes up the cost of Milsurp guns & ammo

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How long before the falling Canadian Dollar pushes up the cost of Milsurp guns & ammo

I have a feeling that the falling Canadian Dollar will soon start to cause a noticeable increase in the prices of all guns, ammo and reloading gear from dealers and importers!

And the more our dollar drops the higher the increases will go to the point that the importers will stop bringing in a lot of stuff as it will sell very slowly and they don't want to get caught with inventory not moving or bought at a high price when the dollar goes back up, if it ever will in the near future.

As all Milsurp firearms and gear is imported (as is nearly all shooting gear) don't be suprised to see them go up in value and cost soon.

Maybe now is the best time to start stocking up!

What do the rest of you think?
 
It only makes sense that the cost of imported firearms from the U.S. will rise.

I don't buy many firearms from retailers since I most collect vintage guns not often offered by dealers. However, I probably won't be doing as much shopping on e-bay for militaria and continue to look for vintage firearms in Canada rather than importing them from the U.S.

I guess we've been spoiled by a strong dollar and now it might be going back to the way things were.

I'm not an economist so can't make any comments on what the future might hold on this topic. As a collector and somebody who loves to travel, I'm definitely not too happy about the current situation.

-Steve
 
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Imported brass (European) is up anywhere from 10% to 30% already, just in the last month.

It is definitely gonna have an effect on which ones I shoot more.

Thankfully, I have about 800 .30-`06s and over 1,000 .303s on hand.

OTOH, I am definitely short on 8x57, 7x57, 8x50R Lebel, .348 Winchester and several others.

Ouch!
 
I don't know but its making me mad. The TV is saying other countries are doing better. Russia is building a huge white elephant, just throwing money into a pit. Turkey might have to sheer up its boarders and I think it's unemployment is high. Greece is Greece, with Spain and Portugal being not too far behind. the Ukraine is seeing unrest, Scotland wants independence from England. Germany is footing the Eu's bill. The US still has Walmart as the largest employer. As for Brazil kind of eked its way into calling itself a leading economy and they cannot build a stadium. One Canadian Dollar is 5.45 Chinese Yaun when I looked. India has a positive change of 3.2 % across 1.237 billion people.

I think the good people that brought us the recession decided they needed an edge and flicked a switch. Yes I am an angry unemployed young person.
 
The burden is on us, WE know prices are gonna drasticly raise in a very near future, i will try to get all i wanted for the whole year, in the next weeks or so... We know it's coming and doing nothing on our part will make us look very stupid when the hammer fall, it's not like we did not know, peoples that dont want to see, will just feel sorry they did not move when they had the chance... In my book that is... JP.
 
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I don't know but its making me mad. The TV is saying other countries are doing better. Russia is building a huge white elephant, just throwing money into a pit. Turkey might have to sheer up its boarders and I think it's unemployment is high. Greece is Greece, with Spain and Portugal being not too far behind. the Ukraine is seeing unrest, Scotland wants independence from England. Germany is footing the Eu's bill. The US still has Walmart as the largest employer. As for Brazil kind of eked its way into calling itself a leading economy and they cannot build a stadium. One Canadian Dollar is 5.45 Chinese Yaun when I looked. India has a positive change of 3.2 % across 1.237 billion people.

I think the good people that brought us the recession decided they needed an edge and flicked a switch. Yes I am an angry unemployed young person.
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I hear you. I'm fortunate enough to be using my degree in my job these days, but I'm not making any money. I'm surviving, but that's it. It's us younger professionals (I'm in my early 30s) who are really suffering these days with employers who are stingy with jobs and salaries. We've all gotta work, so we take the lesser paying job because it exists. Who knows if the higher pay will ever reach us? And you can be sure that if the salaries were forthcoming, we'd be spending it and reinvesting.
 
I'm not really up on in depth international commerce either but I have a few thoughts.
Not everything comes from the US. A lot of it is brought to the continent by mars that and north Sylvia and others.
So some stuff should stay on par. Buying in the US or US manufactured items will go up.
For example; svt40, dirt cheap here as they can't go into the US. Certain rules and loopholes will allow us to keep a minor edge I think.

As Jeremy said, this will hurt collectors. I have already stopped actively looking in the US.
$2000 rifle comes to over $2200 with exchange and fees. Plus $500ish import.
I personally think the us is still in massive trouble, they cannot continue they way they are, it's a house of cards.
 
The value of our dollar has little to do with the cost of anything firearm related. Firearm related stuff prices are already held artifically high by government policy. The Harper Gang has done nothing to change that either.
 
In 1995, imported bolt mismatched and bolt matching K98's were $150 to $180 from Districorp. An SVT40 was $335 with accessories. An M1 Garand was $99 to $275. And we had a low dollar. Fast Forward 2014, Harper and the Banks want the dollar to slide to get the manufacturing jobs going in Ontario again, increase exports and get votes.

1995-02-01 $1 CAN = $0.7120 US ======> $1.40 Canadian to Buy 1 US Dollar

Reality Check:

Then ask yourself, has your wage gone up 10 to 20 times since 1995?

Do you really think in another 10 to 20 years, milsurps will go 10 to 20 times what they are now....$80,000 a piece for a Garand or a K98???....Would you Trade your House for 3 or 4 milsurps???.....or overpriced by demand and supply???....or your dollar and wage isn't worth anything?????.......Thank Band of Brothers (Bob) and Private Ryan!
 
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Every few months someone starts posting about how the sky is falling. This is just one more. If you've been on this site for more than a few months and you haven't figured out that you should maintain a healthy supply to suite your shooting needs, then you deserve to pay more than the rest of us. Every few months the sky is falling, and every few months there are some incredible deals to be had.


The best advice I would give is to ignore posts by doomsayers and keep an eye on the site sponsors for awesome deals that regularly show up. Once you have a healthy supply to suite your shooting, then the only reason left to shop is because its a really super good deal.
 
We have the misfortune to live in a country which has been institutionally corrupt since its inception.

Carnarvon wrote a wonderful Constitution for us, but it has been IGNORED since Day 1. It is, however, still the Law; if Canadians KNEW what was in it, they could demand that it be followed.

Trudeau knew that, so he gave us a red herring of sorts: the phony Charter which contradicts the Constitution in so many ways. The Charter, however, was decided upon in Canada..... at which time the 1960 Bill of Rights supposedly governed it. But the Charter flies in the face of the very Bill of Rights which says that it is illegal and the Government of the day which promulgated the Charter...... was breaking the law. It is a mess, just as bad as back when a businessman could walk into MacDonald's office with a wad of cash and BUY a prohibitive tariff against his competition, thus keeping the prices of Ontario industrial goods as high as possible.

Canada was supposed to have a Federal Government with exclusive areas of competence and was forbidden to infringe upon the rights of the Provinces in many ways, including one area of taxation. The Feds have trashed all of this in blatant disregard of the Law. Today, the two largest federal taxes both are illegal under the Constitution...... and if you say it out loud, somebody will accuse you of being a "freetard". Other federal taxes, earmarked for particular purposes, are misappropriated mercilessly. Canadians are ripped-off mercilessly and legally through a mechanism of 'franchises' and 'exclusive agencies': the reason a US-built machine tool costs 3 times as much in Canada as it does on the other side of the bridge. Our technology is fine, but its biggest export is JOBS. We export raw materials for the world to make into finished products and we import enough people every year to keep a million Canadians permanently unemployed, holding down wages.

This is not Harper. He inherited this mess.

What Harper needs to do is look carefully at some of the Reform policies which the "new" Conservatives have ignored. The ANSWERS are THERE.

Canada today is overgoverned, overtaxed and underindustrialised. The BIGGEST BUSINESS IN THE COUNTRY WAS NEVER SUPPOSED TO BE GOVERNMENT.

Yet that is what has come about.

If WE don't fix it, it will continue.... and WE will suffer for it.

Understand the problems, then understand the solutions.

Then GET INVOLVED POLITICALLY.

This COULD be, SHOULD be, the strongest economy in the best country in the world.

That we do not have exactly that is down to IGNORANCE and INERTIA.

But it CAN be changed.

Good luck, fellow Canadians!

But you will need more than just luck.
 
Thanks, Smellie! 'Bout time somebody called it as it is.

This wasn't supposed to a political commentary thread, but too many are ignoring reality.
 
Good call smellie;
Now if Harper would go hunting with Vladamir Putin and get trade going on any remaining Soviet era milsurps
to our neck of the woods, we'd be most grateful.;)

Like that will ever happen.....but it should!
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