I've been shooting for almost a decade now and I'm amazed at what's going on with ammo.
I thought it was limited to just the enthusiasts who participate in THR and to inflation raising the price of everything (including ammo) but it turns out to be a little worse.
Ammoman.com is a great place to pick up a bunch of loaded ammo for fairly cheap if you buy in quantity. After looking through the .45acp, 9mm and .223 sections of his website and seeing half of his items "sold out, more in soon" I'm starting to get a little confused about what we're doing to ourselves here.
The military infantry doesn't shoot .45acp any more. And he's sold out of more 45acp products than 9mm products. 9mm products are going up in price, however and are about 2/3 the cost of 45acp now. They used to be about half. 40 s&w costs are actually about the same proportionally as they always have been, right under or at the same cost as 45acp. He's even selling out of 22lr ammo!
I don't know anything at all about the ammo business, I'm just a guy from Kansas who likes to shoot. but I can tell you this, our gov't isn't giving Isreal all of our 22lr ammo, and they're not shooting all the .45acp in combat. So, I'm starting to think that maybe, just maybe, all this increased demand because everyone is "stocking up" is causing the prices to go up. It's the only thing that makes sense, a little inflation and all these rumors about where all the ammo is going is causing folks to 'stock up' because they're just scared that we may not have any ammo before too long, or it will be in limited enough supply to warrant a ridiculous price jump.
I'm not an economist, but if we just start finding alternatives to this and lower the demand we'll all be better off. Same thing with gasoline, they raise the prices, we pay it...so they keep charging for it because 'if we can sell it at that price, why ruin our margin' this isn't some gas price rant, this is an ammo price rant, but how can Exxon return the HIGHEST PROFIT OF ANY PUBLIC COMPANY Q3 of 2006 unless they are making money on their product? Simple, they are making more $$$ and we're giving it to them.
So, reload your own ammo. You'll keep the prices down and you'll save yourself a bunch of money.... I don't care about those things, I'm already reloading my own. What I do care about, however, is that you'll stick it to the ammo companies for taking advantage of sportsmen these past few years. The sport is easily over a century old, but all of a sudden the prices jump? Why? because they have the information in front of them that says we buy more ammo when they raise the prices.
I thought it was limited to just the enthusiasts who participate in THR and to inflation raising the price of everything (including ammo) but it turns out to be a little worse.
Ammoman.com is a great place to pick up a bunch of loaded ammo for fairly cheap if you buy in quantity. After looking through the .45acp, 9mm and .223 sections of his website and seeing half of his items "sold out, more in soon" I'm starting to get a little confused about what we're doing to ourselves here.
The military infantry doesn't shoot .45acp any more. And he's sold out of more 45acp products than 9mm products. 9mm products are going up in price, however and are about 2/3 the cost of 45acp now. They used to be about half. 40 s&w costs are actually about the same proportionally as they always have been, right under or at the same cost as 45acp. He's even selling out of 22lr ammo!
I don't know anything at all about the ammo business, I'm just a guy from Kansas who likes to shoot. but I can tell you this, our gov't isn't giving Isreal all of our 22lr ammo, and they're not shooting all the .45acp in combat. So, I'm starting to think that maybe, just maybe, all this increased demand because everyone is "stocking up" is causing the prices to go up. It's the only thing that makes sense, a little inflation and all these rumors about where all the ammo is going is causing folks to 'stock up' because they're just scared that we may not have any ammo before too long, or it will be in limited enough supply to warrant a ridiculous price jump.
I'm not an economist, but if we just start finding alternatives to this and lower the demand we'll all be better off. Same thing with gasoline, they raise the prices, we pay it...so they keep charging for it because 'if we can sell it at that price, why ruin our margin' this isn't some gas price rant, this is an ammo price rant, but how can Exxon return the HIGHEST PROFIT OF ANY PUBLIC COMPANY Q3 of 2006 unless they are making money on their product? Simple, they are making more $$$ and we're giving it to them.
So, reload your own ammo. You'll keep the prices down and you'll save yourself a bunch of money.... I don't care about those things, I'm already reloading my own. What I do care about, however, is that you'll stick it to the ammo companies for taking advantage of sportsmen these past few years. The sport is easily over a century old, but all of a sudden the prices jump? Why? because they have the information in front of them that says we buy more ammo when they raise the prices.