Do you think ammo prices will ever go back down?

[308sc]

Well, I know this has been done before :banghead: probably, but it just seems like the prices on components, and loaded ammo is skyrocketing! Do you ever think it will go down? I'm seriously considering, once I get a job (im 15) to spend my weekly paycheck all on ammo, I mean unless you guys think it is going to come back down. Well leave your opinion!

308sc


This mainly applies to rifle ammunition and components, but if it needs to be moved to general discussion please do so

 

[jgo296]

no they already have you paying that price why lower it

 

[RP88]

you'll see ammo prices and gun prices go down when gas prices go down.

In other words: probably never

 

[taliv]

nope. they'll fluctuate of course, but never be where they were prior to invading iraq.

if i were you, i would save my $ and search for deals. exercise self control and don't just go spend all your money on what you think you want today. wait for the blemished bullet sales on midway and lockstock, garage sales, estate auctions, going out of biz sales, etc. when you find a good deal, buy it all.

 

[Click Click Boom]

NO!!!!!!!

 

[Magic_Man]

Nothing will ever go down.

 

[Number 6]

It really depends upon the market. To say that prices never drop or that they will always remain high is a bit silly. When I graduated from High School in 1998 gas had dropped to 90 cents per gallon due to the collapse of the Asian financial markets. Gas like any commodity fluctuates depending upon the global market for that commodity. Brass, copper, and lead should similarly fluctuate. If global demand for ammunition and its related components drops or if supply increases then prices will drop. If eventually the conflicts in Iraq and Afghanistan stabilize and/or China enters into a recession, then it is possible for ammo prices to drop. But, the reality is that no one can accurately predict what will happen to global markets with any certainty.

 

[Pine Cone]

Unlikely prices will ever drop much. The USA has been top dog for half a century with a resource use that dominates the world economy on whatever scale or measure you want to use.

Thanks to videos and the internet, much of the poorer world have an image of what to aspire to...

The worldwide demand for metals and non-renewable energy like coal and oil will increase because the world population will increase. The increased demand for resources will drive prices up as the Chinese and Indians and others want the lifestyle we have here in the good-old US of A. Until recently they did not have the economic power to compete, but as they grow more affluent they will drive the prices up on everything that is produced and sold on world markets...

I was in China in 1989 when very few private cars were on the Chinese highways. Now they want cars and are beginning to have the $$ to buy them, so they need more metal and gasoline and are willing to spend more to get them. Recycling could help slow the price increases, but it is hard to imagine anything that could cause metal prices to drop very much in the future. The US population is less than 5% of the world population, but we use more than our share of world resources.

Economic theory says that over time, prices will increase as demand increases. Prices will drop only if demand drops, and that seems unlikely without a SHTF scenario, and if that happens prices will increase as well.

Have you noticed how many things you buy are from anywhere but the US of A? It takes stuff to make stuff, and a lot of that making stuff is the same metals that go into ammo. They buy our scrap metals, ship it half way around the world, make stuff we want, ship it back half way around the world, and still make enough profit to invest some of it into buying more scrap metal and do it all over again. We toss a lot of that stuff into dumps and reduce the world metal supply which increases metal prices.

Hard to believe that will change in the future. The country that buys the scrap and makes the stuff might change, but the process will happen and continue to drive metal and therefore ammo prices up.


These are/were the good old days...

 

[jhansman]

Oh yeah. Right about the time fuel, food, and gun prices fall through the floor. Sorry, but the demand for these commodities is higher than ever before, which always keeps prices high. .22LR ammo I paid $16 a brick for last month is now $25, if you can find it.

 

[Bendutro]

Cross you fingers and hope for a typhoon/comet/meteor/tsunami/pandemic disease /earthquake/super-volcano to take out a large portion of a developing country and put a dent in demand for materials and then go and vote for Ron Paul, he's the man with the plan to put a real value on the US dollar instead of an IOU value.

 

[Dr. Peter Venkman]

Cross you fingers and hope for a typhoon/comet/meteor/tsunami/pandemic disease /earthquake/super-volcano to take out a large portion of a developing country and put a dent in demand for materials and then go and vote for Ron Paul, he's the man with the plan to put a real value on the US dollar instead of an IOU value.

As much as I support Ron Paul, a natural catastrophe in a developing country is not going to result in lower consumption or cheaper commodities to the already industrialized nations; rounds and their components were to cheap to begin with (as with most foreign labor goods) as the result of poor working conditions elsewhere. The amount of product available (copper, led, etc) will become choked due to the act of nature and people killed thus killing supply while the consumption level will remain the same.