Around here its $8.90 for cheap 2x4, $37 for cheap OSB, $220/yd concrete and $125/hr labor!. Watch food and fuel go up.
Where are you located? I should charge more for my work now lol
Around here its $8.90 for cheap 2x4, $37 for cheap OSB, $220/yd concrete and $125/hr labor!. Watch food and fuel go up.
^^^this. I agree with this 100%. Plus other unaccounted for variables. I know some that own guns and don't even have a spare box of ammo kicking around and don't really care to either. Then the re sellers, some of these guys don't even have a shop, but they will move heaven and earth to make $100.There's a subset of gun owners that most of us are part of that has a stock of ammo, and regularly adds to it and/or replenishes it, but a lot of folk I know that have guns have little to no ammo at home. They only think of it when the want to shoot, and sometimes they find it and sometimes they don't, even in good times. Now a whole crop of new owners who believe the sky has fallen, plus the "casual" shooters who believe they need to now lay in a supply, plus those of us hunting for reasonable prices, all lead to the shortage. The other "wild card" in the mix is those buying solely to re-sell. Multiple trips through every Wal-Mart and Fleet Supply in an area and then put things on Gunbroker and Armslist solely to turn a profit isn't helping either. You can't say it's not happening when you see the same seller, week after week, listing different manufacturers and lots of ammo for sale. SOMEBODY is buying it at inflated prices, and that only encourages them. When ammo factories are going 24/7, it's not like they can just "add another line". Much easier, IMO, to make toilet paper faster to catch up. The ability and cost effectiveness to create from scratch and entire production facility and line to make more .22 shells isn't cost effective for the short run, and suppliers normally can keep up in the long run.
+1Eh, all of us here really would rather not have these periodic panics, scarcity, looming repressive actions, etc. To put it bluntly, it sucks and we care more than most people in the US, so it sucks extra hard for us. I'd say a good solution would be to get out a single shot rifle or single action revolver, get out a box of shells, and spend some quality time taking carefully aimed shots. I also like doing this with black powder. When I am really concentrating, all the nonsense that normally chatters around me just sort of fades away into the background. Good therapy.
You “ackshully” neglected to factor in mortality.
The birth rate is declining , I’m pretty sure , and I have little doubt that the paper industry factors in census and demographics.
The bottom line is (ha ha) - I can walk into any store and buy t.p. at a normal price , but 9mm is going for over $1 per round on GunBroker.
Or maybe I'm just full of crap.
No, I understand that completely - you said there wasn't 7 million NEW users, so that implied only birth rate. I answered the specifics. And at the height of the TP panic I saw people selling it out of their cars for $1 a roll, and people were buying it. As for 9mm, thanks for the reminder - I'll hit the lead pot and make another couple hundred this weekend.Waveski said:- There were not 7,000,000 new toilet users who came into being in 2020.
The snickers I got when I said I was casting for 9mm...now they ask if I have extra.shafter said "I hope everyone here was buying when things were good. I know many were sounding the warning but there were scoffers."
"Why you wasting your time loading 9mm" they said!
Now they're pulling that handle like it's a penny slot !!
I dont know about that... I haven't seen Lysol in about 10 months.
I dont know about that... I haven't seen Lysol in about 10 months.
It's more complicated than that, and way off topic for THR--but the very short of it is a collision between historically low pay rates and the extra-strict rules for holding a CDL.From what I've read, that shortage is because job applicants
Spray it on your fabrics around the house and let me know how it works out..No shortage of bleach.
In cold water though. I used bleach in steaming hot water for most of my adult life, I only recently found out that bleach is to be used with cold water. MDilution.
I have read the explanation of the current ammo shortage, and not sure I still believe it. No doubt COVID, shipping delays, political turmoil, etc, led to panic buying and temporary shortages, just like there were toilet paper shortages. But now everything except ammo seems to be available.
I am not sure what is going on, but I am not sure I am still buying the narrative provided.
Not exactly true. They are if you're willing to pay GB prices for components.Not exactly true. Reloading components like bullets and primers are unavailable.
Not exactly true. They are if you're willing to pay GB prices for components.
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Have to look carefully - I was able to snag several boxes of bullets on MidwayUSA very recently when they popped up. They got wiped out soon, but if you have email notification and can move fast, you can find them. These were at pre panic prices, as well. Now POWDER...just paid $40 a pound for X-Terminator, because it was all I could find at the time. It is what it isNot exactly true. Reloading components like bullets and primers are unavailable.
No kidding! Usually, during hunting season, whole sections of shelves are full of green and yellow boxes in every imaginable rifle caliber. This year, I don’t remember seeing *any.*Let's not forget, Remington who is a major ammo maker, hasn't been making much since before the BK they went through. They are finally starting to get production going so it should help ease some of the shortages.