This is CRAZY...

[fmuguira]

BTW, I d give odds that he's most likely increased his asking prices to $150-200 for 1000 primers and probably still wanting you to buy 10 boxes of bullets with your primers!!

 

[GLTaylor]

I'm not wasting components. I have enough for hunting but not plinking. I don't know how competitive shooters are going to shoot as much and I worry for those sports too.

Our gun club has 130 flats of shotshells on backorder. Haven't gotten any primers or powder in 2-3 months. No shot either.
We can still get wads and targets. Lots of good they do if you've no ammo to shoot at them. We have 9 more sporting clays tournaments scheduled. Hope they bring their own ammo! We've cancelled the CMP rifle matches for the rest of the year. Nobody can get components to load.
Hope things turn around sometime soon. Club can't make money to continue operating like this!

 

[swe123]

Midway even hiked price up. Not to that extend, but enough. Berger's were $58-62 one week, $72-80 the next.

Could be Berger raised their prices.

 

[Springtom]

I just bought 2 #1lb bottles of H1000 for about $56 each. It was a little steep, but I was just happy to be able to get some. Not the best long term strategy, but at least I can actually shoot my new rifle soon. I figured it was about half what most on gunbroker wanted.

 

[orkan]

Serious question, is this price gouging by the retailer or are their prices going up? If it is price gouging someone with more time than me should start a list and we all boycott those businesses if possible.

There is no such thing as gouging. Not if you believe in individual liberty and individual responsibility.

Very rarely is anyone forced to buy something. We are not entitled to what someone else has, at a price of our choosing. They set the prices. We decide to buy, or not. What kind of person makes the decision to purchase something, and then gets mad at the seller who provided the item at a price the buyer agreed to pay?

If there is a singular behavior that illustrates one of the core problems with people in this country... it's that right there.

Could be Berger raised their prices.

Considering berger is now a Nammo owned company, and nammo is headquartered where the Euro is the currency, and the dollar has lost at least 12% of value on the Euro... it would make sense that they are looking to protect their profit margins and will raise prices just like every other domestic and international entity will do this year.

 

[LoneTraveler]

I heard no proof. That Remington going under, They shut their primer operation down. Some are saying that this is part of the problem.

 

[Jester560]

As long as there are people out there willing to pay those prices, there will be people to charge them.

 

[orkan]

As long as there are people out there willing to pay those prices, there will be people to charge them.

An absolute truth of the economy, if ever there were one.

We should not wish for it to be any other way.

However unfortunate it may be when we find ourselves in a position to desire a thing we can not afford, a free land can not exist if what we want is provided at the expense of others without their consent.

 

[1moredeer]

Price gouging is starting to get the attention of state governments. Cheaper Than Dirt was ordered to pay over $400k back to consumers by the Texas Attorney General for price gouging during the pandemic.

https://amp.statesman.com/amp/3932523001

 

[Gunpowder]

There is no such thing as gouging. Not if you believe in individual liberty and individual responsibility.

Very rarely is anyone forced to buy something. We are not entitled to what someone else has, at a price of our choosing. They set the prices. We decide to buy, or not. What kind of person makes the decision to purchase something, and then gets mad at the seller who provided the item at a price the buyer agreed to pay?

If there is a singular behavior that illustrates one of the core problems with people in this country... it's that right there.

Well said! Buyers set the market for everything in a free society. When buyers won't buy, prices drop. If nobody wants a product bad enough to pay a profitable price for the seller/manufacturer, the product is discontinued or the business fails.

What's amazing to me, looking at GB tonight, is how badly people want to shoot. I sort of get the panic on common military type ammo they think they need to defend themselves. But paying 180 bucks for 147 eldm? I like the 6.5 caliber, but dang if I like it enough to pay that! I saw common creedmoor dies going for over 200 bucks! Insane

 

[DartonJager]

Price gouging is starting to get the attention of state governments. Cheaper Than Dirt was ordered to pay over $400k back to consumers by the Texas Attorney General for price gouging during the pandemic.

https://amp.statesman.com/amp/3932523001

I refused to ever again shop at CTD after all the BS they pulled when nObama was in office.

 

[1moredeer]

Looking back to the start of the pandemic, state governments were tasked to define "essential businesses" within their jurisdictions. In most 2nd amendment friendly states, stores that sell guns and ammo were deemed essential. The "essential " designation not only allowed them to remain open for business but it also put them under more stringent rules for pricing their products during a weakened economy. States are now looking into these businesses for hyper inflating prices, aka price gouging, and leveling fines on them. While I'm all for a free market system, they shouldn't be allowed to benefit from the law and then use it as an opportunity for a windfall. Just my 2 cents.

 

[orkan]

No man should be able to say who is essential or not in the first place.

 

[Txhillbilly]

I heard no proof. That Remington going under, They shut their primer operation down. Some are saying that this is part of the problem.

Only for people that use Remington primer's.