Are the prices ever coming down on components?!

[Will Gray]

"A nickel ain't worth a dime anymore."
― Yogi Berra

What goes up with inflation, never comes down.

 

[Rosebud]

This is ridiculous! Triple or quadruple on primers! Powder prices have at least doubled!
And this stuff sells out in seconds. As long as we line up like suckers and scream "please take my money" no matter the cost, these prices will never normalize. Get a decent amount that you actually "need" and stop hoarding people, please!

Remember the eight million new shooters and gun owners. Good for us, because the gun control morons are through. You will hear them talking crap about banning this or that but they know its political suicide to pass another anti gun bill. But as long as these people keep buying nothing will come down in price. They don't remember the good old days of cheap ammo and reloading supplies. Today is their good old days.

 

[Hoss Smith]

Prices are up on everything not just components. I fear its only going to get worse

Have you priced blue jeans lately? Plain old Cowboy cute wranglers are nearly twice what they were a year ago.

 

[Hoss Smith]

don't worry the prices won't come down only go up , if there are any other farmers , ranchers like me you will know what I am talking about , our water supply has been cut by 60% this year , look at where 30% of the wheat we consume comes from , the supply chain is years behind , we are in deep manure here

Truth

 

[griz375]

Well...with Putin buying gold at above American dollar prices and that causing the ruble and yuan to deflate the dollar value...we are all going to lose.....
He's also making it hard on the oil buyers..making them pay in rubles or gold...he is taking the world..by gold.....
and most of US metal comes from Russia and china.........

To clarify, only a few rare earth metals come from China. What has happened is the EPA and environmental regulations has put every smelter in the US out of business. So all the lead, zink, and other mines in the US have to send their ore concentrates to China to the smelters their to be refined. As for oil, we have plenty of oil but the idiots on capital hill are allowing it to be exported. The United States exports over 8 million barrels of petroleum a day, which includes close to 1 million barrels of finished fuels like gas and diesel.

 

[Poe]

It's pretty stupid and people are only getting worse. There is a online weekly auction and people are paying insane amounts for powder and bullets. I'm pretty sure there is people checking stores everyday and buying everything as soon as it comes in and then selling it on the auction. People are paying over 120$ Canadian for Varget and H1000 every week on the auction. If this keeps up the prices will go up and the shelves in stores will stay empty. I had hope of one day being able to get 35gr Berger's for my .204 as I haven't found any in over 3 years but it's not looking good

 

[backwoodsshooter]

idk, my LGS is still selling things to me at normal prices, even on new shipment of stuff.

 

[arch408]

Jeans, hmmmm. Let's see, considering all American made (FAT CHANCE). Farmers supply had to pay more for cotton seed because of added transportation- fuel cost increase, farmer costs increase- fuel for equipment and irrigation, raw cotton sold for higher price due to increased growing costs, processed cotton price increased to offset increase raw cotton cost, and increased energy costs, cloth mill has to charge more to off set their increased costs, jeans factory has to charge more to offset costs, Wholesalers have to charge more, retailer has to increase their prices to offset added cost plus added transportation cost(fuel). By the time every body has to increase their price to cover cost increases and remember everybody has added 30% fuel cost, you are lucky those jeans only cost twice as much. One thing all producers have in common is added fuel costs. Drill more and build the pipeline.

 

[Chrsm]

I'm going bowling

 

[Shootin4fun]

I feel one of the best ways to curb the price is this: STOP BUYING SO **** MUCH. And especially, stop buying from these yahoos on Gunbroker. They are the ones putting everything on backorder and keeping the market so high. Price is based on supply and demand, as we all know. Demand is the highest it's ever been and supply has never caught up from the Covid shutdowns. So pump the brakes and let supply catch up

Right, I think a lot of dealers who don't want to spoil th

 

[Shootin4fun]

when prices posted on manufacturers websites like Hogdon are also way higher than they used to be it really makes you wonder...this could all be from supply chain problems increased labor costs or other and shortages of raw materials. Essentially, they upped the MSRP. Are they partly testing the waters for when their costs go back down? One thing seems to be true and that is there is not enough competition in the powder and primer markets.

Making primers is not a simple task, but it's not like setting up an IC manufacturing operation either. I'm actually surprised that some monied investors havent dumped some millions into a primer startup already because once it's all set up, there's a guaranteed 100% profit margin waiting and market in dire need.

I wish the guys at Exansion Industries good luck!

 

[hesse]

That's also the problem with having only two companies that make primers you're at their Mercy there is a new primer company coming out. Sometime later this year and that hopefully will help even if it brings availability back but at a better price than the secondary market and auction sites

 

[arch408]

There's always air rifles.

 

[baldhunter]

This was the UN's home page 11-2020.Notice the flags in the background.Let that sink in............