Because even the price of 1970's Yugoslavian surplus ammo has risen 30-40% in the last 4 months. Lets not even mention the price of 1950's 8mm mauser ammo...
Berdan primers ? Still in all the new european made ammo and russian and chineese and Indian and Pakistani ammo, yet impossible to buy, hence impossible to reload all that beautiful once fired Yugoslavian brass.
I positively believe that higher powers are enacting procedures and applying pressure to make it more difficult to obtain ammo for legally owned firearms. In Australia, primers are 12c each ??? Thats the land where semi auto's and handguns are forbidden, so now they blow the price of ammo out the water until no-one can afford to have more than a couple of boxes of ammo in the safe.
Has anyone looked at the price of commercially made medium caliber ammo recently ? $50-70/box of 20 rounds ???