Metal Prices going up.....AMMO accordingly

[S.S.]

I just went to a small ammunition factory here in Georgia
(I say small but they say they produce 1 3/4 million rounds a week)
and I was astonished to see their jump in prices.
I bought a 20 rd. box of 45-70 405 gr Lead rounds about a month ago from them for less than $14.00 a box,....That same box just
cost me $20.00 !!!  OUCH !! They said that the price of metals
has made a giant jump upwards recently. Lead, brass, Primers
it has all gone up. I hope this is not a hint of something ugly
coming our way.

[Mikey]

S. Sumner - maybe it is just 'supply and demand'.  After all, there is a war goin' on and the war machine turns out one hay of a lot of boolets and bombs - probably squeezes the smaller manufacturers to increase their prices which are passed off to the customer.

I don't think it's a trend (as in commie/dumbocrat/librul plot), just supply side economics.

I think once we begin pulling our troops home in greater numbers and begin winding down the onslaught in the middle east, we're gonna see a lot of surpluses.  I would imagine 5.56, 7.62 and 9mm, not to mention who knows what.  JMHO though.  Mikey.

[Jack Crevalle]

I dunno. With reports of military ammo stocks being depleted I would hope the military would stockpile extra ammo, if any. We should learn from what happened after WWII when basically one individual decided we should dump tons of war stocks around the world and then when the North Koreans invaded the South we were caught short.

[1911crazy]

Its not getting any cheaper.  Buying new ammo is almost the same price as buying new cases, the bullets, the primers and powder to roll your own if the stuff is on sale.  Some of the new ammo makers as just pricing themselves out of the market(winchester/ remington).  Winchester is buying new Sellier & Bellot ammo and putting their label on it calling it winchester metric ammo. With the supplies of surplus ammo running out soon we better have a plan in place long before it does. :eek:   BigBill