JayHHI6818
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Cost of Bullets
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I found it quite easy to just not read what doesn’t interest me.
eg: someone posts about what Taylor Swift is doing. I just skip on down.
(She could be a great person, I don’t know. What I do know is I don’t care.)
rockhound78
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Bidenomics definition---Trickle up poverty
nmkid
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No. How about greedflation?
What is greedflation? My understanding is every business will charge what the market will bare.
Businesses have to watch how much they raise prices. Raising them just because they can may cause enough people to stop shooting OR reduce how much they shoot. Both are not good for the hobby.
To make the sport prosper these component makers should hold the line on prices or possibly reduce their prices. This would help save the hobby.
It's like when Reagan reduced taxes and the gov't actually pulled in more revenue.
To make the sport prosper these component makers should hold the line on prices or possibly reduce their prices. This would help save the hobby.
It's like when Reagan reduced taxes and the gov't actually pulled in more revenue.
Handloaders will have to decide if their bullets are that good. Good enough to pay more.
Bullets. Sure. What about brass, powder, primers, scopes, rings, mounts, stocks, range fees, it goes on and on? Eventually they’ll find themselves without any customer base.
Don’t know if anyone noticed Wendy’s one month in office CEO great decision yesterday .
Increased prices during lunch and dinner. People went nuts. Today “clarification “was issued. What he really meant was lunch and dinner time meals stay the same price and off hours will be reduced prices. Really? The English language, while tricky, is not that hard. Irreparable damage? Yup. Came out that Wendy’s (6,000 locations) is the highest price of fast food places.
The first business of business is to stay in business.
dgeesaman
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Many corporations have pushed up their prices before they were sure they needed to and higher than they needed to. As labor and materials costs are settling, they aren’t just giving back those savings - they are pocketing them.
Yes some raw materials and labor have gone up year over year. But prices we pay have been going up a lot faster. The gap is the greedflation.
So basically for a lot of companies making a lot of products, profit margins are way up since the pandemic.
We, the market, have not been putting price pressure on the greedy companies. People still pay $160 for BR-4 primers (not me though). Alliant powders are very high price. Some shooters claim they’ll pay whatever it costs. We talk more about scarcity than price. The sellers are well aware of this and have been BMWs with gift bows for the last couple Christmases
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Claiming and doing are two different things.
I’ll pay until I think I’m being made a fool.
I’m close. I enjoy shooting but I have plenty of other interests.
dgeesaman
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I’ve been pulling the triggers on my airguns and rimfire a whole lot more, myself.
Transitory, I tell ya, transitory!
Remember those famous words spoken to the American public by the first press secretary of the current regime? I sure do, and I will never forget it. I guess I might look at things differently if we had not been warned that this would happen. I do feel for those caught without enough components at pre pandemic prices that I thought were even high then. I guess a fella has to list his priorities. Either cut things out or cut things back. When my natural gas bill prices get beyond my comfort level, I turn the thermostat back a little. It is the young men and women that would like to enter our sport/hobby that I feel for.
Remember those famous words spoken to the American public by the first press secretary of the current regime? I sure do, and I will never forget it. I guess I might look at things differently if we had not been warned that this would happen. I do feel for those caught without enough components at pre pandemic prices that I thought were even high then. I guess a fella has to list his priorities. Either cut things out or cut things back. When my natural gas bill prices get beyond my comfort level, I turn the thermostat back a little. It is the young men and women that would like to enter our sport/hobby that I feel for.
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dgeesaman
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I don’t see the overpriced stuff gathering dust on the shelves yet. So somebody is paying these prices.
The pandemic has been over for a while. They have come down a little since the highs but their working back there. All of us dont have all the money in the world. Greed. Greed is not good. I dont agree with Michael Douglas . Doug
Last week I purchased a 250 box of Nosler 55 BT's, 224 caliber for $85 (6% sales tax included).
Yea, that is terribly expensive, but they shoot terrific in all my 223 precision 12" twist bolt rifles and the last thing I want to do is change bullets and have to go through the dreaded process of load development which I absolutely hate. Therefore, I can easily justify paying this especially with varmint season just around the corner.
Yea, that is terribly expensive, but they shoot terrific in all my 223 precision 12" twist bolt rifles and the last thing I want to do is change bullets and have to go through the dreaded process of load development which I absolutely hate. Therefore, I can easily justify paying this especially with varmint season just around the corner.
People will continue to pay high prices for components.................until they can't. Everything has it's limits. Even the pro shooters have sponsors because of the high (and going higher) price of shooting. Component manufacturers should not be surprised when sales drop because they continually raise prices. Sometimes they forget that our wages have not kept up with bidenflation.......not even close. We have gas, food, medical services, etc to pay for first.
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