urbanrifleman
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All these price increases take the fun out of building a new rifle too. Something like a 7PRC that takes 67 grains of powder, it does make you consider the cost now.
I'm making lots of 223, 22 Creed, and 22br barrels. Next will be the 22 GT.
People are definitely choosing cartridges based on availability of components. Especially if they're trying to get started. People who were previously using the big boomers are now looking at much smaller cartridges to see if they will get what they need to get done.
When people call me and are talking about a new build I tell them I would look at components first. Do you have the components? If you don't have the components what components are available? Yes, the veteran shooters certainly don't do this because they're probably very well supplied. But then again a lot of the veteran shooters are completely unaware of actually what's going on out in the world. Since they are so well supplied, they have no actual knowledge of the extreme shortages that are actually happening.
No joke, people really need to understand that it's a distinct possibility that reloading components will not exist in another 5 years. These companies have been taken over and turned into a giant monopoly, and they can turn that switch off anytime they want to do it. And they have plenty of other customers to sell their product to. People really need to understand that
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