How is there Lapua .284 Win and 6.5-284 Norma supply remaining on shelves today, this long after the announcement? I understand price sensitivity but does anyone really think it’s coming down?
It’s fine to shoot each case until pieces crumble off in our hands, but good golly we still have to buy it, even if for our kids, or theirs.
We can’t collectively be the company’s muse or charity case and expect to ever see this shipped to consumers again.
Right now, we have accepted a 40-50% hike in recent years and recover 0% of powder, primers and bullets, while sometimes calling brass not a cost, and almost making a contest out of how many times we can reload it. We spend more on tools to preserve it, than on it, while its price barely passes on to us, manufacturer’s input increases.
Brass stands alone in that nobody thinks they can make it, themselves, and rightly so. It’s there in the interview, - we don’t buy this stuff anywhere close to the level of importance of its role in our lives.
The better they make it, the less frequently we buy it. I don’t really blame them. Brass abuse isn’t just a warm load, it’s consciously neglecting the wheel that hasn’t been squeaking.
That said, pulling the rug out is as bad for us as Lapua’s brass is good, and that’s an issue, just like it was when Norma dropped so many cartridges.
It hasn’t escaped me that cartridges not on the list, such as 300 WM, have also been missing just as if they too have ceased.
As much as I like Lapua, and it’s enough to buy cases of boxes at a time and put it on a personalized license plate, waiting them out on this, through their noncommittal announcements, is not the message I’ll choose to send, when we have domestic makers that need the business, and are finally striving hard to produce match grade brass.
