I may be very wrong but I assume that their engineers still need something to do while their production lines are swamped with other work at the moment. I do understand your feelings though and I kinda feel the same but I try to look at the big picture and keep my fingers crossed that it's a good sign, that introduction of new stuff might mean that they foresee getting caught up on the other stuff that's had them covered up for a long time now. It's hard for me not to sympathize with them, having Russia breathing down their necks for this long while. If their new stuff is like the old, it'll be worth the wait in the long run. The scary part is how dependent we all are on other countries to produce the kind of quality that we used to lead the world in making. If anything, it may have brought us new options, like Peterson, ADG and Alpha. If the quality is equal to or better than Lapua, I'll always buy American but so far, I've not see it to be as good. Not sure why, though.
I think I explained a possible scenario in my last post. Not that I'm right but that it's logical...The engineers kept designing and working even while production has been based around a few old(likely NATO)cartridges.
Same model as the powder suppliers seem to follow. New powders introduced yet they couldn't keep the supply chain filled with old standbys.
Reading through their announcement, they are saying they are starting up additional line or lines which will help with long term capacity. This allowing them to make these new offerings and help with the backlog of the current offerings. If one is wanting to add additional offerings it only makes sense to do it on a new line. You can make sure you get the bugs worked out. You don’t want to shut down a current line that has more demand then you can meet and is running at full capacity. Management will be jumping down your butt that you are losing money.
Just following business model Hornady and some powder manufacturers use.
I agree and hope you're right. I'd love to see things get back to whatever normal means these days. Lol!
Currently have over 600 Lapua .308 Palma cases ; with over thirty reloads on them , that I classify as "Practice Cases , and four hundred "Match Cases " , with only five firings on them . Been working the Practice Brass for three years now , and there wasn't a Palma Brass issue three years ago , when I had those 600 , almost "NEW" cases for practice . When funds have to be discretionary , purchases get made "AS NEEDED" , more often than "I WANT". If only my crystal ball was more accurate , and I'd have known the issues in Europe would create this much of a problem . Silly me .
Sorry buddy I just can’t evolve,…. I’ve tried the other brass you mentioned and although good it’s not Lapua in my opinion. People say I’m a hoarder and maybe I am idk but if they never produce another 6br case I’ll still be ok and if they do I’ll buy more. Glad to hear there making wsm brass.
I’m glad they don’t same as I’m glad they don’t make 6brx or Dasher, if it was easy everyone and there dog would be doing it, which we want people in the sport but this keeps us on our toes, you have to want it bad to go through all the processes that we do.
