Samlab
Active Member
1964.....Pendleton's Hardware Wheaton, MD.
Western 22LR box cost .25 cents for 50 rounds.
Western 22LR box cost .25 cents for 50 rounds.
Hey ghtnats! that's exactly what I was slooking for ...
Waht do you all think, after the holiday, but before the midterm elections buy? Or wait till after the elections, with. the expectation that the Reps will win and this insanity will stop, that's the time to buy?
I have some cash to spend, and running kinda low on ammo; want to buy in the dip as my friend says.... hahah.
1964.....Pendleton's Hardware Wheaton, MD.
Western 22LR box cost .25 cents for 50 rounds.
Buy it whenever you see it at a reasonable price (reasonable for the time). DO NOT wait until you're low or out. Timing market dips is not a sound strategy. If prices drop post election, then you buy to average out the higher prices you've already paid. And the next time it returns to "normal", buy all you can and don't stop buying, so you don't have to ask this question again.
And when AmmoJon tells you that availability will be severely limited in a few months, believe him.
When you get a warning like that from someone in the trade, take it seriously. I spent more than I could afford back then, and it insulated me against a 400% increase in prices. I even passed on buying a few nice firearms at the time, assuming they'd be useless without ammunition.
I have suppliers that buy by the truckload that are asking me to help them find 12g ammo. I don’t take that as a good sign. There might be supply at the consumer level but at the top in large quantities it’s still not great.
The same could be said for crypto and stocks. 2 years ago I was selling a case of 9mm for $180 now it’s $380.
And when AmmoJon tells you that availability will be severely limited in a few months, believe him.
When you get a warning like that from someone in the trade, take it seriously. I spent more than I could afford back then, and it insulated me against a 400% increase in prices. I even passed on buying a few nice firearms at the time, assuming they'd be useless without ammunition.
Treat ammo like an engagement ring.
Remember when his Fed 9mm went the whole way up to $225/1000 and a bunch of people here were talking trash and accusing him of gouging?
Those were the good old days (less than 2yrs ago)
So when does industry take the hint that the demand we've seen for the past 18 months is probably going to be the new normal, so they'll go ahead and invest in additional capacity? Primers, and maybe to a lesser extent propellants, seem to be the real bottleneck in preventing production increases, so an investment there might give a healthy, stable RoI.