I would be ashamed..I mean unwilling-to-show-my-face level of ashamed….to have a table where I’m selling CCI pistol primers at $95/brick.
Yet there they were.
AR’s were reasonable. Nothing else was.
I feel so, so, so validated for the things I have purchased in the past.
Of course, a year from now things may be ‘normal’-ish and primers are back to $25-30 a brick and used police trade-in Glocks are $350. But, somehow, I doubt it. Look how long it took for .22 ammo to become available again (not that it ever came back to earth in terms of pricing).
I’m all for capitalism, and the price of a thing is whatever the market will bear, but, wow, I would still feel pretty dickish asking a guy for a c-note for some primers. Not my place (or yours) to tell someone what to charge for an item…but talk about chutzpah.
Relax my CCI primers have $ 9.95 marked on the box. You aren’t stiffing anyone with half a brain; anyone that has not already preped needs to pay those prices, having money is bad for them.
It is hardly a free market. Capitalism = win/win.
It’s banditry – a tawdry mark on an otherwise beautiful town.
Bastards.
I was reloading some of my magazines after my last range trip. I pulled a 9mm ammo can out of the closet, factory loads from Georgia Arms. 9mm 115 grain FMJ 500 rounds for $70. I started wondering what it goes for now. I went to Georgia Arms – nope, none in stock for the foreseeable future. Then I went to the Ammo Seek search engine, and found it . Winchester White box 9mm 115 grain FMJ 500 rounds for $497.45. @ 99.5 ¢ a bullet!
Maybe that’s what a dollar is worth now….
The old adage “The cure for high prices is high prices.” Clearly if no one will pay $95/brick, then the price will come down pretty quick. If people are willing to spend that much, then the guys selling for that amount are justified. Of course primers may be ‘unobtanium’ for an extended period of time, and the prices may climb a lot more if civil unrest keeps rearing its ugly head.
I’m just thankful for all of the things that I have put away over the years. I haven’t bought toilet paper in at least 2 years. I did buy some 12 ga. 00 because it was there the other day, but that’s not because I needed any but because I could.
Old Jewish expression:
“You make your money when you buy”.
Those that buy when their is panic buying
Fall into:
It is morally wrong, not to separate a fool from his money”.
At this moment .380HP is selling for $1.25 a bullet, if you can find it.
A year ago, I picked 20 boxes for $120.
“You make your money when you buy”.
Enough said.
My conspiracy radar alert is going off. One way to disarm the population is to stop the flow of primers to ammo factories and reloaders. Eventually there would be no ammo available except by background check.
Then again some of us have pallets of ammo stocked away and the shelf life is long so it may take a while to run out.
maybe that’ll put a stop to the spray and pray antics. that’s a good thing.
A dollar a bullet is cheap some are three dollars plus a round……I have been stocking up for thirty years…..have more ammo then most community’s……James adage…….three is two, two is one, one is none……applies. Thank survival blog for helping me understand the bigger picture, and what’s coming, remember you are prepping for two major reasons first, is yourself and family, the second most important you need to be prepping for barter purposes. God bless this country and our great president.
My impulse buys of sale item practice ammo from a couple of different online retailers late in 19 seemed like an unnecessary expenditure at the time but I feel vindicated now that the same items are 200 percent the price, if you can find them.
These periods of high prices and limited availability are getting pretty predictable…maybe not the exact cause but the timing.
We’re not quite at the “not available at any price” circumstance. I will give a shout out to Commander Zero for introducing me to the concept. It has helped as I thought about what to store for longer term preps. We’ve gotten some trial runs at that experience with ammunition over the past 12 years or so. People buying at high prices now will feel okay about it if it becomes prolonged NAAAP.
Yeah ammo is crazy. Thankfully generally speaking I am ok. Of course it is appearing I could USA a box of this or a couple boxes of that but nothing essential.
The only arbiter of whether his price was out of line is- did it sell? If it sold, then at least for one buyer, the price was right.
What would you pay for the last jar of antibiotic when your kid is sick? It’s the LAST JAR. The seller can’t replace it and might need it himself. So he’s reluctant to sell it, better to have it available at SOME price, than locked up on Smaug’s pile… What if that’s the last brick? We can be pretty sure it’s not, there are lots of stockpiled bricks out there, and nothing is keeping their owners from cashing in, except their worry that they’ll need what they stockpiled… but why weren’t the tables covered with bricks at half the price from other sellers?
Lately I am finding that I don’t want to sell some of the stuff I bought cheap to sell dear… If I can’t replace the inventory, it better be something I don’t think I’ll EVER need… otherwise I better keep it.
Like we saw with masks, high prices bring out the reluctant sellers. Without the high prices, supply dries up entirely as people decide not to sell their stock.
I wish I had some primers, and all the rest of the supplies, but instead I’m thinking of selling my shotgun reloading stuff. Maybe someone has everything they need EXCEPT the press………
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Ammo prices were obscene at the Post Falls gun show yesterday. It was the most crowded I’ve seen it in quite some time. I was on the lookout for a GP100. I only saw one and he wanted way too much.
There was a booth of ladies selling some weird bra. That was a first. Another booth was selling what looked like crystal snow globes. And of course, a table full of gas station Ninja knives. In total, more flea market/swap meet junk than usual.
In the end, I walked out with nothing. That was also a first. I’m glad that at this point I’m really just filling small holes in my stores. I was wondering what the feel of the crowd might have been in the aftermath of Ginsberg’s death. No real difference, it turned out.
After the show, I headed into CDA to get gas at Costco. Black Sheep Outfitters is adjacent so I stopped in. Ammo was pretty wiped out. No surprise there. I was surprised by seeing 300BLK on the shelf. Two varieties in pretty good-sized piles. Haven’t seen it for a while. I don’t own anything that chambers it. But, I have a good friend that does. I gave him a call to see if he wanted some. As the phone rang I saw the sign that said “1 BOX PER CUSTOMER.” One box, that ain’t much. Not even a full magazine. I went ahead and got him one. I know without the limit, some jerk would have bought it all and sold it for 5 times as much at the Gun Show. I get it, I just don’t like it.
To sum up, I was a frustrated gun guy yesterday,
I’ve changed my opinion about purchasing limits. I used to get very frustrated at only being able to buy one or two boxes. Now, I’m grateful for the stores with that policy, because it means that there may just be some available by the time I show up. It also discourages the dishonest resellers who would buy up the entire stock just to resell it at 150% mark-up at a gun show or elsewhere.
My local Fleet Farm has a “two boxes per caliber per customer” policy. That seems very reasonable to me.
Damn! I gipped myself. I sold a guy 4 bricks for $40 this weekend. Could have charged double. (No, I had enough trouble with $50/brick for 22 LR that I didn’t like and was going to get rid of anyway, after SH.)