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Posted: 6 February 2007 08:53 AM |
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| The price of shot has skyrocketed. It's going for as much as $27.00 for a 25 pound bag. It's unbelievable how expensive non ferrous metals have become. Back in 1996 I purchased a ton of shot, (80 bags), direct from a manufacturer and picked it up myself, thereby saving shipping. I got it for $12.00 a bag. I still have quite a bit of it. It's going to kill me when I have to buy more. I think our sport is going to be getting more expensive as time passes. There just seems to be no let up. Bill T.
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Posted: 5 April 2007 01:22 PM |
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| I may be way off in my memory, but I THINK I saw a mid-thirties price on some bags of shot recently. (Bass-Pro, Gander, not sure) I DO remember running some fast numbers that gave me the conclusion that it is more expensive for ME to reload 12 GA than buy AA at WalMart. I shoot very little shotgun at this time. I got around 20# of #6 and enough wads to say I CAN load a few for hard times. Loading 12 GA ain't as fun to me as other stuff, so I don't give it much thought.
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Posted: 5 April 2007 08:43 PM |
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owlcreekok wrote: I may be way off in my memory, but I THINK I saw a mid-thirties price on some bags of shot recently.
The Cabela's by me has just raised it to $33.00 @ 25 pound bag. Bill T.
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Posted: 6 April 2007 03:59 AM |
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I can't believe the price of components in general---primers have went up 25% per 5000
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Posted: 6 April 2007 04:49 AM |
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Gentlemen.....
Being the manager of a machine shop, I have been watching the cost of raw materials climbing for the past 5 years.
Copper alloys are sky rocketing, while stainless alloys have gone thru the roof. I've heard several different theories on why the price has gone up, most of them pure BS, but I am amazed that the shooting industry has taken so long to increase their prices based on material costs.
One cost increase in steel alloys can be pointed directly at the folks that take a specific additive to steel out of the ground...... they wanted more money... and someone has to pay the price. In the end, it is always the customer.
When our costs go up, our customers have to pay the price, which means their customers have to pay the price, etc., etc.,etc..
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sdb777
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Posted: 6 April 2007 11:45 AM |
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Unfortunately, the store I work at has decided to pass the price increase on to the consumer(wierd how they do things like that). It wasn't a conspiracy at the retail level, their prices(Remington's) have increased in the last few months. You should see how much a 40# bag of corn has gone up! Kind of figured that lead shot would stay reasonible for this store due to location(8 miles from Remington ammunition plant-also make shot there), but seems the locals have to pay for the same amount of shipping as the west/east coasters do?
Gander: $27.99 per bag (#7-1/2, 8, 9) $5.29 per 40# bag of corn(started at $2.86 for the same bag in October).
Scott (cheaper to buy 'em then reload 'em) B
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Posted: 6 April 2007 01:15 PM |
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This is a live look at the price of Lead. A year ago, Lead was around the $0.25 a pound range. Now it's over 3 times that.
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Posted: 7 April 2007 10:03 PM |
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sdb777 wrote: Their prices, (Remington's) have increased in the last few months. You should see how much a 40# bag of corn has gone up! Kind of figured that lead shot would stay reasonible for this store due to location(8 miles from Remington ammunition plant-also make shot there.
http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601087&sid=aFWlN8swVVv0&refer=home
This might explain at least some of Remingtons woes. They've been sold to Ceberus. This is the same outfit that bought Bushmaster from Dick Dyke some months back. Bushmaster did over $65 million in sales last year. Remington is losing it's ass. Makes you wonder why they are buying up firearms companies. Even unprofitable ones??? Bill T.
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buffybr
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Posted: 5 December 2007 03:23 AM |
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A new update on a old post:
I was in Denver this past week. Visited Bass Pro. They had 25 lb sacks of 7 1/2 shot for $67.00. That's as ridiculous as $3.70/gallon for diesel fuel here in Bozeman.
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Posted: 10 January 2008 02:55 PM |
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Hi All
The price of lead is up at $43.00 and may go higher but look at copper and all the other componets needed. Remington went to Russia to build a chearer Shotgun, its a piece of scrap of the assembly line and where is the Pride in American workmenship? Lets look back a bit to the Remington 31 here is a fine pump gun that is a joy to shoot and is still going strong, like the Model 12 and 42 Winchester's now being restored and brought back by some field and target shooters. A good Browning, Krieghoff, or Perazzi will last a life time but also cost quite a bit more. If the shooting public would support the arms and ammo companies here in the USA we might be better of, if problems arize we are at he mercy of the Euro, Yen, and every Tom Dick & Harry the world over.
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Big Sky Gun Guy
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Posted: 29 January 2008 07:20 PM |
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Yup, I just paid $44 for #8. I just about hit the deck when I saw that price... last itme I bought shot was for $15 in the 80s.
So much for everything being cheaper in Montana.
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Posted: 11 February 2008 08:38 PM |
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The price of shot at a retail store around here is 49-50.
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Posted: 17 February 2008 04:20 PM |
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| Hey everyone check with local ranges for reclaimed shot that has been mined from their fields it works fine and costs less.A friend in PA has been trying to buy a 55 gal barrel of reclaimed shot from an acquaintence.I have a few hundred pounds of reclaimed that I paid $5 a bag for at a local range in the 1980's.
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Posted: 11 March 2008 04:08 PM |
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Bill T. >>>>>Well Bill, I purchased a new Olds 88 with all the bells and whistles on it back in 1983 and it cost me $14,000 US Dollars. Now today they don't make an automobile at Detriot that is comparable in size, horse power, looks and ride.
The new cars today start out at $25,000 dollars and go upward from there my good man. So I guess it is easy to understand why the rest of the country's food, cars, plans, clothes are priced sky high.
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