Inflation
And reloading. Your supplies aren’t worth more. Your money is just worth less.
Remember, I do this to entertain me, not you.
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September 2nd, 2014 at 9:48 pm
A little different story for me. Back around 2000 when metals prices started going up, I started stockpiling, figuring that the prices were never going to go down. I already had the press, dies and a bunch of cases, I just picked up powder, primers and bullets when I had some spare coin.
For once in my life, I did something right. I’ll be able to reload all my calibers for years (.38, 9mm, 30-06) for half or less of what it would cost today.
And then there’s the two cases of .22LR from the CMP….
Damn, I wish I could have done the same with the stock market.
September 3rd, 2014 at 12:36 am
I hate you.
Do you have any Alliant Unique?
Please?
September 3rd, 2014 at 10:43 am
My kids are getting .38 Special reloads for Christmas, made with the Lee reloader kit they got me last year.
I hope to make enough, one at a time of course, to split the seams in their stockings, or at least bulge the toes out a bit.
As an aside, the 9mm Blazer I bought for $3.86 a box back in 2005 is almost all used up. I am moving on to the 2006 vintage, which cost $5+ per box. I hope to avoid buying any, ever, at $15 per box.
Pricing users out of the shooting sports is one way to reduce gun use in the US. Or at least, to have less practice when the need to use a gun arises.
September 3rd, 2014 at 11:34 am
I plan to start reloading in a year or 2 and I was anticipating this.
I have been saving brass for years.
Government-determined inflation is no longer a reliable benchmark because it keeps moving the goalposts to achieve a low number (for political purposes).
Most notably, it perverts the true cost of goods by excluding food and fuel, which is fair enough for people who grow their own food and don’t use fuel.
But the real fallacy of the “low inflation” mantra is the devaluation of the dollar and the fact that it buys so much less on the world market than it used to command.
September 4th, 2014 at 12:01 pm
A lot of the increased price of reloading supplies has more to do with supply and demand than inflation. Sandy Hook caused a boom on demand. At the same time, some things happened th reduced supply of powder. Prices went through the roof as a result.
September 5th, 2014 at 4:47 pm
Dear Uncle:
You’re absolutely right!!!
Sincerely, SYK
P.S.
Most people still don’t get it, yet.