Thread: This is F**ked

Originally Posted by Tararua Phil

Make your own. There's plenty of Utube vids showing you how.

Lucky for some I and I’m sure as many other are time poor! Don’t have time to YouTube it let alone act on it I only just manage to stay active on here

Sadly a sign of the time , my local gunshop is selling primers at £110 per thousand , and he's low on stock , so double what this guy is asking . I guess he's upped the price as when new stock arrives it also has to be paid for .
I've enough to last a couple of years , but then I don't have a particularly high shot count.

i can understand the frustration for you guys low on primers ..... im good for primers but am in the same conundrum for powder an 30 cal projectiles (i know theres plenty of those out there but the price has gone up one guy on the big yellow clearly selling them for more thn he paid cos the retail tags are still on the boxes)but i blame myself for not stocking up when they were aplenty or selling stuff i thought i would never need.
is it really any different than say someone buying a new monaro back in the 70s for 10or 20k (or whatever they were worth ) and putting it up for sale for 500k + ?).....now before you say thats different the same happened when holden announced it was shutting its doors there was a run on commodores that will show up on the market, when all the ones currently on the market shit themselves, at an extremely inflated price ..........
or like the time i bought a leupy m8 for $20 and onsold it for $259......
supply and demand is an unforgiving beast .......the alternative is communism and the state will have everything and we will have nothing......

Not ever having had the inclination to reload has put me in a position where this is not an issue for me. The primers that I use come seated in a pocket at the arse end of a brass shell and just behind varying quantities and types of powder and at least ten different sizes of projectiles. But in a similar vein to this discussion, “fuck ammo is getting expensive”. Back in the seventies, I studied economics and as I recall, the first thing I learned was that “if demand exceeds supply then prices will go up” and conversely, “if supply exceeds demand then prices will go down”. These are universal laws and just like the law of gravity, it will not change anytime soon. Unfortunately we are a tiny little nothing in the middle of nowhere and that also adversely factors into our buying position.

I remember copping shit for stocking up years ago, then replacing stock as I used it. Doesn't seem so silly now does it?

This was interesting…

Prices for Ammo, powder and projectiles have returned to near pre pandemic prices in the United States.

Hopefully not to long until here as well


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Need to stop doing this….. “ we so small, we so tiny”

NZ is incredibly high up the list of private gun ownership per capita/country. I think in the top 20. We are a serious hunting and shooting economy for vendors, suppliers and distributors.


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Originally Posted by Burb122

Need to stop doing this….. “ we so small, we so tiny”

NZ is incredibly high up the list of private gun ownership per capita/country. I think in the top 20. We are a serious hunting and shooting economy for vendors, suppliers and distributors.


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The reality is that because of the "tyranny of distance" and our small overall population we will always be on the back tit. Pretty much across the board.

Originally Posted by Burb122

Need to stop doing this….. “ we so small, we so tiny”

NZ is incredibly high up the list of private gun ownership per capita/country. I think in the top 20. We are a serious hunting and shooting economy for vendors, suppliers and distributors.


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Irrespective of where we sit on gun ownership per capital, I would suggest that our consumption of ammo is so inconsequential that were we to completely stop consuming for a decade it would not noticeably alter the profitability graph of any global supplier. Five million people at the bottom of the world are simply not that important to any global supplier of anything.

Originally Posted by Burb122

Need to stop doing this….. “ we so small, we so tiny”

NZ is incredibly high up the list of private gun ownership per capita/country. I think in the top 20. We are a serious hunting and shooting economy for vendors, suppliers and distributors.


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@Burb122 Not if Labour has its way.......They cannot control the population if the population is not dependant on them. And they will never depend on them for food if they can hunt for it...

I drive pass a few sports shops between TeAnu and Christchurch twice a yr.Getting ammo not a problem.I only use about 4pkts a year of quality ammo.You just gota keep an eye on yr supply and plan ahead.

It must be hard for the competition shooters,shooting 1000rds a year.Guess they try to keep well stock.Good luck with that.

Originally Posted by Trout

It must be hard for the competition shooters,shooting 1000rds a year.Guess they try to keep well stock.Good luck with that.

Tell me about it.
When you can go through 100 rounds per competition and 50 rounds in a training session without batting an eyelid, you'd have needed to stock up 4 years ago to be getting through this without planning 10 steps ahead.

Seems as though the US is getting primers just fine as comp shooters there haven't had to worry for a while now.

Originally Posted by Trout

It must be hard for the competition shooters,shooting 1000rds a year.Guess they try to keep well stock.Good luck with that.

Not uncommon to run through 10k-20k a year of small pistol primers.

Originally Posted by Ozzy

Not uncommon to run through 10k-20k a year of small pistol primers.

You must be a shit shot