Posted on 03/29/2008 9:04:16 PM PDT by endthematrix
ATK Ammunition & Related Products
March 13, 2008
Dear ATK Ammunition Customer:
Over the last two years and as we move into the second quarter of 2008 we continue to see unprecedented raw material cost escalation in our business.As a result we are forced to announce a price increase effective April 1, 2008. This will include a 9% increase in all promotional ammunition and a 5% increase in other standard catalog ammunition products.
New pricing and programs will be communicated to you shortly.
We appreciate your understanding.
Lead prices are out of sight, never thought I’d hear someone say with a straight face that lead will run me $2 a pound.
Scouts Out! Cavalry Ho!
Time to visit local tire stores and cast your own.
Trust me, that's already been thought of.
Big ass fishing sinkers. Get em now at Walmart :)
Small off brand local automotive battery stores? I pick them up for $2 in my ‘hood.
Scouts Out! Cavalry Ho!
It drives me crazy since I’ve become a caster to remember the buckets of wheel weights I would throw into the dumpster in the gas pumping days (32 cents per gallon) of my adolescence. I never gave a thought to all the poor starving 45-70’s.
UPPING THE AMMO
Price Increase Hitting Area Hunters, Retailers
03/20/08
Scouts Out! Cavalry Ho!
Ammo Shortage Adds Up to Higher Police Costs
March 18, 2008 - 10:54am
HAGERSTOWN, Md. (AP) - Washington County Sheriff Douglas Mullendore and Hagerstown Police Chief Arthur Smith are having to make room in their budgets for the soaring cost of ammunition.
The wars in Iraq and Afghanistan have contributed to a domestic ammunition shortage. Meanwhile, Mullendore says the cost of raw materials for bullets has been climbing because of increased demand for copper and lead overseas.
Mullendore is seeking more than $15,000 in the county’s next budget to pay for ammunition. That request is $4,000 higher than the amount requested last year. Smith is asking for $29,000 for ammunition for the coming year, compared to $17,000 last year.
Both men say supply problems have forced their departments to place their ammunition orders up to a year in advance.
Sportsmen bite bullet as metal prices rise
Sunday, March 09, 2008
“An 11-pound bag of #7 1/2 shot is now selling for $32.99. That’s about $.10 per round, which is an increase of about three times the cost of three years ago. Similar increases in the cost of brass and other materials used by recreational shooters to reload are also being seen. For instance, a bag of unprimed 45-70 brass three years ago was selling for $17.95. It is now selling for $31.”
“If you make your own spinners and spinnerbaits, as I do, you are gong to find that the price of nickel, brass, chrome and copper blades have almost tripled in the last couple of years. Costs per lure used to be $.25 or less, depending on the size and material used. That cost has risen to between $.40 and $.60 per lure in the last three years. Not only have the blades gone up, but so too have the cost of the bodies, clevises and hooks.
Speaking of hooks, the cost of bronze, stainless steel and galvanized steel hooks has increased significantly in the last three years. Not only does this impact on the making of your own lures, but also drives up the cost of tying your own rigs and snelling your own hooks. Packages of 25 hooks are now selling for what packages of 100 hooks were selling for only a few years back.”
http://www.nj.com/recsports/times/index.ssf?/base/sports-0/1205039131136271.xml&coll=5
Lead’s not up, the dollar is DOWN. Inflation has made EVERYTHING more expensive.
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