Amazing. That would be over $10,000 tied up in ammo. Who can do that? I am a technology professional/engineer and cannot afford to do such things. Maybe I should invest my retirement funds into ammo?, lol. Come to think of it, if I had done that 15 yrs ago, it would have performed better than the market. Maybe our redneck friend is onto something. A terrorist attack proof and recession proof investment strategy. Not the greatest liquidity but...
Some of my close friends in WV say that when the local Walmart gets 22lr shipments there are people lined up to buy all of it and they take it straight to the flea markets and flip it for profit. It still seems that if such BS was raising primary demand for the stores, they would simply order more volume and the manufacturers would ramp up production to meet the demand. I am not seeing that kind of market response. Maybe the time delay is too long, maybe they do not believe the demand is sustainable. in my work, I work on ways to enhance production output without massive capital investments, by eliminating the constraints in the production lines. If I were Winchester/Remington/Federal/Lapua, et al, I would be working those techniques 24/7 to put out more ammo. If I were Walmart/Cabelas/GM, etc, I would be adding new suppliers such as RWS, Wolf, Lapua from overseas to fill in the gap. At least the 17WSM supply seems to be improving slightly here. Not sure if it is temporary or not yet. I have enough ammo to last the winter now but want to include my 17 WSM in a planned prairie dog hunt next year and we usually want 500 rds/gun for those trips. So, over time, I am hoping to stock up on the 20g variety. It has been harder to find here.
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