I bet not.
same raw material, same man power that is in short supply. And yes wasted effort on different packaging and supply chain instead of unbelievably marked up 556. It is the worst of both worlds to switch to 458 unless they are starting to overproduce 556/9mm.(ie the price is too high for demand and will come down).They are usually made in complete different length draw machines. The two have very little to do with each other.
I think precovid prices in 1-3 years is perfectly reasonable for brass. With steel case out of the picture there is even more market to absorb, price reduction through volume. Again if there is money on the table why would a profit driven company let their competitor take it? There is no question of if they can afford to scale after all the panic buying.You think they were using everything they had to make 9mm and 5.56? Switching boxes ain’t hard. Not to mention while running everything else magnum length a strong business sense would tell me switching the bunter stamp to 458 for, 50 or 100 thousand units due to a back order status makes perfect sense.
I wouldn’t gauge the market on such a trivial sign. Keep hoping that ammo will get back to precovid prices. I’m gonna say you are very optimistic.
PS I have a couple boxes of Lott inbound.
I was just passing along that Lott was in stock! You are the one that used it as a crystal ball.I think precovid prices in 1-3 years is perfectly reasonable for brass. With steel case out of the picture there is even more market to absorb, price reduction through volume. Again if there is money on the table why would a profit driven company let their competitor take it? There is no question of if they can afford to scale after all the panic buying.
Its not optimism, its looking at history. This is what, the 4th, 5th gun buying panic since 2001? Did you already forgot those? 25 cpr on 556 is an utterly absurd profit margin, the 50-100 they are getting now is pure robbery. If you really have evidence that the market demand is permanent, then write a phd thesis. Federal will pay you millions of dollars for this edge against their competitors.
and here we are 2 weeks later with 9mm approaching precovid prices(it's probably cheaper after you account for the loss in usd buying power). I hope you didn't panic buy too much! Looks like the multi billion dollar ammo company can predict the market a little better than random people on the forumI wasn’t debating you .
It’s pretty obvious prices on goods are not going down. If you are set on this being the sign things are getting better then, god bless you.
Easy now it’s pretty clear we have an industry insider giving us pointers. lol.I doubt that a clearance price on unsaleable Russian steel cased ammo really indicates anything.
heres brass thats been rotting at 30 cents a pop(which is still a massive rip off, its a race to the bottom at this point) https://www.ammoshoponline.com/shop...r-fmj-geco-range-cans-qty-1000-free-shipping/Easy now it’s pretty clear we have an industry insider giving us pointers. lol.
Very clear that he thought about this a lot!
It looks to be pretty saleable on there website lol Unless your saying that they overpaid for it and are now stuck charging a price that the market wont support? then I would agree with youI doubt that a clearance price on unsaleable Russian steel cased ammo really indicates anything.