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January 7th, 2021, 09:42 PM #11Grand Member
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January 7th, 2021, 09:53 PM #12Senior Member
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Re: Ammo shortage
My expectation is not as bleak. The market forces (albeit distorted by Covid-19) will sooner or later make their presence felt. At least for the international standard calibers, i.e. the 7.62mm, 5.56mm, 9mm NATO rounds, perhaps 7.62mmx39 and .30-06. Those are like commodities, if you are willing to pay there will be supply, from somewhere in the world. Remember in the later part of Obama administration there were all those unfamiliar brands of ammo, imported from countries that you may or may not be able to locate on a map, for sale everywhere? I predict that, given a few months of lead time the old international supply chain will start flowing again. I expect to see brands such as Independence/IWI (Israel), PMC (South Korea), ZQ1 (Turkey), ADI Outback (Australia), Wolf Gold (Taiwan for 55gr FMJ .223, Serbia for other calibers), Armscor (Philippines), RWS (Germany), and Sellier & Bellot (Czech Republic) to appear online and in stores /gun shows near you again, for reasonable prices.
But if your favorite caliber is, say, .45/70 Government... Buy yourself reloading equipment and learn to reload, I guess.
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Re: Ammo shortage
^^^^ In addition to commercial sources of new productions, standard military calibers ammo can also be relatively easily sourced via surplus market. With the Covid-19 induced lockdowns and the resulting economic damages, I also think that more than a few countries would be willing to sell anything they can to earn some hard currency. So I further expect to see much military surplus ammo to be "suddenly found in our warehouse".
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Re: Ammo shortage
Well I guess I must be one of those morons.
I agree with sota. This time, is definitely different.
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January 8th, 2021, 11:41 AM #18
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