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Originally posted by Cane Rat:
I think it is laying all over Afghanistan and Iraq.

Doug Humbarger
NRA Life member
Tonkin Gulf Yacht Club 72'73.
Yankee Station

Try to look unimportant. Your enemy might be low on ammo.

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Originally posted by wasbeeman:
...Maybe congress was right: ...

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Originally posted by Idaho Sharpshooter:
dgr,

ummmmmmmm, $$$$$$$

Rich

PS: "hey, let's create a "shortage" and just double our prices." Sounds good to me.

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.Somewhere there is a mountain of brass sitting around.

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Originally posted by wasbeeman:
Did I read somewhere that the expenditure of rounds to enemy fatalities over there is something like 80,000 to 1???
Maybe congress was right: "don't give them soldiers repeating rifles. They'll just waste ammunition."

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Originally posted by Stonecreek:
Copper, the primary metal used in cartridge brass, is still at historic high price levels, and such price levels can only be supported by short supply. As long as copper is in short supply and priced high, ammunition makers will tend to "go slow" on production of cartridge brass, knowing that the demand for it is somewhat elastic, i.e., if it is priced fairly high there will be less of it purchased (most of us purchase more components than we really need when they seem like a bargain, but usually purchase "just enough to get by" when prices seem high.)

So long as copper prices remain high, cartridge brass will be both expensive and scarcer than it otherwise might be.

Then there is the other side of the coin that is also contributing to a continued brass shortage: Many shooters tend to be irrational horders, buying more of something when they perceive it to be in short supply and buying less when it is in abundant supply. The hoarders among us are still jumping on shipments of brass when it becomes available, thus keeping supplies short. When they die, with closets and garages full of brass and other components, their widows will be having huge garage sales to get rid of all that shit and prices for brass and bullets will go into a cyclic tumble once again .

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Originally posted by Randy Bohannon:
If you shoot less popular cartridges there is no shortage.I shoot 40-70SS,38 S&W,41 Mag,32-20 and few other less than popular cartridges and no trouble getting brass.Even during the height of the "shortage",no shortage here.I like others have made it my bussiness to have lifetime supplies of of needed componets and be diligent in their procurement.I have box' of primers that have $8-10.00 prices marked on them from the 80's when we had a "shortage" then.
Try here for your .405 Win brass.
http://www.buffaloarms.com/browse.cfm/4,1341.html

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Tried to find any 218 Bee, 25-20 Win, or 30-40 Krag lately?

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Originally posted by Cane Rat:
I think it is laying all over Afghanistan and Iraq.