Ammo Price Increases

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L.Leon said:
Maybe the tariffs are attempting to “right” the trade imbalance the USA has with the rest of the world. Airguns are a hobby to the majority, myself included. We can all choose to simply consume less. Or, lump it and pay the increase in cost to continue playing…🙏🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸
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you miss my point... a tariff will not "cost" the manufacturing source anything - because the expense, of say "pellets" is passed on to the consumer as an increase in price.... not hard to understand why our beloved hobby will suffer under this
 
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If you're an average airgun hobbyist, been shooting since at least 2021, and aren't still shooting pellets purchased during or since the pandemic, but you've got a shinny new Blackwolf, Ghost, or M4 you're doing this airgun thing entirely wrong. That's just my big ol' opinion of course. That period taught me a lot about pellet shopping and prices. I wasn't hoarder shopping either. I remember guys talking about buying pallets and entire batches. If this post doesn't describe you, y'all ain't seen how ugly things can get.
 
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Ezana4CE said:
If you're an average airgun hobbyist, been shooting since at least 2021, and aren't still shooting pellets purchased during or since the pandemic, but you've got a shinny new Blackwolf, Ghost, or M4 you're doing this airgun thing entirely wrong. That's just my big ol' opinion of course. That period taught me a lot about pellet shopping and prices. I wasn't hoarder shopping either. I remember guys talking about buying pallets and entire batches. If this post doesn't describe you, y'all ain't seen how ugly things can get.
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i can afford higher prices - and as this picture suggests, im well prepared. Not the point…. Point IS we pay for any correction not the manufacturer or suppliers
i have two cabinets just like this one filled with my favorite pellets.
this doesn't help other, esp younger or fixed income shooters.

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L.Leon said:
Maybe the tariffs are attempting to “right” the trade imbalance the USA has with the rest of the world. Airguns are a hobby to the majority, myself included. We can all choose to simply consume less. Or, lump it and pay the increase in cost to continue playing…🙏🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸
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Paying for the corporate & wealthy tax cuts makes me a very happy person
 
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I'm still shooting ammo I purchased in 2014 to 2018, for the most part ($14.99 for a tin of JSB 10.34s in 2017 vs $24.99 now - yikes!). From 2014 to 2018, I had a monthly ammo budget I spent every penny of whether I needed ammo or not. 95% of that were imported pellets. I'll buy an occasional few tins of light .177 (because I didn't have any guns that liked anything lighter than 10.5gr when I could afford it), so the prices are something I am aware of. We're in for a ride, no doubt. One can hope that this might encourage some US based slug manufacturers to consider bringing a pellet to market for a competitive price to fill the gap.
I'm working more and shooting less anyway. Even when I have time for it, I am often discouraged from spending a lot of time at it because of neighbors and safety concerns. My pre-'20s dollars are going farther than ever!
 
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MongooseV8 said:
Having lived through the great 22lr price increases of 2007-Today, the best thing to do is buy it cheap and stack it deep. I wish I had known that back then, I would have more plinking fuel.
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I used to kind of throw a little shade at my .30 cal for the cost of shooting. It really isn’t that bad in reality. We all know 30 pellets can give some amazing performance out to longer ranges. I don’t shoot precision rimfire but in my experience with .08-.09 cents per round ammo such as CCI standard I can get accuracy pretty close to my 30 at 50 yards but it disappears as you go beyond. Seems to get that you have to spend some coin on a rimfire build (fine as pcps are anything but cheap) and the ammo to feed it when you want that 100, 150 yard accuracy. When you get to that level of accuracy I was shocked what people pay. Eley tenex is like 40 or 50 cents a round. 🤯. Even the mid tier precision rimfire is quite a bit more than .15-.16 a piece and from my understanding isn’t even easy to obtain right now.
 
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SilentSquirrel said:
Paying for the corporate & wealthy tax cuts makes me a very happy person
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It gets better - you see, first you will be charged more on the backend to cover the increased costs the mfgr and suppliers must bear then that product hits the states and you are taxed on the NOW more expensive product... Shazam. Gotta love economics.
 
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Trucker3573 said:
I used to kind of throw a little shade at my .30 cal for the cost of shooting. It really isn’t that bad in reality. We all know 30 pellets can give some amazing performance out to longer ranges. I don’t shoot precision rimfire but in my experience with .08-.09 cents per round ammo such as CCI standard I can get accuracy pretty close to my 30 at 50 yards but it disappears as you go beyond. Seems to get that you have to spend some coin on a rimfire build (fine as pcps are anything but cheap) and the ammo to feed it when you want that 100, 150 yard accuracy. When you get to that level of accuracy I was shocked what people pay. Eley tenex is like 40 or 50 cents a round. 🤯. Even the mid tier precision rimfire is quite a bit more than .15-.16 a piece and from my understanding isn’t even easy to obtain right now.
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Yeah 22lr used to be like 20% what it is now. Some of it has gone up 10x or more. Same with powder and primers, they used to be cheap. The prices went up almost overnight when certain people were pushing to ban everything and they never came back down.
 
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cavedweller said:
It gets better - you see, first you will be charged more on the backend to cover the increased costs the mfgr and suppliers must bear then that product hits the states and you are taxed on the NOW more expensive product... Shazam. Gotta love economics.
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The only problem with that theory is there are lots of companies that know this is temporary and are eating the costs without raising prices. The free market is still at work and people like me choose to pay attention to which companies are doing what. The ones that keep it real will continue to get my business. Companies like Arken that choose to not let a good crisis go to waste will no longer get my business. Their US sister company Outlier that makes barrels and chassis domestically also raised their prices due to tariffs. By Felicia.
 
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MongooseV8 said:
Yeah 22lr used to be like 20% what it is now. Some of it has gone up 10x or more. Same with powder and primers, they used to be cheap. The prices went up almost overnight when certain people were pushing to ban everything and they never came back down.
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been that way for years
 
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MongooseV8 said:
The only problem with that theory is there are lots of companies that know this is temporary and are eating the costs without raising prices. The free market is still at work and people like me choose to pay attention to which companies are doing what. The ones that keep it real will continue to get my business. Companies like Arken that choose to not let a good crisis go to waste will no longer get my business. Their US sister company Outlier that makes barrels and chassis domestically also raised their prices due to tariffs. By Felicia.
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I've been getting emails from Arken saying buy now, price increases are coming.
 
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