When will ammo prices return to normal????

[Lakerat24]

It appears that ammo supplies are starting to get better but the pricing is still way out of wack. Will we ever get back to normal, asking for a friend.

 

[ZX9RCAM]

Several threads if you want to search while waiting for replies.

 

[1911'S 4 Me]

Tell your friend no

 

[Lonesome Dove]

Ummmm we will be right back into massive shortages of everything real quick here. New round of Covid is growing quickly.

 

[Tactical Panda]

Simple, they never will. Once the dust settles, they will lower to a new normal which will still be higher than pre panic. Don't expect much relief whiles Dems are in charge.

 

[TxStetson]

Ummmm we will be right back into massive shortages of everything real quick here. New round of Covid is growing quickly.

Exactly. The more they push this crap the longer it will take.

 

[Lonesome Dove]

Exactly. The more they push this crap the longer it will take.

Exactly so whatever you can find now as far as ammo,guns and accessories you’d better get all you can if you need it.

 

[FireInTheWire]

When we get a real government

 

[BuzzinSATX]

From the CEO of Vista Outdoors:

2021 Ammo Price Increases: Federal, CCI, Speer, Remington

Ammunition prices are set to increase in 2021. Federal, CCI, Remington, and SPEER ammo increases of 3-15% starting in April.

www.internationalsportsman.com

Dear Customer:

Thank you for your business and for your continued support of American manufacturing. We have hired hundreds of people over the last 12 months and invested millions of dollars to produce more ammunition to meet our customer and consumer needs. During this year we have seen significant increases in raw material prices such as copper, zinc, and lead. Additionally, increases in labor and health care have exceeded our projections as the COVID-19 pandemic has affected us all.

Effective 4/1/2021 Federal, Remington, CCI, and SPEER ammunition will take a price increase of 3-15% across all products from our last price list. Unless you notify us to cancel an order, we will reprice all existing and future orders shipped on or after 4/1/2021 to the new 4/1 prices.

You will receive your finalized price list no later than February 19th.

Thank you for your continued support of our brands and our American workforce.

Jason R. Vanderbrink
President Ammunition

 

[BuzzinSATX]

Then, I saw this letter on another gun forum posted today:

 

[toddnjoyce]

Not unexpected. Cost of doing business can only increase so much before it has to get passed on.

Other industries have seen 5+% price increases month over month every month this year.

 

[Texasjack]

Copper and brass prices are up, primers expected to remain in short supply, transportation costs up, labor prices up, taxes going up - the best you can hope for is that the prices will stabilize. They will not go back to pre-Biden prices.

 

[oldag]

Prices will drop, probably back to pre-panic levels. But it will take a year or so.

Manufacturers have ramped up production, they will leave it ramped up (if past history is any indicator) for some time after supply catches up to demand. That is when prices will drop.

I can't tell you how many times I have heard with respect to oil prices "Never going back down", always been proven wrong.

Supply, demand.

 

[Darkpriest667]

9mm has settled at about 30 cpr for bottom of the barrel where it was about 15 cpr before the pandemic.. 223 has settled at about 33 CPR where as pre pandemic it was about 24 cpr..

 

[Moonpie]

It will never go back down to where it was pre-covid.
The prices you're seeing are the new normal.

 

[Coyote9]

Simple, they never will. Once the dust settles, they will lower to a new normal which will still be higher than pre panic. Don't expect much relief whiles Dems are in charge.

Dead on! plus we are already at 5.6 percent inflation and those numbers are going to get ugly early with the 5 trillion dollar spending during OBiden's first 8-9 months (3 trillion pending)

 

[gll]

It appears that ammo supplies are starting to get better but the pricing is still way out of wack. Will we ever get back to normal, asking for a friend.

Prices and availabilty are probably about as good as they're ever going to get, right now...

If you need it, buy it!

 

[TX oddball]

We will see an increase in production levels, but pricing at pre-covid levels is not going to happen. Number1- everything else has increased in price, including food, gas, houses, etc. etc. etc. Number 2- ammo companies have witnessed people willing to lay out ridiculous amounts of money for ammo in the last 16 months. My pre-covid cost for 9mm was $8.99 a box in Feb 2020. I will never see those prices again.

 

[Grumps21]

That 9mm Winchester white box 100ct that Academy sold pre COVID for $18.99 will probably settle at $22.99 per box once all this settles down in couple of years. The panic will eventually work itself out, but inflation is here to stay

 

[gll]

I think it's pretty optimistic to think anything will get better going forward... This is the globalist endgame...