Bullet Price Increases

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I understand that bullet prices are going up as much as 15% around June 15. Supposedly, this is due to increasing copper and lead prices.

My orders were placed with Midway and Thunder Mountain last night. I'll get 2-3000 ahead of the increase.

First gasoline prices now this. Just can't win. The only thing that doesn't increase is my paycheck.
 
A price increase for bullets is because of the skyrocketing price of copper in the world market. I got an email from Lock, Stock, & Barrel mentioning a 10% price increase in mid-June.


Chile's Bachelet Says Copper Price Is `Temporary' (Update1)

May 21 (Bloomberg) -- Chilean President Michelle Bachelet said that high prices for copper, Chile's top export, will be ``temporary'' and reiterated that the government will save its windfall from the metal.

The government, which owns the world's largest copper producer, posted a record budget surplus in 2005 after prices for copper rose to a record. Prices for the metal, Chile's top export, have risen 69 percent this year, and traded at a record $4.040 a pound in New York on May 11.

http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=100...=latin_america#
 
Melt down all your pennies and sell them for a dollar a piece. Barnes bullets are already sky high. We can always break out the casting material. /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/grin.gif
 
The equipment I work on in the oilfield has brass sleeves. They average 12-16ft long and weigh about 50-70 lbs each. When one doesnt Measure out I toss them in the scrap pile. Once a year, around the beginning of hunting season, I load them all up and sell at the local scrap iron yard. I have been paying for my hunting expenses this way the last 20 years. The usual haul is around a 1000.00 dollars. It has run between 20-50 cents per pound for the last 20 years. Last week I got a call from the scrap dealer asking me to bring it in now. He needs all he can get and will pay me 1.25 per lb. I may have to sell early just to buy bullets.
 
Do pennies have any copper in them anymore? /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/confused1.gif I don't remember the last time I had one turn green on me. I thought they were mostly zinc or something nowadays... Not sure, really. Anyway, I was just talking about this very thing with a neighbor friend of mine last night. He wondered if the ongoing war effort wasn't at least partially causing the price increase in lead and copper. I know there's been a fair amount of lead slung over the past few years over in the middle and near east portions of the globe. Just a thought, though. Then again, pretty much all your mined elements seem to be on the rise. I wondered if we aren't starting to reap some of the whirlwind caused by environmental extremist policies, and the prohibitions against further mine developements not only here, but in other parts of the world as well.
 
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Wow, you are lucky to beable to take the brass in, from work. I used to clean up corn and beans on the rr tracks when I worked at the grain elevator 26 yrs ago. Biggest load was near a 100$, but hard work.T.20
 
The chinese are buying up all the worlds copper, dont ask me why, i make victorian copper lanterns for half the week, the other half, i build rifles. We have had 6 price rises in 12 months on copper.
 
1) 1982 is when pennies change to zinc
2) you are gettind hosed at $1.25 for brass it should be more like $2.00
3)What is china going to do? return it in the form of bullets
 
Oops! Got a little carried away here. Just did a count, and I have ordered a total of 4000 bullets in the last 10 days. Ther's only one solution and that is too shoot more little holes in the air.

If "you-know-who" finds out, I'll tell her that buying bullets right now is just like her buying shoes on sale.
 
being in a metal business we are being notified almost constantly of price increaese. right at the moment copper which cost us $2.42/# 3 months ago is going for $5.78. in mid july the forecast is aluminum and stainless up 16% and steel up 30%. i really think that these guys looked at the fuel prices and said " if they can we can too"
 
The price of fuel impacts EVERYTHING! It all needs to be shipped usually by motor frieght diesel costs more so the products that are hueled will cost more to make up for it. Any of you do shopping for groceries? noticed things like milk and eggs and meat going up? The price of the fuel to haul the food goes up so the cost to the consummer goes up. We are at the bottom of the hill and guess what rolls down hill?
 
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Melt down all your pennies and sell them for a dollar a piece. Barnes bullets are already sky high. We can always break out the casting material.




97% Zinc and 3% copper is the last I remember. We'd probably be better off saving aluminum cans so we could buy more bullets.
 
This makes me want to find that post we had on here a while back about making your own bullets from fired 22 cases. I just bought 3000 rounds on employee night at gander mountain last week. 30% off of everything, powder included /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/smile.gif, sure helps ease the cost.
 
I was looking at Midway Arms website a few days ago and noticed that almost all of their Black Hills ammo was marked "Out of Stock, No Backorder" and wound up buying 500 rds of what they had left in the .223.
Cabelas isn't listing their bulk ammo anymore either.

I'm not suggesting a panic or anything, but it might get tight for a while.
 
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