The price of lead is the price of lead...not some plot to ruin our hobby.
There is a huge delay in price adjustments when you compare lead futures prices and the cost of a box of shells on the shelves at Wally World or the price of a bag of shot. That is why you can still find $4.60 boxes of shells for sale. The wholesale purchase contracts, raw materials inventory and finshed goods inventories need to flush out. Shell prices will be as slow to fall as lead prices decline as they were to rise as lead prices went up.
Jeff
Last edited by Jeff Mull; 01/13/08 08:35 PM.
