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Browsing through my local Sportsman's Warehouse today, I saw their shot is up to $37.99. Does anyone have any inside information about when or if it will go back down?
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You think a bOycott would work ?
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Jim
I bought some at the local Sportsman's Warehouse six weeks ago for 30.99 a bag. Looks like I should have gotten more than the two bags I did buy.
I worked on a street sweeper at a lead smelter in Mo. last March and the price then was a dollor a pound from this smelter. There sure was a lot of it there but in several hundred pound ingots.
The people in the shop told me a lot of it is going overseas so the pirce is up. No relief or an answer but just what I heard.
Regrds, Gordon
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Jim,
A buddy in CT tells me that JSC's dealer price (80 bag minimum) is now $29/bag. I keep rerunning the numbers on the shotshell cost calculator. I can't see reloading 12s and 20s unless payload is reduced.
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I shoot 350 gr 12 ga loads. Lighter recoil, still break targets. I have mostly $18 shot from a year or two ago, but just bought another 500# @$27. Should hold me for awhile. $2.72 box with the $27 shot, $2.27 with th $18. I think it's worthwhile just to avoid the unnecessary beating promos give @ $4.
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Check the LME (London Metal Exchange) for lead prices. Currently it is roughly 1.25 per lb. Now do the math, add labor, fuel, bags, and transportation plus two profits (mfgr. & retailer). The 15 month price is well over $1.10 / lb! The answer is simple, it is not coming down for at least a year. You could vote for Barbra, Nancy and the Hill. They have a plan to stop the shot problems.
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I bet they do have a plan.
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Will the price of lead really matter when you can't get primers and powder, thanks to OSHA?
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The 1.3 billion Chinese want solder, probably tetraethyl lead in their gasoline, lead in their paint and the countless other engineering uses.
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The current commodities inflation is only partially related to Chinas industrilization. We have had a number of these prviously, remember oil, gold, and grain prices in 1980. China wasn't an issue in 1980 and this would have happened irrespective of India or China. China is only making stuff because we make it there rather than in Milwaukee.
Commidities respond very quickly and universally to monorary missmanagent by central banks. In this case, the Fed overstimulated the economy in 2003-2005 by keeping interest rates to low to long and almost immedietally all commodities prices went through the roof. When the Fed fixes monotary policy, then all of them will comeback to earth. Remember oil prices of the late 1980's?
This discourse won't change the price of shot but the price is only tangently related to China.
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