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Correct, and there's no reason for it.

Lead on the Kitco commodities report today is 99 cents a pound, it's been hovering around $1 for years.

The Turkish brand 'Heper' was $46 at the Michigan state shoot last month, so transportation seems to not be the reason.

Jay's Sporting Goods in Gaylord wants $80 a bag for US made shot, and the Peruvian crap is closing the cost gap.

This seems to be greed driven.

On a recent trip to Iowa, I picked up 8 lbs of Green Dot for $330. What they had mostly were 1# containers @ $49. So while my Green Dot was expensive, it was still today's version of a good buy compared to buying 1# of whatever.

What prices will do is make it difficult for high school students who've been shooting on trap teams to continue shooting once they're out of high school. But then I think we lose a lot of them (hopefully on a temporary basis) if they go off to college. Although many colleges also have clay target shooting programs.

Checking the prices of 22lr, we're losing generations of plinkers.

A local indoor pistol range decided they wanted to get out the loading component business. I bought out their inventory of shotgun powders at 2016 prices. At the time I wasn’t sure if it was such a good idea….turns out it was. A couple of months later a friend called to tell me about about an estate sale of a former USA Palma team shooter. The amount of rifle components and parts were astonishing. I bought enough to keep me going for several years. I’m still short on lead and shotgun primers and none are to be had at reasonable prices around here.

Maybe we will replace the current generation of spray and pray shooters and instead develop a generation of marksman.

And that would be a fool’s comfort pony. Tomorrow’s antique single shot depositor of toxic lead into our hillsides is shooting ARs and Glocks today. But, I have a great idea, price the spray and prayers out of the passion, before they blow up weapons of war in their faces.

Fact, thefool you voted for has no clue he has appointed policy makers that’re on a mission to price the shooting sports out of the reach of jo average and their children. If any kid told me, hey there’s a prof who has these marksmanship classes, they’d know in no uncertain terms, not to be fooled by a lefty trying to stamp out the last flickers of marksmanship traditions. Grab ‘em young, and finish them off in college eh prof?

It would certainly be interesting to know the actual cause of the "shortages" that have developed over the last 5-8 years. The demented rants that abound have grown to be stupid and boring. OK, that's a lie. They were always stoopid and boring. Restricting production and expecting the consumer to embrace gouge pricing does not seem to be a sustainable business model. I sure that I could be worng on that.

Have a day

HAMAS just increased the price of propellant.

Shooting semi auto is a lot of fun full auto even more fun I was advised by my grandson who is 24 that there are a lot of shooter his age out there so mabey all is not lost.

That darn hamas.