Are ammo prices coming down?

[bushmaster1313]

A basic twin patty cheeseburger is $.99 at Burger King today

They make their money on soda and fries

 

[mgmorden]

The only thing that I know has gotten markedly cheaper is computers. I remember ~17 years ago my parents were finally able to get me a real computer because one of the older model Packard Bells was clearanced at Montgomery Wards for $999.

Now you even after inflation you can get a computer for $300. $1000 will buy a pretty screaming top of the line desktop

Other than that though, just about everything else has slowly trended up in price. I do think though that ammunition in particular has well outpaced the normal rate of inflation. Prices are a function of supply and demand, and as of late, demand has been particularly high. I don't think a lot of what has been bought in the last few years though has actually been USED. As such, I see demand tapering off slowly in the coming few years. As the demand tapers off, the price should come down (and then creep back up slowly as inflation pushes it).

 

[Warp]

Ammunition has outplaced inflation if you start counting at 2000-2005, or something like that. But I'll bet that if you go back decades and compare to now it will be much more reasonable. Kinda like gasoline

 

[mgmorden]

A basic twin patty cheeseburger is $.99 at Burger King today -- at least around here. That's cheaper than in 1990.

Actually I remember a burger joint back around then called "Hot n' Now" that sold burgers for $0.49. They were small, but that's kinda the point - most of the places now selling $1 value burgers make them far smaller than anything you used to be able to buy at those places in years past.

 

[wrs840]

Umm... The value of the US Dollar is in freefall due the the effects of Fed Policies like Quantitative easing. Ammo costs more for the same reason that gasoline and groceries and clothing costs more. It's an effect of "stimulative" monetary policy.

It's sad that all Americans don't already know this.

 

[Warp]

Umm... The value of the US Dollar is in freefall due the the effects of Fed Policies like Quantitative easing. Ammo costs more for the same reason that gasoline and groceries and clothing costs more. It's an effect of "stimulative" monetary policy.

It's sad that all Americans don't already know this.

The price of clothing has not gone up, lately, the way ammo has.

 

[ColtPythonElite]

The price of a lot of the clothes I buy has been fairly stable for about a decade.

 

[Kynoch]

They make their money on soda and fries

You're absolutely right. When I gave up drinking soda I started to bring in my water bottle without really thinking about it as so many people carry them around these days. No problem. I had never considered the cost savings until then.

 

[Kynoch]

Umm... The value of the US Dollar is in freefall due the the effects of Fed Policies like Quantitative easing. Ammo costs more for the same reason that gasoline and groceries and clothing costs more. It's an effect of "stimulative" monetary policy.

It's sad that all Americans don't already know this.

"Ummmm", most of the currencies of the world have been in a "free fall" for some time...

 

[Kynoch]

Actually I remember a burger joint back around then called "Hot n' Now" that sold burgers for $0.49. They were small, but that's kinda the point - most of the places now selling $1 value burgers make them far smaller than anything you used to be able to buy at those places in years past.

Not really. Burger King's double cheese isn't all that small. It wasn't too many years ago when they stopped offering a Whopper (one patty, no cheese) for $.99/each.

 

[Kynoch]

Ammunition has outplaced inflation if you start counting at 2000-2005, or something like that. But I'll bet that if you go back decades and compare to now it will be much more reasonable. Kinda like gasoline

Ammo jumped due to a spike in demand. As the OP noted maybe things are starting to free-up just a bit.

 

[mgmorden]

Not really. Burger King's double cheese isn't all that small. It wasn't too many years ago when they stopped offering a Whopper (one patty, no cheese) for $.99/each.

That was the Whopper Jr (smaller patties than the Whopper), and still a good deal bigger than their "double" cheeseburger (which is only "double" so that they can make the patties extremely thin for faster cooking). At a GOOD burger joint a single contains 4-5x as much meat as any value "double" cheeseburger. A good burger typically costs $7-8 though.

Basically, they keep reducing quality to keep the price low. Some companies have tried to do this with ammo - steel or aluminum cases instead of brass. Reduced powder charges (Federal Champion ammo these days is loaded pretty weak). A trend towards selling lower grain bullets (115gr in 9mm instead of the original "standard" loading of 124gr).

 

[ColtPythonElite]

I remember 99 cent Whoppers, but that was 20 years ago. I was younger, slimmer and at 2 a day during a lot of 1992.