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Was told yesterday by local RFD to expect another price increase for cartridges.

He has been advised that prices are going up, around 15%, due to the increased cost of lead.

I asked why they didn't go down when the pound improved against the euro & dollar - he asked what other jokes I knew.

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This makes sense, because this story surrounding the price of lead going up is coming from everywhere, but doesn't explain why steel has went up as well!

yes and its climbing again to day on lme is 1950 that is the highest i have seen it knocks into about 72 pound plus vat to load 1k but i did warn you all my 32 gram at 189 looks cheap now eh

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Cost of lead is on the rise apparently. Price increases happen and I'm not too fussed about £20 increase per thousand which will last me 10 x 100 clays on the grand scheme of buying a gun and clothing etc £20 is nothing lol.

True but it's not just £20 though is it. You add that to the price increase last month. It now becomes £40-50 per thou. I think the biggest hit will be to the comp clay shooters. The comp season for myself and a lot of my mates is about to start and will end around mid October. And will be shooting 1500- 2000 a month depending on disaplin and inculding practice. It's a lot of extra money to fork out

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True but it's not just £20 though is it. You add that to the price increase last month. It now becomes £40-50 per thou. I think the biggest hit will be to the comp clay shooters. The comp season for myself and a lot of my mates is about to start and will end around mid October. And will be shooting 1500- 2000 a month depending on disaplin and inculding practice. It's a lot of extra money to fork out

 

When I was shooting competitions I used to stock up before the season, usually about 30000 Hull Sovereigns!

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If you can afford it stock up, a few years back when hornady messed up putting the HMR mk2 blue tip into the 17HMR, I managed to buy 4K at £8 a box, my RFD just stored them for me, that was in the days when I had a few bob. Long gone.

 

I spoke with Hornaday direct about the 'blue tip' phenomenon!

Their response was along the lines of 'we used a different coloured polymer for the tips ie blue in lieu of red, this will make no difference in the performance of ammunition with the blue tips as opposed to red tips. The 'difference' is purely in the colourant used when the polymer is made'

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True but it's not just £20 though is it. You add that to the price increase last month. It now becomes £40-50 per thou. I think the biggest hit will be to the comp clay shooters. The comp season for myself and a lot of my mates is about to start and will end around mid October. And will be shooting 1500- 2000 a month depending on disaplin and inculding practice. It's a lot of extra money to fork out

I suppose when you look at it that way it's a pretty significant increase for you boys. When the price of lead does go down do they reduce the price or just be cheeky and leave it as it is?

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So went into my local gun shop to get some carts and owner said that the cartridges are going up again. What was a "budget" cart like velocity, Superfast etc is now going to cost £205 a thou! (fibre wad)

 

Pigeon loads will be around £250. Looks like i will cutting right back on clay shooting. Don't think i will be the only one.

I think if most people start to cut back on clay shooting, the small shoots will start to suffer.

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So went into my local gun shop to get some carts and owner said that the cartridges are going up again. What was a "budget" cart like velocity, Superfast etc is now going to cost £205 a thou! (fibre wad)

 

Pigeon loads will be around £250. Looks like i will cutting right back on clay shooting. Don't think i will be the only one.

I think if most people start to cut back on clay shooting, the small shoots will start to suffer.

out of interest, iv recently moved to Melksham, who you using locally ? Dauntsey ??

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