Hornady interview on ammo availability

[Saltwater60]

Looks bleak boys. Components getting short it seems prices will just continue to rise. Seems like little investment because they know it will end at some point and Biden will screw them. Can’t blame them it’s capitalism as they said.

The Truth About Ammo – GunsAmerica Exclusive Interview With Hornady

Hornady and other manufacturers are working as hard as they can to meet today’s unprecedented demand, but there's no end in sight.

www.gunsamerica.com

 

[Drinkthekoolaid]

Looks bleak boys. Components getting short it seems prices will just continue to rise. Seems like little investment because they know it will end at some point and Biden will screw them. Can’t blame them it’s capitalism as they said.

The Truth About Ammo – GunsAmerica Exclusive Interview With Hornady

Hornady and other manufacturers are working as hard as they can to meet today’s unprecedented demand, but there's no end in sight.

www.gunsamerica.com

I could care less about hunting cartridges. Hunting cartridges are the only things left on the shelves right now. They need to convert all possible lines to increase production of 5.56 and 9mm asap.

 

[Saltwater60]

I could care less about hunting cartridges. Hunting cartridges are the only things left on the shelves right now. They need to convert all possible lines to increase production of 5.56 and 9mm asap.

I worked in manufactured the issue with that is the dies and equipment components cost a small fortune and they don’t have extras of that just sitting around. At least we didn’t.
Its like the same thing when all the restaurants shutdown for Covid reasons and people said well just make retail packs and ship them. It’s not that simple. Let me explain.
I worked at a cheese plant and we had 3 retail lines and two bulk lines. We could run one bulk line or two retail lines at a time. When we ran the two retail line we ran so much slower because the cheese was smaller and the machine had to cycle so many more times. Also the retail line could never run the bulk line because the machines were made to run one way or another. The bulk cheese wouldn’t even fit into the retail lines. These machine cost $550,000 and were super custom made out of Germany or Japan only. They were like 6-9 month leads to get these machines. I figure it’s much the same with the ammo manufacturing. Of course this is a guess but it’s all line work and most is set up similarly.
I’d guess they have stopped making hunting cartridges at this point and whatever they can make self defense wise they are. However it seems many manufacturers don’t even make the components and they just assemble the ammo. So this goes back one more layer. It’s a complicated process and it says they can’t even get the cardboard to put them in cases. They don’t make the cardboard. No cardboard to ship the ammo in they can make all they want and it won’t get to us.
Am I saying it’s acceptable? Hell no. It seems they have burnt through their strategic reserves and we’re screwed now. That was my takeaway from this article.
Also notice it says we’ve shipped 30% more ammo not made 30% more ammo. I’ll bet they have made nearly the same amount and had say 20% extra in reserve. So they have made 10% more ammo and just shipped the extra 20% they had in storage. Also if ammo has increased 5-10% every year how could we be losing gun owners like they claim?

 

[Deplorable Me]

Remember the last couple of ammo shortages? My experience in purchasing ammo and components is Hornady was one of the first to recover. Components are good and fair priced, not the cheapest but adequate. I use to jump from sale to sale and collect a little.

 

[Vapor]

There is no hunting ammo out there right now. Mostly there is nothing.