Originally Posted by
Jeff Michel
You can't suggest not to buy brass and encouraging hoarding in the same breath. I think the number of people reselling brass is relatively small considering the current market and the reloaders I know won't cough up the asking price for some people are asking. Another thing to consider is carrying capacity, there's only so much household money that can be spared to buy items not necessary to sustaining life that would be brass in this case, not food, gasoline, mortgage, etc. Yes, nice to have a bunch of extra brass, but at the end of the day, it just sits there, doing nothing. Hard to justify the expenditure where there's other bills coming through the door. Brass sales (overpriced) aren't trapping as many people as they were a couple years ago so, yes these folks will eventually have to lower their prices or as it was pointed out, be stuck with them. From what I've been able to gather, Starline's raw material issues and prior commitments are just very close to being satisfied and they are starting to produce some of the slow moving, low volume calibers. Case in point, i just received a BO of 32-20 and was just notified they are doing a run of 44-40 so there's a bit of light at the end of the tunnel. Of course, everything is uncertain if the current administration is re elected, unfortunately I think panic buying will once again be the rule of the day.