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I kind of wonder if the real reason for the high price of brass is all the new cartridges that have come out in a very short time frame.
I think when you're manufacturing for just a few calibers/cartridges, like back in the old days when 85% of the cartridges were based on the .30-06, it was a cheap deal, and they ran metric tons of brass at one time for that few cartridges.
The explosion of cartridges and calibers all over the place these days, now they have to decide which to manufacture based on what cartridge and caliber will sell the best, based on an estimated demand; and real demand.
\Short runs cost more money, general economics. Then you get into rims, rimless, rebated, belted, semi-rim, and other features like case body diameter... I could go on, but I think you see the point.
One of my favorite cartridges is the 6.5 Rem Mag. When I was shooting it, even compared to today's exchange rate and inflation, it was about as cheap as .30-06 brass as a short magnum, in the 60s and being nearly one of the first shorties with no real competition.
Bottom line: demand and production profit margins are thin, so less means more money for product; there's also competition between manufacturers mixed up in there somewhere. Just my 0.02 Cheers
I think when you're manufacturing for just a few calibers/cartridges, like back in the old days when 85% of the cartridges were based on the .30-06, it was a cheap deal, and they ran metric tons of brass at one time for that few cartridges.
The explosion of cartridges and calibers all over the place these days, now they have to decide which to manufacture based on what cartridge and caliber will sell the best, based on an estimated demand; and real demand.
\Short runs cost more money, general economics. Then you get into rims, rimless, rebated, belted, semi-rim, and other features like case body diameter... I could go on, but I think you see the point.
One of my favorite cartridges is the 6.5 Rem Mag. When I was shooting it, even compared to today's exchange rate and inflation, it was about as cheap as .30-06 brass as a short magnum, in the 60s and being nearly one of the first shorties with no real competition.
Bottom line: demand and production profit margins are thin, so less means more money for product; there's also competition between manufacturers mixed up in there somewhere. Just my 0.02 Cheers
as to what others think about this particular chambering. Seems to be a real sleeper.
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