ard to forget the last shortage & huge price gouging, err, I mean increases.
Had to sit in my vehicle due to outside temps & due to covid not being able to be in the waiting room while wife had a small outpatient procedure done. My view was back lot of a large Home Depot store, for a couple of hours.
Watched the lift driver take the first stack of lumber off the 18 wheeler, go in side with it & come back to grab another. This time when he went inside with it he brought it back out. Was the warehouse full? or new instructions. The lift driver started stacking the wood outside, pallet after pallet. By the second truckload he was having trouble finding space in the big back lot, moving other stuff around. I sat & watched all this, having nothing else to do. I watched the 3rd truck get unloaded, the lift driver struggling to find room for it. Wife was finally released & time to go. But the material handler still had another 18 wheeler yet to unload. I felt I knew,,, lumber shortage my Holy red complected posterior. Absolutely no shortage there & if prices were reflecting a shortage it was gouging plain & simple.
Think we have same with reloading powder & primers right now. For 2-3 decades now a Finnish gun powder has been popular here in the US & it's traditionally been priced ~25% higher than out national brands.
Now, a lot of US powder is scarce & the Finnish powder is widely available plus,,,, it's now 15-20% cheaper than US powders. Coincidence? The price spread from then to now is just to much for coincidence IMO. Games played or total ineptitude is obvious. Their powders are channeled to war efforts the same as ours, yet they are not using that as a scape goat, & are delivering as usual.
I don't like being the way I'm becoming, but beginning to not believe a doggone thing anymore when it comes to any highly negative or positive reporting. All just seems to be drama, nothing else.