When the .223 panic hit in '06 I bought a couple cases of 55 gr ball at about 24 cents per round, which I though was highway robbery at the time... I'd been paying about 15 cents previously.
I called Black Hills and was told their backorder wait time was going to be 14-16 months, and that was for a preferred customer/agency purchase. Turned out the delay was only about 4 months. Doom and gloom predictions tend to be common during these panic-buying episodes.
There was a 223 panic in 2006? Did you mistakenly mean 2008 or was there really one in 2006? Seriously not dogging you but wondering if I forgot it or what.
I remember all the panics you're talking about but can't recall one in 2006. Before O was even elected though, at some point 223 took a big jump from having been $150 a thousand mol to about double that. I can't remember what precipitated it. It had been that price approximately, for years.
