One plus that I can see in this is that Czechoslovak Group is NOT a publicly-held corporation. You won't be having anti-gun, anti-hunting groups submitting shareholder resolutions every year as you would have had with The Kinetic Group aka the spun-off Sporting Products group of Vista Outdoor.
One only needs to look at the examples of Ruger and Smith & Wesson to see what I'm talking about. Small orders of Catholic nuns hold enough shares that they can submit these shareholder resolutions and then have so-called socially conscious "independent" analysts tell mutual funds that they need to support these efforts with their votes.
Yes, public corporations are fighting to survive the woke agenda and it’s emphasis on ESG scores. Funding and other things needed to conduct business is tied to this. The privately held Czech company probably can ignore that schit.
Yup. Both of those are encouraging to me. I‘ve bought a lot of Fioochi ammo the last few years, all made here, and priced reasonably, and the quality is good to excellent. I’ve noticed they’re easing into the U.S. primer market as well.
Seems better to me that a shooting-oriented businessman owning all those brands is better than them being under the control of some “investment group” run by tennis- and golf-playing money geeks.
As to powder prices, I’ve tried to figure out any sort of pattern to the wide price variances and gave it up to supply and demand. One thing’s certain though, and that’s that powder prices are subject to the same inflation as the rest of the stuff we buy, so buckle up and bend over. A few years back when the talk was all about .22 ammo, a bunch were vowing they’d never pay $.05-$.10 a pop and were holding out for the $.02 stuff they used to buy. How’d that turn out?