It will just make it more worthwhile shopping around as skeetfreak said. When the numbers of cartridges sold drops below the point where the manufacturers cant maintain turnover at any sensible price point; prices will drop again.
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Your off your head if your paying £230 for pro one when there are alternative continental shells as good/better for less money!!! There is plenty margin in there for the Bontoff family to hold prices even with component price rises!!!
Will Hewland
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It will be a test of market forces for sure. No business would ever have gone out of business if it were possible to simply put your prices up to any level. If there is any unreasonable profiteering going on, it will just take one company to come in at a lower price to upset the apple cart.
Doctor Lecter
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more reasons to check out " proper cartridges " very competitively priced .
I just don't get these price hikes. The cartridge market down here is really pretty stable there are loads of different makes Italian, Spanish ,French even German and the prices seem to go in the ranges €160/thou €180, €200 , €250 with the very expensive ones like Clever rev at somewhere about €280 . Mind you that is not to say there won't be a hike here as well but since I started shooting in 2013 cartridge prices have barely moved.
chippy
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Nice to know leads gone up, must get all my battery's into the scrapyard after filling them up with water that is. £600 per ton result.
Not trying to be funny but I am surprised that more effort is not made to reclaim the lead shot away at trap shooting grounds. Every year I shoot away a minimum of 210 Kg at our club if you take into account the other members and visitors there must be approaching ten tonnes of the stuff collecting in front of the trench every season there must be some economic way of reclamation surely ?
Will Hewland
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I believe I saw some article a few years ago about this happening somewhere. Italy?
Paul120
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Lonato collect the lead. It falls onto a plastic sheet on the banking and rolls down to be collected. Apparently it pays for the upkeep of the layouts. (12 OT )
Good it is a gross waste otherwise. It would be difficult at the club I shoot at there is a very deep ravine at the front of the fosse so the pellets fall a long way down uneven ground but a flat ground should be a doddle. The club I shoot at has been in existence for about 40 years so there is about 350 - 400 tonnes of the stuff down there hmm more than half a million pounds worth at £1500 per tonne
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