Logistics: Hornady Suspends Production of 150 Ammo Types and 150 Bullet Types for Balance of 2013
I heard about this when I visited Simmons Sporting Goods in Bessemer today.
In order to increase deliveries of its most popular types of ammunition and bullets, Hornady announced that it will temporarily suspend production of 150 bullet types and 150 ammo types. IMPORTANT: These bullet and ammo products are NOT being discontinued. Rather, these less-popular, suspended items will simply not be produced for the remainder of 2013. By doing this, Hornady can reduce tool/machinery changes and thereby increase production of products in highest demand.
Not good for some shooters and handloaders. Not good at all.
13 comments:
It was bound to happen with some ammo companies. Suprised it took this long.
How can you expect that they will not make a smart business decision? I for one applaud them. They need and want to make hay while the sun shines AND it will benefit ALOT of shooters.
On the other hand, here's the list of items still in production, straight from the horse's mouth:
http://www.hornady.com/support/availability/production-list
Cheers.
Not if some of us saw this coming over a year ago and stocked up....
The free market has spoken. As opposed to gubbment intervention & regulation - uh, wait, that's what started this mess in the first place. Sorry.
Whatever they feel that they need to do to satisfy the maximum number of customers. Sounds doable to me. Let's just hope this doesn't stretch on too long.
B Woodman
III-per
Suspending 7mm A-Max and 6mm V-Max, really?
If I had son Dutchman this kid would be him.http://www.nydailynews.com/news/national/gun-totig-police-chief-extreme-youtube-vids-article-1.1407590
HORNADY
Accurate. Deadly. Sporadic.
As I've mentioned on the phone before anyone wants to bash Hornady for this it should be noted that throughout the panic they have been on the shelf more reliably than other brands.
At least that's been the case in our AO.
Hornady's posted background to the decision is that they looked at consumption rates for the various products and suspended the less popular ones. Of course, that bites if one or more of your favorites were affected.
http://bulletin.accurateshooter.com/2013/07/hornady-suspends-production-of-150-ammo-types-and-150-bullet-types-for-balance-of-2013/
RSR
TimeHasCome, thanks for that bit about Chief Kessler. Sums up EXACTLY how I feel about LIBTARDS. I forgot how many years ago I coined the term, but I am pleased to see it has generally entered the conservative lexicon.
Fucking retards are what the libs are, for sure, but since the term (fucktards) had already become overused and I needed something zippy that could slip past the censorship software on a number of sites, and liberal fucktards / fucking liberal retards didn't work, I mashed it into 'libtards'.
There's the etymology of it. Now have fun with it. Go find some pinko looking democunt and call them a LIBTARD today!
So much for the ammo shortages easying anytime soon. Was in a Walmart in Michigan yesterday. No
.22LR, some 30-06 cartridges, 270 Winchester. Mostly shotgun shells.
Was on CTD web site yesterday as well. Armscor .22 LR at $99.99 per brick of 500. That transmits to ten bucks a box for .22LR. I used to pay $8.00 a brick on sale for the same stuff. Thankfully being a life long packrat and horder of things I need I stocked up years back.
There's talk of boycott, which is silly. Let's boycott Hornady for maximizing production of their best selling products, yeah, that'll show them.
There's also talk of buying competitor's products when the Hornady product you normally use is out of production, and a prediction that some of the shooters who have to change bullets might not change back when things return to normal at Hornady. That seems reasonable.
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