I understand inflation...But doesn't it seem that "we", in the gun world have experienced something much more than the inflation rate that other sectors have experienced, since March 2020?...
That's what I'm talking about - more than inflation. Through the nineties, I was pretty poor, but I was able to entertain myself well, because shooting wasn't an expensive hobby. Scraping up ten bucks for a hundred primers was, well, about an hour's pay. I'm far from poor today, but I'm not making a hundred bucks an hour either. It IS outta whack.
All the same, I don't begrudge a guy sucking it up and paying the ransom, but I'm just confused about why so many seem so happy about it and rationalize that everything else cost so much more too. I've owned a LOT of Rugers over the years and can't say I've ever had one which didn't need work (not just a trigger job) right out of the box. I put up with it because they were within my means. I surely hope for what Ruger is charging today they are making much better guns than the last few I got from them.
I will let it go at that and try not to spoil the celebration going on here.