Just a gripe but when did all of the muzzleloading stuff get so expensive??

[TexasAndy]

I mean I know there is inflation and all but in the late 90's and early 2000's prices were way cheaper. I wonder if Italy joining the EU and the currency exchange rate is the largest contributor?? You guys thoughts??? I remember I used to buy Uberti revolvers from DIxie for less than 300 and you could get Piettas on sale for around 200...man. Accessories don't seem to have changed that much and powder has gone up mostly because of shipping costs I guess.

 

[retrieverman]

Supply and demand.

 

[JHB]

As wages increase so does the price of goods. You are making more money than you were in the late 90s and early 20s are you not?

 

[TexasAndy]

Supply and demand.

Let's throw out 2020 as an anomoly and not representative of a normal market.

 

[TexasAndy]

Supply and demand.

I'm not talking about this year...obviously this year is an anomly but stuff is way more expensive than I remember. I refuse to believe that demand for BP stuff has risen dramatically since the late 90's. If we could find some marketing research data I would guess that sales hav probably remained a constant if not slightly less since the rise in popularity of MSR's. That said without access to that data I have no idea.

 

[Spikebuck]

I wonder if Italy joining the EU and the currency exchange rate is the largest contributor??

Exchange rates would have impact, but if that was the largest contributor, the costs would have come down a little the the last few years, not counting 2020. When the Euro was introduced, it ran at around a 1$ or less. Over time, the USD devalued such that it cost as much as $1.60 to buy 1 Euro. Today, it costs about $1.23 for a Euro and has been in a pretty stable range of $1.10 to $1.20 per USD since around 2013/2014 when it dropped.

 

[retrieverman]

I'm not talking about this year...obviously this year is an anomly but stuff is way more expensive than I remember. I refuse to believe that demand for BP stuff has risen dramatically since the late 90's. If we could find some marketing research data I would guess that sales hav probably remained a constant if not slightly less since the rise in popularity of MSR's. That said without access to that data I have no idea.

It’s still supply and demand. If people weren’t paying the prices, they wouldn’t continue to charge those prices. I seriously doubt any business is very excited to see merchandise not moving in they’re inventory.

 

[sawyer04]

Used to be able to buy a Cadillac automobile for $3000 and would stay on the road for a while. What happened there?

 

[Walkingeagle]

It’s still supply and demand. If people weren’t paying the prices, they wouldn’t continue to charge those prices. I seriously doubt any business is very excited to see merchandise not moving in they’re inventory.

Agreed, however if people aren’t buying then the supply drops as businesses collapse, yet the demand remains. With less supply, prices will subsequently rise.
Walk

 

[kje54]

I mean I know there is inflation and all but in the late 90's and early 2000's prices were way cheaper. I wonder if Italy joining the EU and the currency exchange rate is the largest contributor?? You guys thoughts??? I remember I used to buy Uberti revolvers from DIxie for less than 300 and you could get Piettas on sale for around 200...man. Accessories don't seem to have changed that much and powder has gone up mostly because of shipping costs I guess.

Actually it has not kept up with inflation. On average prices double every ten years which means something that cost $200 twenty years ago should cost $800 today. C&B replica revolvers are still under $400..........

 

[tenngun]

Some loss of interest in traditional.
NMLRA was formed in the 1930s and shot originals. It was a small market, prices were cheap because who wanted them old guns?
1950s saw many veterans, and the looming centennial of the WBTS, at the same time Italy was in a post war depression. Wages were low in fascist Spain. Wages were up in the US and a good gun could be had cheap.
No sooner was the WTBS centianial over then the Bicentennial was looming.
Texas sesquicentennial came shortly there after( Arkansas sesquicentennial was the same year....we got forgotten at the alter). Then Hundred and twentyfifth for WTBS.
Europe followed suit with the bicentennial of the Napoleonic wars.
After that a general drop in interest. Italy and Spain improved theirs economies, now it’s India that can provide inexpensive guns. However they provide to a smaller market.
How many reinactors will be interested in the hundred and seventy fifth of WTBS or the two hundred and fiftieth of the USA?
Companies that can’t sell a thousand units have to make more profit on a hundred units.

 

[Pete G]

Things seem more expensive because your dollar is worth less. It won't be long until you see 2020 as the good old days.

 

[Nameless Hunter]

Actually it has not kept up with inflation. On average prices double every ten years which means something that cost $200 twenty years ago should cost $800 today. C&B replica revolvers are still under $400..........

Inflation since 2000 is calculated to be at about 50%, so... $200 in 2000 would be about $300 today (from regular inflationary pressure).

 

[kje54]

Inflation since 2000 is calculated to be at about 50%, so... $200 in 2000 would be about $300 today (from regular inflationary pressure).

Then inflation has been lower than the average. That's a good thing.

 

[Dale Lilly]

I bought my first muzzle loader for $12 … but it wasn't much. Dale

 

[bubba.50]

They got expensive about the day after l sold the last of my trading stock. LOL

 

[bubba.50]

Things seem more expensive because your dollar is worth less. It won't be long until you see 2020 as the good old days.

Yep. We’re about 2 or 3 ‘stimulus checks’ away from solving the toilet paper crisis. You can just use your worthless money.

 

[JeffG]

I think the quality has increased over the years for repro stuff. But ya, inflation.

 

[TreeMan]

I built a pecatonica SMR around 2000 or 2001. If I remember correctly the parts then are just about the same price as they are now.

 

[griffiga]

Back in 1975, I bought a brand new Navy 1762 Charleville musket out of a magazine add for $110, and later that year a Navy Zouave for $75. Shipped right to my rural neighborhood door.