Price of shotgun cartidges

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Having a look around different dealers recently I'm quite shocked to see how much shotgun cartidges have increased in price. For example a box of 32g gram hull high pheasant was £12. About 2 years ago I picked up 36 gram high pheasant for £10. When I started shooting about 8 years ago a box of game cartidges was running about £6 or £7 a box!

How times have changed.

You could buy eley Olympic blue for £40 or £45 for 250!

I don't know how the average working man or woman can afford clay pigion shooting.
 
gixer1 said:
Try pricing a box of slugs! £47 per 25!
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Jeeez.... My club recently bought what I think is our year's supply in, and it had gone up, but £47 is nearly double what we're paying :O Someone must be taking a healthy cut surely.... Although I do know us actually trying to get our slug order was a nightmare...

sako85708 said:
Cheap when you compare them to the price of 20 cigarettes !! or the price of "per bird"
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Although I have to say, I have noticed a drop in the price per bird since last year... More so than cartridge prices anyway.
 
Cartridges have always been expensive. Clay pigeon shooting has always been expensive. Shooting full bore rifles is expensive. Shooting driven phaesants is bloody expensive, grouse even more so. Going hunting, especially in exotic places is eye wateringly expensive.

Unless you happen to be very rich, but then your jets, super yachts, mistresses or playboys etc are bloody expensive.
 
Everything is expensive, especially pretty much every hobby is, unless you collect empty crisp packets. Those who indulge in model railways will have to pay around £250 for a little OO scale locomotive. Golf balls are over £1.00 a go (although unlike shotgun cartridges you might get to use them more than once), one golf club is upwards of £50 and you probably need more of those than shotguns (arguably) and to be a member of a golf club seems like you are actually buying a slice of it. If you are silly enough to like vintage cars, the costs can be eye watering.

To be realistic, clay cartridges are cheaper than most game cartridges. And you can go shooting on a reasonable budget, if you are lucky enough to be a member of a small DIY syndicate or have a bit of a permission to shoot over (not necessarily talking stalking here, but a few acres to wander with your gun).

Anyway, if you are a member of the pheasant syndicate that I am, you make great savings on cartridges. Ho hum!
 
Eggs, on the other hand, used to be 5/- a dozen at the farm gate, when petrol was 5/- a gallon at a filling station!
A brickie earned about 5/- an hour!
Milk was 10d a pint, delivered to your door every morning.
When milk went up 1d a gallon ex farm, it went up 1d a pint on the doorstep!
 
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