Sunday, August 9, 2020

Part of the cause of the ammo shortage...

...at least with respect to cowboy loads and other old-school cartridges, is that the ammunition plant belonging to Ultramax, which specialized in the manufacture of archaic, Old West calibers, burned down in May of 2018, and the company wound up going bankrupt and completely out of business.

Most of the cartridges I have in .44 Russian, .44 Colt and .38 special (cowboy load) are Ultramax. This is bad news, indeed (just learned about the fate of the company while searching for .45 Colt and saw a message on one ammo site that referenced Ultramax's demise).

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

Time to take up reloading.

ck said...

Even the worlds most popular reloading brass (Lake city 556) is nowhere to be found.