Thread: Q: 7-08 Ammo

7mm 08 is too big to die, but it is hugely over represented here in NZ compared to the rest of the world. The US manufactures are flat out loading and cannot keep up with demand, so for them, down tooling to swap to do a run of 7mm08 just doesn’t make sense. They would sell 200 x more 308 and 6.5 creed, so they produce what they know is going to sell.
This of course puts strain on the supply coming out of Europe as demand goes through the roof compared to what they could produce. This is magnified by the fact that a lot of European ammo brands use components produced in the USA (mainly projectiles) which are not making their way out.
I know when we landed our last Sako ammo shipment, we received a mere 150 packets of 7mm08 against a back order list of 3000+ packets.
It sounds terrible, but we tend to think we are a big market and the factories will do what we want, when we want, but that is unfortunately not the case.
Everything is hard to get, and as people showed when COVID hit with toilet paper, they bought way more than needed. So, people will be sitting very very quietly on a lot of ammo. Ive seen a lot of it being in the industry.