Advanced Armament Company (AAC) to make 6.5 Grendel Ammo (PalmettoStateArmory brand)

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The market is so over-diversified and manufacturers have to schedule all of the high-demand cartridges through their production lines.

We see spurts of every cartridge being made, showing up to distributors and retailers when they run, while the staple cartridges get made on constant production lines.

I’m surprised when I see odd balls getting made, like 7.5 French, 7.62 Nagant, 7.65 Para, 7.63 Mauser, 7.65 Argentine, .22 Hornet, 7.7 Jap Arisaka, 8x51R Lebel, and 8x56R Mannlicher.

I can understand the surplus market for 6.5 Carcano, .303 Enfield, 8mm Mauser, and some of the oddball early 20th Century hunting cartridges too.

We’ll see a lot of these older cartridges fall-off here in the next few years as the 1945-1963 cohort generation ages even more.

I still see weird stuff pop-up on big sporting goods store shelves, from new production lots that makes me wonder how they’re factoring their demand for those.