For fun I shoot an FAL and 308 surplus ammo has not been available for a long time. I live in and worked in the Copper mining industry and live next (and I mean within 2 miles) to several large producing copper mines. Copper is the highest it's been in years and they are at FULL employment. Had to buy a car battery last month and it was aspecial one that fits under the rear seat and has vent tubes and was only available from Buick. The Parts man informed me ALL auto batteries had 25% price increases as of the first of November. Because of the lead content I assume. No reason NOT to think ammo costs weren't going up by a significent amount. When I bought my Merkel 470 several years ago the price was $6000, I think they have gone up since then also.