both of the bullets i use are on both the suspended (least popular) and being produced (popular) list? imo for the price, hornady puts (put) out the best product, and i'll have to suck it up until things get back to normal, or adjust to whatever the "new" normal will be.
with the "great ammo / component scare of '12 & '13", could anyone easily find hornady premium heads before the announcement what is now on the suspended list anyway?
so now those that used hornady or even those that haven't are going to be buying up the sierra's, bergers, speers, noslers etc. in fear of being without causing the same situation in those lines. instead of saying "suspended or temporarily unavialable" like hornady and at least coming out with some sort of statement, the descriptions read "on backorder" or "out of stock no backorder". tomatoe / tomato.
whether the retooling is true or not, or whatever the driving truely is behind all of the madness with any of the components from any manufacturer, does it really matter as they (whomever "they" are) got us by the testes, and sadly the reality is in today's climate the reality is we have control over it anyway.
so buy a mosin nagant and surplus 7.62x54 ammo and be happy with 3moa or lead tipped + or - 5 grains hunting heads...oh wait the availablilty on that stuff is low and the prices up too, perhaps a slingshot and bag full of ball bearings.
at least an hornady made an attempt to put out there to why stuff is or isn't going to be available, which is more than most are doing, and the shooting community crucifies them anyway, while the anti's sit back and laugh on how much we eat our own.
if they let the public know first before, the dealers / wholesalers would be screaming, and rightfully so as they are truley the first step in the chain of distribution. if the announcement was at the same time to dealers and public, dealers should still feel pissed as they would be left out of the loop without advanced notice to be prepared to deal with the whining soon to come, feeling hung out - at least i would.
poop flows downwards, but through channels - manufacturers> dealers (wholesalers)>retailers>consumers.