What is a resonable price? The answer is always "whatever the market will bear" We don't complain that retail clothing stores mark up clothes 100%. If you don't want to pay the price, don't pay. It really is that simple. The good news is that when the price goes up, so does the supply (in a free country). After hurricane Andrew a guy in OK rented a U-Haul and filled it with generators and drove to Florida to sell them for twice what he paid for them. What was the result? More generators in Florida. Admittidly, only people with money could afford them, but still, more generators. Why is that a bad thing? If you have the hunt of a lifetime coming up, it might be worth it to you to pay Gunbroker prices. At my age, every year could be my last hunt, so they are all hunts of a lifetime. Paying a steep price is better than not having any available. This too shall pass. I was very poor once, and I learned to stock up on essentials when I had money. When the silly toilet paper shortage happened last year, I already had a months supply. When .22s were priced ridiculously high, I had several thousand on hand. The time to hoard is when prices are low. Come to think of it, it is like the stock market. I too wish that hoarders would stop buying supplies are short, but they won't. Anyone near Albuquerque can PM me if you need a few primers.