Here's the message concerning "shortages". None of us would go online and post where we recently came across 20 coveys of grouse in one morning, or where we travel to for a fine day of dog work on pheasants. And, I've never been able to understand why everyone has to write essays on where the best turkey hunting is.
We know if we do those things every yahoo in the county that reads the good news is going to head to our favorite spots. Especially if the previous season was like finding a desert instead of a fount of game birds.
When one starts to broadcast that he has been finding a shortage of a commodity in his favorite market place, every yahoo that reads that sad news is going to run out and start buying that commodity in four or five times the amount he/she normally would. And then that person, finding no more of the commodity, posts that bad news and the avalanche of hoarding starts. Every time a post is added, more people move into the market and start hoarding all over again.
In other words, one comment begets more comments until the hoarding that we saw in 2013, or even as far back as 2008, begins a new cycle.
But, I suppose that's the American way, I got mine.
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