Powder/primers still in short supply?????

[abunaitoo]

Living on a rock in the middle of an ocean, we get things much later than the "upper 48".
Not as long a wait and our friends in Alaska, but still longer than everyone else.
Powder and primers have been hard to come by for a while.
.22 ammo tooo.
Has it gotten better in the "upper 48"??????

[Sgtonory]

nope.

[longusmc]

I was at a shop in AZ last weekend, they had some powder and primers on the shelf. However they wanted $35 lb for powder and $40 1K for primers.

[Catshooter]

Nah, ask again this time next year. Maybe. Possibly. The libs haven't given up, they are still looking for ways to get us. It took several times to get the Clinton Crime Bill passed.


Cat

[Gliden07]

I was at a shop in AZ last weekend, they had some powder and primers on the shelf. However they wanted $35 lb for powder and $40 1K for primers.

Not great for primers but in my area if you can find them they're getting $49 to $52 per/1K!! The guy I usually get my stuff from has been out for months (he was getting $32/1K). The other couple LGS are screwing people and when this turns around (if it turns around??) I will remember who the ethical people were and do my business with the better of them!!

[starmac]

Primers here were 34.99 up, a year or two before all this mess. I did get some 231 for 28.99 a pound (2 pound limit) last week. The week before I got unique and 2400 for 23.99 a pound, same limit. They had a pretty good selection, but both shipments were gone in one day. That was the first I had seen in a few months though and no primers, not even many shotgun primers still on the shelf.

[Phoenix]

It seems powder is going up in general. I'm Dec it was $16-22 Jan $18-24 Feb $20-24 Apr $22-26 now $24-28

Primers are steady at 35-40 same as pre Dec.

I think they are going to stay that way for a while

[SciFiJim]

abunaitoo, I will be in Hawaii in three weeks. I just checked and sticking a box of primers in my luggage is a no no. Wish it were different.

So, how to hazardous materials get to the Islands? Is there a cargo shipping firm that will take smaller than conex box loads? If so, perhaps something can be arranged.

[starmac]

If it is like shipping them to alaska, a guy would get a flintlock before he shipped just a few boxes.

[TES]

MAN Libbs aren't doing it to us we do it to ourselves. Libbs don't own guns...remember! I like to think of it as a growing number of concerned citizens. We are winning!

[cja245]

I haven't seen small pistol primers since Dec. I've managed to get a couple pounds of every powder I use and a couple thousand large rifle and large pistol primers.

[Geraldo]

I went in a shop here the other day and they had brass, primers, shot, bullets, and loaded ammo in large quantities. What they didn't have was powder.

[41 mag fan]

Was at Rural King Farm store yesterday, they had all sorts of 5.56/223 ammo, 30-06, 270, 40, 45 ect. But no 22lr. Prices were normal


I was at a shop in AZ last weekend, they had some powder and primers on the shelf. However they wanted $35 lb for powder and $40 1K for primers.

I'd be remembering them come the day this is over, and let everyone know they're gouging and shouldn't be in business.


MAN Libbs aren't doing it to us we do it to ourselves. Libbs don't own guns...remember! I like to think of it as a growing number of concerned citizens. We are winning!

Correction there...there are several liberals I know who own guns. Normal good all around people, until it comes to politics. My FIL is one of them. Owned hunting guns, and hunted, till the cancer got the best of him and he cant get around very good anymore.

I think it's the ultra liberals who don't own guns....they are the ones who are really far left

[L Ross]

I have deliberately avoided going to my reloading supply shop so as not to contribute to the shortage. I saw the graffiti on the wall in 2007 and took steps then. This weekend I began teaching a worthy youngster to reload after he expressed an interest. With his parent's okay of course.
Yesterday I stopped in at the reloading store and found primers, (1k limit metallic, 5k shotgun), some powder, ( limit one 8 lb. or one 4 lb. four 1 lb.), for example they had an 8# jug of 4759 for $141.99. Almost no 22 ammo. Sales clerk says as soon as they have some customers get on their cell phones they are soon sold out. I bought the youngster 1k of Winchester small pistol primers for $31.99. Sales person told me they are only charging their traditional mark up percentage and are doing their best to retain their customers.

Duke

[SciFiJim]

I ran into an old friend today at the LGS. HE was looking for 9mm and had never considered reloading. No luck on the 9mm, but I spent half an hour talking with him about the benefits of reloading. I have him convinced. He followed me home and I lent him a reloading manual to read about the basics.

He is well off enough to buy commercial ammo all the time, but sees the benefit of reloading. I will get him started on that before I take him down the galena road.

[km101]

Not around here! Haven't seen primers in more than 8 months. No powder other than a few 1 pounders found at local gun shops that had been there forever. Ammo? Hah!!!!!!

[Ohio Rusty]

Very little powder and no ammo or primers anywhere for months and months here in Ohio. Last month a central Ohio gun store advertised they has 100 round packs of 22's for 9.99 a pack I think. They had 700 in stock and one per customer. They were sold out in less than 23 minutes. The local Walmart employees buy up the ammo before it hits the shelves ao there has been not one round of pistol ammo, rifle ammo (except .270's), absolutely no pistol ammo and no 22 ammo since January. I'm sure alot of that ammo slipping out of the stores ends up on Armslist and the like.

I'm not hurting .... I have a suitable supply to make a couple thousand rounds and I have two flintlocks and plenty of blackpowder ...... I can shoot when others can't .....
Ohioo Rusty ><>

[Blammer]

gunshow here last weekend you could get all the winchester primers you wanted for $30 per 1,000

[Blammer]

powder was on average $28 per pound and most anything was available

22lr was still very expensive with a 500rnd bulk box going for about $75

[Crosbyman]

I bought a case of Fed 40 grain target (3250 total) for $189.00 today. (Houston)

[rexherring]

Just picked up two pounds of 2400 yesterday at the Bismarck, ND Sheel's $19.95/lb. Not much for primers but almost any powder available for their regular price. Two pound limit per purchase. No .22's or 9mm.

[rexherring]

Just picked up two pounds of 2400 yesterday at the Bismarck, ND Sheel's $19.95/lb. Not much for primers but almost any powder available for their regular price. Two pound limit per purchase. No .22's or 9mm.

The week before, I picked up some H110 and HP-38, regular prices $21.95/lb