TDC
04-16-2009, 03:26 PM
Ya know..... I think at this point we're all focusing on traditional marketing suppliers for components and not on finding other workable solutions to our shortage problems.
When we think about components we tend to think about buying from local gun shops or national distributors like Midway, Midsouth, etc. They're out of reliable supplies, folks, and not much "light at the end of the tunnel." Supplies continue to trickle in but we may be waiting for fully replenished supplies for perhaps as long as a year or more. It's time to get creative and start to think about other temporary methods..... like local trades?
As an example, many of us who are serious caster/re-loaders already have a large supply of one type of primer or another in our personal inventory. I have a large inventory of LP and SP primers in both mag and standard. I recently purchased a pistol that requires LR primers and those are items I'm extremely short on. In the current environment I'd never sell any of the primers I have but I would certainly trade those that I'm "heavy" with for those I have in very short supply.
I've tested my trade theory and found several serious local casting/re-loading people anxious and willing to trade primers on those terms. If serious re-loaders would look within their own shooting groups for solutions that would certainly help ease the immediate pressures on primer manufactures. It would also help foil the rampant hoarding that's currently disrupting critically short supplies. We would simply be exchanging like valued product for like valued product and not concern ourselves with the "scalpers market value" of components we actually need and use..
Anyone else been doing this or have ideas or suggestions beyond the "stand in line" or "wait and see" responses from our normal suppliers?
TC
When we think about components we tend to think about buying from local gun shops or national distributors like Midway, Midsouth, etc. They're out of reliable supplies, folks, and not much "light at the end of the tunnel." Supplies continue to trickle in but we may be waiting for fully replenished supplies for perhaps as long as a year or more. It's time to get creative and start to think about other temporary methods..... like local trades?
As an example, many of us who are serious caster/re-loaders already have a large supply of one type of primer or another in our personal inventory. I have a large inventory of LP and SP primers in both mag and standard. I recently purchased a pistol that requires LR primers and those are items I'm extremely short on. In the current environment I'd never sell any of the primers I have but I would certainly trade those that I'm "heavy" with for those I have in very short supply.
I've tested my trade theory and found several serious local casting/re-loading people anxious and willing to trade primers on those terms. If serious re-loaders would look within their own shooting groups for solutions that would certainly help ease the immediate pressures on primer manufactures. It would also help foil the rampant hoarding that's currently disrupting critically short supplies. We would simply be exchanging like valued product for like valued product and not concern ourselves with the "scalpers market value" of components we actually need and use..
Anyone else been doing this or have ideas or suggestions beyond the "stand in line" or "wait and see" responses from our normal suppliers?
TC