Originally Posted by
Castloader
Well said. I've been wondering about smokeless powder. Unique is over 100 years old, the formula can't be too hard. It's still cheapish to buy whenever you can find it, but I'm curious to know the process. I really do wonder about the possibility of a small time manufacturer producing primers locally and selling to LGS in their area. I can hardly imagine an area in the US right now that would not benefit from this. I imagine with some modern CNC equipment configured specifically for primer manufacture, a single person could be cranking out 10K or more primers per day. If I were an entrepreneur, I might have a go, but I already have a full time job. CNC equipment is getting cheaper by the day, and if you think about it, nothing we are doing is really that complex for machines. For a big company making hundreds of millions of primers a year, very expensive equipment is required. I would think that a primer micro-brewery could do quite well in small batches. Hell, if I were the owner of a LGS, I might take something like this up on the side. Imagine a Mark VII or Ammoload type machine reconfigured to produce primers instead of cartridges. It's not really far fetched.