Last week at a gunshow a guy had a pack of 100 small pistol primers and they were $25!!! Now THAT's gouging.
Luckily I always keep sufficient primers around, but some I have, I'll not use in 20 years like 209 shotshell primers.
Regards,
Gary
I walked into the local Academy a couple of weeks back. Decided to swing by the ammo dept just for giggles to look at the empty shelves. They had 3 bricks of CCI small pistol primers on the shelf with a sign that said limit 3.
They all went home with me. Gave my son a brick and kept 2 for myself. I never had reloaded anything in the last 25 years that took spp, so I didnt have any in my stash. Wife decided to learn to shoot a handgun, so I picked up couple 9mm. She will be set for a while.
I'd imagine that components will not be readily available for the long haul with the way this election is leaning. Never know though
The Sportsmans here has lots of powder. Maybe not the specific one you want, but, there is a bunch. Primers not so much. When they do get some they are gone in hours (normal prices).
I believe the whole reason most are hoarding these is to try to get rich by “trying to” resell at a huge profit. Same stupidity as the high capacity magazines and AR rifle gouge in years past. If everyone remembers a few years later prices were below normal everyday retail prices on both magazines and AR’s because the hoarders couldn’t unload what they had at double retail and were trying to cash out on all the money invested into their piles of inventory. Just hold tight a don’t buy if over $40 a brick imo. There are still LR,MLR, and MLP bricks in stock for $39.99 at my LGS.
This is what everyone wants to think but it just isnt true. The vast majority of primers made today are going into ammo which people are buying buy the 1000s. If the so called "hoarders" were being able to sell enough over priced primers to matter, then the price would start to drop as the people will only pay so much for anything they do not NEED.
EVERY GOOD SHOOTER NEEDS TO BE A HANDLOADER.
NRA Cert. Inst. Met. Reloading & Basic Pistol
Hoarders, Hoarders, Hoarders! Actually, I think the Russians are behind this. Sound familiar?
Don
NRA Certified Metallic Cartridge Reloading Instructor
NRA Life Member
Looks like the going price for SPP and SRP on GunBroker is over $100/1000 with shipping.
I doubt it will get much better anytime soon. Every indication is it might get worse. Biden poised to win and the Trump court challenges may result in more "demonstrations".
Don Verna
What calibers does the government use? I'm sure that the military has a contract for a certain amount, and then there is local law enforcement as well as the FBI, which would maybe explain the shortage of 9mm, .40, and .45 acp, but how many .22 LR does the government use?
I don't think that the military or law enforcement would be buying enough small arms ammo right now to be the issue. I think it is mostly supply chain disruptions due to COVID 19 driven production changes up and down the supply chain. Where I work we are seeing delays parts and materials because our suppliers are being impacted by COVID 19.
Tim
Words are weapons sharper than knives - INXS
The pen is mightier than the sword - Edward Bulwer-Lytton
The tongue is mightier than the blade - Euripides
This is not just impacting primers and ammo. My wife can't get her Mountain Dew Code Red or her favorite flavors of Mike and Ike's either. Certain cuts of meat and other things are hard to find as well.
Tim
Words are weapons sharper than knives - INXS
The pen is mightier than the sword - Edward Bulwer-Lytton
The tongue is mightier than the blade - Euripides
I demand a recount!
Sorry. Wrong thread.
Local Sportsman’s has LPP and LRPs
Mould forth, and load in peace.
My nearby Sportsmans doesn't have one single primer on the shelf!!
I called CCI a month ago. They have been hiring like crazzzzzy!
They never even slowed down during covid. They can not keep up.
Daniel 11:35 and some of the wise shall stumble, so that they may be refined, purified, and made white, until the time of the end, for it still awaits the appointed time.
We all reload ..... sooooooo why don't we just make our own primers? No brainer. It's easy. 3-4 ingredients depending on the type of primer your making.
WWI type primers are easy guys and cheap!
Daniel 11:35 and some of the wise shall stumble, so that they may be refined, purified, and made white, until the time of the end, for it still awaits the appointed time.
BP | Bronze Point | IMR | Improved Military Rifle | PTD | Pointed |
BR | Bench Rest | M | Magnum | RN | Round Nose |
BT | Boat Tail | PL | Power-Lokt | SP | Soft Point |
C | Compressed Charge | PR | Primer | SPCL | Soft Point "Core-Lokt" |
HP | Hollow Point | PSPCL | Pointed Soft Point "Core Lokt" | C.O.L. | Cartridge Overall Length |
PSP | Pointed Soft Point | Spz | Spitzer Point | SBT | Spitzer Boat Tail |
LRN | Lead Round Nose | LWC | Lead Wad Cutter | LSWC | Lead Semi Wad Cutter |
GC | Gas Check |