It's no wonder I can't find any primers

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They are all for sale on Gunbroker. The capitalists have found some way of getting primers and they are selling for $70 / 1000 or more.

I noticed that most of the primer scalpers had very few feedbacks which indicates they are just the hit and run types............rather than the guys who are the real players.
 
Yikes!

Though I live in Texas (where the primer supply is also dried up here in my area), I had occasion to travel through Arkansas last week. I happened to spot a place just north of Little Rock called "Ft. Thompson", a large sporting goods place. Had to make a U-turn to check it out.

They had just received a large shipment of primers and were in the process of stocking the shelves as I walked up. Though I hated to pay $39 per K for CCI Small Pistol, I thought back to the unavailability of such in my neck of the woods. So, I bit the proverbial bullet, swallowed hard, and bought a bunch of them. Should keep me in primers for a long while... But I'm not sure I'd give the kind of prices that they're going for on Gunbroker... :confused:

Corner Pocket
 
Corner Pocket you did good I think. Gander is across the road from Thompson. And there are other shops in the area within a half hour drive. I think Don's in Little Rock is one, Ozark Arms is another and several others. All have the stuff you need from time to time. However they tend to sell fast.

Usually the locals find out what day the truck arrives and gather on that day.

I carry a sort of a warchest, a bank card ready to grab whatever that I might want or need when I see it on sight. Regardless of the sticker in any of these shops. (Within reason)
 
Primerrs

I could buy primers by the thousands a few weeks ago at A-Z Guns in Macon. This week, they had a limit of 350 primers (total of all types) to a customer. Don't know how they broke out the 50 count though. Most of the selections were already gone. Good selection of powder though.
 
Clarence: The capitalists have found some way
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The CAPITALISTS, eh? Well, shoot, you figured out that it was an imperialist-capitalist running-dog conspiracy to deprive you of primers. Now whatever will we do? :rolleyes:


Not defending the scalpers- but there's a saying of about a fool and their money being soon parted. If people wouldn't pay $70 a brick for primers, nobody would be selling them at that price.

Anybody who is scalping is no true friend of the 2A. The same folks who would sell flu vaccine watered down with saline solution.

iirc it's a $25,000 fine for shipping hazmat through regular parcels. People are just not getting caught. One of these days Uncle Sugar will discover the tax revenue available for busting these guys and it will go away.
 
You gotta know when to hold 'em...

Hungry Seagull, that Ft. Thompson is the kind of place I'd love to spend a few hours browsing around in. I was pressed for time and was only able to be there for a few minutes.

Just to see what might be available at a better price, after I saw that there were lots of primers there at Ft. Thompson, I ran across the road to Gander Mountain to see what they might have. They had nothing but bare shelves, and suddenly the $39 per K price at F.T. didn't look quite so bad. :D So I swung back by there and "loaded up"...

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It's my understanding these are people that work at places that sell primers, either a gun shop our sporting goods type place, and are buying them with their employee discount as they come off the truck. They then turn around and sell them on gunbroker or craigslist for inflated prices.
 
Two things I have noticed about the primer shortage:

1 - Most of the primers on Gunbroker seem to be in the Oklahoma & Iowa areas and a bit further east.

2 - NONE of the shops in southern Utah have had primers in the past few months which almost forces you, if you live in that area, is to use Gunbroker.
 
I have to agree with evan price and as PT Barnum once said

"There's a sucker born every minute"

And I think most of them are buying primers on Gunbroker.
 
The CAPITALISTS, eh? Well, shoot, you figured out that it was an imperialist-capitalist running-dog conspiracy to deprive you of primers. Now whatever will we do?
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You misinterpret my post. Maybe I should clarify. I have plenty of primers to get me through for at least another year. I keep 15000 or so on hand.

It just seems odd that some folks CAN get primers in large enough quantities to scalp them on Gunbroker. My local dealer is still selling them cheap enough, but only has magnums at the moment. At this point he is not doing any gouging, only passing along any increases he gets from the distributors.
 
Primer Prices

We just received word that we will receive a partial shipment of primers that we ordered in January. The wholesale price is higher than listed in the catalog; the seller is apologetic but that's all. We're also receiving a few pounds of powder that's not been available for a few months, which makes me think the drought may be breaking.

Scott
 
Here in Wilkes County NC my local gun store just received a shipment of Primers and I had to debate if I should clean them out or be good to my fellow reloaders in Wilkes county. I decided to be good and only bought 2k each of small and large pistol primers. Average price was $36/1k.

In any case Jim the manager there seems to feel that the drought of primers will end sometime in the next month or two... :) I hope he's correct.

Dave
 
I've bought 7k of SR's in the last month. Distributed them out to my friends that are going with me on a hunt.

There are most likely as many being shipped as ever, just that guys are buying 1,000 when they used to buy 100.
 
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I've bought 7k of SR's in the last month. Distributed them out to my friends that are going with me on a hunt.
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7,000 primers for a hunt :what: What are you guys hunting... zombies in the desert :neener:
 
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