CQB45ACP
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Didn’t figure that in Seattle area.local stores, we have tons of guns shops and big box
Didn’t figure that in Seattle area.local stores, we have tons of guns shops and big box
I agree. At least you have choice at that point—eat or shoot. Shoot is the correct answer.Yeah, I know that’s how it is with us, too. And gas prices, I won’t get started.
Anyway like I said from the start, expensive but available beats cheap but unobtainium. Any day.
Oh yeah man, in Seattle we have 1 gun store with tons of Guns. But in a 30 mile radius, off my head, 20+ shops, and 2 that are geared towards reloaders.Didn’t figure that in Seattle area.
When 22LR were hovering around $50/500 shipped, many posted due to Covid/supply chain/inflation of materials/transportation fuel cost etc. that they doubted whether price would drop below $40/500 shipped.Maybe just a crack......but yea, seems like it may be about to turn.....So, it looks like a light at the end of the tunnel.
I predict 1 month and the primers will flood the marketI was just looking at prices of plain jane 45ACP 230gr on largish mainstream sites like Brownells, Midsouth & Ammoman. (This is one of my unscientific gauges on the likely state of primer prices and availability and their likely trajectory.)
Anyway, prices are down to around .60/round for Winchester white box, S&B, PMC, with no quantity limits. That’s darned good. I’m thinking pre-pandemic they were around .50/round and not too long ago .75/round wasn’t uncommon and there were quantity limits.
I don't care at all where a buddy got ammo for .10 or an LGS had it for .07 or a gun show for this or that. The gauge is online big or biggish retailers.
My point is simply when ammo goes down and is readily available primers aren’t far behind.
Since this is my first reloading drought, I've been learning a lot. Paying high prices here and there compared to when I started loading ~4 years ago. Reminds me of the Clinton era gun/magazine ban. I certainly won't get caught short again.
stock up dummy thread takes
Well, duh!! That’s when the new factories will be in full production.I predict 1 month and the primers will flood the market
I hope that thread comes very soon!!!My expectation when components come back the current pinned where are the components thread will go away and a here's the current sales on primers stock up dummy thread takes its place...
I was curious as to when I last bought primers and how much I paid, that is, when the shortage began for me personally. I just looked and it was January 2021 and $32/1000 for CCI large pistol.When 22LR were hovering around $50/500 shipped, many posted due to Covid/supply chain/inflation of materials/transportation fuel cost etc. that they doubted whether price would drop below $40/500 shipped.
Well, like the previous shortage of 2013 where price dropped to below $30/500, 22LR pricing fell below $40/500 and hovering in the $30s - https://www.thehighroad.org/index.p...t-shipped-pricing.902560/page-8#post-12381679
If this is any indication, I think things are headed in the right direction and I will exercise patience and wait for prices to fall further before I restock ammunition/components.
looks like bricks of Gold! right before the shortage, the cabelas guy told me to not worry about primers and buy powder. So that’s what I did… FAIL on MEI was curious as to when I last bought primers and how much I paid, that is, when the shortage began for me personally. I just looked and it was January 2021 and $32/1000 for CCI large pistol.
That’s just before Cabela’s stopped taking internet orders for primers and powder. (We had a thread or two mentioning it if you recall.) Cabela’s had become a hit or miss proposition for a couple months before that though. I’m pretty sure I also bought some from Powder Valley around that time too and I had them delivered to a close by CVS.
Since the gun show stopped well before that due to reactions to the pandemic, online was really, really my only source.
So, to repeat, the shortage began in earnest for me in January 2021. Heck it’s only been a year and a half long and already it’s loosening up.
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Those are just the ones I wrote the date on.looks like bricks of Gold! right before the shortage, the cabelas guy told me to not worry about primers and buy powder. So that’s what I did… FAIL on ME
I predict 1 month and the primers will flood the market
My last primer purchases was $100 a case of 5000, I bought LRP, SRP, and SPP, I already had enough LPP priced at $15.95. I'm still using primers priced at $9.99 and powder with a sale price of $7.99 (last pound of this). I've bought some newer powder and cringe at having to pay $35 a pound (shoots about the same as my older powder). If powder drops back to $20-25 a pound I will probably stock back up but at $35-55 a pound I'll just purchase what I need.I've been hearing they'll be less than $20/1000 too.
I’m afraid you’re hearing things it’s simply unknowable at this pointI've been hearing they'll be less than $20/1000 too.
I’m afraid you’re hearing things it’s simply unknowable at this point
And a better chance I’m a little slow on the uptakeThere's a good chance I was being sarcastic about the availability and price of primers these days.
I will bet you a sleeve (100) primers of your choice from my inventory that they will still be difficult to find a month from now. Maybe by 2023, we might see them become available in quantity, hopefully with more attractive prices.I predict 1 month and the primers will flood the market