How many primers is too many? I need help!!!

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MFInc said:
Starting to realize I'm addicted to buying primers....I'm sure the general consenous is , you can never have enough, but I'm at like 14k and gaining about 200 more per day at least for the next week. When/if should I stop? I mainly reload 9mm,.40s+w, and soon to be 10mm and 300 blk. How do I convince myself I have enough? Or Do i just milk the cow while shes in the barn? lol...
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I maintain the number and size of primers to match the number of projectiles I have in stock.....and I have enough projectiles to last severl years (well maybe more than several years). Ditto on brass....I have a lifetime (mine not yours) supply of brass for handguns and rifles.
EDIT: OMG: Just checked and am short 1K of both small pistol and large pistol (4K small pistol projectiles and 9K large pistol projectiles in inventory) but have 2K of large pistol magnum primers that will far exceed my body's ability to handle...LOL
 
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MFInc said:
Starting to realize I'm addicted to buying primers....I'm sure the general consenous is , you can never have enough, but I'm at like 14k and gaining about 200 more per day at least for the next week. When/if should I stop? I mainly reload 9mm,.40s+w, and soon to be 10mm and 300 blk. How do I convince myself I have enough? Or Do i just milk the cow while shes in the barn? lol...
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Them's rookie numbers...you need to pump that up.
 
Estimate how many you'll fire in your remaining life.

Add a few more in case you're wrong.

There ya go.

More if you have kids that might be interested.

It's silly to have 50,000 primers if you're 65 yrs old and fire 100 rounds a season.

Use that money for something else you enjoy.
 
I get a little twitchy when I go below two election cycles normal use. That is in addition to 10K of each type as a rainy day stash. To me primers are the Achilles heal of making ammo. You can always sub a different weight bullet or a sub par propellant and things will still go bang. But you need a functioning primer in that round or you have a fancy paperweight. So far I have not dropped back in my shooting in the last 3 years and at the same time I have not purchased any primers either. Still waiting for them to go on sale with no purchase limits as that will be the bottom of this shortage. Then I will stock up again. Might spend what I would on a good used car at that time. Depends on what is in the piggy bank at that point LOL.
 
even before the latest craziness started - back in 08/09 I did some basic math about how many and of what I shot each season. My way of thinking is a 5 year supply to get you through the crazy spells isn't really unreasonable 10 is probably better - if you budget can handle it. I stocked out to 5 years of - everything, the first time around, and was glad i did. now I wished I would have bought out 25 years at that time.

So if you shoot only a few hundred rounds a year. 2 bricks is reasonable. If you shoot 2500+ rounds a year. then 25 bricks is reasonable.
 
I currently have enough to last at least the next presidential election cycle, or about six years at my current rate of shooting, with the exception of LPP. I may have enough of those to last about two more years.

I don't shoot a lot anymore though, and when I do it's usually 45acp. I may have to dig up those small primer brass and start using those.

chris
 
MFInc said:
lol, They are growing 200 per day lol...400 if I go in the morning, then change my clothes and go later in the day lol.
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My dad did that when 22lr started coming back, I think Obama was president. He would go in, buy his limit, go out to the car, take off his hat and jacket, and go back in and buy again. He had a circle, and would go back again in the afternoon (after shift change) and do the same thing.

I don't know how much 22lr he has, but it's probably enough for a few lifetimes. When I asked him why, he said his two grandaughters (my nieces) could shoot up a "bucket of bullets" (1400 rounds) in an afternoon, and he wanted them to be able to shoot.

I hope the primer shortage ends soon.

chris
 
TEXASJD said:
All GMs have been hard to get except 205s:(
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Yeah I saw target sports USA has GM150s but I don't want to pay hazmat and shipping lol. There are 115 pre haz and shipping. Sigh... Dad and I have an FFL and even we can't get primers at all except for cheddite 209s for $66/1000 dealer cost. Needless to say we haven't gotten any as we don't have a use for them.
 
ballman6711 said:
I currently have enough to last at least the next presidential election cycle, or about six years at my current rate of shooting, with the exception of LPP. I may have enough of those to last about two more years.

I don't shoot a lot anymore though, and when I do it's usually 45acp. I may have to dig up those small primer brass and start using those.
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The LPP scarcity is surprising. I recently got into loading .45 ACP and my second purchase of brass was small primer pockets. I thought I had enough LPPs to last me a while, but I miscounted boxes early last year and sold off more than I intended. Now I'm saving what I have for my .43 Magnum. Almost glad I sold my 10 mm pistols a while back! (Why the 10 mm wasn't designed with small primers is beyond me.)
 
ballman6711 said:
My dad did that when 22lr started coming back, I think Obama was president. He would go in, buy his limit, go out to the car, take off his hat and jacket, and go back in and buy again. He had a circle, and would go back again in the afternoon (after shift change) and do the same thing.

I don't know how much 22lr he has, but it's probably enough for a few lifetimes. When I asked him why, he said his two grandaughters (my nieces) could shoot up a "bucket of bullets" (1400 rounds) in an afternoon, and he wanted them to be able to shoot.

I hope the primer shortage ends soon.

chris
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that’s a good dad! shameless priority to the offsprings! the things our parents do for us so we can enjoy.
 
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