I doubt very much anyone will truly succeed @ making good primers @ home. You simply cannot have the level of QC the ammo makers have. I appreciate your efforts, and if anyone can show me otherwise, I'd love to see it.
With that attitude benchrest shooters would be winning with factory ammunition vs handloads but that’s not the case. I am not saying a large manufacturer is incapable of making match winning ammunition but it’s not uncommon in competitive worlds for people to make their own ammunition to gain a competitive advantage, if they couldn’t match or exceed the efforts of “ammo makers” it would be a fools errand.
As simple as this seems to be, not sure why new primer makers are not popping up all over.
The popping part could be a reason many businesses are consolidated, like powders that are used (name stuck on a retail container) by many but only made by a few.
The risk/reward and the fact that they historically have been the cheap component in ammunition.
If one has been around long enough, they have seen topics go from “is reloading really worth it?” To, “is it worth reloading 223/9mm (or some other common round)?
Then when things tighten up a little, “what press?”, “thinking about casting.” Etc.
Then after full panic sets in, “where’s the _____?” , “why don’t they build new plants to meet the latest artificial demand?”
The big manufacturers, historically, have not catered to the “buy high, sell load” crowd.
Takes time and money to get everything online then unlike all the new little mfg’s that bit the dust after the Obama/Sandyhook panic, the larger guys just wait it out, stay busy and see what the market will put up with cost wise. Want to change that? Vote for people that eliminate import restrictions. They don’t have the same hoops to jump through. By hoops, I mean the ones that cause other business to also off shore and have made it so we don’t even have any primary lead smelting plants inside the US anymore.
So, if you are using lead obtained from mined resources, you can be a “only USA” product person. Then again, if you were a person that only used USA goods, you couldn’t be reading this anyway.