Primers in stock

[GeoDudeFlorida]

With sales when stock sits on the shelf.

Question is can you/will you, wait it out, might be awhile.

Well, that’s a hard one for me. You see, I’m kind of in a pickle when it comes to local availability. We already got only one retailer willing to carry any reloading supplies: Bass Pro. The mom-n-pop stores give up when they lost money stocking up in previous shortages. Big outfits can take a couple of big hits but sole proprietors can’t take many losses before they’re better off folding up for good - or worse. So when somebody local steps out on that limb, I feel obligated to let them know it’s worth the effort. I can’t and won’t buy what I can’t use but it doesn’t hurt to wheel and deal and maybe do a less than advantageous trade now and again. So will I hold my nose and avoid the $6/100 primers at Bass Pro then buy $7/100 from Harry’s? Sure. And I’ll send the word out that they’re carrying reloading supplies again, too. If nobody else bites, they’ll stop and I’m back to strictly mail order - for as long as that’s still legal. Make sense?

 

[N555]

In 2015 I got interested in AR-10s, at the worst possible time. If a store had one they wanted over $3,000 for it.
Then a week after the 2016 election all 5 places I had been looking were suddenly flush with inventory and prices were dropping like a rock.

 

[CDP45]

where was that in NM? i am off and running.... NOT! just for future reference regarding Karma.

Roswell

 

[roval]

Roswell

so not one within my area

 

[Hartkopf]

Save your cash for when it all goes in the crapper.

With sales when stock sits on the shelf.


Question is can you/will you, wait it out, might be awhile.

I almost bought primers today but backed out. It sounds silly but I’m concerned enough about food and transportation costs that I don’t want to be over loaded on primers I can’t eat. (pop rocks). It’s easy to lose track of how much extra money some of us don’t have anymore. Lots of people are just out of spending money and will leave them on the shelf. I’m still not sure prices will drop much though because of supply chain issues and material and labor shortages.

 

[Mark_Mark]

here some perspective on don’t buy and prices will come down. I shop at Costco almost every other day. Well beef got EXPENSIVE to the point I’ll making steak from $5.99# Chuck Roast and loving it. Tender steak cuts were going for as high as $25# for choice New York steak. Guest what happen??? people were buying Chuck & Eye and not buying New York or Ribeye. And the expensive meat just sat there… NOPE, nobody was buying… fast forward 6 months later. New York strip is now $9.99#

 

[Mark_Mark]

I almost bought primers today but backed out. It sounds silly but I’m concerned enough about food and transportation costs that I don’t want to be over loaded on primers I can’t eat. (pop rocks). It’s easy to lose track of how much extra money some of us don’t have anymore. Lots of people are just out of spending money and will leave them on the shelf. I’m still not sure prices will drop much though because of supply chain issues and material and labor shortages.

last year my gun spending was around $4,000 in guns and reloading supply and very little components. This year, less then $2,000. I still need to reload and buy guns to keep sane. But, I’m buying $319 1911’s, $150 progressive press, home made everything! This year is ROUGH on the extra fun gun money

 

[CQB45ACP]

here some perspective on don’t buy and prices will come down. I shop at Costco almost every other day. Well beef got EXPENSIVE to the point I’ll making steak from $5.99# Chuck Roast and loving it. Tender steak cuts were going for as high as $25# for choice New York steak. Guest what happen??? people were buying Chuck & Eye and not buying New York or Ribeye. And the expensive meat just sat there… NOPE, nobody was buying… fast forward 6 months later. New York strip is now $9.99#

Yum! The last steak I had (a 12oz grass fed, well aged, NY strip) was Aug 1, 2021…that night I had a heart attack. No joke. My cardiologist says just pick a leaner cut like filet and you’ll be fine but my wife says “here, eat this salad”. I have no clue the monetary cost per pound of that steak.

But as for that future day when primers and powder flow like water, I’m limited by what I can “comfortably” keep herein the basement. I’m at that limit now.

 

[twarr1]

In the past primers have been a commodity. A boring necessity. Now theyve taken on the mystique of little diamonds. There are some fancy psychology words for this, which I can’t recall. The point is, reloaders are hoarding them, crooks are scalping them and people in general who would walk by them in the past without a look are snatching them up. There will need to be a significant excess of supply beyond actual consumption to put downside pressure on prices.
I’m more concerned about skyrocketing bullet prices.

 

[Mark_Mark]

In the past primers have been a commodity. A boring necessity. Now theyve taken on the mystique of little diamonds. There are some fancy psychology words for this, which I can’t recall. The point is, reloaders are hoarding them, crooks are scalping them and people in general who would walk by them in the past without a look are snatching them up. There will need to be a significant excess of supply beyond actual consumption to put downside pressure on prices.
I’m more concerned about skyrocketing bullet prices.

tulip mania

 

[GeoDudeFlorida]

tulip mania

Good analogy. Better because it points out what happens to an industry when it goes from boom to bust. No one buying - inventory sitting on shelves - results in manufacturers ending or curtailing production.

 

[Mark_Mark]

Good analogy. Better because it points out what happens to an industry when it goes from boom to bust. No one buying - inventory sitting on shelves - results in manufacturers ending or curtailing production.

I bought primers 3 times in the last 2.5 years. $55, $55, $99… got my fix, no more. Don’t want to afford it

 

[CoalTrain49]

Just to register that it isn't me buying primers and prolonging the high prices, I haven't bought any primers or ammo in 3 years. Looking forward to some nice spring weather so I can get back to my weekly trip to the range. Everyone hang in there, we'll get through this just like the last time. Just might take another 6 months.

 

[GeoDudeFlorida]

Just to register that it isn't me buying primers and prolonging the high prices

Like I said before, I'm pretty sure "most" THR posters are more likely in the same boat. I've bought LPP locally in 2021 and traded for #41's just last weekend, just to support the LGS trying to satisfy handloaders - but we're few and far between around here.

 

[Mark_Mark]

Just to register that it isn't me buying primers and prolonging the high prices, I haven't bought any primers or ammo in 3 years. Looking forward to some nice spring weather so I can get back to my weekly trip to the range. Everyone hang in there, we'll get through this just like the last time. Just might take another 6 months.

for those who got time to twiddle our thumbs, save the primers for the old timers! it’s their retirement… seriously, go fishing! or like me, buy reloading stuff on sale and invent something already invented

 

[9mmepiphany]

I’m more concerned about skyrocketing bullet prices.

That has been mostly due to the constantly increasing price of copper and lead.

Bullets are one of those things you should buy when you have the money...at least from RMR who has been pretty much holding his prices to something reasonable

 

[twarr1]

That has been mostly due to the constantly increasing price of copper and lead.

Bullets are one of those things you should buy when you have the money...at least from RMR who has been pretty much holding his prices to something reasonable

RMR is my primary bullet source. If it weren’t for them I’d have had to get into casting by now!

 

[Lennyjoe]

I still have plenty more .223 to load for my AR’s and bit the bullet and ordered 2K CCI SRM primers from Brownells today @ $89 per 1K plus shipping/hazmat.

https://www.brownells.com/reloading/primers/rifle-primers/rifle-primers-prod79080.aspx

 

[LiveLife]

From pinned thread - https://www.thehighroad.org/index.p...ad-link-required.883031/page-16#post-12275045

CCI SPM $85/1000 & LPM $95/1000 (Limit 2) - https://www.brownells.com/reloading/primers/pistol-primers/pistol-primers-prod79081.aspx

CCI SRM $95/1000 (Limit 2) - https://www.brownells.com/reloading/primers/rifle-primers/rifle-primers-prod79080.aspx