Primers

[Bogeyman68]

I know I'm like everyone else in the search for primers. I am a little concerned that the shortage has went this long. I don't buy mass amounts so for someone like me it is very troubling.i usually purchase a couple thousand but I am a small fish in a big pond. Anyone having any luck? I know here in Kentucky I can't find any.

 

[dcarr]

Keep an eye on the first topic above , also go to ammoseek.com
Where are reloading components available these days?
Don't get me wrong, it will be hard finding primers.

 

[Erief0g]

https://www.thehighroad.org/index.p...mponents-available-these-days.707473/page-206

Diligence is all you can use to find them

 

[Dead Eye Duck]

They still can be found. Sad part is, a lot of stores are jacking the prices way up. smaller Hardware store had primers 4.00 for 100. Different store in same town jacked them up to 10.00 for 100. Your best bet right now is to find the pawn shops or other smaller gun stores and see if they have them. Most large retail stores sell out quick.

 

[buck460XVR]

Starting to see factory ammo coming back(hoarders are filled up), and generally reloading components will follow. Seems it takes longer for reloading components to come back. Probably because there are less sources of production/distribution. Seems sometimes we reloaders are our own worst enemy. Everytime one of the ammo shortages begins, we tell whiners that can;t fin'd ammo they need to reload. Then a few weeks later we are whining we can't find components.

 

[mdi]

For me the key wasn't buying "mass quantities", but buying often. Whenever I was in a gun store or anywhere ammo/components were sold (big box store) I would pick up a little, maybe one brick of primers and/or 22 lr or a pound of powder. Did that since I started reloading (my first stop after payday was often a gun store and buy a small amount, in '69 it was often just a sleeve of primers)...

 

[Otto]

I know I'm like everyone else in the search for primers. I am a little concerned that the shortage has went this long.

I've been through shortages since the AWB in '94 and this one is quite different. I see no near-term end. And depending on what happens Nov. 3, this shortage could even become permanent. That may sound discouraging but expectations should be based on realities.

 

[.308 Norma]

Anyone having any luck? I know here in Kentucky I can't find any.

Cabela's/Bass Pro in Idaho Falls had stacks of Federal LR Magnum primers when I was in there yesterday. I don't need any, so I didn't buy any. And I didn't see any other brands or types of primers in stock.
We went from Cabela's/Bass Pro over to one of our favorite gun shops (Ross's) in Idaho Falls, and I didn't see any primers at all over there - or much of a selection of powder for that matter.

 

[AJC1]

Spp and srp are the highest demand. Having something like 45acp can give you something to shoot when everything else is gone. Keeping as many options open as possible helps.

 

[FROGO207]

Seems that primers are the achilles heel of reloading. Without them, no bang! When stocking supplies primers are what to stock first and foremost. Primers are one thing i'll not be running out of here.

 

[tightgroup tiger]

Me either, Powder fluxuates in and out but when primers disappear, your in trouble. In the spring of this year I was telling everyone to stock up because there was a presidential election coming up. I didn't count on the Chinese virus, but I had already stocked up for a good 4 years. I got lucky this time around because I had no idea of the Chinese virus and the civil unrest that would come first. But either way, I'm covered.
I stocked up on all three components, bullets, powder, and primers in the spring when they were normally priced.

 

[kmw1954]

Friday at our morning safety meeting at the range the range manager told us that he was in contact Thursday with the Regional manager of Fiocchi as this large range buys directly from them and he was inquiring about availability status and this Regional manager told him that at present there is a 24 month backlog on all orders for 223/5.56 and 9mm. So don't expect to see a change anytime soon.

 

[buck460XVR]

And depending on what happens Nov. 3, this shortage could even become permanent. That may sound discouraging but expectations should be based on realities.

...and what reality is that? Conspiracy theories?

Folks predicted the same when Obama was elected. While it led to a severe ammo and component shortage, he did less to restrict our gun rights than our current President. It wasn't Obama that caused or created it....it was us gun owners. Ammo/component companies are not going to stop production....most have actually upped production in the last decade. One only has to look at the increase in bullet and once fired brass distributors in the last decade, to see there is more out there than ever. Most of this shortage is panic driven because of the pandemic and recent civil unrest. It is fellow gun owners keeping the shelves empty, not the government. Folks who used to buy one box of ammo at a time now feel the need to buy 5. Used to be having one brick of each variety of primers we used on the shelf was enough for most of us, now, like many, I have 10,000 on hand instead of 1000, and I'm not extreme. But I did my buying when I found them at a good price. It usually came several months after shelves started to fill up again. Just like in the past, shelves will fill up again as Capitalism and supply and demand catch up. We have 3 levels of government in our country. The President, regardless of what he claims, cannot do things by himself. This is why our forefathers put provisions in place to protect our freedoms and rights. If there is an issue with the permanent difficulty of getting ammo and components, it will be us, the gun owners, or officials at the state and local levels that will impede, regardless of the Presidential election on Nov 3rd.

 

[AJC1]

I don't know a lot about Imports but I would think foreign companies might not be going through the same kind of shortage that we are and could be making big profits if they started emptying their warehouses

 

[Walkalong]

Keep an eye on the first topic above , also go to ammoseek.com
Where are reloading components available these days?
Don't get me wrong, it will be hard finding primers.

Yep. Tough times, but we've been through worse.