Well It’s Spring…How Bout Those Expansion Primers?

Last I heard it's going to be just another lead styphnate primer plant so they won't be immune to any supply problems.
Supposedly they're loading their ammo with their in house primers and shipping primers to commercial ammo loading operations.
If making primers was easy, then there wouldn't be a shortage and the price wouldn't be 3x what it was 4 years ago.
 
N555 said:
Last I heard it's going to be just another lead styphnate primer plant so they won't be immune to any supply problems.
Supposedly they're loading their ammo with their in house primers and shipping primers to commercial ammo loading operations.
If making primers was easy, then there wouldn't be a shortage and the price wouldn't be 3x what it was 4 years ago.
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Last I heard it was all BS. Always just over the horizon. I heard it from me:)

No offense but do you have anything verifiable?
 
The only thing for sure is they are under new ownership. All the self promoting the last owners did is meaningless and judging the new ownership by what the last owners said is at best a strawman. Maybe the new owners just don't want to sell primers to the proletariat.
I'll buy primers made in Russia because I don't care one way or the other.
 
N555 said:
The only thing for sure is they are under new ownership. All the self promoting the last owners did is meaningless and judging the new ownership by what the last owners said is at best a strawman. Maybe the new owners just don't want to sell primers to the proletariat.
I'll buy primers made in Russia because I don't care one way or the other.
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Thanks
 
Charlie98 said:
Sounds like I need to take the Ducati on a little weekend ride... to Texarkana... just to see.
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No one needs an excuse to take "the Ducati" out for a ride.
I had a BMW R100/S modified and the only thing that stopped me from taking it out was the heat. My feet cooked in the summer heat and the jugs got hot enough in traffic to shut the bike down, twice, at Bike Week in 2015.
 
GeoDudeFlorida said:
No one needs an excuse to take "the Ducati" out for a ride.
I had a BMW R100/S modified and the only thing that stopped me from taking it out was the heat. My feet cooked in the summer heat and the jugs got hot enough in traffic to shut the bike down, twice, at Bike Week in 2015.
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So true. Almost. I had a Duc Monster for a few months. Wasn’t comfortable at all, but it would scoot. I haven’t had a bike for 8 years until Saturday. I got this POS for $500. It should go together easy enough. 73 sportster right side shift. 62AA1F8F-093E-4089-A8AF-60D5C762B62B.jpeg
 
GeoDudeFlorida said:
No one needs an excuse to take "the Ducati" out for a ride.
I had a BMW R100/S modified and the only thing that stopped me from taking it out was the heat. My feet cooked in the summer heat and the jugs got hot enough in traffic to shut the bike down, twice, at Bike Week in 2015.
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I looked at the R1100/RS when they first came out but ended up getting a Ducati instead, 900 SuperSport. Sold that and bought a '07 Monster S4RS. Lived up to it's name, 400 lbs and 130+ hp.

On topic, I hope Expansion is making and selling primers, even if they only sell to ammo makers. The more primers that are made, the better the chances that we (reloaders) will be able to get them, and hopefully at better prices. I'm hopeful, but not holding my breath in anticipation.

chris
 
Electrod47 said:
New primer production in the USA.......lt's a mirage.....keep seeping from your canteens.
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Really? ... Apparently Fiocchi is making a new primer production facility a reality along with Sig Sauer - https://www.shootingillustrated.com/content/new-primer-manufacturing-facility-coming-to-arkansas/

Fiocchi ... has selected a 281-acre site in the Port of Little Rock, AR, for a new ammunition primer manufacturing facility. The move—which creates a sixth primer manufacturing operation in the United States ... will establish the only dedicated lead-free primer plant on the planet.​
 
LiveLife said:
Really? ... Apparently Fiocchi is making a new primer production facility a reality along with Sig Sauer - https://www.shootingillustrated.com/content/new-primer-manufacturing-facility-coming-to-arkansas/

Fiocchi ... has selected a 281-acre site in the Port of Little Rock, AR, for a new ammunition primer manufacturing facility. The move—which creates a sixth primer manufacturing operation in the United States ... will establish the only dedicated lead-free primer plant on the planet.​
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Finally a US based lead free, non corrosive, mercury free primer that won't be held hostage by lead styphnate precursor availability.
 
ballman6711 said:
I don't like this part. Don't the lead free primers have a limited shelf life or am I incorrect on this?

chris
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You’re not wrong. However, technology changes for a variety of reasons, including market pressures. The old seamed soup cans had practical shelf lives so long that the average consumer could stock up during a sale and not have to buy canned soup again for a generation. So the pop-top replaced the old soup cans and they leak/leech moisture after just three years, cutting the average shelf life to just over two years. Stocking up during a sale isn’t quite as practical as it used to be and canned soup sales increased - before tanking completely because removing the top of the can was the easiest part of cooking canned soup. The current customer base can’t figure out how to boil water, let alone rehydrate condensed soup.
 
CQB45ACP said:
I’m just anxious to see all those primers come pouring out of Hooks Texas.

Any new videos or blogs from the guys shilling for Expansion? Remember the preproduction packages, the tours of the facilities, the guy who knew a guy?

Has anyone heard anything verifiable?

Why do I care? Don’t know, just do.
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We’ll see what we see when we see it; unless it happens so fast we miss it.
 
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