The only reason you cant find any is because people scarf up 5k of them.
I mean, man, I got 2k over 8 months, and still have 400 left. This post makes me angry. Couldn't you just wait until you break the 1k mark and then buy another 1k? That should be, even if you are shooting 200 every week, which you're probably not, 5 weeks supply and it's more likely 5 months supply! Yet, gotta have 2-5k more right now!
Who are you to tell him how much he shoots, or should shoot? You are not the measuring stick of what people
should do. If somebody typically loads up 500-1000 rounds of a particular load at one time, having 5k primers on hand doesn't go very far. What's sad is that you're probably the same people who rail against 'redistribution of wealth' but you'd love to redistribute primers
And what if it is a 5 months supply? So what? What's wrong with somebody getting what they can, if they can in order to plan for their future? Nothing's stopping you from doing the same thing. I work hard to get primers, you can too.
I can see getting a little frustrated at people who buy them with the specific purpose of scalping them, but hey, it's a free country, it's a capitalist economy. It's not our place to stop them. Just beat them to the store if you want them so badly.
You're the guy who wiped out the supply shelf 10 minutes before me and two other guys got there to get 1k so we could load some rounds and take our nephews out shooting. Why? So you could have 10k and blast 1k a range session?
Maybe you should have gotten there 15 minutes earlier. Or maybe worked a little harder in finding them over the last 6 months. It hasn't been that hard, it just takes a little patience. You KNOW there's a shortage, yet you try to walk into a store to buy 100 primers you need for THAT day? That's YOUR fault, not the guy who happened in before you.
It's just greed. The funny thing about it is very few people, with 10k primers, would be willing to share with a guy.
I have right at about 10,000 primers right now. I've picked them up here and there over the last 6 months. 5k just came in from Midway last week. I've shot half that many in the same time period. I'd be happy to share them at cost with any of my friends. I've given a couple hundred to my brother. Who are these people who won't share? Do you KNOW them, or are you just making assumptions? I load a lot, I shoot a lot, and I didn't have access to any stores, deals, information, or methods that you don't also. I'm in a position to shoot however much I feel like because I've made the effort. You could be too.