Why are people hoarding?

[RVenick]

Primers are starting to show up. If people would just cool out and buy em when they need em more will start showing up. It is like the Old Soviet Union as soon as the word got out theres toilet paper available people would go crazy and buy as much as they could even if they didn't need it. This is not the Soviet Union (at least not yet) if people started buying what they need the shelves would fill back up. Natchez had SP primers today for about 9 hrs. I am sure some people that needed them bought some but then the "Sky is Falling" crowd went crazy and emptied the shelves. Once this stops everyone will have the supplies they need. I personally have about 900 SP and 1500 LP sitting in the closet and I feel like I have what I need for now. When those are about gone I will order another 10K of each along with some powder. I refuse to pay a $22 hazmat fee for a small order. But like PT Barnum once said “There's a sucker born every minute”.

 

[dmills]

ReloaderFred said:

I've never understood people who only buy 100 primers at a time, and expect the local supplier to always have more on the shelf.

Because some, like me, just need a few 100 primers per year. I just load enoght to get my rifles (.308,7mm,45-70) through a hunting season with plenty to practice and play with through the spring and summer.

It is not the loaders like you who are being accused of hoarding. If everyone kept buying as they did, we probably would not have this problem. It is the panic buyers who are creating the absurd demand. If a loader bought and used x number of primers before the panic and continued to do so now, I expect there would be no shortage. But when x number of loaders increase their purchase to 3x, 5x, 10x or 20x in panic, then the casual loaders such as myself, then panic and say "where am I going to get my 200 to 300 primers I need for next season." Then a person in that situation might see 2k primers for sale somewhere and instead of just taking 200-300, take the 2000. If we all do that, then what happens to supply and demand............

So now I have enough on hand for several years, and someone else does not. Who gains from that?

 

[Fat_46]

I've got my first prairie dog trip of the year next weekend, and am taking 2000 rounds of centerfire ammo...every bit handloaded, and each round with CCI benchrest primers.

Factor in load testing, fun at the range, etc and I easily reload 6k rounds per year in just rifle calibers.

Thats alot of primers.

 

[ArchAngelCD]

Even buying 15,000 primers isn't hoarding especially if that's what you shoot a year. (like me) I usually have 15,000 on the shelf, I reload during the Winter like a lot of you and then replace what I use. Even if you added more primers because you thought they would be hard to find doesn't make you a hoarder, ordering 200,000 primers would make you a hoarder if you shoot only 2,000 a year. You would have to live another 100 years to shoot them all. A lofty goal but hardly possible, at least in my case...

 

[Ohio Gun Guy]

See pictuers attached.

Picture 1 + Picture 2 = Picture 3

(Picture 1 + Picture 2) - Picture 1 = Picture 4 ALSO
(Picture 1 + Picture 2) - Picture 2 = Picture 4

Note only Picture 1 with Picture 2 = Picture 3

For those of us who learn visually.

 

[Polar Express]

They're NOT hoarding!!!!

they are simply protecting their future interests. Anyone who does any hobby understands you need a certain amount of supplies. Well, if you shoot a lot, you need a lot of ammo.

Why is this so hard for folks to grasp?

Ohio, I love the pics!

 

[jcwit]

They're NOT hoarding!!!!

they are simply protecting their future interests. Anyone who does any hobby understands you need a certain amount of supplies. Well, if you shoot a lot, you need a lot of ammo.

Why is this so hard for folks to grasp

Right to a point but when a person is 65/70 years old and has primers to last 20/30/40 years is that not hoarding. Or mayhaps they found the fountain of youth. hehe

 

[Walkalong]

You do have kids and grand kids though, right?

My working stock is minimum 3K of any one kind (SP, LP, etc (except for LR, 1K-which is going to change)), not to mention my "rainy day" stock, which I have had for some time.

Save, period (money, bullets, food, primers, etc. It doesn't matter what it is, you need a little extra laying around)

When you stock up when things are plentiful, no one calls you a hoarder.

 

[Lone_Gunman]

"Hoarding" is really on a term in the vocabulary of the unprepared.

Just because you failed to prepare does not make me a hoarder.

Everyone who was not blind could tell a couple of months before the election that we were heading for gun grabbing totalitarian socialism.

 

[Marlin 45 carbine]

I got caught short of sp primers but had a K each of LR and LP, enough for a long while if need be and good bit of powder.
finally got some sp's to load for family needs and now jacketed slugs are scarce - no concern for pistol though as cast will do fine for sd/hd use but hi-power rifle I had a couple 100 for each set back.
when/if things normalize I plan on haveing a K of each primer I use 'set back' for contingencys and also some powder and slugs.
I didn't think it would get this bad.

 

[jcwit]

You do have kids and grand kids though, right

None that care about reloading, or any of the shooting sports. I'm sort of an island in my family.

 

[Walkalong]

Adopt a kid who likes to shoot.

Well...not officially, just take them under your wing.

 

[PecosRiverM]

How old do these kids have to be.. I've got a couple I'd let ya use (support) til they finish college..