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there are three plausible explanations for the primer shortage -
Hoarding - people think they have to have 10's of thousand primers on hand for the impending Armageddon - Profiteering - look on Gunbroker - there are primers for sale - at extortion prices - a box of 1000 primers (depending on size and brand) should be about $40 +/- - they are available on GB for 250 to 300 or even more - the only way to stop that is for people not to buy them - but the panic types will continue to encourage this behavoir even though they are less likely to use them any more than the garage full of toilet paper lastly - and maybe mostly - its the ammo shortage -the ammo makers are sucking up the primers as they come off the line - because there are more hoarders stockpiling ammo than there are reloaders - the manufacturers of primers are not about to build more factory capacity for what may be a temporary crisis if that investment will not be need long term - primers take specialty equipment the only primers I am truly low on is small pistol primers - the local gun shops I know tell me they have been on back order for most of the year with no delivery date in sight
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How hard is it to ship primers do you have to disclose they may blow up if your box is hit with a sledge hammer ?
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12-07-2020, 12:26 PM | #5 | ||||||
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I was sitting in a treestand last Thursday at about 07:45 when I recieved a call from Precision telling me the hulls I had on order were in , so I now have 600 headed in my direction . Those and the six hundred plus Remington hulls oughtta keep me going the rest of my life . I bought 10,000 Chedditte’s a couple months ago , but I’ve still got 14,000 or so Winchester’s and a thousand or so Remingtons and of course a thousand CCI 209M’s . All bought at regular , well what used to be regular price .
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although new primed shotshells (and maybe brass) doesn't
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12-07-2020, 01:22 PM | #8 | ||||||
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Here's a pic of a buy during the "Old Days" ..... actually just a few years ago. 34 bags (850 pounds) of West Coast Magnum shot, 17,000 primers, 10,000 wads and 57 pounds of powder.
In comparison a friend made the 4-1/2 hour road round trip two weeks ago and a sign on the door showed limits of 300 Cheddite primers, two 500 count bags of wads, and one 8 pounder of powder (but nothing but a few bottles of oddball powders were left in stock). Shot however was still available at 10 bags max and that was the Peruvian Eagle brand. |
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12-07-2020, 01:38 PM | #9 | ||||||
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The shooting/reloading world will change drastically on Jan. 20, 2021. For better, or for worse.
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