Concessions youre making due to primer availability

[CA_Shooter]

Hey everyone

I'm wondering what concessions you're making now that primers have been very hard to come by for a while now.

A few of mine are:

•wanted to use berger bullets, but am sticking with Hornady ELDs because I don't want to spend the primers to figure out a load with berger when I already have a load for the ELDs
•practicing with my 22lr and not using primers unless it's for competition

Curious if anyone else is doing anything similar

 

[TIMO]

Thinking about casting some 45 bullets soon.
Tim

 

[Evan]

I'm saving my 450 for my 6.5x47 that needs them for consistent ignition, and I'm working up new loads for my 22BR and 20 Vartarg with CCI 400 and WSR because I have several thousand of those sitting around. Winter has been putting a hamper on how much shooting I get to do, but I have no intents to slow down or change how much I practice once the weather gets better.

 

[JB10]

Im good on primers but cant find bullets. I have a lot of bullets for some of my rifles but looking for some 22 cal 75gr hpbt hornady for now. Little by little i stocked up over the years. Back in march i saw this coming and bought a lot of powder. The 75 gr were the only bullets i did not plan to stock up on.

 

[Twdmar]

SCATT training

 

[abersfelderami]

I'm being nice to my Buddy.

 

[Erud]

No sighters at any matches.

 

[skiutah02]

Getting on the ground.

Historically, I've been too lazy to chase any primer that I dropped on the ground and follow it to the land of freshly dried socks, working pens, honest politicians and my reading glasses.

Now I'm on all fours, sifting through saw dust and used primers chasing every single one like my life depended upon it.

True story.

Drew

 

[Kracken McGraw]

Im good on primers but cant find bullets. I have a lot of bullets for some of my rifles but looking for some 22 cal 75gr hpbt hornady for now. Little by little i stocked up over the years. Back in march i saw this coming and bought a lot of powder. The 75 gr were the only bullets i did not plan to stock up on.

Graf’s will let you backorder them. I don’t know if that is a good plan, but that’s what I’m doing on some bullets.

 

[Fuj]

My wild catting hobby eats up primers. Need to adjust
my diet in that respect if I want to shoot match's this
year.

 

[Tempest]

No sighters at any matches.

Picking and choosing matches and yes less sighters.

 

[rardoin]

Awww heck.....I'm not changing a thing.

"Better to burn out than to fade away" Neil Young

 

[rwj]

Experimenting with components that I wouldn’t normally use. It’s oddly satisfying to find combinations that work!

 

[Bill Rodolph]

Less practice!

 

[rijndael]

I cap the round count of my practice range days. From 75 to 50.

I also have a wide selection of loads worked up, so whatever components I find I can probably use.

 

[bobm]

Since retiring almost seven years ago, I have had an average 250 round a week habit. Seriously.
I'm cutting back to 200.

While I have ample supplies of components, they are not infinite.

I do have my rare museum quality hermetically sealed stash to fall back on if needed.....

 

[gravelyctry]

Dry fire more.
Also, some rounds that were previously considered ‘practice‘ grade may get reclassified to ‘match’.

 

[Baka]

No sighters at any matches.

That’s confidence Erud!

 

[Erud]

That’s confidence Erud!

They’re always X’s anyways, so why waste the ammo?

 

[wvlongshot]

No warning shots to trespassers.