I can not find CCI 200 Primers Anywhere. HELP.
- Thread starter Mr Wick
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That's shocking ... everyone else finds them everywhere with no difficulty. You're just not trying hard enough. LOL ... have you been under a rock for the last three years? Sorry ... not trying to be a dick, but primers have been in the " Unobtainium" category for literally "years".
RegionRat
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Suggest you try one of the automated search/notification services.
Have a look at Shootingbot dot com. It is easy to use as is, but if you sign up and use something like Telegram, you will be notified very quickly. Then you must jump because some things are still very tight and don't last long before they are gone.
For example, I will screen shot a page from them that shows LR primers including CCI 200 and where/when they last sold. Those went out of Natchez a few days ago as an example.
Have a look at Shootingbot dot com. It is easy to use as is, but if you sign up and use something like Telegram, you will be notified very quickly. Then you must jump because some things are still very tight and don't last long before they are gone.
For example, I will screen shot a page from them that shows LR primers including CCI 200 and where/when they last sold. Those went out of Natchez a few days ago as an example.
Shootingbot works ... but ... you have to be sitting at your desk staring at your computer and with an account at the available site ready to JUMP on it for immediate purchase. And even then, you still stand an 86.3% chance of having it sold out before you can act fast enough. In two years, I've scored about 4,000 primers using that service ... out of the dozens of times I've made the super-fast attempt. It is what it is. Through various sources, I'm up to about 12,000 primers ... enough to last through existing barrels, and the next ones. Remember ... it's not actually "hoarding" if you really really want lots of them !!!
urbanrifleman
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It's those guys on GunBroker. Everyone knows the reason no one can get primers is those guys on GunBroker.
urbanrifleman
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Oh wait. It's because they are making all that 6.5 Creedmoor ammo for all the new shooters.
RegionRat
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I'm not young, but I'm not old either, at least I think I'm not....
So I had to adapt and play "the new game" or set aside any new projects or interests that started lately, or help any of the folks who ignored the warnings and waited too long to take an interest....
I miss the days when you had these little adds in gun rags or they mailed you a tissue paper catalogue with fine print with no photos and you either called or mailed in your order....
Heck, in those days after we fought off the T-Rex and Sabretooths to get out of our cave... we could drive to 3rd and Hill Street in Downtown Los Angeles and buy primers in bulk from Bowers Wholesale.... or drive over to the Sierra Bullet factory and have them load your truck to the weight limits or your axles, or drive to Berger and have coffee with Walt.... There was this golden land called America back then.... Can you imagine that?!?....
So I had to adapt and play "the new game" or set aside any new projects or interests that started lately, or help any of the folks who ignored the warnings and waited too long to take an interest....
I miss the days when you had these little adds in gun rags or they mailed you a tissue paper catalogue with fine print with no photos and you either called or mailed in your order....
Heck, in those days after we fought off the T-Rex and Sabretooths to get out of our cave... we could drive to 3rd and Hill Street in Downtown Los Angeles and buy primers in bulk from Bowers Wholesale.... or drive over to the Sierra Bullet factory and have them load your truck to the weight limits or your axles, or drive to Berger and have coffee with Walt.... There was this golden land called America back then.... Can you imagine that?!?....
So old you don't have to "teach" the history of Western Civilization ... you just "remember" it.
Reloading Unlimited has them in stock. Their website is down, but you can email them info@reloadingunlimited.com
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It sucks. I have a local dealer who has a stash of them but took them out of stock to keep for himself. I can usually convince him to sell me a few hundred now and then, but that's not sustainable.
I've actually started working up new loads to test SRP. Which means buying all new brass and redoing all my load tests if I switch to SRP.
I've actually started working up new loads to test SRP. Which means buying all new brass and redoing all my load tests if I switch to SRP.
I'll admit that part of my problem I do to myself...I refuse to buy primers and powder online unless there is a special that offsets the hazmat fee. It's the principle of it for me. I can buy 5000 rnds of loaded ammo with no fee, but 1000 primers cost me 20 bucks for a hazmat fee. It's bullsh*t and makes zero sense.
I've been able to get them locally up until a few months ago. So I'll have to make a decision...bite the bullet on the rediculous fee or move to SRP. As we speak I'm working up loads for SRP.
If you buy enough you "dilute" the Hazmat to a more tolerable level. Get a few fellow shooters together and spread it out. Order 5K and it's only approx $5 extra/K. Add a couple lb of powder and it gets even cheaper! That's how I justify it to myself.
The difference is component primers are more apt to sympathetically detonate than loaded ammo. One goes off, they all do. It stinks, but that is the way it is.
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