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Primer Shortage

I was just ordering from Midsouth, and primers are still
a no show. Ran into a gunshop in New Zealand during
a search for this supposed new WLR-Match primer. They
are well stocked in all the popular primers.

Any shooters up in Canada experiencing this ??
 
k80skeet said:
Why is there such a shortage of primers???
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Because factories shut down for a month, because pandemic and riots caused people to hoard early in 2020, and now the presidential election is causing people to hoard more. Its like this every 4 years, this year is worse because of pandemic and riots.
 
Local gun show last weekend, there were several tables with pistol,shotgun and large rifle primers both in brick and single box. Only saw a couple with small rifle, those seemed marked up. I bought a brick of sp for 35.00(for friends). Passed on the 5.00/ box on lr and lp. Large rifle hard to buy after my buddy gave me a mixed brick of 210/210M.
 
I found a box of 1000 Federal Gold Medal Match LRM in the back of my cabinet. I bought them at my LGS down south. $19.99 per 1000. I used to use them in my .300 Lapua and. 300 RUM.
 
Lets be frank, it is hoarding and hoarding alone that has caused this. Yea they were shut down for a month but there were billions and billions of primers on shelves and in dist warehouses and yet they are all gone.
 
jonbearman said:
Lets be frank, it is hoarding and hoarding alone that has caused this. Yea they were shut down for a month but there were billions and billions of primers on shelves and in dist warehouses and yet they are all gone.
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The way they left those shelves so fast, I really believe they went back to new ammo production. I saw one distributor that showed their stock online, move 600 thousand primers overnight when this first started.
 
The "panic" is because Joe said if he is elected he will "shut down" the country. So all the manufacturing items the far left opposes will be the first closed due to the pandemic, not political reasons. Guns, ammo, petroleum refining, coal, churches any small businesses they have deemed as opposition. Then they can impose rationing guidelines. And they will strictly control the vaccine development and production.
 
Because I have access to over 100,000 primers that I've acquired since the last time this happened (2008-2010) some consider this as being a hoarder. - The "world we live in" causes some of us to "prepare" for history that continues to repeat itself, plain & simple. - Now, I helped folks find ammunition and components throughout this time of shortage. - I gave one of my guys 20 boxes (5 rounds per pack) of 00 12 Ga.buckshot, and a couple of Federal 550 packs of 22 LR ammo when he dropped me off at home on his way headed north for being kind enough to let me ride along after we'd crew-changed. - I realize that not everyone has a big budget to purchase massive amounts of ammo & components. We all have times when we have to tighten our belts and prioritize what we spend the money on after our bills are paid & we put some back in savings or investments. - To me, having the components to load & shoot is a priority.
- Hoarder - NO, Being Prepared & Willing to Help Others - Yes (I sold Thousands of Primers & Powder at Below Cost Face-To-Face with local shooters who are right here on this forum - http://forum.accurateshooter.com/th...face-to-face-louisiana-reduced-price.3994721/

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Yes, I kept the 24K of Pistol Primers (because a buyer backed out), But I sold over 15K+ of rifle primers (Of which 9K+ were CCI-450's & Rem 7 1/2's)
 
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LA50SHOOTER said:
Because I have access to over 100,000 primers that I've acquired since the last time this happened (2008-2010) some consider this as being a hoarder. - The "world we live in" causes some of us to "prepare" for history that continues to repeat itself, plain & simple. - Now, I helped folks find ammunition and components throughout this time of shortage. - I gave one of my guys 20 boxes (5 rounds per pack) of 00 12 Ga.buckshot, and a couple of Federal 550 packs of 22 LR ammo when he dropped me off at home on his way headed north for being kind enough to let me ride along after we'd crew-changed. - I realize that not everyone has a big budget to purchase massive amounts of ammo & components. We all have times when we have to tighten our belts and prioritize what we spend the money on after our bills are paid & we put some back in savings or investments. - To me, having the components to load & shoot is a priority.
- Hoarder - NO, Being Prepared & Willing to Help Others - Yes (I sold Thousands of Primers & Powder at Below Cost Face-To-Face with local shooters who are right here on this forum - http://forum.accurateshooter.com/th...face-to-face-louisiana-reduced-price.3994721/

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Yes, I kept the 24K of Pistol Primers (because a buyer backed out), But I sold over 15K+ of rifle primers (Of which 9K+ were CCI-450's & Rem 7 1/2's)
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Smart man here folks!
 
And then there are the guys trying to take advantage of the panic. I saw a guy on another gun board selling Win SP primers for $100 per 1000. Or trying to sell them anyway. You see that every time any sort of panic happens.

I looked in my loading bench cabinet, and saw some with a price of $14.99.

I guess if you don't have any, you'll pay any price to get some.

There's a gun show not far from me this weekend. I'd imagine that will be a real treat with people trying to buy loading supplies.
 
JMS597 said:
And then there are the guys trying to take advantage of the panic. I saw a guy on another gun board selling Win SP primers for $100 per 1000. Or trying to sell them anyway. You see that every time any sort of panic happens.

I looked in my loading bench cabinet, and saw some with a price of $14.99.

I guess if you don't have any, you'll pay any price to get some.

There's a gun show not far from me this weekend. I'd imagine that will be a real treat with people trying to buy loading supplies.
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most of the guys trying to gouge in this crisis have no clue they cannot ship them.
I have sold a few FTF to guys needing them but I charge the normal price in these cases. usually 35.00-40.00 per thous. At this point I do not want to sell any more for fear of not having enough myself. and I have a lot of them.
 
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