what's the truth behind primer shortage?

[Steve]

well either buyers are fools or sellers are sleaze balls or a little of both on the online auction sites, maybe a little call to shipping companies to look into these auction sites and watch out for the sleaze balls trying to slip thru without getting the required certs for shipping haz mat, but let's get back to the original question, why the shortage, anyone out there who works at the primer making companies care to comment?

 

[JRS]

well either buyers are fools or sellers are sleaze balls or a little of both on the online auction sites, maybe a little call to shipping companies to look into these auction sites and watch out for the sleaze balls trying to slip thru without getting the required certs for shipping haz mat, but let's get back to the original question, why the shortage, anyone out there who works at the primer making companies care to comment?

I don't believe there is a shortage,IMO). It has more to do with the panic buying that has taken place. The companies who manufacture the primers are not going to work overtime to satisfy a market thats running scared. If they are forced into more production, the extra cost will be absorbed by us. They have always satisfied demand at a reasonable price. The panic buying will eventually slow down, and primers, powders and brass will again be available at their normal prices. It will start to look like the housing market, where people who are paying the crazy prices find themselves sitting on an empty gold mine and can't resell their primers, powders and brass for the prices they paid.

 

[LHSmith]

Don't hold your breath.As long as this bunch is in charge in DC, firearm sales and ammo hoarding will continue..........right up until they impose bans, restrictions,or increased tax..........or until they are voted out.

What will be interesting to see is if production of primers, powder and ammo will attempt to meet this demand........If they don't there will be a lot of 'splaining to do to the shareholders.......with money so tight in other areas of the economy it makes no sense what-so-ever to not ramp-up production.

It's currently in-vogue to bash anyone taking advantage of supply and demand.....when the root cause of this whole mess was electing radicals and putting them in charge.

I suppose some of you want to go back to Jimmy Carters days of price controls........yeah that'll work.

Regarding that supplier in Phoenix........ the #1 purpose of a business is to make a profit. He KNOWS that his Federal taxes are going to skyrocket this year. This may come as a big surprise to some,but guess who ends up paying these extra taxes ..... well YOU do.......this is the dirty little secret that the 'screw the rich-guy' crowd never comprehends. He probably even is concerned if his business will even survive in the next few years.......there is Fear in the small business man and everything this administration does only confirms that fear.....just look at the stock market. The entrepreneur that deals with firearms and components if faced with even more uncertainty with this anti-gun bunch.

 

[ridgeway]

Here is a quote I got back from CCI on the availability of 450 SRM primers...

We've seen unprecedented demand for certain calibers of ammunition and the primers that charge them over the past several years. We've added capacity to meet the increasing demand and are fulfilling backorders.

We are still manufacturing CCI 450 Small Rifle Magnum primers.

 

[brand692]

From what I gather:

There is a shortage. Federal has secured a major DoD contract for ammunition and their primer supplies are thin to say the least. At this time, as far as I am aware, Federal may not again provide primers to the civilian market for the foreseeable future, and even if they do, they will be in limited numbers. I can't say for sure, as I am not privy to such information, but Federal does have DoD contracts they are trying to fill and it is affecting their civilian production.

That, combined with the scare of the recent elections, and the 'rush' on everything firearm related, has created a supply problem that other producers cannot fill.

Whether it's right or wrong, gouging or hoarding or whatever, is a mute point. Anything reloading related is hard to come by. For that matter, anything firearm related is hard to come by. I FINALLY found one 8lb keg of Varget in PA and I am in CA. All said and done, its going to cost me 200 USD to get 8lbs of Varget. Reloading stuff is hard to get and when you can, its pricey.

I, like everyone else on here, would love to see 30 and 40 dollar per 1000 primer prices agian. But I am afraid those days have gone away. CCI BR2s now cost me 6 dollars per 100, when in stock, and I cannot get any more Varget. I can only get H4895 and H380 only when its available.

Ben

 

[JRS]

Many of my customers thought the same thing about the AMSOIL lubricants they purchase from me. When the price of crude went up, so did the price of lubricants. When the price of crude went down, so did AMSOIL prices. The big oil companies had to follow the lead in order to compete. If we are willing to pay higher than MSRP, we deserve what we get, and have no one but ourselves to blame.

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