Several years back I read a story about the Pathan warriors of Afghanistan during their fight with the Russians. They were largely equipped with copies of Enfield bolt action rifles and very few factory rounds of ammo. They developed a cottage industry reloading the rifle brass to keep their warriors in the field killing Russians. For powder they had thousands of pounds of celluloid movie film that was cut into small flakes and made a very usable rifle powder. The spent primers (Berdan) were pried from the cases, a small punch was used to flatten the firing pin indent and a priming mixture was made up using match heads as the main ingredient. I don't recall if or what the story said about projectiles.
When will Primers Be Available ?
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jelenko
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Wow! When there's a will there's a way.
Or maybe he missed the $500.00 PLUS DOLLARS PLUS SHIPPING for a half brick of 205M's on Gunbroker about 3 month's ago. Two newbies bidding against each other until the biggest idiot won.
Will that Tank be American made?
If President Trump is elected I am going to say 2 years. If Biden is declared by electoral college not news media than no I can not predict an end in sight. Again news media has no power to declare a winner not now or even latter. Fear in the people kills out hobby. People with money hoard and over consume like they always do with everything from medicine to drugs to guns to mistresses. The average person both on the right, the middle and left are buying up any guns they can get but to drive sales guns tores need ammo so they are hoarding too!
It takes a million million to get one Billion, so a tad more than 3 years.
IMO the problem is more in line with doomsday hoarding than regular folks just reloading for the near future.
Someone smarter than me can weigh in of course.
A THOUSAND MILLION is a Billion, ya should have paid attention in math class.
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I'd bet some of that billion back order is government contracts or for manufacturers of said contracts along with other manufactures which are 10yr contracts . My thinking is yes they have a back order of 1 billion but not all of them are expected to be delivered this year or next .
My $.02 , as long as Biden wins and the conservatives don't go all postal . Primers will be back in moderation by end of 2021 . I don't see any federal legislation on ammo or components so that should ease some minds . Gun sales on the other hand will stay big for as long as Biden is president .
If trump "RIPS" victory from Biden and the hard left . We may never see primers or powder available for years . The civil unrest will make delivery of many products not just firearms related items unsafe to deliver in many areas of the country . So they simply will not be available to buy online or at local gun stores along with many other daily essential items .
My $.02 , as long as Biden wins and the conservatives don't go all postal . Primers will be back in moderation by end of 2021 . I don't see any federal legislation on ammo or components so that should ease some minds . Gun sales on the other hand will stay big for as long as Biden is president .
If trump "RIPS" victory from Biden and the hard left . We may never see primers or powder available for years . The civil unrest will make delivery of many products not just firearms related items unsafe to deliver in many areas of the country . So they simply will not be available to buy online or at local gun stores along with many other daily essential items .
jackson1
Silver $$ Contributor
Just my non scientific $0.02. Have been aware of shortages since the Clinton years and beyond. To me levels of shortages are unlike any thing seen before. Checked with local dealers and friends, did number of interweb searches and the levels of "sold out" at all parts of the reloading component list is almost complete and shocking to me. I have no idea when the current situation will end if ever. Seems to me with each passing shortage the depth of the shortages increases.
Telling people not to do something makes them want to do it all the more. Ten years ago when I retired, I started to shoot a lot more, a couple times a week (rifles, pistols, and shotguns). Always had a group of shooters with me. Over the years most lost interest, but for me and a small group of friends we had the ranges to ourselves. Went to the range last Monday morning and was joined by four other shooters. They were not deer hunters checking their rifles. There is plenty of alcohol, cigarettes, and birth control products available. People you have other options, leave me in peace. Just kidding.
Telling people not to do something makes them want to do it all the more. Ten years ago when I retired, I started to shoot a lot more, a couple times a week (rifles, pistols, and shotguns). Always had a group of shooters with me. Over the years most lost interest, but for me and a small group of friends we had the ranges to ourselves. Went to the range last Monday morning and was joined by four other shooters. They were not deer hunters checking their rifles. There is plenty of alcohol, cigarettes, and birth control products available. People you have other options, leave me in peace. Just kidding.
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