Man, things are getting tight

[oremike]

Everyone knows about the primer shortages and I mean all primers. Now Hodgdon is virtually out of powder and all the bullet makers are back-ordered to forever. Even Starline is so far behind they aren't taking orders for some brass right now.

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[BanjoGeek]

I just sent you a PM

 

[Nosferatu]

It's pretty ridiculous how everyone is buying up everything they can.

I just got another 250 rounds of 10mm to keep my wheelgun fed yesterday, it was cheaper than I've seen most 9mm going for these days.

I have 200 large pistol and 200 large rifle primers and enough bullets to keep those fed in my 10mm and 30-06, and that's it. I know when they are gone, I'm not likely getting any more for a long time.

 

[JuglansRegia]

Primers are easier to make than smokeless powder. Now that l feel good about my powder stash, I'll be on the lookout for some reasonably priced primers, which you see for sale a lot more than powder. Until people realize that primers are almost worthless without powder.

 

[HighlandLofts]

The stores are not getting much to put out on the shelves so where are the primers, powders and ammo going?

 

[Nosferatu]

The stores are not getting much to put out on the shelves so where are the primers, powders and ammo going?

Ammo manufacturers are priority #1. They get most of the components, we get the leftovers.

 

[DirectDrive]

Gavin Toobe claims that most of the primer production is going to ammo manufacturing.

 

[JuglansRegia]

Once the powder dries up, there will be plenty of primers. The IMR line is imported from Canada, the Hodgdon brand is made in Australia, Norma is from Sweden and that brand that starts with a v from Finland. We have maybe two domestic small arms powder plants.

 

[nammac]

And Joe & Hoe hasn't even started pushing gun control yet

 

[quneur]

2020 was the perfect storm; riots and Wuhan flu. Everybody panic bought firearms which created a panic buy on ammo which brought out the profiteers. When ammo started getting scarce, the more people scrambled to buy whatever they could get their grubby little hands on.

 

[kmk1012]

I can only hope that powder drying up will ease the primer shortage. I'm getting pretty low on them and would like to restock at normal prices.

 

[nammac]

Many new gun owners, each trying to feed their new acquisition, adds up to tons, literally tons of ammo. Then reloaders become frustrated with not being able to buy ammo and begin going after components, but they have competition from ammo manufacturers whose contracts for components come first... Soon the supply starts to dry up...

This is what happens when manufacturing is consolidated, just a couple of three large manufacturers in the states building ammo, and of course the government contracts come first...

Investment in expansion most likely won't be made because such expansion will sit idle as the retail stores, wholesalers and supply pipelines all start to return to some level of normalcy.

The wife always badgered me about buying ammo and components, "you have enough" I would always hear. Now she thinks it was a smart move, considering what's not on the retail shelves...

 

[JuglansRegia]

Just ordered some 6.5mm 140gr HPBTM Hornady boolits from Brownells, its all they had in 6.5mm, these days you buy what you can find.

 

[American123]

And Joe & Hoe hasn't even started pushing gun control yet

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