no small rifle primers anywhere, whats going on with them

My guess...people loading LOTS of .223.
That's what I'll be doing the moment I find some. Lately I feel the need to beef up the ammo reserves.

I got on the "notify me when available" on midway and brownells
and I got some. I wanted remington 7 and 1/2 benchrest primers and I specified them and I got some in from midway. I also got some cci small rifle primers from brownells. Good Luck!

Yeah it’s fear driven procurement

I’ve got “some” primers. Threads like this make me want to get more.
David

I`ve had no problem finding primers. But what really pisses me off is when the LGS`s add and extra $10 to $15 bucks on top of the average price for a brick of 5,000 of them. Powder seems to be hit an miss in my neck of the woods. Same thing going on with the powder too, as far as pricing here. Some of it they`ve been doubling the price of it. Thats just wrong!

I think we`re in it for the long haul. Riots going on, and we have an election coming up. Better get what you can while you can. Even if you gotta pay a little more for it, it sure beats being without anything!

If experienced reloaders don’t have a few years worth primers on the shelf for shortages due to politics, etc, well, shame on you.
I think that’s called being a “slow learner”

Just history repeating itself . Panic buying when things look bad .
The herd is easy to spook with social media spreading the panic quickly .
After the Obama era shortages I learned my lessons , buy everything you need when it's available and hoard it ...there will be more shortages .
An election is coming and you need to know that elections spawn big time panic buying , shortages and price increases , as do riots and civil unrest .
Gary .

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Man where you been the last few months ? Pandemic, civil unrest, riots, and protests, record gun sales.... and you wonder why you can't find primers ?

Unprepared reloaders got scared and panicked, buying everything in sight. "Gotta get mine before someone else buys them all"...

I would say a lot of empty 223 brass is receiving a new primer, powder and a projectile to keep the powder inside. its those dang TV's showing the current activities of the population. Primers last a long time, I hope this is the last time you get caught short. A 3-5 years stock is the recommended volume to have on hand at any given time.

I have a good stock of every primer size, including 209 shotshell, but I have begun to wonder if I have enough. I am very unsure about what the future holds for all of us.

I stocked up several years ago but I'm getting down to about 3-4 thousand of each except for large pistol primers. I've got almost 10,000 of those. What was I thinking? I rarely shoot my 45 pistols.

Could use them as trading stock for other sizes.

A few months ago I felt "short" on SRP's! I ordered 2k at the best price I could find on line. With shipping and tax almost $100!

So a few days ago I was at Cabela's buying fishing gear and spotted 3K at about $35 per K! So I bought 1K just because!

I'm not hoarding I left 2K!

Smiles,

I thought it wouldn't hurt to get a few K more of small pistol and large pistol but there aren't any to be had. I'm ok for a while anyway.

Keep the panick going!!

Mid-May I used up the last 1K box of Clinton SRP, but have not started on the 5K case of Obama primers yet. Over the last 6 years of guns shows and other road trips when I find primers for $20 to $25 per thousand I buy them all. It is 2:00 PM Saturday afternoon, "Why do you still have primers?" Answer, "Nobody is interested in them." I'm not a hoarder, I am a low price buyer.

Two gun shops were tired of selling reloading supplies. Both times I bought everything on the shelf, leaving with about $300 worth of powder and primers for under $150. I knew a shortage was coming -- eventually.

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IMHO, it is very important to get out and VOTE!

Last week I bought 1K SRP's and 1# W748 at that big store with the fish tank! I left 3K on the shelf!

Smiles,

Walked into one of my Wyoming Gun Stores to buy a
Cartridge Box, walked out with last remaining 2K Large
Pistol Primers for $23.99 a Brink.

I snatch up all good deals I find.

Magnums the other day for $22:

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My LGS works out of his home. Everything needed is on the shelf today..

Think I'll go get some more powder and primers..

Shooting is on hold here(fire danger in the national forest to high now) so loading up plenty for later..

After reading the article in The Rifleman about the military looking at going to the non metallic cases which I would guess are non reloadable I suspect that that is the future for ammo.

It very well may be but I hope the military does a better job of testing and development than they have in the past. Remember the M16 rollout and the $300 million wasted on the "Advanced Combat Rifle". I don't know about the rest of you but my main requirement for a firearm is that it goes bang every time I want it to.

Up here Montreal,Qc.) they go for between $50 and $60/K.Add the 15% ripoff and I think I'll quit buying them X10Ks and start buying them X5Ks.
15K/year @50$=$750.In other words, I'm shooting almost 1 handgun per annum only in primer costs.
Geez,who would have said that a few years ago!

It's not just riots, but the virus is spiking back up.


A couple days ago I bought some more toilet paper. I was down to my last 500 rolls.

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Maybe, but their are billions of brass cases in circulation. I expect that there will be components for quite a few years.

I highly doubt that. Stuff is being grabbed up so fast that its scary. This country has never been like this in most of all our lifetimes. With the elections coming, it IS an uncertain future for sure.