If you have not been watching prices and ammo it would be great time to get componets. I mean powder I know its high but the way things can turn on a dime it better to get it while you can and also get a few molds for the stuff you shoot and if you can find them wheel weights as linotype I suspect it has been gone for years. But with the ammo whom is capable of making their own will have a leg up on folks that do not reload. I have got my cousin some dies, shell holder and 80 225 win. brass and 78 Sierra 224 bullets from a fellow here on the forum for 150.00 and he was thrilled to get them. When I first went to work in 1961 in a machine shop we had orange shop towels that said "Alert today alive tomorrow" that still holds true today. Lay up supplies if you can get them. Jeff

Hi Rip Van Jeff! How was the nap?

I buy primers at 3 cents a piece. At today's (up to) a dollar a piece I think reloading is out of the question for a newby.

you're a year too late

If you did not buy ammo and/or reloading components and equipment a year ago, you are waaaaaay late to the party.

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I think what the OP is saying it is a great time to get components even though the price is high because down the road they may be higher or not be available at any price.
My thinking is that he may be correct but I'm too poor to buy at todays prices and poor people have too do poor ways. Larry

The Bullet Factory......For the last 49 years

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Just wait a few more months. There is already signs of ammo getting back on shelves and primers at "normal" prices.

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H Richard
SWCA1967 SWHF244

....even primers. But primers are my weakest point and I'm going to have to hope at some point some will be available at an affordable price.

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I have good reserves of powder, primers... but I had a day off today and went to my local Cabelas'. Zero powder, primers and only ammo was very obscure calibers. Went 15 miles to a LGS and they also had zero reloading supplies. Went another 20 miles to a Sportco warehouse and they had just put out 1lb. cans of Hodgdon Long Shot. Only powder on the shelf. I was not familiar with this powder so I did a quick phone Google search and saw some load data for calibers I have. Limit 2 at $28.00 a lb. which seemed pretty reasonable.

Just about any powder (besides talcum powder) at $28/lb these days is probably worth grabbing. What do you plan to use the Long Shot for? It’s not one I’ve tried, but in this day and age it might be one I’ll look at.

Froggie

Long Shot on the powder burn scale is between Win572, Blue Dot, & 2400. Based on that, true magnum loads for 41 magnum and 44 magnum. Too slow for most handgun calibers and too fast for rifle calibers.

This is the chart I carry in my phone for reference when I need it.

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I believe the shortage of Ammo and Reloading Components is
stabilizing. I've been to several Stores this week and items are
showing up.

One Store has 10 50ct Bags of 6.8 Western, Brass. I've seen
various boxes of Hornady, Berger, and Sierra Reloading Bullets
in .22, .270, .30 calibers.

There is even Shotgun Primers. Ammo was the Creedmoor
Man Bun stuff, Buckshot, 7mm Mag., 22lr, and oh yea,
seen 6 sets of RCBS 6.5 Creedmoor dies.

One place I frequent, there is .22Lr, 9mm, 45ACP, and other
stuff.

Even the New Leupold HD3 scopes and others.

Got these the other day, a Brick (1000 primers) for $31.95.

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Longshot is my go to 45ACP powder, 250 gn JHP in particular.

An hour or so ago I stopped by a local dealer. They had some 9mm FMJ bullets in 1000 ct boxes.

I was so startled by the price I can't even remember what weight they were.

They were $210 per box. Ouch!

45 ACP and possibly 357 Magnum and 44 Magnum? Not really sure but like I said it was available at a reasonable price so I bought some.

$210 p/1000 rounds is only $10.50 per 50 round box. That's a huge reduction from the $333 for a 250 round box I saw about 2 weeks ago, which is 1.33 per round! Or, $66.60 per 50 round box.

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A couple of weeks ago I was tipped off that a GS has a new powder called Shooters World Powder in stock. I went and bought 5 lbs of various flavors. All were under $30/lb. IN cross referencing data I found its almost equal to the discontinued line of AA powders.

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I read that as being bullets, not loaded ammunition ... but, I could easily be mistaken.

Yesterday one of my local stops yielded:

200 CCI SRMprimers
200 CCI LRM primers
100 CCI Regular Velocity 22lr

Not seeing much improvement in SW Washington; it actually has worsened since November 3rd. I am finding a little here and there, but it definitely takes persistence and time.

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Happened to be hovering over my phone yesterday when the email came in ... scored 2 lbs of N140 and a couple hundred D166 bullets for the Dragunov from MWUSA. Can't stock up in this climate, but on occasion, you can fill some gaps.

Sorry if I was not clear. The $210 per thousand were bullets for reloading, not loaded ammunition.

Which of the AA powders have been discontinued? I still see the ones I’m familiar with on their website, showing load data. I’d especially hate to lose #7!

Froggie

My google-fu must be failing me - couldn’t find anything about discontinued AA powders and happened to score 8 lbs jug of AA#9 last week .


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I think the reference was about the Explosia plant that formerly made AA powders.
That plant no longer makes powders for Accurate, but the formulas are used to manufacture powders for Shooters World.

Same powders under a different name.

I see lots of ammo in local shops around me, problem is, nobody is buying, because it's way to expensive..... sooner or later , they will have to reduce their prices, just wait it out.