Primer updates

[oysterer]

Ammo seems to be trickling in various places sporadically.

Not so primers. They seem to NOT be around at all and the store buyers are very negative on prospects getting any.

What has been your most recent experience? Some coming back or not at all?

 

[Rob613]

My local Sportmans Warehouse has all but SP and SR primers. When they come in, they don’t last long.

Everything else is on the shelf and has been for a while including LP.

 

[Minorcan]

Not much available on the shelf or online. Good thing I buy huge lots every 4-5 years, so I’m pretty well set. The old Boy Scout advice - be prepared makes a whole bunch os sense in times like 2020.

I bet most of the components are going to the big ammo manufacturers.

 

[Ivan the Butcher]

A few small gunshops are getting primers from the privet stock of customers. I have no need to sell mine, but I don't need to buy any either!

The wife and I were organizing the garage Saturday, and came across my shot gun primer stash 13k W209, 1k Fed 209, & 1k Fiocchi. I may need to buy some of the W209's I normally go through 10-15 k a year, but covid has me only shooting about 500 this year so far.

Ivan

 

[CH4]

Until my recent and anomalous score for SP primers at Longview, WA, Sportsman’s Warehouse, I hadn’t seen any since March. I haven’t seen any since in Washington, Wyoming or Tennessee. However, with increasing regularity, I am to see more LP and rifle primers. FWIW, Ive just recently found Unique and Bullseye at a little shop in Tennessee.

 

[mikld]

Another option for the poll; "I thought ahead and kept my primer inventory well stocked. I'm not looking for primers."...

 

[CH4]

Me too, but Iam always looking. If the price is right, I add to the stack. I also load ammo for friends so it helps them out.

 

[Skeet 028]

Primers will become available next year after this frenzy ends...But you can probably take what a former VP of Remington told me....The old retail will be the new wholesale so prices will be up...and all depends on political issues...we may see another tax on reloading supplies

 

[BE Mike]

Primers will become available next year after this frenzy ends...But you can probably take what a former VP of Remington told me....The old retail will be the new wholesale so prices will be up...and all depends on political issues...we may see another tax on reloading supplies

What tax is there on reloading supplies? The Pittman-Robertson Act does not apply to reloading supplies.

 

[NJM15]

believe it or not

I seen a way to reload primers when I was looking for threads to find them, using cap powder or match heads , remove the crown from the used primer load the powder reinstall the crown,
its really getting serious now !

 

[rwsmith]

Rifle primers.......

...are in better supply than pistol primers which are very scarce.

 

[rwsmith]

Well, I did, but.........

Another option for the poll; "I thought ahead and kept my primer inventory well stocked. I'm not looking for primers."...

I'm stocked up fine and will be for a while, but it depends on how long this thing lasts. If it's more than a year or two,things may get rough around here.

 

[Golphin]

I am thankful to be well stocked but have not seen any primers anywhere around here and not a lot of places sell them around here anyway but the ones that do have none. I am seeing ammo and even some 9mm but prices are way up on that and again thankful I have reloading supplies and don't need any.

 

[JimCunn]

I used to reload decades ago. Still have the equipment, but have probably forgotten how to use it. Time to refresh my memory

What's the best way to search for small pistol primers?

 

[Ivan the Butcher]

What's the best way to search for small pistol primers?

Early and often! Let your fingers do the walking & lots of shoe leather! and be prepared to drive to some out of the way places!

Ivan

 

[Turn4811]

Primers are available but you need to know where to look for them and they cost premium. I am in NE Atlanta. The 3 closest gun shops that sell reloading stuff all have had sellout and spotty inventory for primers and popular powder. I can go 20 miles up the road where the hole in the wall LGS has had a 1 brick per week limit since March and they have had limited inventory but rarely went two weeks with something out of stock. If I travel 40 miles up the road it is the same way with the two major gunshops there. Popular powder has been more of a problem. Get out of the major population center and there is more selection. Sort of like finding toilet paper in May or June.

I have enough powder, primers, and lead not to change my shooting habits for 3 to 5 years. I do plan on making my annual bullet order in November for my projected years use on the press. I am over 2 years ahead in loaded supply.

 

[Skeet 028]

What tax is there on reloading supplies? The Pittman-Robertson Act does not apply to reloading supplies.

In the future...Like what happened to archery, handguns and ammo and fishing equipment. No primers in any of the LGSs in this area for quite a while.

 

[SpikeIDMT]

Unobtainium

Did find 500 bullets, 125gr jhp for 38/357, maybe I set those aside with some sp primers for a future rainy day

 

[AlHunt]

What's the best way to search for small pistol primers?

Bloodhounds or possibly the psychic hotline.

Ammoseek.com might be of help if you're ready to strike fast.

 

[mmb617]

I've gotten into a habit that whenever I visit the LGS which is about every two weeks, I buy a brick of whatever primers are available whether they are SP or SR and magnum or standard. He never has a lot but I can usually get something.

Last week he had a couple bricks of SP standard and I intended to buy one brick till he told me they were limiting all primer sales to 500 total, so that's what I bought. I get it, he doesn't want one person buying up the whole supply.

He said the supply issue is still getting worse instead of better.

I'm in reasonably good shape. I'd hate to be someone who's out right now.