Small Pistol Primers?

[rwsmith]

What do you have......

I've got 600 GDHP, about 1000 coated bullets, plenty of brass, powder and primers, several hundred loaded up.. 800 factory Federal FMJ..

and I don't even own a 9mm gun right now..

...for calibers that you shoot often?

 

[max503]

I'm still working on primers from the President Clinton era. I agree with the above. The Covid 19 shutdown also put a hugh hurt on reloading components. Be patient and keep looking, you will find some.

My "stocking-up" for Clinton consisted of a brick of Federal 22 LR, wrapped in plastic and stuck away in the bedroom closet. I've since upgraded my efforts.
Back then I used to buy primers, a hundred at a time, from the LGS.

 

[BE Mike]

I see the shortage as pandemic + political uncertainty + civil unrest + rising crime = high demand for firearms, ammo and reloading components. Luckily I took advantage of a rebate on Winchester primers a year or so ago and ordered more than usual.

 

[bigggbbruce]

...for calibers that you shoot often?

45acp
44spl
10mm
357/38
38acp
22lr............Enough for several years before I "have" to go looking.

But as we know, I always have an eye open for a deal.

 

[duman444]

SPP primers and .223 bullets

Post Sandy Hook, when .223 bullets dropped back to normal pricing, picked up 10,000 55gr FMJ. Good target fodder.

Just a month or so ago, picked up 10K Federal Gold medal Match SPP. First time I had ever purchased Federal. Could not believe how large the packaging is for those primers. You could get 200 Shotgun primers in the space they have the 100 SPP's in. Then to make it worse, the primers are on edge like Remington. At least Remington puts them in much smaller packaging.

 

[tlawler]

I'm heavy in LPP and light in SPP, so I placed a couple of ads in local gun classifieds to trade for SPP. So far, I've picked up almost 4K SPP trading one for one. I had a guy who only wanted CCI 300 standard LPP; sadly I only had 1K of those. I could have gotten 4K from him alone if I had the proper primers

I tried my luck trading at the Lakeland show this past weekend, but it seemed everyone was on the hunt for SPP.

 

[jag312]

5000 LR
5000 SR
5000 LP
5000 SP


This is held in reserve. I buy what I need when I can.

 

[dazlin]

What I have heard is that manufacturers are keeping for themselves to make their own ammo.... aside from that they are dust in the wind I check every day 3 times a day, all over to no avail.....

CCI claims that they are running at capacity, but demand is outstripping supply. YMMV

I've heard a rumor (note: RUMOR) that there is a boatload of European mfg primers due sometime in the next month or so. Time will tell...

 

[NJM15]

spp / srp

Just got back from the range trying out my srp loaded ammo
using extreme 115 gr copper coated bullets with 6 gr power pistol, two out of thirty didn't fire on first try but did on second ,using my Sig 226
now to try them in my .357 sig rounds in my m+p 40 using a kkm .357 Sig barrel

 

[BE Mike]

Just got back from the range trying out my srp loaded ammo
using extreme 115 gr copper coated bullets with 6 gr power pistol, two out of thirty didn't fire on first try but did on second ,using my Sig 226
now to try them in my .357 sig rounds in my m+p 40 using a kkm .357 Sig barrel

Anytime I get a failure of the primer to ignite, my first thought is that I didn't seat the primer all the way to the bottom. Some brass makes it harder than others.

 

[Enigma]

I used SRPs in a boatload of .40 S&W for my G22; 180 JHPs over Hodgdon Longshot. Never a problem in that gun. This was during the LAST primer shortage.