Are the prices ever coming down on components?!

[Pegga]

This is ridiculous! Triple or quadruple on primers! Powder prices have at least doubled!
And this stuff sells out in seconds. As long as we line up like suckers and scream "please take my money" no matter the cost, these prices will never normalize. Get a decent amount that you actually "need" and stop hoarding people, please!

This is ridiculous! Triple or quadruple on primers! Powder prices have at least doubled!
And this stuff sells out in seconds. As long as we line up like suckers and scream "please take my money" no matter the cost, these prices will never normalize. Get a decent amount that you actually "need" and stop hoarding people, please!

Would someone please help me find some primers.
I am starting back reloading and I cannot find primers anywhere that I know to look. I only have two are three places to look that I know off. Please help me of some places to look. Looking for large pistol primers. Thank you very much. John

 

[coyotemaster]

This is ridiculous! Triple or quadruple on primers! Powder prices have at least doubled!
And this stuff sells out in seconds. As long as we line up like suckers and scream "please take my money" no matter the cost, these prices will never normalize. Get a decent amount that you actually "need" and stop hoarding people, please!

Good advice-- will many follow? Probably not. In 2013 I couldn't find a primer anywhere, but I ran across a fellow sitting on 30K. He did sell me 1k at the normal price but it begs the question: 30k primers??
I think this is kind of a perfect storm with COVID production delays, increased numbers of gun owners and political unrest-economic declines. The last two are likely the drivers of the shortages.

 

[coyotemaster]

NOPE, not coming down anytime soon! This is the new normal.

There was an optimist (I'd pray he was right) that used to reply to all the posts like this saying it's just another election year and it always happens like this, and to stop panicking. Haven't seen him post that in a while though lol.

FAR from a normal election year and shortage. Things aren't getting better price wise, for anything. Especially powder/primers/bullets/food/lumber/gas/natural gas/vehicles etc…or anything else necessity or luxury….. Awesome huh?

This is apparently what the majority of Americans wanted that voted for all this. I just hope they're happy with how much better off they are now, and how much less chaotic their lives are vs the Previous 4 years.

So yes just line up and hand them a blank check and be happy, IF it can be found.

I would agree with most with the exception of the majority of Americans wanting this, I beg to differ on that point.

 

[smokey3]

NOPE, not coming down anytime soon! This is the new normal.

There was an optimist (I'd pray he was right) that used to reply to all the posts like this saying it's just another election year and it always happens like this, and to stop panicking. Haven't seen him post that in a while though lol.

FAR from a normal election year and shortage. Things aren't getting better price wise, for anything. Especially powder/primers/bullets/food/lumber/gas/natural gas/vehicles etc…or anything else necessity or luxury….. Awesome huh?

This is apparently what the majority of Americans wanted that voted for all this. I just hope they're happy with how much better off they are now, and how much less chaotic their lives are vs the Previous 4 years.

So yes just line up and hand them a blank check and be happy, IF it can be found.

The trouble is that the people who actually did vote for this fall into a small category of groups of people that either
1. Don't work
2. Don't drive
3. Depend on free government hand outs
4. Hate the previous administration
5. Just don't care about anything other than what they believe is right

I used to work on pipeline projects as a welding inspector. I have not worked or been able to find a job since early February. Coincidence? I doubt it.

 

[smokey3]

Well, when I started reloading in the late '70's a brick of primers went for $10. In the 2000's they cost $30 a brick. I would imagine the current price will stick for a while. And then increase again. I don't see the price dropping back down to $10 a brick. Though I can hope it might.

Bob

$100.00 a brick if we can find them

 

[Chad Erickson]

We have just completing a 17,000 mile road trip, primarily in all of the southern states. On that trip we have visited 30+ gun stores/gun smiths. We thought that maybe somewhere, like darkest Alabama, we would find gun stores with loads of ammo, reserved for certain ethnics groups or something. Nope, the story was the same everywhere: No, and I mean no, ammo or reloading components. (The exception being that in the last month 9mm and .223 ammo is becoming available). The ammo companies tell us that they are producing 50% more ammo than ever before. ********. That cannot be. If such were the case the ammo and components would appear on store shelves, even if only momentarily.

A newspaper article appearing in the Lewiston (Idaho) Tribune, hometown of CCI and a host of other small ammo manufactures, contained a quote from one of the manufactures, "We are making ammo as fast as we can, the government is buying all of it up and we are loading it into warehouses for them".

Guys and gals, the time that we thought would never come, when we cannot buy ammo, has come. Actually it has been here since the Obama administration. If you ain't got it, you are S.O.L. Make do with what you can get and how ever you can get it. Use Gunbroker and pay the black market price. Freedom lovers, your government is not your friend.

 

[killintime71]

Stop hoarding people please.

Is this hoarding or just being prepared????

 

[smokey3]

There are too many factors to list, the bottom line is keep stacking whatever you need when you can find it. You may get less and it may take you longer to accumulate the supplies, it is better to have now than to try to buy when the real panic buying happens, and this is not only reloading/ammo supplies, this goes for soap, food, toilet paper, seeds, fertilizer, fuel. This MF is going down, either by WW3 or full on economic collapse and famine. These NWO folks are looking to reduce the population.. just like it says on the georgia guidestones

The Scamdemic and the vaccines are designed to reduce the population. Seems to be doing exactly what they want, not to mention dividing everyone and causing unnecessary stress on the public. I'm still seeing people wearing masks, even after the CDC admitted that they don't actually work, and afraid of everything. People walking along back country roads by themselves and wearing a mask.

 

[ATH]

but it begs the question: 30k primers??

So what? When this all started to go down I got concerned and took inventory, and I was north of 50K. Me and people like me are not the problem. Buying an extra brick of primers and pound of powder with each order over a number of years when things were plentiful did not contribute to the problem; it was being smart and preparing for the next inevitable shortage.

Now when people are desperate and buying primers for $100 I'm sitting on the sidelines and not participating in the circus. My planning actually means I don't have to contribute to the problem by fighting for resources when things are scarce.

 

[cabelasken]

Is this hoarding or just being prepared????

Well within the parameters of being prepared!!!

 

[Lenny Foffa]

I drove up to an Outdoor store in Goshen N.Y . They had a BIG SALE last week. A Brick of Winchester LR primers was $149.00, with 15 % off for the BIG SALE !!!! Then pay NY tax to boot . Its pay that price or don't shoot.

 

[Old Rooster]

If Expansion Industries Primers fill our needs won't it be so sad to see gougers losing weight?Or eating their stock?
Poor guys.I sure hope it works out.

 

[Rimneck]

I saw CCI 300's today at Brownell's for $86/k. Been a while since I saw those.

 

[Kimber7man]

The trouble is that the people who actually did vote for this fall into a small category of groups of people that either
1. Don't work
2. Don't drive
3. Depend on free government hand outs
4. Hate the previous administration
5. Just don't care about anything other than what they believe is right

I used to work on pipeline projects as a welding inspector. I have not worked or been able to find a job since early February. Coincidence? I doubt it.

You might be in the wrong location. Lots of welding jobs in Indiana.