Thoughts on when the heck components will be back?

[VALKYRIETP]

I have it from a guy who works on the Federal shop floor loading a million+ rounds of 9mm per day.
Federal calibrates its machines twice per day and test fires 4 times per day per machine.
He had to go down to the Remington plant to train them how to load and calibrate their machines after they were all torn down and rebuilt.

Down there they were only calibrating the machines once per week.
should be 800+ people working when up and running fully

T.P.

 

[foul bore]

I have 200, once fired cases for the 6/5 PRC I probably won't be using. Long story short, had a new rifle that I've returned to the manufacturer twice. Chamber wasn't polished and wouldn't hold under a minute at 100yrds.
They've elected to allow me to choose a different model and caliber. So I'm probably going to go a with a reg 6/5 or 270.

I would like to buy 100 of those, or all, leave some for others. how much and how do I get in touch with you to pay

 

[lgwatson]

I don't know about you guys but I cant find anything for reloading. For a while I could find a few items at small town stores. But now nothing. The gun shows I found a few 50 rd packs of primers they wanted 45$ for a 50 pack. Anyone know of a source for 6.5 PRC cases? When do you think they will start catching up?

If democrats stay in power, shooting sports will be a thing of the past. They intend to disarm the law abiding people and install a socialist dictatorship.

 

[Montana'eer]

Well this thread's going bye-bye.

 

[steel2]

I am 61 years old, I have seen 'shortages' for 40 years now. All the excuses for not meeting supply demand I have been hearing for at least 40 years. It's was, new people getting into the sport buying all the supplies, we bought components for making bullets, powder etc.. from China and China was not sending components to us. We asked why companies don't ramp up production? Companies said that by the time they ramped up supplies would be back to normal. Note that is what they were saying 30 YEARS AGO, and they (companies) are saying the same thing today. They are reasoning that most people have not heard these excuses and simply 'buy in' to the same old tired excuses. Most well run companies would fire underperforming management and replace them with new blood who would find ways to build new supply chains and service their customers. What is going on is poor management, plain and simple.
I have seen these supply shortages for many years, I buy a brick of primers and several boxes of bullets and 8 lb. jug of power at a time. I buy 500 round box of 55 gr. BlitzKing bullets at a time and wish I had bought another box at the time. 2000 9mm bullets, I bought all my supplies over the years as they showed up on the shelf and supplies were easy to get.
I am not a hoarder, I buy only for myself, and I buy only what I personally reload. My advice to one and all is to stock up a little at a time when supplies become availably. If you want to avoid these shortages and shoot as you please not as the market will allow you, stock up on what you need over the years and I mean years, a box of primers and few rounds of bullets here and there. Figure out how much you shoot a particular round a year and stock up for a two or three year drought of components.
I shoot around 1000 rounds plus per year so I have what I need to hopefully ride out this particular shortage.
This is bad management on the companies who supply us, they know we really cant go anywhere else for supplies so they are arrogant about dealing with their customer. Think about it, I want to spend money in your store and your answer is NO! Really?
All the reasons/excuses are the same as 30 plus years ago.............Its just poor management!

Earl1704, I'm only 50 n still have a lot to learn but what you said hits the target dead center right there and it's that way about a lot of things and I give you a A+ for hittin the bulls eye......THANKYOU.....well said

 

[Maol]

Exact opposite. They would bring on production lines about when this thing ends. They would lose their ***.

Correct me if I am wrong. The rest of the world has makings but it can't be imported. The fix is simple it seems. Remove idiot pols, then and then change regs. The hump is the first one.

 

[FEENIX]

Thx Ed! Ok for now, found some at Scheels not too long ago and have what I need for spring War on ground squirrels. Appreciate the kind offer!
Craig

Stopped by at North 40 today ...

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[jpickar]

One year into the next Republican presidents term.

Yeah if states can clean up election fraud

 

[jpickar]

One thought, hopefully this lasts long enough that ammo companies do increase production with additional equipment and labor. Hopefully all the new gun owners become allies at the voting booth. And become NRA members ect. Hopefully the desire to own guns sweeps across the nation

 

[judgebill]

Remember it was only a short time ago that you couldn't find toilet paper anywhere. Now it is in the stores. The correlation between tp and primers/powder/bullets isn't that tenuous. It's the old law of supply and demand. In the case of ammunition remember the stats show over 7,000,000 new gun owners and over 21,000,000 background checks last year. This means people want ammo for all those guns. Give it a bit more time for the manufacturers to catch up, a bit more time for the rest of us to really see what the Dems do in Washington DC. If we can keep our guns and keep using them as we have in the past, we'll eventually get enough ammo and components to go back to where it was in 2019. Have faith. In the meantime, do your share to insure a Republican victory in the House and Senate in the midterms. That will really make a difference to our future.

 

[Maol]

Remember it was only a short time ago that you couldn't find toilet paper anywhere. Now it is in the stores. The correlation between tp and primers/powder/bullets isn't that tenuous. It's the old law of supply and demand. In the case of ammunition remember the stats show over 7,000,000 new gun owners and over 21,000,000 background checks last year. This means people want ammo for all those guns. Give it a bit more time for the manufacturers to catch up, a bit more time for the rest of us to really see what the Dems do in Washington DC. If we can keep our guns and keep using them as we have in the past, we'll eventually get enough ammo and components to go back to where it was in 2019. Have faith. In the meantime, do your share to insure a Republican victory in the House and Senate in the midterms. That will really make a difference to our future.

If we continue to have 3rd world style elections this country is doomed. Period.

 

[Maol]

Stopped by at North 40 today ...

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Cool, you can melt them down and make bullets. Lol

 

[Montana'eer]

Stopped by at North 40 today ...

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When the going get's tough, the tough get....... pumping?

 

[Vettepilot]

A manufacturer should plan for these inevitable market swings. People east of the Mississippi won't believe it perhaps, but there's many, many thousands of acres of vacant land in the USA, and thousands of empty warehouses, idled factories, etc. The ammo producers could afford the rent to have standby facilities, that they can fire up when demand soars. It would make good business sense.

Don't believe me? Well just how fast do you think they would make ammo and components if a major war broke out??? Huh? They'd manage to meet demand then!

BTW- Fiocchi was/is supposed to open a facility here in the USA. Anyone have an update on that?

Vettepilot