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Availability worries me more than price.
Life is good live it while you can.
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Primers, as with all components, will never get back to pre-hysteria days. Many people forget that normal inflation affects everything, including reloading supplies.
I was buying primers by the cases after Clinton’s attack on arms and ammunition. I’m glad I did, I bought so far into the future, I still have 4 cases of Remington 7 1/2 small rifle primers.
During all this shortage, I have found and bought several more cases of small rifle primers at around $60.00/1000. Right now I can still buy small rifle and small pistol primers under $70.00/1000. You do have to do your homework. Will we ever see case lots of primers under $100.00/5000 again, probably not. It there are still primers out there if you look. Large rifle primers are not cheap or available yet.
I bought a bunch of Ginex large rifle primers when I could find them and I still have close to 2 cases of them if there is anyone in Southwest Montana that wants some, I will sell some…
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Has anybody ever asked themselves why companies like Lapua and ADG haven't raised there prices even close to primers and powder?
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Picked these up the other day. ![[Linked Image from i.postimg.cc]](https://i.postimg.cc/RFBfKJXR/IMG-0787.jpg) Oh yeh, it was a while back
I prefer classic. Semper Fi I used to run with the hare. Now I'm envious of the tortoise and I do my own stunts but rarely intentionally
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There are a lot of things we can do. We can shoot smaller calibers. A long time ago I shot .270 Win.. , then went to a .243 Win. for deer . A few years after that , I bought a .223 Rem. so I went from 54 gr. of powder and 130 gr. of lead to 27 gr. of powder and 55 gr. of lead. However, the last 5 yrs. I have hardly shot my guns. I can walk outside and be shooting my bow in 2 minutes. No primers or powder. I imagine I saved thousands of rounds of ammo. There is also and AWFUL lot of .22LR out there,, and I dont think they are selling very fast. So, just go get some 22 LR and have fun.. A 36 gr. of lead and about 2 gr. of powder is all a 22 is and a round is the same price as a primer. I have not bought any reloading supplies in 4 yrs. This year I came across Speer 308 150gr. some .270 150 gr. round nose bullets for 10 cents each . The store clerk told me a customer died.. I also bought 1,000 Speer 22 cal. 55 gr. bullets from Graf's for $146 with tax and all. Just shoot less. The price will go down.
But the fruits of the spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness,faithfulness, Gentleness and self control. Against such things there is no law. Galations 5: 22&23
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I highly doubt we will ever see primers at pre-pandemic days even if Trump regains the White House. I believe 75-85 dollars per 1000 could be in the future but I wouldn't hold my breath though.
With that said, Im certainly glad that I bought my stash of primers during the early days of the Trump era. Ive got many, many 1000 that were bought at 25-30 dollars per 1000. Highly doubt I'll ever need another primer during my lifetime and will certainly not be a buyer at 100 dollars or more per 1000.
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I’m thankful I bought a bunch a few years ago
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I thought primer price and availability were bad. Ouch!! I just looked at powder!
They will vote our way into socialism, We will have to shoot our way out.
Every major horror in the world was perpetrated in the name of altruism.
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I bought most of my stuff before these insane prices and still have enough to carry me through these hard times.One reason I still have a good amount is,I don't have a lot of loaded ammo stored away in boxes.I make up ammo as I need it.I bought a lot of brass,mostly once fired.Bought bullets that can be used in several different cartridges of the same caliber.Worked up loads for my rifles that shoot well with more than one type of powder so if I run out of one powder I still have other powders that work.So by changing my habits from stored ammo to stored components,my supplies are lasting much longer.The sad part is as long as these ground wars across the world continue,government contracts with deadlines,are going to take priority with manufactures and keep supplies to us limited with high prices.
~Molɔ̀ːn Labé Skýla~ As Bob Hagel would say"You should not use a rifle that will kill an animal when everything goes right; you should use one that will do the job when everything goes wrong."Good words of wisdom...............
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