OrangeDiablo & Stevens223: I live "somewhere good" but it is remote and at the end of all supply lines for everything from Bananas to new vehicles - let alone munitions and reloading supplies!
I have NOT seen primers on a shelf with 75 miles of my home in many months.
Luckily I learned a couple of shortages ago (was that 12 or 15 years ago?) to keep and maintain a lifetime supply of reloading components.
Supplies are very short in my neck'o the woods.
In fact two weeks ago I decided to sell a carton (1,000) of the standard Federal small Rifle primers at the Whitehall, Montana gunshow.
I use the Federal small Rifle "Match" primers and have plenty of them but had no need/use for the standards.
Anyway I did NOT even make it into the door of the gunshow and a fellow WCSM member offered me $100.00 cash for them - sold!
I don't know how much I could have gotten for them but he offered and I accepted.
My direct but non-specific answer to your question ("Are primers ever going to be available again"?) is - I don't know, but I am sure that they will never be the same price they were a couple years back!
Hold into the wind
VarmintGuy
