Home Forums Reloading Handgun Reloading Still huge shortage on supplies

Went to a major store in Pennsylvania it was bare. I have been lucking out in the smaller stores. Picked up 4,000 primers last week near normal prices.

Anyone having luck?

Wish I could find some small pistol magnum around here , nothing left in the stores here.

No problem finding powder. Bullets can be had on line if you happen to be there at the right time. Primers are trickling back to stores. Was at Scheels in Omaha a few weeks back and saw a guy going to checkout with some , but none were left by the time I got to gun department. A friend was in Lincoln Scheels and asked about primers and was told that they were getting a few in, but sold out quickly.(no duh)

Powder is trickling in. Primers are very hard to find.

I haven't looked in a while, but I could use a couple thousand more.. Just haven't loaded much for a while..

Stopped by Academy around 1030 today to snoop around. Ended up leaving with 100 9 mm rounds, 200 .40s and......1k CCI small pistol primers! Primers were a little higher than normal ($4.99/C vs regular $3.99/C), but I’m not complaining

Picked up some H4198 today for the .45-70s. Already have plenty.

Hoarding is as hoarding does.

4198 not to popular around here, Good score though

zero, zip, nada here for primers, powder or cases

I have found various powders pretty regularly around here, both in local hardware stores and Cabelas. One small store had a few primers for $8.99/ C and I lucked into primers at Academy. Cases are readily available on MeWe. I’ve had good transactions on Veteran Brass and Reloading Supply.

No primers or powders at BPS. Shotgun shells were available, but no pistol or rimfire ammo and only 2 boxes of 25 Nosler rifle ammo.

At a local chain store I just bought a brick of Federal LR GMM for $30, left some on the shelf because I was just topping off, LGS wants $7 per 100 when they have them.

Old70

Son and I picked up 1k CCI primers each, we got BR-4 and large pistol primers, which is probably where we were thinnest. Also got a pound of CFE223 and Superformance, but we are sitting pretty good on powder. CFE 223 was definately a weak spot so adding a pound is good. Primers were $24 for the large pistol and $34 I think for the BR-4. Not only is Sportsmans Warehouse not gouging, but they are keeping their sale price on the primers the lowest in the area.

I'm setting well on components, but it is nice to see that primers are getting to retail store shelves.

You paid 34 bucks for BR4, better say merry fugging Christmas as BR4 haven’t been under 55 bucks a brick in 5+ years.

Been seeing stuff coming around now.

All the primers are being used to load ammo by the makers.

Am loading up on lead bullets before they are deemed a "pollutant" and a threat to the pandemic.

Yep, very little in my reloading place. If something comes in, gone quickly.

Pretty dire around here, I did pick up a few primers and some powder. Still looking for out of the way places.

checked the back of one cabinet, and discovered two thousand small pistol magnum primers that I had forgotten all about. Mickey Coleman gave them to me back in 2014 on one of my visits with him.

Pick up 4 lbs of CFE pistol this week, no primers in store.

lol......

What I THOUGHT were two bricks of SPM primers in the back of my cabinet turned out to be LPM. And I don't currently even own something that uses LPM primers.

SPM are the one thing I'm a bit low on.......