Same with me. Ammo seems to be coming down, but no primers. This will be my first attempt at trying it on my own. So, I need small pistol primers ASAP! I have everything else.I am starting to see an increase in availability and a drop in price for ammo in my area.
I prefer to reload when I can, but I have yet to see primers come back.
Is anyone finding any?
In fact, Brownell's has CCI Small Pistol Primers in stock right now (2:49pm) for $75 a box (with the hazard shipping).
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And there gone...Still in stock.
Sorry.....they are not gone.And there gone...
I think that is unnecessarily pessimistic on two points:With prices like $75/box plus shipping and hazmat and purchase limits, I think I'm just out of the reloading game when my current stock depletes. It's unreal, no point to reloading when it costs 3x more than it used to. At this point there seems to be no expectation of stocks ever returning or prices ever dropping. We finally got bit by only having 2-3 primer manufacturers that are also ammo manufacturers.
I agree on point 1.I think that is unnecessarily pessimistic on two points:
1. Given that factory ammo costs are up as well, you still can reload cheaper than buying new, even with increase costs.
2. Given that we are now seeing more and more components come into stock periodically, even at higher prices, versus just being sold out, tells me that the supply chain is slowly catching up. Once it is caught up, just like after the last shortage, prices will come back down. In fact, After the 2012/2013 shortage, but before the 2020 panic, prices had actually fallen lower than the pre-2012 items for a lot of calibers.
Things also seem to be coming back at a much faster pace than previous shortagesI think that is unnecessarily pessimistic on two points:
1. Given that factory ammo costs are up as well, you still can reload cheaper than buying new, even with increase costs.
2. Given that we are now seeing more and more components come into stock periodically, even at higher prices, versus just being sold out, tells me that the supply chain is slowly catching up. Once it is caught up, just like after the last shortage, prices will come back down. In fact, After the 2012/2013 shortage, but before the 2020 panic, prices had actually fallen lower than the pre-2012 items for a lot of calibers.
What'll it settle to? $50 a brick? $60? Merely 2x what it used to cost instead of 3x?I think that is unnecessarily pessimistic on two points:
1. Given that factory ammo costs are up as well, you still can reload cheaper than buying new, even with increase costs.
2. Given that we are now seeing more and more components come into stock periodically, even at higher prices, versus just being sold out, tells me that the supply chain is slowly catching up. Once it is caught up, just like after the last shortage, prices will come back down. In fact, After the 2012/2013 shortage, but before the 2020 panic, prices had actually fallen lower than the pre-2012 items for a lot of calibers.
What scares me is that we really aren't that far away from the midterm elections. Who knows what the heck that will bring. Things are always at least a little more difficult to get in any election year. If the supply chain is still catching up, things have the potential to get really bad again (especially if shipping is still as screwed up as it has been).What'll it settle to? $50 a brick? $60? Merely 2x what it used to cost instead of 3x?
And that's just until the next panic, and the next run, and the next years-long supply crisis. Looks like the tsunami is building toward lockdown yet again, is it going to shoot back up to $200 a brick and then "settle" back to $75 in two more years?