Prepare for the next downturn. I am a reloader. We all need to learn from the past so it wont happen in the future. freedom of speech for example, so stock up while and when you can. Prototype production up front please, as fast as you can. This led to an increase in ammunition production, which used up most of the primers in production. Feb 22, 2022. To God be the Glory!! Thank you, Bryan R., for this very informative and comprehensive message. Nr.1 certainly supports if not mandates a substantial increase in manufacturing capacity. The employees are under threat of firing if they talk about work there. It would help if powdervalley would upgrade website to allow for pre-purchase backorder with ETA pv gets from the big 4. They are running 2 shifts along with Help wanted signs. Because when the centerfire ammo is outrageously priced and or unavailable to practice with everyone runs for the .22! The liberals are smart & patient. few years ago and still have a good supply. I have been a customer for a number of years . We keep seeing more and more businesss closing their doors and that means more workers out of a job and hitting the unemployment lines, so where is it going to stop. Theyre defending their interpretation of it. After the 2013 scare, primers could be bought by the tray locally before they could be bought by the brick online, and that was before quantity restrictions were ultimately lifted. So if they have so many then why do we have none? So I do hope they flow as smooth as CCI, Win or Federal Primers. Reloading Superstore for Primers, Powder and all reloading components. Expansion Industries, with a hundred million in capital, has secured a location and is advertising for staff to run the production lines it has planned to open later this year. When I looked, the explosion had blown two warts that I had on my thumb knuckle off. From the Distributors who sell to Retail . The places stocking and selling primers albeit at a higher cost from $70 to $100 (more than in the old time) have been Brownells, Midway, and Powder Valley. We all need to keep praying!! Has Powder Valley received any primers? With little answers on the virus, its hard to see when these closures and limitations will end. Thank you very much for your insight and information. I find myself wondering, just how many loaded rounds are enough? I have a lot of brass, it makes me recall, Nature abhors a vacuum. Empty brass needs to be filled more now that we are short on components. Unlike primers you use toilet paper every day. Keep checking your trusted online distributor Powder Valley for new arrivals of primers from all four manufacturers. Hogden sources some of their range from Mulwex (owned now by Thales) in Australia. The orange one. I guess its a good thing I started stocking up back in 2001. This happened in 2008 and 2012 we had 3 years of low prices and abundance . Maybe Ill just throw the bullets really hard, or buy a slingshot/wrist rocket. Seems a bit weird to me. I need SP, which No one seems to have. I can hold out a while. Hopefully all gun supporters will see this new administration as a supreme threat to the 2nd Amendment and interstate commerce. order. Manufacturers are trying to raise prices by not meeting demand. The . I usually shoot about 12,000 pistol bulllets a year. Ive talked to Canadian sporting goods companies who have reloading supplies falling off their shelves TODAY, and for great prices. leaders. Rise up put God first! A brick of 1000 Winchester small rifle primers now costs more than $120. Thank you. To make more money. They all went bang so far. TulAmmo Non-Corrosive Boxer Primers $ 27. My last purchase of 5,000 CCI small pistol primers was in March 2020. Even if youre financially stable, reloading and shooting are great socially distant activities you can do while the movie theaters, bowling alleys, and bars are shut down. Great! Thank you for the info I would like to see the shooting community be a little less greedy if you have enough let those in need buy some. Its very real and they have money behind them. While lots of calibers of ammunition are slowly returning to many store shelves, primers havent really reappeared in any meaningful numbers since The Time Before. I am thankful that most responsible gun owners do not see things the same as you and fully understand the threat that is on our doorstep. That says nothing of indy ammo makers. Keep praying for our country, its all we got. So, we dont spend our morning coffee routine looking for primers. Their customers will literally beat a path to their door, ets hope Olin doesnt try to coerce a duopoly by threatening retaliation. Stating in a public document that President Biden is anti-Second is a wrong approach. All good news for us reloaders. At a production rate of 4 million per day, a shortage shouldnt last long. 69. Cost Range. Thanks for the explanation of the shortage. After that date primers disappeared and prices went up to $80 to $150 or more. I did that very thing of taking advantage of low price ammo back since 2005 and forward till 2015. Obviously you disagree with the premise of the 2nd Amendment and thats entirely your right. The public never had a chance to buy a thing. Some reloaders dont think it matters much but Im not in that camp. keep up the good work and thank you. Can the limits be set at 5,000? Expansion Industries, an ammunition manufacturing company whose corporate offices are based out of Carrollton, Texas, is preparing to open a manufacturing facility here. That being said I would like to thank you for taking the time and making the effort for writing this informative article. And yes, I did purchase primers after the last issue and am good to go. Its hoarders more than any single factor. 426 likes, 3 comments - Sunset Makeup (@sunsetmakeupofficial) on Instagram on April 17, 2023: "Our Sunset Makeup Felt Tip Eyeliners Available now at sunsetmakeup.com ." Sunset Makeup on Instagram: "Our Sunset Makeup Felt Tip Eyeliners Available now at sunsetmakeup.com Our DMs are permanently . thank you for this report. If legit, they are in it to make money. Yes, its got that bad! Hallelujah and amen, brother Boch! Its very frustrating. I am stocked up, so Ill just quit competition, and try to help out my friends, basic needs. And brass. Either way, we will win, as it should be , all they have to do is sell theirs cheaper than the start-up, and they put them out of business . Well, we are in a proverbial monsoon downpour right now. Major manufactures are just catching up(some) and some, like LC were 2 1/2 years behind before their distributors shut off the order switch last year. Were back !. Gold Medal Centerfire Primer .150. So we are getting ready to do our part to help out with that issue.. And, when we do, they are normally wrong. 400 new jobs in Texas and not the anti-gun northeast. Elitists from both sides will sit back and watch! The previous shortage was a lesson learned, Something does not add up. Therefore your ability to purchase products from companies like ours will end if they get what they desire. I have plenty of large pistol primers and large rifle but need small rifle primers. Now Im lucky to find several hundred primers at once. They are starting to become available in some stores, at a high price. For notbeing aware and ignorance. Great more primers for the horders to buy up and never use, just in case shit hits the fan like you really have a chance! This is why many online retailers have now chosen to limit the purchase quantities to an extreme low level in an effort to reduce this. Thank you folks at Powder Valley for taking the time to give a detailed explanation of what is going on. Now Seeking. No coercion necessary, all they have to do is sell theirs cheaper than the start-up, and they put them out of business. Really hard to swallow the full charge when youre limited to 1k. Direct access to the copper mines for brass, etc, I thought Texas was Mexico? So Hodgdon can't ship more Varget or H4350 in the USA unless Hodgdon . However when you place limits of 1,000 on primers plus hazmat and shipping doesnt make financial sense. The number of profiteers seems pretty high. If I ration what I have, for example, planning on attending several majors and club matches forces me to eliminate all live fire practice until spring. He has supported sensible gun control. But, we are very hopeful that these changes will have a positive effect on production and distribution in the long run. Quite frankly, Im surprised they didnt build it in northern Mexico. I suggest the rest of the reloaders reading this forum quietly build up their own stock pile when the current shortage is over. Keep up the good work. Demand, however, is just one part of the story. 1000 at a time isnt worth the shipping and hazmat. They may have projectiles, brass, and powder on hand but no primers," Felde explained to Pew Pew Tactical in an email in 2020. Watching our brothers running around playing Cowboy and Indians! I havent been able to find primers for almost 2 years! Knitting? Don't expect to see primers on the shelf this year. https://www.brighteon.com/3b58b1dc-107d-4341-b9da-3955499d8281, https://www.bullseyenorth.com/reloading-primers/browse/page/2. In the past, i normally would buy primers 10k at a time in order to spread out the Haz Mat surcharge. Thank you, Thank you so much for the information about the primer shortage and other reloading supplies . Feb 15, 2022. drgondog said: Conversation with Gene Sears Supply yesterday. AKA tin horn dictators Bwhaha bwhaha bwhaha, Great explanation of the circumstances. We have invested $100 million into the site so far, said Richard A. Smissen, owner, Expansion Industries. Biden is using the disguise of common sense gun control to move forward with a very aggressive agenda limiting our gun rights under the 2nd Amendment. Everyone reading this is now frantically buying up knitting needles and yarn. Now, should you save every one of those 9mm brass casings, the rest of the components - bullets, powder and primers - would still run around $295, which means you'd save only about $65 to do the reloading. COPYRIGHT 2021, THETRUTHABOUTGUNS.COM. So it will take about 90 days to fill the one big US gov. They wont flow down the Dillon primer tube. Jun 4, 2011 334 277 Find in-stock ammunition at the best prices.FAST. Thank you for your explanation and wish all the best. Aug 26, 2009 1,161 1,408 Manufacturers are, for the most part, unwilling to invest in new productive capacity. If I remove my firing pin and drill out my primer pocket, could cannon fuse be used in place of primers? All testing should stop because the false numbers they produce are driving public hysteria. Hodkinson says the risk of death for people under the age of 65 is one in three-hundred thousand and it is outrageous to shut down society for what is merely just another bad flu. https://www.brighteon.com/3b58b1dc-107d-4341-b9da-3955499d8281 So to top it off we have a primer shortage due to a HOAX. Lucky Gunner's Jake Felde said the lack of primers had the greatest impact on small ammo makers and reloaders. Ive reduced my shooting and have a stash of ammo. That's a significant increase from the previous all-time high of 28 million background checks in 2019. We have a source for 9 million small pistol and 3 million rifle primers. B. Bullspotter Private. The ammo and primer shortage is real, and it's here to stay well into 2021. Good lesson to learn. Good luck to you and may God Bless you as we celebrate the birth of Jesus. Great article! Canada has an abundance of primers, cannot be shipped to US. Normally, we would say stock up. But that time has passed, and I would encourage everyone to learn from this. Primers. It begins all of the way back at the mines for raw materials. Vista Outdoors will offer them double or triple their price and buy their entire production output, to prevent reloaders from getting them. The facility will specialize in the production of primers, a key component in ammunition manufacturing, for the small arms industry. If theyre diverting all the components to ammo manufacturers, that explains the glut of newly manufactured ammo. 1. There is a quantum leap difference between the two. At least with the hand primer I can watch a TV show and prime. I have been wondering where all the primers have gone. There are a lot of rumors going around about the shortages of reloading supplies . What we need to do beside being gouged by those that have primers is to trade excess primers we have for some we need from fellow reloaders. Most serious gunners had a supply of ammunition and reloading supplies. Its frustrating and actually sometimes infuriating to see out of stock hundreds of times a day. Democrats are now raving Communists hell bent on disarming the people to continue their run of corruption and selling out our country to a globalist cabal. This is the best news Im a reloader and like the rest primers we need. 22-Dasher Sergeant of the Hide. I mean, I know a place that has 431K Ginex SP primers in stock -AND- on sale if you call $79.99/1000ct a sale. The items came quicker than expected and in good condition. The government is increasing the ordering of ammo! This was personally valuable. Cant blame the manufactures for that. A Corner on the Primer Market. best comment of the day! Thanks for the info ,I have a little different take on the ammo and reloading supplies problem we all are facing in these dire time witch includes a new person in charge who has no respect for the constitution our country lives and dies to protect. When asked how they can have so much when everyone else is out,his answer was simplewere not on the internet . Can we get a hallelujah? This is a very difficult item to safely make on a huge scale. Knitting needles over 2-3/4 inches long require a special permit in Washington state so I cant even take up knitting. Stock up in times of plentiful supply so that you are not affected as greatly during these times of extreme shortage. Available funds never allowed me to stock up so I didnt. Even at that, with the shortages I guess the sensible thing to do is avoid any major shootouts. People getting sick, missing work to take care of their kids, and self-quarantining from factory workers to delivery drivers, and all throughout the supply chain caused a lull in manufacturing this spring. Over the last several years, I have purchasing a sleeve (5,000) primers a year, whether I needed them or not. Since so many people have lost a chunk, or all of their income, it makes sense that reloading, which saves on the cost of ammo at the expense of time, would become more popular than ever. I understand a little better now. What you said is absolute nonsense. Taking a page from the democrat play book in never wasting a good crisis I would suggest offering a bonus for those customers who can provide proof of membership to the NRA or the ILA. Assault weapons should have been classed with machine gun status when they first hit the market. That will effectively end businesses like Powder Valley. The pandemic specifically has incentivized shooters to learn how to reload their own ammo. See link below. With modern manufacturing the availability of primers should had improved but it hasnt. It will also make it near impossible for new shooters in these sports to even get a proper start and may force them to abandon their idea of becoming a practical shooter at all. Since this current shortage has arrived,, I havent needed to buy any more. Bidens policy on assault weapons is to register them. So I load for almost nothing if I can get primers. I went inside and was treated to iodine, a band aid and a lecture by my grandmother about stupidity. Thats how consumer economics works. According to publicly available data, since 2015 Olin has received more than 1,600 federal contracts to supply ammunition and components to federal agencies. Thanks Bryan. Any idea as to what the limits will be on small pistol primers and when they will become available? I wonder if possibly, there is an intentional shortage being perpetraed on us? Yeah, Lee only recommends using certain primers, even for their hand primer. I agree 100%. Disruptions in the supply chain have also made a big impact on the availability of primers. So the single large order buys up production for about 90 days. ]". All these big companies bought up all the little companies so with the few suppliers we have now we fall to the mercy of their mis-management. Im an avid hunter and have been now for 50 years. These price increases are from capitalism and whatever the market will bear for those not prepared when there is a shortage and will have to pay a substantial price increase for their needed product. Which is good advice anytime. 78. Texas made primers. I wont turn on my fellow American, but Ill have to defend my family. I love to reload, Thank you for info. I will have check for more recent prices. In this critical time Im afraid we are going to need them more than ever Respfully. 2. And for 95% of people thats the best way to handle it. Ive spent over $15,000 (us liberals get all are money from George Soros and Hillary Clinton) on weapons and ammunitions this year alone because Im sick and tired of seeing all the crazy gun toting trump supporters carrying their guns and threatening or shooting those they disagree with. Wait, um. The warts never came back but I never did that again. Did I leave anything out? I then hit them with a rock, on a concrete sidewalk. A quick look at places like Gunbroker show plenty of primers are available unfortunately, they are often 2 to 5 times normal MSRP. In the meantime I would encourage everyone to pray for our country and our leaders as we navigate this perilous situation. Toilet paper was also in high demand but modern manufacturing made it more availability. I believe that many Americans would be. I encourage all to pray and wait on the Lord. Rio G-1000 209 Shotshell Primers $ 35. Canadian vendors have primers in stock. Full Member. In 2008 we saw a huge influx of Russian primers. I doubt that new gun owners are buying primers, it is simple supply and demand no more so than bullets brass or powder or toilet paper. For those wondering about the ammo/primer plant by Expansion Industries in Texas.they werent scheduled to start hiring workers for that plant until this year 2023. so its probably going to be a bit before they begin putting ammo and primers into the market from that plant. What do you think a realistic time frame might be that primers will become available? When it comes to ammunition supplies, bullets are easy to manufacture, brass can be re-used, and powder is generally stockpiled by companies (though perhaps not the kind youre looking for). We have seen the cost of our practice ammunition go up 3-4X over the past few years and now cant even find any. The new administration is definitely anti gun and anti 2A, and right now they have the ability to really hurt that community with the current situation. When supply does improve, remember folks.stack it high and stack it deep. The people who are trying to take over American are buying them so we cant fight back. They claim to have already invested $100 Million???
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