Question on Primers

[BigBoreDan]

Reloading components for the most part are readily available here locally...especially powder and bullets BUT primers are pretty scarce especially CCI and Federal. I lucked out and scored 500 Federal 210's yesterday and 1000 Federal 215's today

My question to you guys is what's the situation like where you live?

 

[SJB358]

It's about the same Dan. I am running dangerously low on CCI250's, but the rest of them seem to be around, here and there. I know, I won't get stuck again. I believe from now on, I will be getting primer's by the few thousand, instead of just a 1000 at a time. I hate to have to keep that many on hand, but as my OLD hunting partner mentioned, they don't go bad and they don't get less expensive.

 

[Ridgerunner665]

There are no primers of any kind available locally for me...luckily though, I have not needed any...and probably won't for a while.

Primers are the one thing I just happened to be well stocked up on...except small rifle primers for the AR, but then I don't do alot of shooting with the AR.

 

[DrMike]

Primers availability is sporadic. When they are in stock, they are in plentiful supply. When they are gone, it will be a while before they are seen again. Still, there is no particular panic buying.

 

[.300winmag]

Man! I have primers out the wazoo! Powder and brass are the things I can't find! Been searching for H1000 and H4350 for months now. Every time I go into the shops the powder shelves are covered in cobwebs.

 

[BigBoreDan]

When I wasa kid my dad would just buy a couple of hundred before we reloaded...we never stocked up per se. Hell I didn't even know you could buy them by the 1000 until I was older lol. The only time I ever saw a carton was when he sent my mom to town to buy a 100 CCI 450 and she came home with a 1000. I'm glad she did because those 25year old primers are lighting off my 222 loads I posted about

 

[runtohunt]

Most places here in Central Kalifornia have primers of all kinds. Powder and bullets now that is another story all together! Thank God for SPS.

 

[SJB358]

When I wasa kid my dad would just buy a couple of hundred before we reloaded...we never stocked up per se. Hell I didn't even know you could buy them by the 1000 until I was older lol. The only time I ever saw a carton was when he sent my mom to town to buy a 100 CCI 450 and she came home with a 1000. I'm glad she did because those 25year old primers are lighting off my 222 loads I posted about

That's pretty cool Dan! I love the old products!

 

[hubcap]

Still extremely difficult in my area to find anything for reloading. Have not been able to find powder or primers for well over a year now. Bullets are hit and miss. Nosler bullets are especially hard to find in our local gun shops. While back I was over in Idaho for a day or two and scored on lever powder for the 30:30 and 150 BT,s for the 06. There stocks overall were also very poor. Basically my normal range day is now cut to once a month rather than once a week. I hate this lack of shooting stuff. Pot is now in fine supply while us normal people are getting the shaft. Sorry for whining. I,m just sick of the situation.

 

[FOTIS]

It is ok here.

Biggest problem no powders no 22 lr ammo

 

[338 Ultra]

Here primers are pretty good Powder forget it ! Brass is around but not the stuff I would like to get, bullets are starting to show up in my haunts but as always the partitions and accubonds I want vanish before I can get to them. Lucky I have lots of powder and primers bullet wise I am pretty good just a little shy on brass outside of that I should be ok for the next while.

 

[Sas874runner]

Man! I have primers out the wazoo! Powder and brass are the things I can't find! Been searching for H1000 and H4350 for months now. Every time I go into the shops the powder shelves are covered in cobwebs.

What part of co are you in?

 

[DrMike]

Brass is available, but it has to be special ordered, and man, is it steep. Fortunately, about five years ago, I saw the writing on the wall. Watching the commodity markets and the sales of base metals to China and India, I invested in brass, buying a minimum of 200 pieces of new brass for every cartridge I was then loading. It was insufficient because that darned Scotty keeps urging me to buy another rifle, which means more brass, which consumes my primers and my powders... :?

 

[BigBoreDan]

Scotty is very good at that urging...lol!!!

I've added quite a few myself over the last few years and am still burning through the primers trying to learn about each...

My Dad gave me a Remington Model 700 BDL in 270 Winchester and it handled all of my hunting and shooting chores for 25+ years. I am at heart a gun nut though and when my Dad bought a 300 Weatherby Magnum Vanguard and I decided to add a Weatherby to my collection as well and chose the 257 Weatherby then I found GunBroker and things got crazy lol!!! I found a great deal on a Ruger .350 Remington Magnum M77 All-weather, then a smoking deal on a Mark V 340 WM and then I decided I needed a lever action to help balance all my bolt rifles and got aMarlin 45-70 before Remington took over. Then I found a deal I couldn't refuse on a 444P Outfitter. When my dad passed away I inherited a 222 and a 6mm and two more 270's and the aforementioned 300 Weatherby...

With such a bad case of gunnutitis I need all the primers and reloading supplies I can come by lol

 

[DrMike]

Yup! You got it bad. Ain't no cure but to buy up primers in lots of 5000+.

 

[BigBoreDan]

Yup! You got it bad. Ain't no cure but to buy up primers in lots of 5000+.

You know I had a perfectly logical reason for each and every purchase when I made it lol!!!

 

[Elkman]

I have lots of primers, what I don't have is lots of H-1000. Brownells, is supposed to be getting some in soon and will ship me 8 lbs, which I have had on order since June. I have enough for "this" hunting season but not next.

I actually saw several thousand CCI primers, in Shorty's, (Cathlamet )Oregon a few days ago when I was through there. I am working on a painting project so I am tied down for a few days, then back into the real world.

 

[SJB358]

Dan, I think it is healthier than alot of other bad habits us men could have.

Bill, I can bring some 8lb'er's of H1000 in about a month if you can wait. I have plenty of it locally.

Mike, I have no idea what you are talking about!

 

[DrMike]

Mike, I have no idea what you are talking about!

Ouch! How sharper than a serpent's tooth! You know I'd never buy another rifle were it not for the undue influence exerted by certain individuals influencing me toward the dark side! :grin:

 

[Wincheringen]

I probably have a couple more than the federales want me to have. I've had to cut back on my shooting quite a bit, I simply could not replace what I was shooting. I'm used to about 20k pistol, 5k rifle, and 10k shotshells fired during the applicable seasons.