I walked into the Cabelas in Boise last week and just for giggles went to the knife/powder counter and asked id they had any small pistol primers. much to my surprise, she said they had just got some in and pulled out two boxes. I said I'll take em and was told that I could only get one. I chuckled and said, ok, he'll have one too.
This is certainly nothing compared to 2013. That was a bad time for components. It took a long time to recover. With that said... No one knows. Even manufacturers are having a hard time getting primers.
That beefed up ability resulted in 170.00 per case 9mm ammo, and 250.00 45 acp. 223 ammo was pretty reasonable also. I am not privy to any wholesale pricing, but I think you are assuming it is the manufacturer who does the best in times like this. I myself feel the middlemen are the ones raising prices.
That might be true with some. but it seems all the 6.5 and 308 guys myself included shoot SRP in those cases too. I switched over a couple years ago for ease of having to grab only one type of primer.
I’m going to argue that I only use 205m Hahahaha. And the win 6 1/2 and cci 400 ,etc hoarders ruined it for me too. They bought up all the 205’s to put in bulk 223 loads. The probably don’t even have enough projectiles To fill the primers they bought. I was talking to fellas at my lgs. They told me some old man came in and bought up 2k$ worth of small rifle/pistol. After that, they said you could only buy 1k at a time. All that was left was small pistol mag. The problem is that guy. Not to mention the gun shops knowing they can’t replenish and screwing over regular customers. Southwest ammo told me the other day he was saving bricks of primers for regular customers. Was telling people that had never been in there before to get bent. Thank god I frequent that place lol.See? You’re all part of the problem!
