Maybe, maybe not...I haven't bought a primer in over a year. I doubt I had much influence. Come to think about, I don't think I have have bought new primer off the shelf in 5 years...estate sales, garage sales, word of mouth gets stuff done if you have patience.
I think it is even simpler than that...so many shooters go buy a hundred primers, a hundred bullets, and a pound of powder, and shoot til its gone. They somehow think everyone should do the same, so they can keep doing what they are doing.
What about a few at normal price to your friends?
A good friend of mine here in South Florida owns a gunshop a few blocks from my office so I drop in a few times a week. Without fail, the 30-45 minutes I'm there, 3-8 people that have never owned firearms come in to try and purchase one. I thought it was bad back in 08 and 12-13 but this is something else.
Just did that a few weeks back at a gun show..................small pistol for large rifle. No interest in dealing with 250$ for 1k, sell them and buy again at a stupid price. FYI, there weren't a lot available at this particular show, and I expected there would be. I'm seeing this being a year or more for primers.
Lots of people were able to buy those. Discord is the key.
How does discord work? I downloaded it, but it says that nothing matches my searches.
Actually been doing something on GB that works, albeit initially painful. I win an auction for something I need, like Primers or Powder, paying extortion-level pricing to win. Then in the checkout communication phase, I ask if the seller has more they'd like to part with, which they usually do since most sellers "meter" their high-demand stuff and sell one-at-a-time. I then negotiate to buy more, at lower prices. Still high, but follow on sales are usually closer to "expensive" than to "extortion". I've bought 6,000 Large Rifle Primers that way, and several jugs of my preferred powders. Pay big, make a friend, pay less for more stuff. It saves the seller on GB commissions, gets them money faster, and takes less of their time advertising and processing. It's worked for me as I'm now well-supplied for the next couple of years ... hopefully enough to survive until "normal" returns (whenever that is).
That does work.I have a friend that works for the local Cabelas. When he receives new product (powder, primers, etc) he calls me and asks if I need anything. If I do, he hides it for me so I can swing in and pick it up.
Go befriend your local sporting goods retail worker. It may work to your advantage.
Or someone got into reloading recently and didn’t go out and buy the whole store yet.
I just go "shopping" in my Dad's garage...I've found more primers, powder brass and bullets than I, my brother or nephew will ever use... Thanks Dad for being such a hoarder!
It was a good while ago when I was still competing at American skeet and reloading a lot of shot shells.....suddenly couldn't get Hornady powder and it turns out that their plant in AUS burned or blew up. I would assume this effected rifle powder also
Amen....my favorite are those "buddies" who I haven't heard from in a a year. They get real offended when they need components, and want them at the price they used to be.
More new shooters this year than ever before - cant fault them if they werent into the hobby before this mess
Can you throw a couple in my box when you finish my stuffRange customer comes in,
“I have some reloading components I don’t want”
“Ok I can buy them”
hands over bag
Me as I’m glistening “how much do you want!”
“I’ll take $50 for the whole bag”
The even better part is a backorder from PowderValley came through. My range customers will have ammo.Can you throw a couple in my box when you finish my stuff
Mines working and tells me varget in stock but it’s not actually when you add to cart.
How many months will it take to shoot 50,000 rounds?I ordered 50,000 F210Ms from Brownells today. Made it through the whole process and got the confirmation email. About a half hour later I got the cancellation.
That's so bad of an anology, I'm not sure it even qualifies as an anology
