There are shortages of some brands & sizes. You just have to keep an eye out & buy 5K when you find them. I ran into some WLP at the local gunshow last weekend.
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Posts: 7752 | Location: kalif.,usa | Registered: 08 March 2001
Man I hear you....primers are hard to find...have been for several months. I have not seen Fed 215 for almost a year. Now CCI are hard to find. Good luck
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Posts: 2122 | Location: Arkansas | Registered: 03 June 2000
Originally posted by 308Sako: Saw some on Bass Pro Shops shelves yesterday... $ 4.99 per 100... or $49.90 a 1,000.
Someone will buy them, not I.
At that same store you could probably buy promo .22LR ammo for about $20 per thousand, or $9.99 per sleeve. When you stop to think that the .22 LR contains not only a primer, but case, powder, and bullet AND its price includes the 11% excise tax (which the primers alone do not), then it doesn't take a rocket scientist to see that we are being royally escrewed on primer prices.
Posts: 13247 | Location: Henly, TX, USA | Registered: 04 April 2001
Guess I'll be patient. Got a few months until I head out west for pdogs. If some WLR don't show up soon, I'll have to swith to CCI, but that means testing out loads in the 3 rifles I use WLR in. I'm totally out of CCI 450, but did get some CCI benchrest primers to try. Hopefully my 6mmBR won't care.
Still need to get some more WSR as well, totally out of them as well.
I stocked up this fall. I laid in 5000 both pistol sizes and i already had 5100 of the small mag primers for my ar15 so i was good to go but i see holes in shelves where they are mising. they come and go so i dont think there is a big shortage
Posts: 7 | Location: mn | Registered: 10 February 2008
There is in fact a lot of production from the major manufacturers that is slotted for the military that normally is not right now. There IS and has been a war on!
It is definitely hit or miss, I think it is exacerbated by the military demands right now.
Posts: 3563 | Location: GA, USA | Registered: 02 August 2004
