Anyone else having problems getting primers?

[GrinerBros]

A smart dealer should be offer reloading components with the sale of that particular gun to entice the sale for now on. Whoe be to the dealer who foolishly lets some reloader come in and buy him out even at a quick profit of his entire inventory of components.

Same for me to buy a new gun. To sell me the gun, offer me reloading components or ammo with it. Otherwise keep the dang thing. I'll not buy another gun without reloading components tied in with the deal.

[Gun Surfer]

Everyone is out. Cabellas is at least backording now, and are listing time to shipping, from 2-3 weeks typical. If they are right, then recommend you get some orders in with them, and then just be patient. May want to talk to them on the phone.

[Jim in Salt Lake]

at a local gun shop downtown. Paid $40/1000. Trying to get my son through his first highpower season. If we run out, he'll be shooting my M1A from my highpower days. I still have a couple thousand for it. I should have bought two...

[Mudcat]

$40/1000 is lower than the going rate. FOund some locally for $50/1000 and got some for a shooting bud. Thankfully, I heeded my own advice over the last few years and am not in a need for primers. BUt I am still picking them up for guys that need them when I can find them.

JOhn

[albert]

I don't believe the BS that the factories are running full tilt trying to catch up with demand. If that were true we would see, from time to time, big orders arrive at the major suppliers even if they quickly sold out. But I don't see anything. So where is the stuff going? Look at something like plated bullets from Rainer. Midway is there big distributor. They have been sold out for three months. The military isn't buying them. I think the industry is doing it to raise prices and / or make the shooters wake up to what the big O is going to bring us.

[mold maker]

If thats the case, their setting themselves up for new competition. The chinks know how to make ammo components. Their buying most of the scrap metals now at even lower prices. Producing plated bullets isn't rocket science.
This kind of thinking is a great part of what lost most of our industry to them.
Just show them a market, and they will flood it at a lower price, especially if the product is labor intensive or can be done by hand.
I have first hand knowledge in watching Good Old USA Jobs lost to cheap labor. I spent 39.5 years developing and innovating a very profitable industery that suddenly couldn't be given away.

[albert]

Mold Maker, Not to mention the environmental laws the Chinese won't have to meet.