Anyone else having problems getting primers?

I'm OK on large rifle and large pistol but where the heck are all the small rifle? Any hints?

Nope, I can't find any either. Only places that people are having any luck are at gunshows and local shops.

I think I may start pulling bullets out of USGI ball 556 and replacing with match 52 grain Sierras for my bolt gun. I perfer 69's in it but it shoots the 52's well.
What a waste of GI ball.
Thanks to you idiots who voted for that moron obammie.

I called my local shop for small pistol primers and all he has are 2 boxes. well I still have enough loaded ammo to tide me for a while.

You can never have enough.

Cary

I did go to the local reloading shop to pick up supplies. Boy is everything in short supply. managed one box of small pistol and one small rifle. The shelves are bare. No .380, .32 acp and darn little of anything else. Pistols are very few and they don't know when they will get more. Shotguns and hunting rifles are there but sales are slow. Everyone in the store was trying to get components and ammo.

The warning to buy components has been on the forums for well over 2 years. There were many naysayers on the old CSP forum and many of the people that were warning others were shot down, pinned to the wall and berated as alarmists. I can remember many saying it will never happen in America. I also remember many saying that a non-white could never be elected. Now, look at what we have, a white house full of extreme left winged socialists and the first Mulatto ever to be elected President. (Mulatto by the way is not a derogatory term, the definition is the offspring of a Negro and a caucasion, producing a brown skinned human). Obama is not the first African American president, he would have to be full African to be that. I also remember that Bill Clinton was the first black president as told by the media and the blacks themselves. We certainly have witnessed more history in 2 years than all of the history in 50 years combined.
Well, the time is hear and everything that was being said has come true. I even sold rifles that I do not use anymore to generate money to buy, buy and buy! As I look at my inventory, my great, great grandchildren will still be able to reload if they don't ban that too. I bought $20,000.00 worth of powder, primers, bullets and cases on top of what I already had stockpiled.
When the warnings were being broadcasted, I looked at all of my rifles and decided to sell 75% of them. I only kept calibers that are common, keeping my 22 Rimfires, 222's, 223's, 22-250's, 243's, 25-06, 7X57 Mauser, 308's and 30-06's. Everything else was sold. I am so glad I listened and did what had to be done.
It is what it is, so for a bit of history that will be with us shortly, did you know that at 4AM at 5 minutes and 6 seconds past the hour on July 8th of 2009 history will be made and never happen again. This is what it looks like:
04-05-06-07-08-09. History again will be made on the PM side, and never happen again! Just a bit of humor!

The warning to buy components has been on the forums for well over 2 years. There were many naysayers on the old CSP forum and many of the people that were warning others were shot down, pinned to the wall and berated as alarmists. I can remember many saying it will never happen in America. I also remember many saying that a non-white could never be elected. Now, look at what we have, a white house full of extreme left winged socialists and the first Mulatto ever to be elected President. (Mulatto by the way is not a derogatory term, the definition is the offspring of a Negro and a caucasion, producing a brown skinned human). Obama is not the first African American president, he would have to be full African to be that. I also remember that Bill Clinton was the first black president as told by the media and the blacks themselves. We certainly have witnessed more history in 2 years than all of the history in 50 years combined.
Well, the time is hear and everything that was being said has come true. I even sold rifles that I do not use anymore to generate money to buy, buy and buy! As I look at my inventory, my great, great grandchildren will still be able to reload if they don't ban that too. I bought $20,000.00 worth of powder, primers, bullets and cases on top of what I already had stockpiled.
When the warnings were being broadcasted, I looked at all of my rifles and decided to sell 75% of them. I only kept calibers that are common, keeping my 22 Rimfires, 222's, 223's, 22-250's, 243's, 25-06, 7X57 Mauser, 308's and 30-06's. Everything else was sold. I am so glad I listened and did what had to be done.
It is what it is, so for a bit of history that will be with us shortly, did you know that at 4AM at 5 minutes and 6 seconds past the hour on July 8th of 2009 history will be made and never happen again. This is what it looks like:
04-05-06-07-08-09. History again will be made on the PM side, and never happen again! Just a bit of humor!
:beerchug:

Olin Corp., East Alton, Ill., was awarded on Mar. 26, 2009, an $11,766,647.00, firm fixed price contract for 9mm Ammunition, 85,540,500 each. Work will be performed at East Alton, Ill., with an estimated completion date of Dec. 31, 2010. One bid was solicited and two bids received. U.S. Army Contracting Command, Rock Island, Ill., is the contracting activity (W52P1J-06-D-0031).

W52P1J-09-D-0027 - 2000000000
THIS ACQUISITION IS FOR SMALL CAL AMMUNITION SUCH AS CAL .22, CAL .30, CAL .45, CAL .50, CTG. 5.56MM, AND CTG. 7.62MM AND RELATED SERVICES. NO FUNDS ARE OBLIGATED BY THIS ACTION; FUNDS WILL BE PLACED ON DELIVERY ORDERS.
Alliant Techsystems, Inc.Lake City Ammunition DivisionHwy 7 & 78 Lake City Army Ammunition PlantIndependence, MO 64056-0000

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.

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.

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...

$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

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.

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.

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