What shortage?

[Sapper740]

I keep up with all my friends and family in Canada as well as being on a couple of Ross and Lee Enfield Facebook groups based in Canada. A recent post showed boxes of 20 Federal .303 British at Canadian Tire for sale for $89.99! OY VEY!

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[browningautorifle]

0 Federal .303 British at Canadian Tire for sale for $89.99

Exactly. We've always had trouble with greedy wholesalers here, example would be the zinc cased "Blazer" pistol ammo. When US residents were paying $4USD for it we were paying $16CDN. Just a buck or so less than brass cased. Retailers have never been able to make more than about 10/15% on ammo. The wholesalers take it all. That was enough to make a man reload, but now primers can be as much as $400CDN a thou.

[Sapper740]

.......but now primers can be as much as $400CDN a thou.

OUCH! Primers here are down to $95 per k which is still 3X what they were a few years ago. I doubt production costs went up that much so there's a lot of price gouging here too.

[Lee Enfield]

OUCH! Primers here are down to $95 per k which is still 3X what they were a few years ago. I doubt production costs went up that much so there's a lot of price gouging here too.

Too funny I have a few 1k boxes of primers price marked as $9.95/k.

I've been going thru this since the early 90s so I learned my lesson by 1996 - I am unlikely to run out of primers...ever.

US election years have corresponded with primer shortages since the 1992 election in my experience.

C-19 resulted in world wide shortages of everything else, so primers, powder and projectiles are just another statistic.

[browningautorifle]

I am unlikely to run out of primers...ever.

Likewise, I'm not going to feel this at all. I learned way back. I wonder how new shooters will make out.

[Sapper740]

Likewise, I'm not going to feel this at all. I learned way back. I wonder how new shooters will make out.

I'm down to 10k primers. I'm starting to get nervous.