any insight on powder shortage?

[dogtag]

Your original post stated that you had just bought another 30,000 primers which you didn't need.
That means you have in excess of 60,000 primers
If that isn't hoarding, I'd like to know what is.

[hockeybuff]

I gotta go with dogtag here and remind you of your original post. You bought 30,000 primers that you didn't need. Your hoarding is perfectly legal, though I would like to point out to you that you are boasting about it to the very people that the current round of hoarding is hurting.

[Fick_2141]

I don't know how long primers keep, but I know that most of the primers sold today will be good long after the original buyer has "joined the quior invisible".
Because they keep so well if kept cool and dry, buying more than one could use in a single lifetime still makes sence if you can afford to do it. Like having a time machine to go back to buy hight test gasoline. If it would keep for a generation, you would buy 500,000 galons of it and bury it somewhere safe. You would then get in the time machine and come back to the present day burning up gas so good you can't even buy it anymore. Many people think that at some point reloading components will go the way of high test gasoline,
low cost factory muscle cars, and the freedom to own a M-14 or Thompson SMG. These people are willing to pay the price today because they believe that they could become priceless and completely unavailible in the future.
If you bought a Hemi Road Runner in 1969, and paid double the sticker price or more, you still made a great deal if you still owned the car today. If you died, and your son owns the car, it is probably worth more than his home.
The people have a unique perspective that looks into the future by knowing the past. They are willing to pay double the price for something today that will be priceless long after they are gone. If you are not willing to pay for it, stop complaining and wait like the rest of us to buy when the glut of stuff occurs.
If it never does, who was the wiser ?

[Matt Anthony]

Your original post stated that you had just bought another 30,000 primers which you didn't need.
That means you have in excess of 60,000 primers
If that isn't hoarding, I'd like to know what is.

Everyone has had the opportunity to purchase quanities of whatever they choose! There are many out there who refused to listen to others and didn't realize that components could become harder to obtain. I remember when the warnings were posted on the old CSP forum. There were many who pooh-poohed that there would be a primer/powder shortage.
Call me whatever you like, it doesn't matter, I've got enough primers and powder, only because I listened to the market and saw what was happening. You can purchase primers right now, and as many as you want, but if you had bought them last year, you would of saved 25% or more.
That's not hoarding, that's just being smart!
The early bird gets the worm, but the second mouse gets the cheese!

[joem]

I called my local supplier and ordered bullets; 1000 of this, 1000 of that and 500 of something else along with primers. He said he may not be able to supply the primers in that quanity. I told hime if I can't get the primers, I don't need the bullets. He told me he's working on it. We'll see.

[USSR]

I can't believe the number of posts on various sites, castigating people for buying this or that, in "X" quantities. This is a matter ONLY between the buyer and seller, and if they are both happy, then it is of no concern to anyone else.

Don

[Fick_2141]

I am a conservative. I believe that freedom is always the best answer. The democrats and liberals know that it is the nature of Americans today to whine and point fingers at anyone but themselves for a particular situation.
All you need is a crisis, real or manufactured and the cries for some sort of control, oversight, rationing, and regulation that decreases freedom appear. Freedom and control are opposites. By advocating more control or restraint in ones freedom to buy what and how mach of anything, you are a liberal and no different than the current administraition that seeks the same in all aspects of the economy.

[limazulu]

Just an FYI, homeowners insurance and local Fire Marshall's usually have rules about how much powder and primers you can have in your home without a license from the Fire Marshal or a rider on your insurance. If you exceed that amount you may be voiding your homeowners insurance.

[Dan In Indiana]

Remember the pulldown period of '03 and '04? 4K M1 and 3K M2 bullets, 8 jugs of CMR-100 powder, 2 jugs of 4895, 8 jugs of 2230C, 2K of '06 match brass, 1K of .308 match brass, 5C of 852 brass, 2K of LC72 brass, PU 10K of #34 primers @15/1K about 18 months ago. Is that "smart shopping" or "hoarding"? When the primer thing gets better, some SR primers are in the offing though.

OFC

[milprileb]

At my consumption, 30K of primers is at best a 18 month supply so to me , thats not a lot of primers. If I could buy that far in advance and afford it at one time without taking out a loan, I would do it.

I got no problem with a man buying what he needs and obviously, he can afford to do that.

I guess I am hoarding cause I got a lot of guns, should have just bought only a few so others would have a choise and better menu to purchase guns on the market?

I got too many guns, not enough primers and certainly not enough powder.

At age 62, I got little time to want something and not have it: primers are one of those things I will buy lots of when I see them in reach.