Large Rifle primer shortage?

[Sapper740]

So most of you, as have I, have probably been struggling to restock our reserves of large rifle primers. I've seen my stockpile dwindle down the last 3-4 years to the point where I have been considering reducing my trips to the range. Pretty drastic action on my part! The only large rifle primers I've seen for sale have been on Gunbroker auctions where desperate reloaders have paid ridiculous prices for them. I was perusing a national auction house when I stumbled upon an auction for the contents of a small gun store in Oklahoma that is apparently going out of business. They are auctioning off approximately 100,000 mostly large rifle primers in lots of 5,000. It begs the question, where's the shortage? If a small lgs can have 100,000 primers on hand, who knows how many the big outlets can get but don't. Is there actually a shortgage or something else working in the background? Anyway, it really chaps my hide!