I too have slowed-down greatly in the reloading department recently .... but then again, so has my shooting.
Living waaaay out in the country and having my own range on my property that my family, friends and I have enjoyed over the years, had us in the habit of burning through 1000 training rounds or more per month for a long long time ... but that came to a screeching halt in March of 2020. Now I am pacing myself and reloading almost solely for home defense and personal defense along with adding-to my long range precision hunting loads ... but other than a few thousand training rounds of 9mm, everything else has been purpose driven loads forcing me to take my time and shoot for exactness .... throttling my progressives and relegating me to my turrets and single stage presses once again.
I am under 30k primers for the first time in over a decade (since Obama was first elected I guess) and under 250 pds of powder (in the same frame of time) as well. I've spent a lot of time this past year sorting, cleaning and prepping buckets and buckets and buckets of range brass ... something I never thought I would take the time to-do until this past year. Even broke it down, probably in excess of 70k cases, by headstamp. Was shocked at how much 9mm Winchester White Box Value Pack brass there was out there in this world. Most of my brass having come from two indoor ranges ... after all of that sorting and cleaning and prepping I can tell you, 9mm Winchester White Box Value Pack used to rule. Followed by (but not closely by) R•P then Blazer then .... I'd have to go look. That applies to pistol brass anyways. But I think I have seen every pistol brass head stamp known to man in the past year.
Been doing a lot more casting yet I even find myself running-out-of good old fashioned wheel weights
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but I have gotten-into powder coating over the past year.
Ran out of CCI 41s not long ago ... switched over to some Wolf Magnum SRPs that I had stashed away since probably 2009 or 2010, bought 20k of them from Widener's back in the day ... have found them to be every bit as good as the CCI 41s.
With regard to the projectiles ... I'm doing okay there only because I have restocked occasionally when what I wanted became available. Mostly .224 and 9mm stuff but sometimes some 30 cal or 44 mag or 38/357 jacketed needs and wants.
I worry because I see certain projectiles disappearing and it concerns me that we may not see them again for a long long while .... things like 338 MX and 35 Rem and even proper 30-30 pills. I keep seeing the word "discontinued" used too many times on too many websites of too many online suppliers.
As someone else said, at my age and stage this isn't my first shortage rodeo but this one is a bit more disconcerting and appears to me more long-lasting and and cost-prohibative than any I can remember in the past. That applies to factory ammo of course but especially to reloading components this time. This one has been far and away much worse than '78 or either '94 or '08-'12. I can't speak to the great shortages of '63-'65 as I was barely in double-digits at the time but I do remember my Dad and Grandfather stocking-up ... but stocking-up to them was much different than what my generation has come to know as "stocking-up and being prepared" when it comes to firearms and ammo because my parents and grandparents never dreamed that our 2A Rights were in danger of being taken-away. The words registration and confiscation never crossed their minds much less their lips.
So yeah, I guess I've slowed-down some - I know I have - but I will still keep adding to my stores of certain items, especially primers, as I have now come to the conclusion that you can never ever have too many of certain things.
