No primers on store shelves for over a year....

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Jwbfx4 said:
Found out a local shop close to me had gotten in SPP, first shipment in a long while. I was going to buy a brick....showed up and would only sell 2 sleeves of 100. Glad I was already close by or that would have been a waste.
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Some places will gouge ya anyway they can...lemme guess, probably more than 5 bux for a sleeve
 
Mark_Mark said:
In a few months, maybe 1/2 year, we will be swimming in primers
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Seems like I heard that before...
Hum, let me think, Oh Yeah! now I remember.
I read it here on THR not too long after this panic version started about a year ago.

I do hope you are correct, but I'll not sell down my primer supply just yet.
I'll give it a few months or so.

JT
 
JT-AR-MG42 said:
Seems like I heard that before...
Hum, let me think, Oh Yeah! now I remember.
I read it here on THR not too long after this panic version started about a year ago.

I do hope you are correct, but I'll not sell down my primer supply just yet.
I'll give it a few months or so.

JT
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everyone and their grandma is sitting on a stack of primers and 9mm ammo.
 
I think it’s important to note that they are out there, not being used rather being treated as a commodity. Everyone trying to stock up, too late, is buying what they can as well as people buying them just to make a quick buck.

Just a matter of time until they will be well stocked themselves as people will just buy them from a store, at reasonable prices.

As long as business exist that are not tryin to take advantage of the situation,

I got cci small pistol primers last month at sportsman's warehouse for $23.99 a thousand. Not bad. Lucky day.
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At some point others will lower their prices or loose not only that business but peripheral business as well. It’s how some business build loyalty with their customers and others, people with any memory, avoid altogether.

I can think of one store I went into, during the last panic that had lots of stuff $600 AR’s for $1800, $12 mags for $70ea. That gun store is now a restaurant.

As soon as everything was not only back but plentiful, customers remembered the prices the last time they were in there and never returned...
 
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Dale Alan said:
I don't know about those prices, they are much higher than I am finding around here .
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Like I said, there are regional differences, as well as more local ones. It's a composite. There are areas where a brick is still close to "normal" pricing, but plenty of others where $200+ is the norm. Same story with ammo. You might find 9mm for $.040 rd where you're at, and it's over $1/rd elsewhere. Average is about $.70/rd:

https://ammoseek.com/ammo/9mm-luger

The stores in my area are stripped clean, but a Sportsmans Warehouse across town that I stopped in while I was killing time a few weeks ago still had some powders in stock (were limiting sales to 1 container per person). In that neck of the woods, they do more business on camping, hiking and other outdoor gear than firearms & related. In my rural community, about 8 of 10 households are gun people (I mean actual shooters and hunters, not just "owners"), and a lot of them are handloaders. There's probably better than 20 times our national average of firearms per capita, so ammo and components are more scarce.
 
JT-AR-MG42 said:
Seems like I heard that before...
Hum, let me think, Oh Yeah! now I remember.
I read it here on THR not too long after this panic version started about a year ago.

JT
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It was also said in the height of previous panics. Ammo & components have never returned fully to pre-panic prices, let alone a glut of it on the secondary market below that point. It's definitely wishful thinking, especially with our government adding trillions to the debt and printing money like there are no consequences. Even when the market settles down, inflation will keep prices well above what they were at the beginning of 2020. It's not going to settle for some time, either, with the looming threat of legislation making ammo & components more difficult to get. Our "betters" want nothing more than to restrict/prohibit online sales, and that will continue to drive the demand.
 
jmorris said:
I think it’s important to note that they are out there, not being used rather being treated as a commodity. Everyone trying to stock up, too late, is buying what they can as well as people buying them just to make a quick buck.

Just a matter of time until they will be well stocked themselves as people will just buy them from a store, at reasonable prices.

As long as business exist that are not tryin to take advantage of the situation,



At some point others will lower their prices or loose not only that business but peripheral business as well. It’s how some business build loyalty with their customers and others, people with any memory, avoid altogether.

I can think of one store I went into, during the last panic that had lots of stuff $600 AR’s for $1800, $12 mags for $70ea. That gun store is now a restaurant.

As soon as everything was not only back but plentiful, customers remembered the prices the last time they were in there and never returned...
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Good write up! Yes... I’ll remember the bad and praise the good stores.

shout out to Sportsman!
shout out to Cabelas!
shout out to Precise Shooter (reloading supplies)
shout out to members of THR!
 
IMAhobbyist said:
Unless the economy goes sideways we'll still be having this same conversation next year if for no other reason than that many more will be buying and stockpiling for no other reason than "They don't wanna go thru this primer shortage again" syndrome.
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very true! I stock up to help friends and family
 
IMAhobbyist said:
Unless the economy goes sideways we'll still be having this same conversation next year if for no other reason than that many more will be buying and stockpiling for no other reason than "They don't wanna go thru this primer shortage again" syndrome.
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I honestly would be very happy with every home in America having a pile of 20k primers set aside. This will strengthen our manufacturing community and give us a real chance to fix things if they do go sideways.
 
AJC1 said:
I honestly would be very happy with every home in America having a pile of 20k primers set aside. This will strengthen our manufacturing community and give us a real chance to fix things if they do go sideways.
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America has been fighting for freedom since the beginning
 
MachIVshooter said:
It was also said in the height of previous panics. Ammo & components have never returned fully to pre-panic prices, let alone a glut of it on the secondary market below that point. It's definitely wishful thinking, especially with our government adding trillions to the debt and printing money like there are no consequences. Even when the market settles down, inflation will keep prices well above what they were at the beginning of 2020. It's not going to settle for some time, either, with the looming threat of legislation making ammo & components more difficult to get. Our "betters" want nothing more than to restrict/prohibit online sales, and that will continue to drive the demand.
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I'm 2-0 on getting components cheaper after panics than before. The deals will come. People will have debt to pay off eventually, and they'll be looking at the primers and powder they aren't going to use.
 
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