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    • #2199
      gadaboutgadabout
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      I am starting to see empty shelves in stores and even on the net. you would think the manufactures would get a hint after a while!! but no I guess not!!
      Well I have stocked up very well anyway. Craig

    • #2200
      sqlbulletsqlbullet
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      I don’t get out much the last while. Not that I can’t, just don’t have much need.

      American Reloading seems to be better stocked than they have been in quite some time. I picked up 5K LPP from them to fill the one big hole I had in my inventory.

      Looking online for Sportsmans Warehouse, they have upped the in-store limits on primers from limit 2(100 packs) to limit 10(100 packs).

      That said, I expect as we progress into the election that supplies will once again dwindle.

    • #2201
      gadaboutgadabout
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      Just got back from the local gun shop and bought Winchester small pistol primers for 64.99 per1000 with tax out the door for 69.70!! This is the leased I have paid in a few years. They had a lot of stock. I think I paid like 87.00 a week ago there. Craig
      BTW the panic is subsiding!!

    • #2202
      The_ShadowThe_Shadow
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      Wow Craig! That’s still up there in price!

    • #2203
      KenkKenk
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      I’m sure manufactures have raised their prices substantially, but not this high, retailers aren’t going to let these profits go easily

    • #2206
      sqlbulletsqlbullet
      Moderator

      Yeah…We are absolutely still getting gouged. Best I can recall CCI primers were around $35/k at my local sporting good store in 2018. Applying the standard inflation rates from 2018 to today, that same box of primers should cost $45 today. The other $20/k is add profit on top of the 2018 margins (which were already high from the last shortage).

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