Right before this started we did a group buy at PV for 15k and they were $30.80 net.
About the time I get panicked I have to take a breath and actually count up what all I have and do a timeline projection. Right now I am working my way through a batch of 2k I did when Dardas was casting, but then decided to switch to jacketed because as good as they are they were leading with Titegroup. So I had put them aside for a few years, but now I am about half way through them, and I just Chore Boy the bore after each range trip.
And I still have a few hundred of my good loads, so I am saving them for matches. And I have a few hundred FMJ over TG that I didn't crimp right, I will shoot them up in practice after I shoot up the CLB loads in practice.
And as I mentioned in the thread about 40 ammo I have a perfecty fine M&P-40 and about 3k loaded rounds.
And I have a ton of SRPs that will work if they have to.
So even though I perceive myself to be "almost out" I will probably actually run out sometime in 2023...
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I am blessed with a LGS that gives a mil discount so I get primers for about $30 per 1000. I have learned to stay stocked. When Cabelas sold S&B primers and I got some $20 off type coupons in mail - I stocked up on those. We have a sporting goods type digital classified ad and i have done well on some estate sales for reloading supplies too.
Just received 5,000 from Everglades Ammo. Got a tip and ordered a week ago. Called back an hour later and they were out of stock.
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Just logged off at work and sat back down at my personal computer to see that Powder Valley listed one box of 1k CCI small pistol primers as in-stock. They're out of stock like 5 minutes later but I wonder if there wasn't some kind of mistake putting things into the system and hopefully there are more to come.
It may take a year or two but things will settle down again, it always does. If the market is there, and it will be, the manufactures always catch up.
I got caught flat footed in 2008 and suffered without powder and primers for what seemed like an eternity. I had just started reloading for pistol and rifle and had no powder or primer supply to get thru the shortage. That was brutal. I can die with 20 lbs of powder and 20K primers and it won't bother me even a little.
In the P-F basket of deplorables.