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Topic: Large Rifle primer shortage?

Posted By: Sapper740
Subject: Large Rifle primer shortage?
Date Posted: September 19 2024 at 1:24pm

I just posted this over on Milsurps but I though I'd share it here too. 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!

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Posted By: britrifles
Date Posted: September 19 2024 at 2:31pm

Remington 9 1/2 primers are available at Midway. I’ve seen some others as well. Not seen WLR or CCI BR-2’s in a while which I do use.

Seems it is cyclic. Lots of pistol and Small Rifle primers available, but not much for LR primers.

I was fortunate to be able to stock up over the years, have something like 35,000 so don’t have to worry for a while. But I’ve had to change some of my go to powders. Have not been able to find any H4895 which I use in my .30-06 loads for M1 and 1903a3.

Posted By: A square 10
Date Posted: September 25 2024 at 6:39pm

have not looked recently but i have a bunch im using up right now so ill warch