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We had to go into Wheeling today for some shopping, stopped in at Cabela, the powder, primers, etc shelves were bear.
Went to Wally World across the parking lot, the shelves were bear.
Stopped at two local gunstore that stock loading supplies, found one can of Universal. I did buy it.
So I am ordering some powder over the net and pay the frieght.
This is starting to $uck!
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| Posted: Mon Mar 30th, 2009 11:06 PM |
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Sounds like it's bear season over your way.
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| Posted: Tue Mar 31st, 2009 12:14 AM |
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and to top it off we are losin our closest sportsman wharehouse ...sigh i posted this last nite i think
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/29945269/
but i echo ur sentiments and worry about our umm hobby 
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| Posted: Tue Mar 31st, 2009 12:46 AM |
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I know the manufactures are going full bore, and gauges and all calibers. The only thing I like bare are the lovely ladies. :)
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| Posted: Tue Mar 31st, 2009 01:33 AM |
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Same story here in the Deep South. 
They said "restock in late January!"...... it never came.
They said "restock in late February!"..... it never came.
They said "restock in late March!" ......... it still hasn't come.
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| Posted: Tue Mar 31st, 2009 02:09 AM |
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A couple of place are now saying "out of inventory, no back orders".
Lets all start calling the NRA and telling them to start lobbying make this country 2A friendly again!
Jerry
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| Posted: Tue Mar 31st, 2009 02:18 AM |
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supposedly we've got a guaranteed delivery of cci and win primers, and "some" powders end of next week.
claims of a guaranteed federal primer delivery mid april.
these are guarantees i don't have all that much confidence in.
stuff is trickling in. i'm just never there when they arrive to take advantage. i did luck into one box of the 160ftx's, i guess. never expected to see those on the shelf in these times of lacking supplies.
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I stop by my local stores 2 or 3 times a week just to see if they got anything in. Sometimes I get lucky.
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I've been buying double my usual for the past ten months, and still I wish I had more.
I don't where it has all gone, but it does worry me when I can't just go and get it, whatever it may be
\Patience has paid off for me several times lately tho, so hang in there fellas
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I stopped by my local Sportsman's warehouse Friday night - NO primers. I did luck up on two 1-pound bottles of RL15 powder to keep my .308Win's fed, and some 150 grain Hornady SP for my .303 Brits. Picked up a Chrony - the Alpha model - now I can really see what my loads are doing!
Midway sent me a notice that they finally had in the Armscor 62 grain FMJ-BT in the 500-box I had been wanting. I ordered them yesterday and got the shipping notice this AM - GREAT! 
We have a gunshow in town this weekend, but I don't like the idea of fighting through the crowds getting their CCW and those still 'panic-buying' anything semi-automatic. I can wait a bit on primers. Got enough to do what I need for the next little while. 
I was looking over my stash, and realised, in the last year or so, I have bought or loaded and packed away more ammo than I had ever bought before in my life. I could restock the local WallyMart. 
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Whay makes me feel better, I go down to my reloading bench and see that it is over stocked. 
Jerry
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I check the websites almost daily and I'm seeing stuff start to trickle in. No primers yet but I'm seeing a few bullets, some limited brass and more of a variety of powders than 2 weeks ago.
Many sites have some high dollar bullets - like 35.00 for 20! PFFFTTT.....
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Supply and demand is going to dictate prices. I don't think its price gouging, the factory are working over time, but the demand is extremely high.
Something about paying higher prices for raw materials and paying labor overtime wages.
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Hesenwine, our SW has plenty of Berger premium bullets - way too high-priced for me! Looks like the other handloaders feel the same - they aren't selling - yet.
I can get .224 and .308 here - IF I am willing to go to lighter or heavier weights than I really need. Good news for loading my .22 Hornet......
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went to the local store today and they had just got in 25,000 wsp and 25,000 wlp, so they ARE out there. I think they were 30 or 31 per 1k
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this is getting bad 2 months with no primers and no bulk bullets and just a trickle of powders coming in ,
getting into my reserves ,which means i've got to scale back my shooting and reloading way back, not anywhere near touch armagedon stocks,
but the fun level is dropping rapidly ,
twice this week-end i went out to my bench and just looked at my bench , kind of depressing 
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Starting to see a few things trickle in here and there - but the truth of the matter is it may be next year before things even begin to resemble normal - if then. We will not see prices back to where they were pre-election, ever again. Not that cost of production has increased, but more that the suppliers know what the market will bear in terms of what we are willing to spend.
The good old days are long gone ... but really, they had already went in '94. The younger crowd will look back to pre-'08 and say, "the good old days ..." proving it is all about perception - reality, that is.
I've actually cut way back on running the presses. Usually the winter are the big months for me - cool and dry. Summer is already here, we're in the nineties temps already, and I do not see me getting in there and running anything above 50-10 ct batches anytime soon.
I'm down to about 150 pounds of various powder, about 15k projectiles of various calibers, and maybe 30k or so primers - mostly large and small rifle. No 34s or 41s remaining at all save for the ones in some pre-prepped brass I got from Top Brass last summer ... and I am even down to a couple of thousand pieces of that remaining.
It is scary. Then again, it is very reminiscent of '94 ... so I hope against hope that it'll all come back eventually before I die.
Isn't Wheeling, OH out there around where that guy shot all those hunters a decade ago or so ... circa '94? White guy, drove a red import truck. Was popping the unsuspecting hunters/fishermen around there with a 6mm K31 or something like that?
Anyways, the shelves are still bare with the exception of a little of this and that in the way of powder and projectiles from time to time. Everyone is hawking the major website suppliers. Primers are almost non-existent, which is where the real question lies .. how come all the primers are missing? Even taking into account the ramped-up production to fill the military/LEO contracts, it still doesn't flush in terms of primers. Primers are made at a hundred times the rate of all other components. Everything about them screams "less." Less material to produce, less weight to transport, cost to produce, etc etc etc. So it would stand to reason that for every one million pieces of new brass produced, it would take one million projectiles, one million primers, 25 million grains of whatever powder overall average so ... with the ability to produce over one million primers a day ... where are all of the primers?
Doesn't make sense. Something is not right.
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A guy at MidwayUSA told me last week that they can sell out of primers within 5 mins. of adding them to inventory. Several times I've gotten an email notice of their arrival and got to the site within 30 mins. of the email's time/date stamp, only to find they're not in stock. (Are the employees running a black market in primers? (just joking))
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Rooster, I agree with you about the primers. Just does not make sense and I don't like it, one bit.
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woo hoo my local gun shop (30 miles out) had mag rifle primers two cases worth ,
shame is i only had enough cash to buy 2 bricks worth and a 4lbs jug of universal clays
not much else though
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