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Maybe I've just missed it, but I'm surprised there hasn't been a discussion about the current shortage of ammo and reloading supplies.
I wonder if there are others like me, flush with some stuff I don't need and short of things that I do need.
I have a full can of IMR 3031. I also have a full box (100) of large rifle primers.
What I need is some Alliant Blue dot - a LB would be great and CCI 209 regular shotgun primers....
209 primers are almost impossible to find, I am hoping to find some at the gun shows coming up.
The shortage started back with the last US election and covid sure as heck did not help. You can find many things right now but you cannot be picky and the cost is insane. Small pistol primers are like hens teeth, going to try small rifle primers for the pistols and see how they run. Do not use small pistol primers in place of small rifle though, they are not designed for the pressures that rifles create.
What gun show, where?
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Originally Posted by Fox
Must aggree there is a shortage and people who have stuff are selling at inflated prices i get it the supply demand thing I was at Sail today in Camberge and they are well stock there shelves look full , regarding shotshell primers I was at Select shooting supplies and they have some not many that I seen, also talking to a friend who sells this stuff he has been told shotshell powder maybe buy the summer. ALso heard that Score Ammo in the west will not be producing target loads for shotshells not sure if that is true
Woodstock next Sunday. West Elgin last Sunday. Nothing cheap
I don't know if I should tell you, inviting the competition, ba ha ha haQuote:
Originally Posted by greatwhite
Buddy has been calling around trying to locate IMR 4895 with no luck either. One supplier told him there was a fire at a powder plant that has temporarily shut down production as well.
General Dynamics in Quebec use to make it along with others. My hunting partner Girl Friend works there. She said for the past 3 years now they are going all out manufacturing powders and ammos for NATO.
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Originally Posted by cantgetright
I have a single box of 209 regular. You may have that if you happen to be in Toronto and are able to pick up .....Quote:
Originally Posted by mark_t1012001
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Yeah but I am looking for different things then you.
270 Winchester bullets (Reloading)
H4198 Powder
16 gauge (4,5)
375 bullets (Reloading)
Black Powder
9mm dies (if priced right)
7.62x39 (if priced right)
Rifle primers
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Originally Posted by Fox
I have some CCI magnums 209 that are here as well. Red dot but not blue dot lol
Buddy went to Arthur gun show today said a lot of guns a lot of ppl box of
410 $43 new world prices I guess didn’t see any guns going out same as west Elgin
I have been looking for 32 win special ammo since last summer grrr
Ok, I will never buy 270 bulletsQuote:
Originally Posted by greatwhite
H4198 - my go to for 222 Rem
16ga - that is my primary shotgun
375 bullets - you can have them if you can find them
BP - I may fight you
9mm dies - I have mine here :)
7.62x39 - things are drying up
Rifle Primers - you can never have too many :)
270 win brass i have, 16 gauge i am not giving up,black powder i might have, 762x39 i will trade you for any 32 win special you can find👍
I will pass on the 16ga and BP - I may fight you.
Where is the show.
I’m in very good shape for most of my needs.
Only thing I need to buy is 20 and .410 shot shell.
Might have to get #6 instead of 7-1/2 ?.
If you’ve been in the game a while, this shouldn’t be a surprise. I feel bad for people trying to get in to it, but if you’ve been through a few US regime changes, it shouldn’t come as a surprise that there will be shortages leading up to, and immediately after a Democrat being elected. Covid sure hasn’t helped anything! I really learned my lesson in 2008. The moral of the story is buy it cheap and stack it deep when times are good. And I don’t mean a hundred primers at a time. Quantity 1000’s. Don’t buy one pound of your favourite powder at a time, buy 4 pounds. Same with projectiles. Buy 5 hundred at a time of your target bullets, a couple hundred of your hunting bullets. Otherwise your stuck searching and competing with every other guy that didn’t plan for these cycles. And you’ll pay large! I watched guys at the Canadian tire the Saturday before rifle season griping at the gun counter that they couldn’t get ammunition for their 30-06s when I was in looking around. Moral of the story, don’t buy one, buy four…. Always!