this components shortage has to stop!!

[Boriqua]

Loading up a small mess of .40. about 300 rds. On the last 100 I load up my primer tray. It looks like this

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So you see how Lock and On are dangerously close together.. The little slide is also way sticky. It's easy not to snick it in the exact position especially at 4:30 am

So I go to load the full tray in my priming tool ... Lift it up and primers are bouncing around my messy arse work room on the carpet!

Like a freagin crack head who dropped some dope I am crawling around with a flash light moving debris and tool boxes trying to locate the 20 or so that fell out before I went all ninja and saved the rest.

I found all but one.

Not to be a quitter I continued to crawl around like an old turtle with no shell and blurry swollen eyes. My wife who is only a week from surgery and still wearing staples is crawling around looking too and flashlights are glowing but ...

It went to the place lost socks go never to be seen again.. I had to admit defeat and move on one primer short.

I wept a little. Not a blubbering, wet, snot filled weaping ... but a tear rolled from the corner of my eye and rolled down my face. I could taste the salty tear as I thought about that primer.

I tried to man up about it but ... With primers as easy to find as virgins at marde gras ... That one primer will always be the one that got away.

 

[Suck My Glock]

My tile floor in my reloading room is littered with spent primers that managed to bounce out of the collection tray and sail out onto the floor. Perhaps 1 in 10 end up there. I eventually sweep them up,...but I'm lazy, and sometimes I just let it go til the next time.

Then came the day I dropped some good primers,...that went skittering all amongst the THOUSANDS of spent primers. And to my old eyes that occasionally need glasses, THEY ALL LOOKED THE SAME!!!! AAAAAAAAARRRRRRGGG!!!!

 

[High Standard]

Can you pick up primers with a magnet? If so Run to Harbor Freight and pick up a magnetic sweeper. They make small ones for $5 and a rolling one for $12. Do it, your OCD won’t let you sleep until you find it!

 

[Boriqua]

Can you pick up primers with a magnet? If so Run to Harbor Freight and pick up a magnetic sweeper. They make small ones for $5 and a rolling one for $12. Do it, your OCD won’t let you sleep until you find it!

Lol !!! That might be a perfect plan! It won't help me sleep tonight but it would help me sleep tomorrow ... Or will it.

What if it eludes me again. It's already proved itself to be a cunning elusive adversary.

 

[Old Jeff H]

Primers aren't magnetic.

 

[paulgt2164]

I was at copperstar range in camp verde Thursday and they had two boxes of small pistol primers, probably should have bought them.

 

[knockonit]

what shortage do you speak of

 

[Flash]

Primers aren't magnetic.

Shotgun primers are.

 

[Boriqua]

I'm getting a little nervous. Have about 5000 primers left, plenty of powder and about 4000 bullets but I can always find bullets and powder is coming back but

I have been saving my spent primers and might give a go with that "Make a primer" compound there was a thread on. Think I bookmarked the site. I kinda thought things might have gotten back to normal by now.

I shoot about 2-300 rounds a month which is plenty so I'm good for a while but I sure would like to see primers soon.

Edited to fix the missing dash between the 2-300! If I shot 2300 rds a month I would have to be Jeff Bezos! Jeff Bezos I ain't!

 

[was21]

“2300 rounds a month” ..... so do you count your dryfire in that

Surefire way to find the miscreant primer.....Get out your propane torch and threaten to send it in on it if it doesn’t come out with its hands up.... works every time!

 

[xerts1911]

 

[Flash]

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Not for those who planned ahead.

 

[High Standard]

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Not for those who planned ahead.

This is true for those who did plan ahead. I do have to admit that I am in the stage where I am testing SRP in my pistol loads because I am coming down to the wire on SPP. Foreign made SPP & SRP are down to around 14-16 cents a piece and are available in bulk quantities if you are willing to pay the price for them. I’m not willing at this point. So far my results are very favorable for substitution of SRP for SPP.

By having notifications from Ammo Seek, Brownells, Midway and others when they have stock on primers and powder I have been able to snag a case of primers and small amounts of powder occasionally. You just have to be ready to buy when the notifications pop up. The prices have been favorable as well from Brownells and Midway. My last case of SRP from Brownells was 5.3 cents a piece about 4-5 months ago. I know it is a little high from before the panic started but that price includes shipping and hazmat. I just bought some Hodgdons pistol powder from them (2 bottle limit each type) for around $28-$30 a pound before shipping and hazmat.

 

[bldr60]

This guy does a good video on substituting SRP for SPP.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NGVRGsoOr6k

 

[High Standard]

This guy does a good video on substituting SRP for SPP.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NGVRGsoOr6k

Thanks! Yes, this video inspired me to start substituting without fear. I would have started my loads lower than I did. This saved me a lot of time and effort.