Quote Originally Posted by foxtrot View Post
Experienced loaders only:

Hell, if you know what your doing you can even use small pistol primers in an AR. Appropriate loading and appropriate gun......

Needless to say, I'm not feeling the heat! But the panic buying annoys me. All told, since the election I might have added 5% to my powder "stock", and bought no primers. But, you have to consider.... I have always had a decent stock, and not because I'm worried about gov't takeover or there not being any for x years or stupid NRA/public rumors. No, I have always had decent stock because I shoot a lot. So.. there you have it. I still have primers that I got from a guy who purchased them during the LAST stupid rumor "they are going to make primers have a shelf life" scare. Forget... late 80's or early 90's.

FYI, the same stupid rumor is recirculating now. Wonder why it's hard to get primers? Many of our fellow shooters are, well... morons. I went to wally today to try to get one box of 9mm... my press is down due to a retrofit backorder. No, they don't have any every time I go in. I overhear that they got something like 20 cases in (!!) and some guy comes in and buys 14 CASES, another buys 2. This is why there is no inventory. The 5% of our fellow shooters that are so gullible and mentally deficient that they can't figure out the gubbament isn't coming to their doorstep next week drop every single penny into purchases that they are probably literally putting under floorboards. The normal shooting community suffers as a result.
I will agree. I have bought a couple K of wolf primers to try and picked up some bullets from a supplier that still has good prices. I have been set on brass and powder for some time. Last .308 brass was $80 per K for processed and the last .223 was $65 for 3K of range brass.

I have surplus from 4-10 years ago put away. I would like to pick up a few molds but they always seem to be out of stock. Have everything I need to cast but a few molds.

Many threads on many boards about new guys getting into reloading. This is a good thing but there are some that buy everything in sight if they see it.

"Quote"I don't get the whole 'gotta be mil spec' primer lust bit. No one is using sealant or crimping their primers, so why all the bother?"Quote"

I do not know about the "gotta be a mil spec primer" but I do have some and I do have ammo that is sealed. I load ammo for the short term and the long term. Long term ammo get's sealed on the neck and primer. Some of us old guys remember.