I wonder if I should keep hunting down reloading supplies or just wait it out and go back to factory rounds.
Why not do both?
Well I will with the more expensive rounds. But for stuff like 9mm particularly I'm wondering if in the future it will be worth it. Nobody I knew wanted to bother reloading 9mm before the panic, so the question is will ever come down to ~19cpr again.
so the question is will ever come down to ~19cpr again.
Yeah, that's the big question, alright.
My bottleneck with reloading has been primers for over a year now. IF you can find bulk primers cheap then you can reload below market price (not counting labor) but lately that has not been possible in my market.
I bought a good amount of SRP before the panic, so I can do .223 and .300 blackout for a song. But jumping into any more calibers is a losing game right now. Last time my LGS got SRP in he was charging $35 for 3 trays and midway is limiting to 1 box per order.
Yup, its not economical to press.
For what it's worth, I've been told by two places and family in a different state recently that prices are heading south and supply is returning to normal.
Recently priced some bulk 9mm. Steel to brass case target fmj 9mm ranged from $350-$600. Still crazy insane but that is beginning to drop some.
I've seen prices start dropping but also hear of a lot of "it's never going back to what it was".
Hunting down primers and even powder sometimes is a full time job. If it ever eases back to close where it was I'm gonna stack $1000s of reloading supplies and just keep them dry for when the next phase of bullshit starts. Guys that did this previously have been sailing through the panic.
Even if I paid $100 for 1000 primers it's still going to be cheaper for me to reload than paying 30, 40, 50 cents for wolf steel case trash. Bullets and cases are still easy to get at least. The sports store near me just started putting powder on the shelves again too. Primers will definitely be delayed. They are all going to ammo manufacturers atm.
Yeah my LGS is charging closer to .12 per. But my stock I bought at .4
It'd be useful to graph the cost of primers vs ammo going forward and see the trends, which is dropping faster, etc.
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