Primers

Ruger007 said:
How are you finding the S&B? I have used a pile in pistols. Never made the jump to LR.
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So far with the large rifle primers I can't tell any difference at all compared to the 210Ms in my FTR loads. In the small primer Lapua 308 brass I think I lost ground, but I'm not a fan of that system anyway.

S&Bs seem to have a quiet cult following with the weight-sort their primers on a lab scale crowd, and maybe they pick up a point a season that way, or maybe some team decisions were made. Or maybe they all just read the same article that I found. ;)
 
EC said:
I doubt it.
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You can have all the doubts you like. I need not explain my shooting habits nor my buying habits to anyone. But if it makes you uncomfortable, then I'm happy to tell you that I buy a whole 12 pack of Kraft Dinner at a time, even though we only eat a few boxes per year. I suppose having extra KD makes me a KD hoarder.

Best of luck to you. I hope you don't run out of primers or KD.

To the OP, CCI primers have served me well. In the current market conditions I would say buy whatever you can get your hands on.
 
cbh560 said:
You can have all the doubts you like. I need not explain my shooting habits nor my buying habits to anyone. But if it makes you uncomfortable, then I'm happy to tell you that I buy a whole 12 pack of Kraft Dinner at a time, even though we only eat a few boxes per year. I suppose having extra KD makes me a KD hoarder.

Best of luck to you. I hope you don't run out of primers or KD.

To the OP, CCI primers have served me well. In the current market conditions I would say buy whatever you can get your hands on.
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You are right you don't but I am responding to what you said. When you say "I currently have about 15k in the cupboard and buy a few thousand more about once a month" that tells me you are not shooting as some else said 3000 rds a month. To me that is hoarding, if you don't agree that's fine as well, you know what they say about opinions.
 
EC said:
You are right you don't but I am responding to what you said. When you say "I currently have about 15k in the cupboard and buy a few thousand more about once a month" that tells me you are not shooting as some else said 3000 rds a month. To me that is hoarding, if you don't agree that's fine as well, you know what they say about opinions.
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Hoarding? I don't see it that way.

Primers store well. They don't have a "Best Before" date.

They will eventually all get used. Some of us use them faster than others.

They are sometimes on sale or on clearance. A dealer got out of selling Remington primers and sole them off at $6.00 a brick of 1,000. I bought 20,000. Still have some.

Hence the phrase often quoted here "Buy cheap, stack deep."

Buying primers cheap converts wealth from paper to an equity. The difference between gold and primers is that gold sometimes goes down in value.
 
I keep a healthy stock, the reasons for such activities are easily seen why I do it are apparent now. Some may call it hoarding, but when I get told out of stock when i use some i know why i stock not hoard.
 
I definitely hoard, as Ganderite mentioned "buy them cheap". I always seem to impress myself with a substantial but economical component buy thinking " I'll never go trough that amount in my lifetime" and invariably I impress myself a second time a couple of years later when I run out of my lifetime supply, lol :)
 
JJ-65 said:
I start getting edgy when my rifle primer supply dips below 50K. Same with 22 rimfire.
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I guess hoarding is more common place than I thought. I understand being prepared but if you get "edgy" when your supply drops below 50k that's your issue.
 
EC said:
I guess hoarding is more common place than I thought. I understand being prepared but if you get "edgy" when your supply drops below 50k that's your issue.
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Not when you're shooting a lot.

Everyone's circumstances are different when it comes to shooting and how much they shoot or are comfortable having on hand.

I know folks that never purchase more than a hundred primers, one pound of powder and one hundred projectiles at a time. The components last them for a couple of years.

You just can't compare that with a competitive shooter or a shooter that has found a load, with components they like for several different firearms, they shoot regularly and like to have the same lot # for those components on hand for several years of shooting or enough to wear out the barrel of a particular rifle.

Occasional shooters, say less than a thousand rounds per year and not overly concerned with the best but still wanting acceptable to them accuracy, can get away with and save money purchasing enough components for a thousand rounds of bullets or less if that's all their budget/needs allow.
 
Ruger007 said:
How are you finding the S&B? I have used a pile in pistols. Never made the jump to LR.
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I've just started a box of S&B Large Rifle, and have been comparing groups of the same .308 loads (BLC-2 & 155 Amax) using S&B & Winchester primers at different powder charges. Surprisingly the Winchester has so-far shown consistently smaller groups and fewer flyers. One advantage of the S&B however is that they seem slightly bigger and are still snug in the primer pockets of brass that is starting to get worn-out.
 
apu said:
What are folks take on the Campro/ginex primers?
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I would also like to know. Im thinking about picking up 2000 just incase this drought keeps up. Whats everyone's thoughts on how long this will last. Will it be like hand sanitizer was, nothing and now an over abundance or will they continue to go up or reasonably priced will be sold out constantly.
 
Jon. said:
Yeah stupid everyone. Why buy 50k primers now for $$ when you could buy them over the next 10 years for exponentially more. Idiots.
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If you are buying 50k primers now to shoot over the next ten years that's not hoarding, yeah there are idiots out there.
 
EC said:
I guess hoarding is more common place than I thought. I understand being prepared but if you get "edgy" when your supply drops below 50k that's your issue.
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I have shot about 10.000 rounds this month and it's not over yet. Probably more ammo than you will shoot in your lifetime.
 
cbh560 said:
But if it makes you uncomfortable, then I'm happy to tell you that I buy a whole 12 pack of Kraft Dinner at a time, even though we only eat a few boxes per year. I suppose having extra KD makes me a KD hoarder.
Best of luck to you. I hope you don't run out of primers or KD.
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I'm good on primers but dreadfully low on KD units.
 
JJ-65 said:
I have shot about 10.000 rounds this month and it's not over yet. Probably more ammo than you will shoot in your lifetime.
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Good for you. You have no idea how much I shoot. It also depends what you are shooting. If you are shooting handgun for example it's a lot easier to shoot 10,000 rds a month vs if you are shooting precision rifle. I also don't hand load for pistol but can shoot pretty much as much as I want.
 
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