Are components getting harder to get?

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Davidf

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I'm not sure if I'm just unlucky, but I seem to be having a harder time getting compents these days.

Wholesale sports won't ship powder or primers anymore.

Plus it's been really tough to get bullets here in Ontario. This summer I worked up an optimal .270 load for hunting with Nosler 140 gr Accubonds and IMR 4350. Unfortunately I used most of the box of bullets (didn't know of any reason to conserve). About September I started trying to get another box for hunting season. Still no luck. My good friend at Irfan is still waiting for his supplier to get them.

By mid November I was desparate to have something for the Saskatchewan deer season. I couldn't find a premium hunting bullet anywhere! Finally I used 140 gr Hornady Inter-Locs and W760 powder. No time to work up a load or even sight in carefully. I wound up loading these the night before I left. The good news is although I have no idea about my group size, or consistancy, these worked. Also, for the first time ever I recovered a bullet from a deer. I had to shoot him three times to stop him from running down into a nasty ravine so I don't know where the bullet entered (either the front shoulder or through a rib) but I found the bullet in his rear knee. It had opened up well but the mushroom was very off side. Plus the bullet had lost over half it's weight.

Anyway, is anyone else having more trouble than usual getting components?
 
I'm finding the same thing happening.
I have to order most of my components, but then most of my guns are in the older calibers.
I think the major mail order stores are a little optimistic with their catalogues.
Have you ever actually found 250 Savage or 300 H&H brass in the stores when the catalogue lists it. When I do find it I buy all I can carry.
Up here I depend a lot on friends or other people on the GN board who sometimes sell components.

Pickles
 
cant speak for your area, but here in BC, most decent hunting shops carry a good selection of bullets and powder.

Higginsons ships Hodgdon & IMR powders for a good price, and Winchester primers

Russell SPorts and Wholesale, or SIR, should have just about any bullet you want, in stock.
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I also buy extra when shopping but it does happen that I’m sometime short on supplies. Lucky our sporting good stores are stocked. I do however go down to Cabela’s and stock on supplies when I can.
 
I just got a 5lb. can of SR7625 from Wholesale, and it was shipped to me. If there is an idiot in shipping when you order, you end up not even paying the hazmat fee.
 
I did find it hard to find my 130 gr CT Ballistic tips for my .270 this fall but should have known not to order so close to hunting season. Next year Im going to have 100 premium rounds loaded ready to go and extra powder, bullets, primers ect... in case I need more rounds. when we go hunting we shoot coyotes, rocks ect... so rounds tend to go buy pretty quick.

Cheers!!
 
agiti-prop,
in my area going three places would be like going to three different cities (even then it would be touch & go if you could get what you wanted in said three cities & would probably take you 2 or more days to travel said distance) & not towns as C-68 finished the Mom & Pop shops, that handled a bit of reloading things, in most towns & many small cities.
 
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Wholesale never has what I want in stock, I have stopped asking them. I go straight to P&D they will ship. excellent selection and service, slightly more money than Wholesale, worth it to me.
 
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