Primer Prices South of the Border

[tootall]

Anybody remember the great prime famine of the ~early 90's?
For some reason, a rumour got started that a law was coming that would require all primers to be made so that they would go stale (no longer work) after a couple of years.
The fear was that the gov. could then ban all primer sales and all the current ones would be dead in a few years.
So the buying frenzy started.
After a few months, everyone that was concerned had stashed away a lifetime supply, and suddenly the factories had an oversupply. That was about the time I was going to a big gunshow in WA. I seem to remember the price being about $12/1000 or $55/5000.
Several times I bought a flat of 5000.

Funny thing is, I soon got into buying surplus ammo really cheap, so didn't do much reloading! Now I'm going to fire up the press and crank out some rounds with all the old components I have stashed away.

 

[blargon]

The same insider admitted that Federal did not ship any factory ammunition to Canada at all in 2008.
Orders being delivered now were originally placed in 2007.
Tack

Yeah, I'm not too worried now. If they're laying off people, they're caught up with the manufacturing orders. Whether they come to Canada or not is a different issue, and has nothing to do with them being behind in orders, or a war in Iraq...

The supply chain is full, it just may not be directed here...

 

[sevoman]

There seems to be a bit of a feeding frenzy in the States at the moment with anything gun related,including reloading components.There also looks like there is price gouging going on,how else do you explain the ridiculous prices of primers asked by some retailers($55/K?).I remember the same thing happening in the early 90's,and when everything settled down again,the prices slowly came down again to more reasonable levels.Hopefully the same will happen here.

To those folk thinking of stocking up now,youve probably missed the boat for getting good deals (it seems that finding any powder,primers etc at the moment at any price isnt easy),but probably,in a few months time,things will settle down and return somewhat to normal.In the meantime,I guess I will be shooting my 22's more!