After the war…not during the war. And is it hoarding if you buy your primers when the shelves are full and theyre on sale? And then stop buying when they get scarce and the price skyrockets? 

Just went back and looked, Sept of 2015 Midway had Remington primers on clearance for $102.01 per 5000. I ordered 25,000. That was during Obama’s second term and after we couldn’t find 22LR for years. I didn’t need em then but I am glad I have them now. I was 33 years old then and wasn't interested in being caught short, ever.

Don't hold your breath on that guy from Texas and his primer factory. He had a "factory" here in Virginia that supposedly made ammo and powder he did the local show circut taking orders and deposits that were never delivered on then skipped out to Texas.

Get used to paying $100 for primers Wes.  I bet they stay that high for several years.   

Jack

When I started with the Schuetzen game, I was used to paying less than $10/1000 for all sizes and types of primers and remember being irritated to have to pay $14.95/1000 for Federal Small Rifle match.

Of course at that time my school teacher’s salary (with Master’s Degree) was just getting up to about $15,000 per year so I guess it’s all a matter of perspective.

Anyway, Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays to all!
Froggie

I have enough primers. I'm saving up for a spare tire and wheel for my Jeep. 

One time I did buy out a store of their primers. Bob Wards in Butte MT about ten years ago.

Complaining about Hoarding primers is not simple jealousy to some folks. Around here when the primer problems started the first time some idiots who don't and never will handload were buying them up "just because" thinking that they had found the latest version of a kugerand but with no intension of ever letting them go or offering them up for a dollar a primer. The biggist problem with primers right now is that they are going to all the scalpers first and not the legitimit shops who sell them at retail pricing.

Like everyone else here, I created a comfortable stash three years ago when the "war clouds" were forming. But I'm not made of money and sometimes another week of hot dogs and beans for the sake of extra thousands of primers was unpalatable. Regardless, I created what I jokingly referred to as a "lifetime supply", knowing full well that I would probably live more than a few years at my rate of consumption. Well, the actuarial tables worked in my favor and I'm coming to the end of a couple sizes of primers and am bleakly looking at rebuilding the stash of those sizes - balancing food and gas versus primers at usurious rates. (Adding some delicious new/old guns to the mix that required primers not covered by my fore sighted-ness when stocking up didn't help matters either.)

This is not meant as a complaint. But frankly when the limited supply of primers doled out by the Big Companies (obviously only that stuff which isn't needed for the more profitable ammo priorities) is scarfed up by guys with fat wallets who already have a crazy amount, then the guys with thin wallets take it even harder on the chin. The "I got mine, screw you" mentality is a very American trait, and has been for a long time.

Oh, and by the way, toothpaste tubes were most emphatically not made of lead. They were tin. The poisonous effects of lead were known long before toothpaste appeared in tubes. Empty tubes had to be turned in to get new ones because tin was a critical wartime resource. If you have old toothpaste tubes, save them to make tin:lead bullet alloys.