Originally Posted by
15meter
And this is a large part of the current inventory problem. There are people who are grabbing what ever they can, regardless of price to fill up their basement.
When it was a one or two sleeve per day limit, they were going to the gunshop every day. Didn't matter if they needed the primers.
Reasons were varied, use them as barter goods when the world collapsed, sell at a scalpers profit, convinced martial law was coming and the sale was going to be banned. I heard all those over the last 3 years.
Personally, I was lucky in the 3-4 years prior to election season 2020 I came across a half dozen dead guy sales on craigslist and garage sales and picked up more powder and primers than I will likely use in my lifetime.
And got them for cheaper than free, I've sold off the stuff I had no interest in or use for and made a profit along the way. 2020 and the deals disappeared.
Crazy kind of stuff, there was a flier at one of the gun clubs for a MEC 650 for $100. I ignored it for a couple of months because I didn't think I needed a 4th 12 gauge progressive press. I finally broke down and called the guy.
While I was looking at it, he pulled out 11 pounds of 700x, 50 pounds of 7-1/2's, a 1000 primers(Alcans!), a 1000 wads and a couple of grocery bags with AA once fired hulls.
Yeah, for $100 I bought it. Cleaned up and tuned up the press then put it on craigslist for $150.
Don't see that much anymore. Another 2-3 years and there'll be a fresh wave of dead guy/panic bought stuff coming back on the market.
And during the worst of it I was able to keep multiple buddies shooting, I've sold 10000-12000 primers in the last 12 months to buddies when they ran low at non-scalper prices.
Guys I'd offer a brick to and they only took a half so somebody else could have a some if they needed them.
Quality kind guys.