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I bet the powder was more expensive that it was a year ago.

CCI and Federal primers are around £100 / thousand at the moment, if you can get them. Main excuse seems to be the huge number of new gun owners in the US and demand for ammo. Things like covid, military demand, companies going bust etc also affect supply. 

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On 24/06/2022 at 22:05, dob said:

Ant idea why there is a shortage of rifle primers? Anyone know a supplier that’s got some ?

Where have you been for the last few years!!!!😁 There has been the perfect storm - elections in the US - apparently 5 million NEW gun owners. Now if each one of them wanted just 100 rounds that is an additional requirement for 500 million rounds that wasn't there previously. The bullet and primer manufacturers cannot keep up with demand from the ammunition manufacturers.

Then Covid came along and shut plants down for a period of time. Once they reopened they had reduced staff levels so the output was lower.

On the European front, Sellier and Bellot stopped exporting primers as they needed them to make their own ammunition which was experiencing an increase in demand.

There also happens to be a war going on which is using resources from all over the globe.

Shipping rates have gone up considerably too. I know one of the main importers and distributors has not had a full order from the US in over 2 years. I am also hearing importers say when primers are gone, there will be no more until 2024. Same with some powders from US. 

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