Ever since I moved into my new house in ~2012 my press and all of my reloading stuff has been in temperature and humidity controlled storage. Honestly I just haven't been shooting so much. I mostly just grabbed a box of 100 rounds here or there and went to the range when I had some spare time.
I have a suppressor coming and it's considerably cheaper to reload my own subsonic 9mm rounds than it is to buy them - granted I will spend time and effort doing the reloading it's not so bad with the Dillon and honestly - I enjoy it.
Thankfully I have a few thousand small pistol primers on hand ... because I can't seem to find them in stock anywhere!?!?!. Bullets? No problem. Brass? No problem. Powder? No problem. Primers? NOPE.
Is this a new/recent issue - or is there some sort of longer term pistol primer shortage going on? I ask because I haven't reloaded in so long I just have no idea if this is an ongoing thing or more of a temporary one.
Beyond that - holy crap primers have gotten expensive. $0.08~$0.12 each! Granted they don't seem to be in stock anywhere so......
At any rate even with it all being expensive - it's still cheaper than buying factory ammo and I enjoy the process of making my own loads.
Don't mind the mess - nothing is organized yet - I basically just took everything out of the boxes and assembled it roughly to make sure I have everything I need. A few parts seem to have gone missing so I'm waiting on them before I can really get started.
I have a suppressor coming and it's considerably cheaper to reload my own subsonic 9mm rounds than it is to buy them - granted I will spend time and effort doing the reloading it's not so bad with the Dillon and honestly - I enjoy it.
Thankfully I have a few thousand small pistol primers on hand ... because I can't seem to find them in stock anywhere!?!?!. Bullets? No problem. Brass? No problem. Powder? No problem. Primers? NOPE.
Is this a new/recent issue - or is there some sort of longer term pistol primer shortage going on? I ask because I haven't reloaded in so long I just have no idea if this is an ongoing thing or more of a temporary one.
Beyond that - holy crap primers have gotten expensive. $0.08~$0.12 each! Granted they don't seem to be in stock anywhere so......
At any rate even with it all being expensive - it's still cheaper than buying factory ammo and I enjoy the process of making my own loads.
Don't mind the mess - nothing is organized yet - I basically just took everything out of the boxes and assembled it roughly to make sure I have everything I need. A few parts seem to have gone missing so I'm waiting on them before I can really get started.
I think there is a lot more to the price of primers than just a shortage. I don't think our friends and partners in the primer business are really looking out for us. 
