Primers?

[Triple G]

I think this is just the start, Americans are hoovering up stocks of everything at present.
Just look around, no stock is becoming a way of life regarding reloading components in the U.K.
It will get worse before it gets better.

[Black Beard]

I think it will take another year. There is a huge pent up demand which has not been met. As soon as things become available, they will be bought. People will also buy more to have a stock of components so powder, primers and jacketed bullets will be in short supply.

[AlBur]

Anyone tried any of the HK primers. Specially made for HK. Somewhat cheaper than any of the other makes currently available.

Al

[sarge4318]

...the worst I've used were Magtec lots of duffers, and the one lot the cups were so thick you had to hit a few times before they'd go off and tight to prime the cases, but having said it might have just been a bad lot I've used a lot of them in the past with no problems, ...

This is strange, perhaps as you say a bad batch.
I've loaded loads, many thousands, of 223 with them and never had an issue with light strikes or fail to fire, even won several NRA CSR matches with them. I have loaded a couple hundred 44mag also with no problems but here the sample is much smaller.

[sarge4318]

Anyone tried any of the HK primers. Specially made for HK. Somewhat cheaper than any of the other makes currently available.

Al

The large pistol ones are made in Bosnia and Herzegovina and seem to be OK, I've only tried 100 so far but no issues just yet. I had the small pistol and both rifle sizes but gave them to a club member to try. Some were made in B+H and some in another eastern european country.
It is advised to use Large Rifle primers in a machine primer rather than with a hand primer, not sure why but reports of hard insertion have circulated.

[CROWMAN]

Just for interest I tried my Murom KVB 223 competition primers yesterday, 30 rounds fired, no problems at all.

I'm glad about that as I purchased 1000 of them!