It has been pretty bleak on the reloading aisle for the last several years. The necessary bits and pieces for building ammunition have been missing. There’s been rumors about how somewhere else in the country they have shelves full and no limits on how much you can buy. The interesting thing about the rumors I have heard is that in fairly short order I’ll talk to someone else from the same area and they say they can’t find anything either.
But recently, as the factory loaded ammunition has gotten easier to find and calibers that hadn’t been on the shelf have started to show up and stay for more than a minute or two, the reloading aisle is getting back to having actual reloading components on the shelves.
We are not out of the woods yet. Not by a long shot, but as I write this we have some pistol primers and some small rifle primers on the shelf. There were, for a short time, large rifle primers. And they will show up again. Brass is still tough. I expect it to get better as the
