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Gotta give them credit

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Gotta love it, Warhorse Munitions out of Green Bay, Wisconsin is charging .20 cents a primer (they should be about .08 cents) for small pistol primers. I sent them a nasty gram via postcard today. Then I realized, give them their due, at least they went to Italy and got some. MidwayUSA and Brownells sit there like a bump on a log waiting for what crumbs CCI throws them. Midsouth Shooters Supply doesn’t even do that much.

By checking Midway and Brownells 3 times a day the past month like some sort of possessed madman, I’ve been able to pick up 6,000 primers, so I guess I shouldn’t be too hard on them. The whole thing is such a shock as I’m old enough to remember when you could walk into a store and buy anything you wanted. But when I saw Warhorse was charging even more than Zincpoint, I blew a gasket! .20 cents is about what you should pay for an entire round, not for a primer!

And to Zincpoint’s credit, they went down to Argentina and got primers. The rest of the ammunition industry just sits there and lets the Second Amendment blow away.

WARHORSE MUNITIONS COMPANY INC
5293 Edgewater Beach Road
Green Bay, WI 54311
Telephone: 920-680-7263

THAT close!

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Last week (for the first time in 18 months), primers were for sale. I immediately order some. I miss on the first go around because by the time I get my address changed they were no longer in my ‘cart’, they were sold out. I wait a couple of days and bam! I order them! Well hold on, when I changed my address Brownells changed my ‘shipping’ address, but not my ‘billing’ address. Well that should still work right? They got the shipping address?

Well when delivery was attempted Saturday, Brownells hadn’t bothered to tell me that “adult signature required“. I wasn’t home! First primers in a year and a half, they’re at my doorstep and they’re not delivered?? How was I supposed to know a signature was required?? If that’s standard procedure, why don’t you tell people?

Then I got to thinking, if they attempted delivery at “10:39 am”, why wasn’t there a notice on my door? Did they actually attempt delivery at the old address? Of course you can’t just call the local Fed Ex office, you have to call a 1-800 number! The local office won’t be open till 9 am Monday. The first primers in a year and a half and I can’t get them! You took my money without a hitch, you figured out how to do that, you just can’t figure out how to give me my damn primers! And all this is for damn small rifle primers, of course you don’t have the coveted small pistol primers. So I have to pay ungodly sums, for the wrong thing, and I can’t even get them delivered!

[10/4 update: The primers were left on the doorstep Monday afternoon. I don’t think Brownells got what they/me were paying for when they shipped though Fed Ex. If it required an “adult signature” on Saturday, why wasn’t an adult signature required on Monday? They just left it then. And if they brought the package to Ames Saturday, why wasn’t it left at the Ames office? Why would you take it back 50 minutes to Grimes? And who attempts a package and doesn’t leave a notice? I don’t think it was brought to Ames on Saturday. Oh, and the very day after I order the small rifle primers to make do with them, small pistol primers are on their site.]