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Numerous powder notifications from Midsouth today if anyone is in need.

Sitting down and relaxing for the first time since about 0200 Monday. Plowed overnight, home in the morning to do day job, scarfed down a late lunch, then back out. Home around 2200, checked & responded to some work email, since I technically left a little early. Up at 0400 with a migraine, head to the office for day job; home to clean my drive & put everything away. Will have some dinner, sit in front of the PC & Boob-tube for a few hours then hope for some solid sleep. I had it easy compared to the guys up North though.

NOBODY TAKE THEM! Stop helping Tex clear out his place, the longer it takes, the longer he has to stick around. Cool stuff, and great offer.

Since June, the best price I got was $35 /1000 and the highest was $55 /1000, NOT including hazmat, shipping or tax. Factor all costs in and I've paid a low of $0.04965 and high of $0.07566 each. These have been for CCI & Federal SPP. The killer now aside from finding any at all, is some places are limiting you to 1k. For me, 1000 does not make it worth the shipping & hazmat fees. I did it once early on, and paid nearly as much in hazmat, shipping & tax as I did for the primers themselves. I intend to never do that again.

My mail carrier left a tag in my mailbox on Monday saying they refused to deliver the box due to the weight, I had to pick it up. When I picked it up Wednesday, the worker in the PO said she didn't understand why it wasn't delivered. She had me go to the backroom to pick it up though, she didn't bring it out to me. The actual weight was 63#. USPS website says limit is 70# for Priority Mail, which is how it was shipped (2-Day Priority, BTW). This was an order for 3500 projectiles, she did deliver 3000 previously. I will say it "feels" heavier than 63#, possibly due to the compact size. I have assemblies at work in the 80#+ range I move around that feel lighter, but they are larger and have good handholds. Anyway... Order was placed on 1/13, email claiming they were shipped on 1/15. Should have been delivered on 1/25 (remember the 2-Day Priority bit from above). No real issue with the time since I did not have an immediate need for them. My only complaint would be that they did not provide a tracking number. I contemplated sending Summit City an email, but why bother really? 3500 rounds were packaged in three smaller boxes in one USPS Priority Mail box covered in tape to maintain the integrity of the box. All three boxes have printed labels with the specs of the projectiles. All three labels have printed qty of 1000, on two of the boxes that quantity was crossed out and 1250 handwritten in place. Visually there is a difference in the amount in the boxes. The coating appears consistent and I did not see any defects. I measured about a dozen of them: for overall length and width near the base. I measured less than 0.001" of a variation between them. It will probably be a while before I actual load any. I do not see a reason not to purchase from them again if the price was right. From what I've seen online the new discount code is "discord5" for 5% off.

I'll take all three boxes at $75 each contingent on your offer to meet within 15 miles of your zip. Sending a PM.

I use that discord as well, I picked a bad night to go to bed early. Congrats on the score.

Not to mention risky as heck.

If the OP is still around... one thought I'd add is availability to practice. You may find it easier to find a place to practice with a pistol caliber rifle, like a 9mm PCC, than an AR in 5.56 or a .30 caliber rifle, or others. I've looked at the Appleseed before when I saw it on here. Nothing in NJ or Del, but they do have some dates in Pa. Good timing since I need to schedule my vacation time for spring/summer now. Thanks for the reminder. On the CMP front, I need to get a letter from my club, proving I'm a member, then I can put in my application/order.

@dajonga I tried to PM you, but the system said you couldn't receive messages. I've got a couple of questions for you if you don't mind. PM me or text me if you've still got my # please. Thanks, Kevin

I'm still waiting for delivery. They claim shipped on 1/15, but no tracking number, so who knows? I've gotten plenty of "shipped" notifications from other sellers, but all that means is they created the shipping label. Then it sits another week +/- before being picked up by the shipping company. I'm not in a rush, so not fretting it yet. Apparently code of Glen5 will get you 5% off now though.

Primers are next to impossible to find, unless you want to pay seriously stupid prices. Powder, projectiles and cases are available to varying degrees. Everything is significantly more expensive than it was 12 months ago. Equipment is for the most part available, again more expensive and you might not get exactly what you want. I spend way too much time online in search of components (mostly primers). The days of going to your favorite online shop or LGS and having your choice is long gone and will be for another 12-24 months based on estimates I've seen. There's more than one thread here talking about this btw.

Midway has various 9mm & .22 ammo available right now. Pricing is ehh....

I've seen Midway has had some over the last week or so. I almost picked some up, but they were around 13 cents per or more once shipping & tax was added.

Best price I've seen, granted I've only been pricing/buying for less than a year. 3500 124gr 9mm coated $239.50 to my door = $0.0684 per. https://summitcitybullets.com/pistol-bullets/9mm-bullets/124-grain-9mm-round-nose-no-lube-groove-bevel-base-Hi-Teck-coated-bullets

Another online thing. Sorta like reddit or a chat group. I'd never known it until I stumbled across it. Seems to be more popular with computer gamers; that's what my nephews use it for. I have the application installed (PC only, not phone) so I get alerts that come in as Windows Notifications. Either way, it's helped me get more ammo & reloading components than anything else. It puts ammoseek to shame.

It's out there, just goes very fast. Natchez had PMC 9mm for 25cpr (before shipping & tax) earlier today; it went OOS less than an hour of being posted on the discord. I've been using this discord to find both loaded ammo and reloading components. https://discord.gg/reloading

From Howell Gun Works' fb: Happy New Year everyone When we open tomorrow, Saturday 1-2-2021 we have a few Ruger 5.7 available 749.99 With each pistol purchase buyer can get up to 10 boxes of the lead free FN 5.7x28 @49 per box. Once all the pistols are sold out, whatever, if any of this ammo is left will be put out. Howell Gun Works is a federally licensed and state licensed Firearms dealer. All transfers must follow applicable laws.

Thanks for the input. On a progressive press, the die head is stationary, while the shell plate rotates, correct? That seems to me that it would eliminate some additional vibration in the dispenser.

I came across a couple of videos discouraging the use of a dispenser on a turret. The logic being that the vibration causes the powder to settle/compact which causes inconsistent throws. One guy even did a test which did show inconsistent charges. While I cannot see a reason to argue with his results on the surface, it does raise some questions. First, why would manufactures, such as Lee, produce such a design with their Turret press? It wouldn't seem to me that the auto-indexing design would cause less vibration vs manual indexing. If anything, I'd think the heavier weight and design of a manual indexing press would reduce vibration compared to (for example) the lighter weight Lee. Next, the examples I've seen are dealing with larger rifle loads for example, 26 grains. How would a small pistol charge compare, for example something in the 3 to 6 grain realm. I've also read about the use of a baffle to help keep charges consistent, making me wonder if that would help. I'm wondering if anyone has done their own testing, similar to the one in the video, but with a smaller charge. I will likely do my own, but I'm waiting on delivery of a powder through die. Here's one of the videos: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q3NR06Cp0MM

They do allow you to split the initial contribution fee into four payments.

I've been a member there a little over two years now. New members are still being accepted, but it is still a slow process due to the wuhan flu restrictions. The guy handling memberships is only doing ten people at a time, I'm not sure how often, possibly once a week? I know @eyeinstine applied some time ago. My buddy mailed in his application about a month ago and has not heard anything yet. The monthly membership meetings have been suspended, so no recent updates. We can't have them indoors like usual, they ran them outside through the fall, but decided to stop due to the colder weather. The indoor range is still 24/7 (minus a couple of hours a week for cleaning), but is at stupid limited capacity. I use the pits more than any other part of the range and have always found an open one, even on weekends when half are being used for competitions. There was only one time so far that they were almost all in use, I think two were open when I got there. I was very hesitant to layout the cash since I'd never been there as a guest/visitor in advance and delayed joining for a few years. My only regret has been not joining sooner.

I can't help Bob, but this answers the exemption question. https://www.njportal.com/NJSP/Fars/IndividualSeller/PermitExecutionHome Person_Person_transfer_NICS_exemption.pdf

Without doing an actual analysis, I'd say most were a direct buy from LGS/FFL. Followed by something found online, but a F2F transaction at a FFL (no shipping involved and I saw/touched what I was buying before paying). I've only paid for something I did not see first twice. Those were consignment sales posted on a LGS fb page. One turned out great, the other I regret.

Interesting, my friend uses the same PD. He waited 4+ month for his initial FID and is now two months into his wait for a P2P. He screwed up and didn't request the P2P at the same time as his initial FID.