re: fire arm and ammo craze? Looking for some opinions

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The only bad thing about reloading during these times is that it takes longer for reloading equipment to fill the shelves. Ammo is spit out quicker whereas something like primers take a bit before they fill up supply. And with backorders on those things too, I wonder when we will see a normal inventory of reloading supplies.

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Very true....
One thing I started doing is buying components in larger quantities. For example, summer '11 I bought 30# of gun powder from here LINK /. At the time, they had a flat $5 shipping fee for <50#. Even now, it's only $7.95. Even w/ the $20 hazardous shipping fee, by ordering a large quantity of powder, you can save some money. I bought 4K primers right after Sandy Hook, but already wish I'd bought more. A little later I bought a large # of bullets from Berry's LINK /. The bullets are on backorder for another wk or so, but I don't need them immediately anyway. As far as the availability of handloading components, the biggest problem is usually primers. Not much wigle room for error as there's only 4 primer makers in the US.....