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    Remington Small Pistol Primers Discontinued.

    I received two notifications today from Midway USA that Remington 1 1/2 and 7 1/2 small pistol primers have been discontinued. Does anyone know if this is a long term Midway stocking decision or Remington getting out of the pistol primer business?
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    Who purchased Remingtons ammo division?
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    Quote Originally Posted by prepare View Post
    Who purchased Remingtons ammo division?
    Vista Outdoor. I think this article may explain why. Remington Ammo furloughed about half it's staff and was operating at 10% capacity. Now Vista is working on getting things up and running again.


    https://www.arkansasonline.com/news/...set-to-return/

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    Vista owns CCI and it makes no sense to run two primer lines. But I will miss Remington primers, I liked them better than CCI's.
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    Are there any American ammo/components facilities that Vista DOESN'T own other than Olin/Winchester, Black Hills and Hornady?
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    Quote Originally Posted by mack7.62 View Post
    Vista owns CCI and it makes no sense to run two primer lines. But I will miss Remington primers, I liked them better than CCI's.
    Oh I don’t know seems like given the demand for ammo and reloading components it makes a lot of sense to operate more than one plant capable of producing primers.

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    Quote Originally Posted by mack7.62 View Post
    Vista owns CCI and it makes no sense to run two primer lines. But I will miss Remington primers, I liked them better than CCI's.
    Vista is running at max capacity, and has a huge backlog. They need every primer they can get right now. They're probably tearing down & doing QC on what's there before going to full production. To think they'd shut a line down for anything more than maintenance when ammo is at a 50-100% premium & people are buying 110% of production? That's economically illiterate.

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    Well economic illiteracy is one of several reasons Remington shit the bed and went under.

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    Quote Originally Posted by mack7.62 View Post
    Vista owns CCI and it makes no sense to run two primer lines. But I will miss Remington primers, I liked them better than CCI's.
    Vista already runs two primer lines. Federal has their own primer line also. I would be surprised if they didn't start Remington's primer lines back up. Primers are handled as explosives and shipping them in from an offsite facility for ammo production vs. moving them from building to building on the property would be very expensive and a logistical nightmare.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Nightvisionary View Post
    Does anyone know if this is a long term Midway stocking decision or Remington getting out of the pistol primer business?
    I'm guessing the former...

    Neither Midway nor Brownells ever want to admit "We don't carry this anymore," and instead they usually fib and say an item is "discontinued."

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