Which vendor gets products first from mfgs?

[KentG]

Trying to find and BO some of the unobtainium 55 gr Hornady bullets. Midway isn’t even taking BO's, most other vendors I see like Natchez is listing the same delivery date of 2014 for ETA. The current situation is understandable. Does anyone have any insight on who gets first shipments? I have the usual in stock notifications as most of us may have with vendors but someone has to be top of the list to get stuff I would think.

I have a small stash of 69gr SMK loaded for use and some surp 55 gr stuff like PMC TAC I’d prefer to hold that back for a rainy day and that should get me by for a while but I’d like to not get into the reserve stuff.

BTW another shout out for Powder Valley. I got an invoice and tracking # for my latest order of supplies in this crazy market and they did NOT mark up prices from what they were a month ago.

Edited January 16, 2013 by Kent Grewe

[Boxer1]

Best advice on Midway is to put a Notify me and have the email sent to your phone. I do this so I get updated when no backorder items become available again.

[gose]

Just place a few backorders here and there.

Worst case you'll end up with more than you need, but selling that for cost, or more, shouldnt be an issue in this market...

[mertbl]

id imagine brownells and midway are probably the 800 lb gorillas that get first shipments.