Unless you're in that narrow window of life where you don't expect to outlast your ammo/component supply, use the replacement cost.

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Neither am I. I am aware the days of $35 bricks are gone. But $100? Come on! And it’s not about customers paying it so it continues. There is no stock on the shelves. Maybe if you have a big box store like Cabelas or Bass Pro near you, you can sometimes find some. The three local shops I used to buy from have zero. Nothing. It’s not about hoarders buying them up when they arrive. They never get to the shops. It’s all going to loaded ammo? Where’s the shortage of that now? Ammo is everywhere. Higher priced, but it’s there.

Either they’re holding back production or shipment to inflate the price, or they’re using the primers for loaded ammo so they can charge more, but there is no doubt the market is being manipulated to maximize their profits to screw the consumer. If they’re using all the primers to make loaded ammo, there should be so much of it that the price should fall. Yet it’s not. 9MM is double what it was three years ago. If and when this settles, the new normal
Will be $75 a brick. More than double what it used to be.