Firearms writer and forum member

dennis40x · #1 09-12-2009, 02:20 PM

Firearms writer and forum member pays sixty dollars for one thousand small pistol primers. When is the herd going to stop stampeding? Even the connected to the trade have had problems.

OKFC05 · #2 09-12-2009, 02:49 PM

"Heard? Heard what?"

"No, herd, like a cow herd."

"What do I care what the cow heard? I don't have secrets from cows."

Abbott and Costello

dennis40x · #3 09-12-2009, 03:34 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by OKFC05

"Heard? Heard what?"

"No, herd, like a cow herd."

"What do I care what the cow heard? I don't have secrets from cows."

Abbott and Costello

Thank you!!!!!!!

Skip Sackett · #4 09-12-2009, 04:38 PM

You would have thunk he would have knowed better!

Just goes to prove the old adage about "experts"!

(Who was it?)

chessail 77 · #5 09-12-2009, 04:59 PM

If'n ya wants to play then ya gots to pay....

canoe on the yukon · #6 09-12-2009, 06:23 PM

Who's on first and what's on second?.....Yeah.

Black_Sheep · #7 09-12-2009, 06:52 PM

If you need primers what do you do? Drive around town hoping you can find some and the price will be cheaper? Gas and time are worth something so it's going to cost you either way...

David LaPell · #8 09-12-2009, 06:54 PM

Wow, I can still get 1000 primers for $40 here locally. I must be lucky.

Skip Sackett · #9 09-12-2009, 08:44 PM

$30 for CCI round here. Haven't ever had to pay more than $22 that I can remember. That was for Federals though!

Ron H. · #10 09-12-2009, 09:09 PM

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Originally Posted by dennis40x

Firearms writer and forum member pays sixty dollars for one thousand small pistol primers. When is the herd going to stop stampeding? Even the connected to the trade have had problems.

Sir, maybe he was under deadline. Sometimes there just isn't time to shop around for the best deal.

Hope this helps, and Semper Fi.

Ron H.

epj · #11 09-12-2009, 10:33 PM

Primers are beginning to show up around here priced at $35/K regardless of brand. I picked up some extra LP the other day, and there were some of just about every size on the shelf. A couple of weeks ago, at a local gunshow some guy had primers priced at $65/K, but I didn't see anyone buying.

Jellybean · #12 09-13-2009, 02:33 PM

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Even the connected to the trade have had problems.

I quess the old saying is true, "what goes around, comes around".

Andy Griffith · #13 09-13-2009, 05:51 PM

Why pay for gun writing when there is plenty of great information free online with the exception of paying your monthly telephone bill?

If he bought them for that price for any other reason besides writing about the high price of primers, that's just not smart at all.

ArchAngelCD · #14 09-13-2009, 06:19 PM

Here in NE PA the prices run from $29.95 to $34.95/1000. I'm not happy with those prices and haven't bought any primers since the prices went over $24.95/1000. Hopefully the prices will come down to ~$20/1000 again sometime in the furtre. (but I'm not holding my breath)

epj · #15 09-15-2009, 08:51 AM

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Originally Posted by ArchAngelCD

Here in NE PA the prices run from $29.95 to $34.95/1000. I'm not happy with those prices and haven't bought any primers since the prices went over $24.95/1000. Hopefully the prices will come down to ~$20/1000 again sometime in the future. (but I'm not holding my breath)

I, too, am not holding my breath. While I'd love to see $20/K primers, I'm more hopeful of $30/K primers. The retailers have discovered that we will pay $35-45/K without a whimper. What incentive do they have to lower prices? Once there are more primers on the shelf than they can sell, then prices may begin to drift down. That, folks, is going to take a while. My personal crystal ball sees that event as being at least a year or more away, if ever. As primers become more widely available, reloaders who were caught without lifetime supplies on hand in the last shortage will begin to build a stash as insurance against the next shortage. Any bump in the supply chain road, real or imaginary, will likely send the price soaring again. I offer the pump price of gasoline as a prime example of this phenomena.

moonshinew · #16 09-15-2009, 10:50 AM

Paid $35/1K for CCI SP a couple of weeks ago at the local funshow. Felt lucky to find them.

canoeguy · #17 09-15-2009, 11:26 AM

I, too was confronted with $60 per 1000 Large Rifle Primers the other day, but had to pay. Here on the Eastern Shore of Virginia, we have no reloading component vendors. The closest dealers are across the Chesapeake Bay Bridge Tunnel, an hour and a half drive and a $17 toll...

We were across the Bay the other day, figured I'd combine a trip and get some primers for my new 45/70 rifle, the only place that had them in stock were priced at $6.00 a box, $60 per thousand. They had me by the short and curlys, so I got 400 to tide me over till I can get with somone to share hazmat fees, and get some shipped.

A "Shame on You" to all the retailers out there that are gouging shooters for primers....

Gun 4 Fun · #18 09-15-2009, 11:54 AM

They're still running $50-55/K here for even the foreign brands.

mtb1bkr · #19 09-15-2009, 04:37 PM

I stocked up last year in NC on the Marine Corps base. I bought about 20K of mixed primers at the shocking price of $16 per K. I should have sold them all off earlier this year and I could have likely paid off my bike and still have enough to buy more primers at the current price.

Bill