Those were the days my friend

[growr]

Those were the days my friend, we thought they'd never end.....

Yard sale find!! A whole carton of them....cost me $8.50.....

Randy

[StakeOut]

a pack= 100
a brick = 1000
a carton = ?

[Just another 22 shooter]

The seller definitely not up on current events.
Good on you growr!

[growr]

This was a brick of 1000.

Seems like they are late 60's or maybe early '70's....What do you all think?

Randy

[scattershot]

That’s an outstanding find. That’s about what they cost back then.

[HKSmith]

I started reloading in 1964 and bought primers from my LGS for 80 cents per 100 in that era. The primers shown look like late '60s. Adjusting for inflation, that's about $7.00 now. I think the lowest inflation adjusted price was around 2018-2019 when I bought 10,000 Unis/Ginex primers at $2.40 per 100.

[Rlg#17]

Took some out of the stash when I was reloading during this nonsense. Cci that were boxed just like that. Loaded over 5k of them and everyone went boom! .99 cents/100!

Those days are over I’m afraid. I’m thinking .08 cents a piece will be the new going rate…. I hope I’m wrong!

Regards,
Rick Gibbs

[S&WIowegan]

Congrats! Let us know if they're still good.

[Sevens]

Originally Posted by Rlg#17

. I’m thinking .08 cents a piece will be the new going rate….

THAT WOULD BE AMAZING!!!

I would love to pay .08 cents each!!!!

[Tu_S]

Originally Posted by StakeOut

a pack= 100
a brick = 1000
a carton = ?

With the 85cent price on the stickers and a quoted price of $8.50 for everything, I would guess he got what is more commonly referred to as a brick.

[Nevada Ed]

OK, I'll say it, sinse no one else has.............

GO out and buy ten Lotto tickets !!

Heck...........

twenty !!

[Ivan the Butcher]

I started reloading in 1979. In 1984 I had just bought a Dillon 450, just before they went customer direct, I loaded a batch of 5000 9mm with 124 gr LRN for my Select Fire MAC-10.

My next big project was 223. The Army had just gone to the Green Tip steel core ammo and Winchester surplused 50 Million 55 grain FMJBT/wC projectiles. I bought them in plane cardboard boxes by the 1000 at $8.99/1000. I bought 21,000! My project was to load 20,000 5.56 replacements. I bought WW 748 by the 8 pound container, and cleaned Central Ohio out of once fired brass. My primers were CCI Small Rifle Mag. at $7.99 1000 (full retail!)

I spent weeks decapping and swaging primer pockets. Then using RCBS Small Base Full Length Dies, 26.6 grains of WW748, I started assembling the rounds at 400 per hour! 800-1000 on weeknights and around 3500 to 4000 on Saturdays. Time off for work emergencies and Wednesday nights and Sunday off for church. It to pretty much every minute of September and about 1/2 or 3/4 of October! We had a baby October 23 (at home) and I remember being done by then!

I had to buy everything, and the loads cost me around 6 1/2 cents each plus time and the cost of the press & dies. PMC 55gr FMJ was $3.99/20 or $18.00/100 Winchester was about $1 more/100.

When we moved from the farm house to the condo 8 years ago, I still had 6000-6500 of the reloads left, I gave half to my son that is still local for his STAG lefty AR-15.

I have a large carpenters bag that holds ammo when I go to the range, I keep a couple hundred of my reloads in it, and about 30 types & weights of Factory 223 for finding out what a gun likes. The reloads, out of my Mini-14 were about 3"/100 yards. I got rid of the Mini's and in 1996 I bought a Bushmaster A4 20" 1:9 twist, full size M-16 clone (semi-auto!). With a Leupold 4.5-14x40mm Veri-X III and off a bench with sand bags, I did and still get 1/2"/100 groups. In my Cooper 21 (says 223, but actually has a 5.56 NATO chamber & 1:12 twist), I get 1/4"/100 or smaller groups!

My cheep ammo turned out pretty well. I do load 223 for varmint hunting and it shoots better. And I load some 1000 yard 223 ammo, but that's a whole different story!

During the 2009 shortage I was buying Federal Match 5000 full cases at about $35/1000 and Winchester WLP & WSP in full cases at about $31/1000. I ended up with 65,000 when this ammo crisis started. That is a long way from the 100,000 primers I bought in the mid 90's at $11/1000.

Ivan

[Maddog 521]

Those are "the good old days" prices. I remember buying primers for that price. I don't remember ever buying a whole brick but I bought 3 or 4 hundred at a time. Good find right there.

[Jack Flash]

And they're non-mercuric / non-corrosive!

[Patrick L]

Seriously, I would load up 5 or 10 rounds and test fire them before you load up hundreds of anything with them. Odds are they are fine, but the one single time I ever got burned was when I bought a brick of primers from a "friend" who decided loading just wasn't for him. Multiple hangfires, and at the time (probably 30 years ago now) those primers were only a few years old! Honestly, in all my years reloading this was the only bad experience I ever had buying used components, but it left an impression. Now I immediately test anything used.

Like I said, odds are they're fine. I hope so, and good score for you if they are!

[Rlg#17]

Originally Posted by Sevens

THAT WOULD BE AMAZING!!!

I would love to pay .08 cents each!!!!

Yes sir. Us also! 12 cents seems to be the going price for now. Not all good! But it’s what the wife and I do!

Regards,
Rick Gibbs

[Ivan the Butcher]

HANGFIRES!

Vance's Shooter's Supply on Cleveland Ave. in Columbus. There were getting a new flat roof installed around 1990. They would tear out an area of old roof and replace it. A fast moving thunderstorm dumped about 1 1/2 inches of rain in a couple hours. In the show room they grabbed guns and ammo, but the water came in heaviest in the corner where the primers were. A few weeks later I noticed a test batch of 9mm had about 30-40% hang and misfires. They just sold the ruined primers to the unsuspecting! I didn't buy primers there again, ever!

Ivan

[Skeet 028]

Good buy there growr. That is approx 1980 prices. I just gave a young fellow 100 CCI 200s for his Coyote loads. I had dated them like usual back then... 65 cents per 100 in 1969. A year before I opened my gun shop. I was just offered a 1000 Federal SP primers for 80 bucks. Didn't REALLY need 'em but I think that is going to be the new retail. So of course I bought them. I may trade them for Win or CCI. Haven't loaded Feds in a long time since most of my SSPs are loaded on Dillon machines. I also bought a 1000 Fed SPM primers a month or so ago at a gun show for 65 bucks. I traded them for 1000 CCI 450s or whatever they call their military primers(43s?) to load 223s with

[Nevada Ed]

I never thought that I wouldsee the day were you went to a Gun Show and.....

it turns out to be a swap meet.

Reminds me when I was nine or ten, in the play ground with my bag of marbles, sitting in the dirt with the guys.

[Sevens]

Just so we are all on the same page...

I was trying to make a funny because your post said that they were priced at .08 cents, which, if you do the math means that priced this way, they give you one hundred primers for 8 pennies.

Math joke, I guess.

8 cents is, well, 8 cents.

.08 cents is eight-hundredths of one cent.

Originally Posted by Sevens View Post
THAT WOULD BE AMAZING!!!

I would love to pay .08 cents each!!!!

Originally Posted by Rlg#17

Yes sir. Us also! 12 cents seems to be the going price for now. Not all good! But it’s what the wife and I do!

Regards,
Rick Gibbs

[CH4]

Great find!
Yard sales and second hand stores are definitely worth the effort. Nice people who often have no idea what they have or could care less.