Primer prices and availability at the mail order houses?

[Andy Griffith]

I don't understand why the mail order houses stay out of primers at the prices they ask for them, and then they have to add shipping and haz-mat on top of that!

I'm seeing them at the dealer level, for about $30-39 a brick- and can purchase all I want. After shipping and haz-mat, I don't see how someone can come out ahead. I do understand that there is no sales tax, but the shipping makes up for it.

I have never bought any primers from a mail order house...never could make the numbers come out ahead.
Am I missing something?

 

[scattershot]

yeah, I can't understand that, either, unless someone is buying 10,000 primers. Then the hazmat fees sorta balance out.

 

[Andy Griffith]

If someone buys that many primers or more, I would think that they could get it shipped truck lines and negate the haz-mat.

 

[BruceM]

Buying powder & primers on-line used to be a pretty good deal until the DOT stuck their nose into things quite a while back. Now, to be worth while, you really have to buy in bulk and/or make group orders. Bullets and brass are still ok.

Bruce

 

[Nathan Forrest]

I happy just to get them.

 

[Rule3]

There are still no primers in the big box stores here in Florida. You must have them all in Georgia. So we are "forced" to buy online. I just bought a case of small pistol Wolf and a case of Large pistol Wolf and with shipping and Haz Mat came to $31.00 per box(brick) delivered to my door. So with tax on yours it seems they are more expensive. Plus you had to use your gas.

 

[ncbengal]

Around here, in the soon to be sovereign state of West Carolina, you have to be early in line at the gun shows to get sm pistol primers. Mag primers are easy to get, but who wants to shoot a cannon all day?
btw: (Still looking for some real authoritative data on hazards, compensation necessary, etc. if using mag. primers in, say, 40 s&w or 38 spl mild-target loads.)
Where you can find s-p primers elsewhere, they hold a gun on you and say "that'll be $5/100, please." When the shows have them they are about $30/1000. The last time our shotgun club ordered targets, shot and stuff and delivered in their own truck I was able to get a brick for about $24. Wish I had more.

 

[DougE]

If you can find SP magnum primers then get them. You won't notice that much difference. Just work your load back up the same as you would in changing any component. Remington actually recommends that you use their magnum primers in 40 s&w and other high pressure cartridges.

 

[MakeMyNight]

In the Charlotte Harbor area of Florida, only 1 gun shop has any primers, and they are getting 50 bucks per thousand, plus sales tax.

I am so glad that I bought online, in quantity, a couple years ago.

 

[Andy Griffith]

There are still no primers in the big box stores here in Florida. You must have them all in Georgia. So we are "forced" to buy online. I just bought a case of small pistol Wolf and a case of Large pistol Wolf and with shipping and Haz Mat came to $31.00 per box(brick) delivered to my door. So with tax on yours it seems they are more expensive. Plus you had to use your gas.

I didn't say I was buying them- not at these prices.

 

[fredj338]

You have to on-line order in bulk, at least 10K. With HM, that is only $2/1K. No SST for most & shipping is pretty cheap. SO my last order received in June from Graf's was $28/1K & that was for 5K CCISP. I can't even find them around here & if I do, they are retail +9%SST. Throw in a couple #s of powder & your price goes down a bit more.

 

[Dale53]

The last time I bought primers was in the last of 2007 or the first of 2008. I bought ten thousand small pistol primers and ten thousand large pistol primers. The hazmat was $20.00 and shipping was probably in the same neighborhood. I paid $19.75 per thousand. Hazmat and shipping were small potatoes at those quantities. It WOULD have been a problem if I had only wanted 1000...

I am looking for large pistol again, but won't buy until the price comes down (I hope I can hold out that long). I should have bought 15000 LP and 5000 SP but that is only "hindsight".

Dale53

 

[walter o]

hasmat fee

This is some information i found out, That if you order primers & or powder from Cabelas and have it shipped to their local store near you no Hasmat fees apply . I bought some powder &primers that they had on sale on the web site and had them delivered to local store . No shipping, no Hasmat fee.

 

[Skip Sackett]

Local store here in Northern Indiana has "reasonable" prices on their CCI primers. $30/1000. I say "reasonable" because I was in Fort Wayne the other weekend and Gander Mountain had some primers, $40/1000!

Like Dale, I bought mine early last year. The first order was for 10,000, 5000 of each size pistol primers and they were Federal. It was under $20/1000 + $20 hazmat, no shipping/handling. $220 for 10,000 is OK. Then, later that year, I got 20,000, 5000 each for pistol standard, 5000 large pistol magnum and 5000 small rifle. These were Wolf and I got them for $17.90/1000 + s/h. $378 for that order which means $18.90/1000.

I found out too that Widners and others will ship as many as 40,000 primers in one order. That means that 40,000 primers has only a $20 hazmat fee, or an extra fifty cents/1000.

Get some folks from the range together and when they become available again, buy in those kinds of quantities. All you gotta do is wait for the 10.2% of folks get jobs again?

 

[willy]

I broke down and paid the $100 for two bricks (WIN LG PISTOL, CCI sm pistol) at Gander Mountian today!
It was either pay the price or not shoot.

 

[DougE]

I broke down and paid the $100 for two bricks (WIN LG PISTOL, CCI sm pistol) at Gander Mountian today!
It was either pay the price or not shoot.

I paid $72.07 for the same two bricks at a local shop not long ago and thought that was bad.

 

[scattershot]

I checked out Gander yesterday, on the report that they had primers. They did, if you want to pay $4.99/100 for them, which I did not.

Apparently, the gouging continues. I realize everything goes up over time, but I remember not too log ago paying $7.00/1000 for them.

 

[novalty]

I just checked Cabela's site for small pistol and large pistol primers. CCI, Federal, Mag-tech, and Winchester primers have a 6-7 week wait--Remington just says backorder with no time frame.

Looked at MidwayUSA's site and they show backorder for every single small pistol and large pistol primer.

This is why I am hesitant about getting into reloading.

 

[scattershot]

Well, it look pretty grim for now, but I expect it will even out shortly. Are you finding plenty of ammo? That's a problem, too, right now.

 

[Scrapper]

The best way to get primers is to get bulk (maybe in a group order). The more you get the less you pay....usually.

Good Luck Primer hunting.