Primers for .10

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I walked into a store today and they had Winchester small pistol primers for $110 a brick. I told him I was looking to purchase a case of 5000. He told me that if I purchase a case he would let me have them for $100 per brick or $500. Is that still too high?
 
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I saw CCI SP primers in a LGS for $79.95/brick. Think there was some limit, don't recall.
 
If you have a Bass Pro Shop or Cabelas nearby they are much less expensive. I got them for $80 / 1000 including tax recently.
 
I’ve been managing to find them at $.08 per. Just bought several bricks at that price at a gun show over the weekend. Prices were all over the place, as high as $150 a brick at a couple of tables. They’re slowly coming down…I remember $200, $250, and even $300 a brick at some tables not long after the craziness hit.
 
Thanks guys. I am not in need yet so I will keep looking.I would like to purchase a case of 5000 if anyone knows a source.
 
I bought a case of 5,000 CCI 500s from Brownells recently for $ 468 delivered- haz fee, tax, and shipping in that price. Maybe not a steal, but a pretty good price and they had them in stock.
 
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I happened to buy 11000 at Scheels 2 months ago for avg of 71 dollars per. Win were the lowest at 66.50...Rem LPPs were the highest at 74 per
 
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My first answer is -GOD NO- because, as it was said, you're feeding the beast if you vote with your wallet, and that vote is "yes, I will bend over and you should keep pricing them like this."

My much more refined answer is to ask you how many rounds you shoot in a year? Because yes, there are signs that we are making (incredibly S L O W) progress here and if you shoot 2,500 a year and you are sitting on a thousand right now... then goodness no, do not buy 5,000 at $100 per thousand.

They need to sit and rot on store shelves if the prices are nutbar, that's the only way to push the market back towards something closer to rational.
 
If you can afford them , buy them.

If you play Golf, maybe don't.
 
If they were CCI35 primers for 50 caliber, that would be a killer deal.

Last Winchester small pistol primers I bought locally were $.03 each.

Doubt I’ll ever see those prices again. But, prices do seem to be coming down with $80- 90 per thousand not too uncommon.

Sorry to reminisce about the “good old days. I still have boxes of Remington 9mm that we’re cheaper per round than those primers you’re looking at.
 
They need to sit and rot on store shelves if the prices are nutbar, that's the only way to push the market back towards something closer to rational.

That sentence is a nice and true sentiment but it will not happen.Primers have continued to sell even up to 200 dollars a 1000 in the past. Watch for companies selling for 80 dollars a 1000 with free shipping...mostly gone in hours....because many people have or find the disposable income to buy! Heck I have a fair supply of primers that cost 20-35 dollars a 1000...and I bought 11000 at Scheels a month or two ago for an average of about 71 dollars perM....Yep I think they will go down more but I bought them JIC! Believe me I'm not alone.
 
I got in on an estate sale recently and got Winchester LPP and SPP for $50/1000. Thought it was a decent price but remembered back to the early 70s when I got them for 99 cents per hundred. Bullseye and Unique were $10/pound then too.
 
IMO primers can be had for less than $100/K today. I'm thinking in the future they will be down to $50/K and maybe less.

I would never tell anyone not to buy what they need but I wouldn't pay that price. I would shoot some .22LR ammo to hold me over if I were out of primers.
 
Online prices seem to be hovering around $80/1k, although a few online retailers are clinging to $110-$110/1k. My local shop held out at $100/1k when they had only a few 1k boxes and limited sales to 1k per person, but now that they seem to have a fairly good supply and no purchase limit, they have dropped the price to $80/1k. I'd say $80/1k is the current average retail price, anything over that would be a no buy.
 
$100? Not unless you are in desperate need. Paying that price just encourages them.
Wholesale prices range from about $65/k for SPP's to over $120/k for benchrest. The margins are about the same as they were pre-pandemic. Dealer cost has increased by about 400%. So buy them or don't. You aren't encouraging/discouraging anything.
 
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