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LOL, found some similar. Found a “ Deal, Deal” on some primers at flea mkt.
Model19man
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They look just like the ones I use.
Fishinfool
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A couple weeks ago, I sat down and loaded 100 .358 Winchester cartridges. I used a brick of CCI LR primers from my "stash" that had a price tag on the box of $9.99. Probably from the late 70's?
A pack rat mentality, and gasketed .50 cal ammo cans makes for some money saving long term storage....
Larry
A pack rat mentality, and gasketed .50 cal ammo cans makes for some money saving long term storage....
Larry
Nah, those aren't antique. Those prices are more recent than 25 years ago. Heck, I bought some for under $20 a brick just 5 or 6 years ago.
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Was just in a LGS today here in WA. $14.95 for CCI SRP. 
Most the primers I see are running between $70 and $90 per thousand.
Most the primers I see are running between $70 and $90 per thousand.
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AJ
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A couple weeks ago, I sat down and loaded 100 .358 Winchester cartridges. I used a brick of CCI LR primers from my "stash" that had a price tag on the box of $9.99. Probably from the late 70's?
A pack rat mentality, and gasketed .50 cal ammo cans makes for some money saving long term storage....
Larry
Was just in a LGS today here in WA. $14.95 for CCI SRP.
Those are brick boxes (1000 primers per box).
I stocked up not long before the pandemic for about $22 per thousand. I thought that was high. Glad I'm not trying to buy at 70-90$.
Is that $14.95 per HUNDRED?!? If so, someone hasn't updated their pricing in a while.Was just in a LGS today here in WA. $14.95 for CCI SRP.
The going rate on the 'net for SRPs right now is more in the $60-$80 per brick range.
So $14.95 per hundred / $149.50 per brick is the height of last year's pricing (maybe next year's too based on recent announcements - time will tell).
I just wish I could find some LRPs for under $100 a brick...
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Anyone buying primers at current prices has more $ than brains!
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If you have at least some brains as most of us do, then having more dollars than brains might be an enviable position to be in...
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AJ
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A couple weeks ago, I sat down and loaded 100 .358 Winchester cartridges. I used a brick of CCI LR primers from my "stash" that had a price tag on the box of $9.99. Probably from the late 70's?
A pack rat mentality, and gasketed .50 cal ammo cans makes for some money saving long term storage....
Larry
Was just in a LGS today here in WA. $14.95 for CCI SRP.
So was the $14.95 per hundred or per thousand? The cost on the ones I posted were for the brick (1000) not a pack (100).
lppd4
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In the late 90’s early 2000’s I remember paying $70 for a case of 5000 SPP my how times have changed
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AJ
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I think it was about 2019 or 2020 that I paid $125 a case of 5000. Yes, times have changed. The LGS would buy estates and just wanted the guns. We bought all the reloading equipment in a lump. We figured we were paying $10.00 a brick for those.
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It's still cheaper than factory ammo in most cases, and what are they supposed to do? Quit shooting?
I had a stash like many here but it won't last forever. I hope I've got another 20 years of shooting. I'm not storing 100,000 primers in my house.
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AJ
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Why not? There are a few who do so!
Fishinfool
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AJ - Thats a brick of 1000 CCI LR primers for $9.99. Only needed 100 primers to load 100 rounds, so figure 99 cents per 100 pack. Inexpensive, I guess, but they didn't seem so 45 years ago.
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