Sven
Member
I was at the Cabela's in East Grand Forks and saw they hav a variety of primers. $9.99/100. I said no thanks!
It is a sad day
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Can't touch your price Skeet, but these from 2006 or there-a-bouts are what I'm currently using... Have a few more brick to go through yet.
I looked at my price sheets for that time frame. My wholesale on primers 12.49 in quantity over 50,000. I usually bought a lot more than that. Always at least 50,000 shotshell primers...then all the rest. I also remember that time frame where Fiocchi was selling packages of metallic primers in 1500 boxes for the same price as American made. I bought a bunch but sold them. I used their SRPs and found them to be good primers
9mmPatriot
Member
DWalt
Member
The price of primers (and most everything else) has not gone up. The value of a dollar has dropped. Amazing how many do not understand that.
ArchAngelCD
Moderator, SWCA Member, Absent Comrade
I'm behind many of you guys here. The least expensive primers I ever bought were Winchester SPP for $15/K. Then for a long time I was paying $19/K. The most expensive primers I ever bought were CCI primers for $125/5K I bought 30,000 that day split between SPP, LPP, SRP and LRP.
kbm6893
Member
Everything else has not gone up by three hundred percent or more.
Cdog
Member
Doesn't seem that long ago that I was buying CCI primers at a local gun shop for $9/K. During the primer scare of 92 or 93 the owner, Gordy had saw the writing on the wall and ordered all he could before they were in short supply. He didn't put them on the shelf, you had to ask if there were any available. His regular customers never ran out, but there were no strangers buying them. The most I had to pay during that period was $12/K out the door. The rumors of government mandated 5 year shelf life and such had help create the shortage.
When primers became more widely available they were at prices in the $14 range. I bought piles of Winchester Large rifle and pistol primers. They were still marketed as for use in standard and magnum cartridges. Yep, I still have some of them from that period.
I also remember the first time I paid $40/K for Federal small pistol primers. I believe that was around 2008. It broke my heart! $40 for primers! I bought 3K. For some time it galled me every time I looked at them.
This time when the dust settled they were in the $25 range.
I have traded some of my large rifle for large pistol. Hunting season usually finds folks wanting to buy LR, but I don't like selling what I can't replace. I can always use large pistol primers, so I instead try to work out a trade.
I have bought a few thousand large pistol primers at $80/K and yea it galls me to think about it.
I still have a few 100 count CCI white & green packaged, red Federal, etc that were likely bought in the $5 to $6 per K era.
With economics being what they are I doubt we'll see lower prices on much of anything for some time to come. I was working on my granddaughter's car recently and I picked up a couple of gallons of antifreeze. She asked why I bought more when we already had some at home? My reply, "it ain't likely to get cheaper anytime soon."
As a great mentor of mine during my youth frequently said, "it's a sight ain't it."
When primers became more widely available they were at prices in the $14 range. I bought piles of Winchester Large rifle and pistol primers. They were still marketed as for use in standard and magnum cartridges. Yep, I still have some of them from that period.
I also remember the first time I paid $40/K for Federal small pistol primers. I believe that was around 2008. It broke my heart! $40 for primers! I bought 3K. For some time it galled me every time I looked at them.
This time when the dust settled they were in the $25 range.
I have traded some of my large rifle for large pistol. Hunting season usually finds folks wanting to buy LR, but I don't like selling what I can't replace. I can always use large pistol primers, so I instead try to work out a trade.
I have bought a few thousand large pistol primers at $80/K and yea it galls me to think about it.
I still have a few 100 count CCI white & green packaged, red Federal, etc that were likely bought in the $5 to $6 per K era.
With economics being what they are I doubt we'll see lower prices on much of anything for some time to come. I was working on my granddaughter's car recently and I picked up a couple of gallons of antifreeze. She asked why I bought more when we already had some at home? My reply, "it ain't likely to get cheaper anytime soon."
As a great mentor of mine during my youth frequently said, "it's a sight ain't it."
Protocall_Design
Vendor
With every government alphabet agency stocking 10s of millions rounds of ammo, that's probably where a lot of it is going.
PD....I have to admit you are right. They have a lot of ammo and their government connection gives them dibs. And they continue to purchase even more...To keep it from us??
. I'm not really a conspiracy theorist but it seems like one at times. I was in the local Farm Store the other day and they had more ammo than I have seen in at least 2 years. No primers or powder though. Prices are still high on much of it.
9mmPatriot
Member
Well the 80,000+ new revenuers are gonna need a bunch....
My emergency stash is 10K Federal primers purchased for $27 per K. Thinking the rest come in around an average of $35 per K.
I miss the old days of going to a match and bullet casting guy had a table with Winchester Primers for 35 per 5K and a thousand .45 200 swc were less than 50.
I miss the old days of going to a match and bullet casting guy had a table with Winchester Primers for 35 per 5K and a thousand .45 200 swc were less than 50.
max503
Member
(To paraphrase the Fabulous Furry Freak Brothers) Primers will get you through times of no money better than money will get you through times of no primers.
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ArchAngelCD
Moderator, SWCA Member, Absent Comrade
(To paraphrase the Fabulous Furry Freak Brothers) Primers will get you through times of no money better than money will get you through times of no primers.
Yet, I would like to have both! lol
I lucked out today. Bought an OLD press from a fellow. Herter's Model 9. A 2 hole H press which looks like a press made by Dunbar Glass works in WVA. He had a box of BR-2 primers sitting on the bench I asked if they were for sale. He added 25 bucks to the deal. There were 900 primers in the box. I use very few LRPs though. As far as cleaning the grudge I took a whole bunch of stuff to an auction. 8 presses are gone. 4 guns too. But they have SO MUCH great stuff in the auction
ShootMeStraight
Member
I don't think the prices of anything will ever come down... not as long as Joe Biden (or any other Democrat) is President and Justin Trudeau (or any other Liberal) is Prime Minister.
