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What is a decent price for small pistol primers? Was in a pawn-gun shop today and they were were well stocked. Winchesters were $41 a thousand. Don't need any myself but if anyone in this area does, they were at Kings Gun and Pawn in Del City.

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For me, around $30/K is the only acceptable price. I refuse to pay $41/K and if everyone refuses the prices will come down...
 
ArchAngelCD said:
For me, around $30/K is the only acceptable price. I refuse to pay $41/K and if everyone refuses the prices will come down...
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We have only 2 dealers that sell components within a 100 miles of me. They were both selling for $39 BEFORE the current crisis started. One is now selling at $40, and the other still doesn't have many, and is rationing at 300 per day. $30 price goes back several years here. I guess regional pricing varies quite a bit. When was the last time Midway was at $30?
 
I just paid $26 per thousand for small pistol. Shipping and HazMat brought the price up to still under $30.

Locally the same thing is $40+.

They sell them on that interwebs thing. Buy 5k at a time and that HazMat fee only adds 5 bucks per thousand. Buy 10k and it only adds $2.50 per thousand.

Hit GunBot several times a day. When the price drops, act fast. Very fast. Buy many, many at one time. Don't wait until you "need" them.

Going to the local store for a thousand primers is REALLY expensive. The whole idea of reloading is to have a lot of components available and to pay as little as possible for those components.


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I am about to use the last of my CCI stash of small pistol primers. The box is marked $9.99. I bought another 1000 at the Tulsa Gun Show for $42. Ouch. Hopefully, the prices will come before I need large pistol.
 
In Columbus, I find CCI/Federal on sale rarely at $26/1000 (it was a monthly premium for members of Vances Buyers Club a couple times this summer). On sale regularly at $30/1000 everywhere. Retail $40/1000.

But I understand Ohio to be the exception rather than the rule.
 
In my area, if you can find primers they are $4.99/K, and you are only allowed to buy 200 at the time. I recently ordered primers b/c I found a on-line company that actually had them in stock. The cost delivered was $175/5000 including price, S/H and the UPS hazmat theft charge. That works out to $35/1000 delivered, which is well worth the effort compared to the local $4.99/1000 plus tax price. Very happily I have many K of LR primers on hand, enough to keep my 03 and 03-A3 rifles firing for at least 4-5 years. By then I'll have found more LR primers. But, SP and LP primers are something I'm going to have to work on finding and getting in stock.
 
Cabelas has the following: (per 1000)

Fed SPP $ 34.99, no limit
CCI SPP $ 29.99, no limit
Win SPP $ 29.99, limit 2

Free Shipping on orders over $ 99.00 Haz Mat $ 20.00

My LGS price: Fed SPP $ 39.99
Win SPP $ 34.99
 
GypsmJim said:
We have only 2 dealers that sell components within a 100 miles of me. They were both selling for $39 BEFORE the current crisis started. One is now selling at $40, and the other still doesn't have many, and is rationing at 300 per day. $30 price goes back several years here. I guess regional pricing varies quite a bit. When was the last time Midway was at $30?
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IMO Midway is a very bad example since they are usually up near the top of the price curve.

Locally, before this current crunch primers were below $30. I didn't like it but it was doable. I would rather $19/K like it was before 2005 or at least $19 for powder and $24/k for primers before 2008 but prices never go back down completely after they jump way high.
 
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It really comes down to how long you want to wait for your primers. If you order them by mail and get great prices ($26 - $31 per 1,000) you have to WAIT for them to come back into stock. I have an order that I am waiting for almost a YEAR now!

If you want to walk into a LGS and come out with a box, be prepared to spend $40+ per 1,000 but at least you can go home and reload that night.
 
I stopped in at two of the biggest sporting good stores in Michigan yesterday. Both had primers. One was selling them for $4.59/100 and the other was selling them for $5/100.

When I first started handloading, they were $0.85/100, but I was only making $1.95/hr.
 
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