Where do you think they are going to go from here? I want to stock up, but I'm wondering if the price may go down. I doubt they will go down to 4 cents each. Even if they go down to 8 cents that only save 8 buck/1000. Now may be the time.
Primers are about 10 cents each.....
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ArchAngelCD
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There is a similar thread half way down the page. We really don't need another since they all turn bad.
Lets please keep this one civil or I will have to shut it down.
Lets please keep this one civil or I will have to shut it down.
.38SuperMan
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I recently bought Winchester SPP for $79/1000 and have seen Argentine last week for $69/1000. Look at Powder Valley as a starter. Unfortunately I can’t remember who had the $69 ones. They’re out there now so start searching.
.38SuperMan
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Powder Valley has CCI #500 for $74.99/1000.
I just paid 5.5 cents at Sportsman’s Warehouse. Been at that price for the past year.
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The only thing I am short on and looking for is Large Rifle Primers.
They seem to be almost unobtanium these days. SPP, SPM, LPP, LPM, SRP, SRM, all the other varieties seem to be available, and the prices have come down to that $60-$75 per 1000 range. But not the LRP's. If you can even find them the price is still around $100/brick.
I'm thinking that the supply is so limited - and the price is still so high - because they are all being used up loading ammo to be sent to the war in the Ukraine. Maybe? I know that producing the 7.62x39 (AK) ammo that is so commonly used in military arms in that part of the world requires the use of Large Rifle Primers. Coincidentally that is exactly the same round that I want to reload and the reason I am looking for them.
I can't see any other logical reason why they are still in such short supply and so expensive compared to all other primers. Maybe someone else has a better explanation?
They seem to be almost unobtanium these days. SPP, SPM, LPP, LPM, SRP, SRM, all the other varieties seem to be available, and the prices have come down to that $60-$75 per 1000 range. But not the LRP's. If you can even find them the price is still around $100/brick.
I'm thinking that the supply is so limited - and the price is still so high - because they are all being used up loading ammo to be sent to the war in the Ukraine. Maybe? I know that producing the 7.62x39 (AK) ammo that is so commonly used in military arms in that part of the world requires the use of Large Rifle Primers. Coincidentally that is exactly the same round that I want to reload and the reason I am looking for them.
I can't see any other logical reason why they are still in such short supply and so expensive compared to all other primers. Maybe someone else has a better explanation?
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Ivan the Butcher
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Most bet fed machine gun ammo in the world (if Boxer primed) uses Large Rifle Primers or bigger! The war in Ukraine is consuming a lot of those every day.
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kbm6893
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This country was in a war for 20 years and primers were easily obtainable for cheap. We provided more ammo for our guys then we are for Ukraine. It’s not the war in Ukraine that is causing this. And it’s not covid or the supply chain either. I haven’t seen a primer on the shelf in over 3 years. I don’t have a sportsmen’s warehouse or Cabelas near me. At this point, I’d be happy to see $80 primers on the shelf, and that was probably the whole point of this all along.
kbm6893
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Which places?
max503
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I'd be willing to bet this is the new price.
What else can you buy for 7 1/2 cents? A piece of gum, maybe?
smoothshooter
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Buy some now. A couple hundred dollars worth at least.
If they come down a couple of cents more, get 500 dollars worth.
Inflation alone will keep them at over seven cents apiece.
The days of five to six cents each are gone forever.
Figure on greater or lesser shortages for the rest of your life.
Get them when you can. Spreading out your purchases over time eases the financial pain somewhat.
With the possible exception of brass, primers are the most difficult of all the components to manufacture. And the hardest to train workers to operate the machines well. Probably a lot of turnover in the factories because the production jobs are tedious and stressful, and often hot and dirty work.
Having to constantly train new hires costs extra money and slows down production.
If they come down a couple of cents more, get 500 dollars worth.
Inflation alone will keep them at over seven cents apiece.
The days of five to six cents each are gone forever.
Figure on greater or lesser shortages for the rest of your life.
Get them when you can. Spreading out your purchases over time eases the financial pain somewhat.
With the possible exception of brass, primers are the most difficult of all the components to manufacture. And the hardest to train workers to operate the machines well. Probably a lot of turnover in the factories because the production jobs are tedious and stressful, and often hot and dirty work.
Having to constantly train new hires costs extra money and slows down production.
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SGT ROCK 11B
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Reloading is a Hobby to me so I will pay “whatever” to enjoy my hobby plus my other hobby of shooting revolvers and 1911s.
Fortunately I am retired from PPC shooting. That was 420+ rounds of 38 Special in a day of shooting.
Fortunately I am retired from PPC shooting. That was 420+ rounds of 38 Special in a day of shooting.
My thinking on primers is if they now were costing $50. a thousand people would be buying but at $100. people are complaining. I will cut back on eating out and other entertainment to get the extra money to buy primers. Different people have different priorities. Larry
Alton
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Like every store no large rifle
NFrameFred
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Graf & Sons ran a sale a short time ago, Fiocchi primers in bulk at six and a half cents each with free shipping and free hazmat . . . . I bit the bullet - you just gotta keep your eyes open. My best guess is we'll not see primers below five or five and a half cents each ever again, and that could be a while in coming . . . .
of course I've been known to be wrong . . . frequently 
jmiles1960
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My LGS just did a July sale on Winchester Large Pistol at 7.5 cents each. I jumped on a box of a 1000. Probably should have bought more. I agree, probably not going to see prices below 5 cents again.
Yeah, we were "at war" in Afghanistan, but not the kind of ALL OUT war that is taking place in the Ukraine right now.
There is a huge difference between a guerilla war with a few scattered skirmishes against small groups of insurgents and two armies going at each other trying to take and hold territory.
The amount of ammo being used in the former is probably less than 20% of that being expended in the latter. Comparing the number of casualties is all the proof you need of that.
If the war in Ukraine ISN'T the cause of the LRP shortage, then how do you explain the fact that LRPs are the only primers impossible to find - and just about everyplace has all the SPP, SPM, LPP, LPM, SRP, & SRM primers you want to buy? And the fact that if you CAN find LRPs they are still 10 cents each whereas the others are all down to 6-8 cents apiece? Is there a "price-gouging conspiracy" for LRP only, but not for any of the other types? That makes no sense to me.
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Yeah, and the only LPPs they have are Ginex for $499/5000
So you have to buy 5 bricks to even get them for $100 a brick + shipping and hazmat of course.
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