Primers are getting harder to find

[steamloco76]

Sorry to learn that your dealer is a backstabbin' mercenary cutthroat jerk.
Jerk.Jerk.Jerk.
I don't know you and I surely don't know your dealer. But he is a jerk.
I reckon you will have his number from this day forward so long as ye both shall live, eh?

The business owner, a man who is normally behind the scenes and away from customers, made the decision to sell the powder and primer to his rich, real estate flipping friend. The man who runs the store treats me very well, unfortunately he was out of the store buying a Colt collection the day the butt-hat owner 'helped out" his friend.

I had a long conversation with the LGS manager and he said he is going to buy the store outright as soon as he can do it!

He still has no pistol primers or powder to sell.

 

[fyimo]

No one has pistol or small rifle primers anywhere near my house and none of the online stores has any or are even offering to take back orders on them. I lucked into two thousand large pistol primers last week at a cost of $100 for the 2K at a gun store 90 miles from my house. It was a higher price then normal but worth it because it was the only type of primer I was low on and my only chance to get some.

 

[kd5exp]

I have a friend in OKC that wants to start reloading for his 9 mm's. Told him to get the supply's and I will help him get started. I had to take my wife to OKC yesterday to the Doc and decided to stop in and check at a couple of shops while I was there. No luck at all. shelves were bare. No primers no powders and no boolits for the popular sizes. Limit of one box of ammo on what they had. I have seen pallets of 9 mm ammo there before. I read so much about this and why it is happening that I don't know what to believe. I don't know whats BULLBUTTER or not. Everyone wants a donation, so is this a scam or not. I can't afford it anyway, I donate to this site, castboolits and AARP and that all I can do on my fixed income which is on the chopping block also. Has anybody read this I found yesterday, Global Mutiny, New American rEVOLUTION, The Consensus April 20th March on DC
this is a lot to read and I don't know if it's true or not, but WOW!

 

[kd5exp]

I was thinking the other day about primers and remembered the old cap guns. If I could find some and try that. I did on ebay before they pulled them, must have figured it out also, and cleaned the primers up and flattened then out and used the primer to punch out the cap and re-installed the anvil. Real pain with my big hands and bad eyes but they worked. I loaded 3 and just put the in revolver and they all went pop. I reloaded them and again and loaded up some 158 gr with 700X and tried them out. Worked good and did the same 3 again and again they worked good. I will have to work out a better and faster way to do them but it's better then no primers. A flat punch and a small ball pin hammer and a small pick is all you need.
"This listing was removed by eBay. If you already paid for the item, we recommend that you wait 10 days from the expected delivery date to see if the item arrives. If you did not pay,you are no longer obligated to pay for this item. If you have a problem with the purchase, you can resolve the problem by filing a claim through our resolution center."
They even removed them from my history. Got 2400 of them anyway. LOL

 

[J. R. WEEMS]

STUFF

I am never out of primers. Habit finds me picking up a case ever couple of gun shows, when they had them. This stuff adds up, and keeps you moving. I haven't bought less than a case since around 1984 or so. Got to leep up.

 

[novalty]

OUCH. Wideners has CCI Small Pistol primers 5,000 at $170.00 right now, not sure what the grand total would be with shipping and Hazmat.

 

[BlueOvalBandit]

OUCH. Wideners has CCI Small Pistol primers 5,000 at $170.00 right now, not sure what the grand total would be with shipping and Hazmat.

$34/k isn't a terrible price, but its more than I want to pay. 30/k is about my limit.

 

[novalty]

$34/k isn't a terrible price, but its more than I want to pay. 30/k is about my limit.

Probably a lot closer to $40/k when you factor in hazmat and shipping. Unless Wideners includes that in their price.

 

[FishingPilot]

LGS got some CCI 500 Small Pistol Primers in today - 200 limit per customer per day, $4.99 per 100.

I'll pass......

 

[mcnee229]

Around here it was 34.99/k after things started calming down after Obama's first election. Just bought a supply (the first I've seen for sale since) for 40/k. .44 magnums still coming in at 18 cents a round vs the $1+ at retail, so its still a good deal to me.

Scott

 

[rwsmith]

?????

It's hit or miss around here, someplaces have them, and at a steeper price, and some don't. One of the LGS around here wanted $5.50 per 100 on CCI# 400. This is just getting crazy.

Is $5.50/hundred a bad price? Now $55/hundred is not a good price.

 

[Peak53]

Thanks for the Wideners tip on small pistol primers. Cost for 5000 with shipping and hazmat is $210, which works out to $42/1000. Not great, but available is available. They were out of Winchester and Federal. All primers very scarce here in Colorado. On the other hand, 30 round magazines selling like hotcakes!

 

[RussellD]

Here's my .02 worth. 2 months ago you could not buy a primer. For the past couple gun shows they were $50 per k or higher. Now that stacks of them are at the shows...I interpret this as they are coming back. Equilibrium will be achieved soon and by fall prices will start to drift back to what ever normal was..

With that being said..some will not learn and prepare for the next time. They should be paying 50 per k now because it will be cheaper than the next event in the cycle.

 

[jayman9207]

That price is a bit hard to swallow.............primers are what I am lowest on though for sure. If I hadn't just bought a new Shield then I would be grabbing some of these. I have a bunch on backorder and I am on the waiting list at a couple LGS's. They couldn't give me a price yet until something comes in so I will have to see if they have hiked their price up as well. No telling how long it is going to take for my backorders to come in though.

 

[J. R. WEEMS]

Ah yes, I remember when a deck was .25 cents.

 

[blujax01]

Around here it was 34.99/k after things started calming down after Obama's first election. Just bought a supply (the first I've seen for sale since) for 40/k. .44 magnums still coming in at 18 cents a round vs the $1+ at retail, so its still a good deal to me.

Scott

Pretty much the pre- December 2012 going rate here as well. Although I could regularly find them on sale for $29. In reality 6/10 of a penny per round isn't a big difference though.