Primers on the shelf

[The Preacher]

Yesterday I picked up a brick of CCI 400 small rifle primers for $63 out the door at the local Sportsmans Warehouse. Has been about the same price for the last two years (when they got primers in). This has convinced me that the internet sites (Midway/Grafs/Natchez etc.) have been hosing us for the last couple of years...

 

[smoothshooter]

I saw some SP primers a few days ago at my LGS. Price was $95/100. That isn't exactly what I would call a good price but at least they were there. I don't need any. About the time I run out I'll probably sliding on out of reloading altogether. I've already liquidated all of my shotgun reloading gear.

A friend just liquidated a truck load of reloading gear for a relative. Took it all to a dealer and got 0.25 on the dollar for what it could have been sold for at a gun show. Made me sad.

A lot of people are getting out of reloading. I don’t see it ever coming back to what it was like 4 years ago.
I have a low-mileage Dillon 550 progressive press with extra heads, etc. I will probably sell, and do all my reloading with my single-stage RCBS Rock Chucker press I bought in about 1972.
With the price increases and availability issues of components I have cut my shooting way back to only a couple hundred rounds of centerfire a year.
May get back into .223 and 9mm more since those are the cheapest factory centerfire rounds now.