Stopped by a LGS today and noticed they had primers on the shelf for $80 per thousand. They only had about ten bricks and I didn't need any so I didn't bite, but they were there. Both CCI and Winchester.
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Tex1001
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My heart goes out to everyone that has to pay today's prices
for primers and powder.
My gut feeling is that the price cycle will swing down in a few
years. I say this as a person who had to pay the going rate for
primers in the mid/late '90s (If you could find them).
I'm glad that availability seems to be improving.
for primers and powder.
My gut feeling is that the price cycle will swing down in a few
years. I say this as a person who had to pay the going rate for
primers in the mid/late '90s (If you could find them).
I'm glad that availability seems to be improving.
Alton
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Picked up a 1,000 of CCI BR-2 Large rifle for $149 (MSRP is $169). The most I have ever paid for a 1,000. I just got tired of always just having enough of large rifle primers. I have 1,000 plus of ever other primer, its just been the large rifle in short supply. CCI 200's where $110 a 1,000.
old pipefitter
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The size i dont see other than online is small magnum pistol, preferably CCI. My LGS-reloading store has everything but SMP.
Black69
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Used the last of my small pistol primers the I had left from a few years back. The price on the box was $1.29. Good ole days.
I talked to a local shop that had some in stock. He told me his cost was over $75 per 1000. He was selling for a little over $100
Robert
Robert
DeplorabusUnum
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Just swung by Sportsman's Warehouse in town. They had Fed 209 primers and CCI mag LPP so I picked up 500 of each. The limit is one brick. CCI was $80/brick. Too high but I'm just about out so I grabbed them. 209 primers were $60/brick. Last time I was there they had SPP only. The last 2 months is the first time they have had any primers in about 3 years. Availability is improving. Now just need the price to settle down.
Picked up 2 bricks of CCI spp and Federal LPP at Sportsman’s Warehouse for $59.99/1000. A little less after vet discount. Today the Reno Scheels had A LOT of primers, ranging from $80 to $125 per brick.
SGT ROCK 11B
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I shoot a couple of handguns every month. To do that I need ammunition so I prefer to reload my own. Store bought ammunition is priced outrageously. In most calibers I can load three boxes for the cost of one box of store bought.
At McDonalds the filet of fish combo with sweet tea is $10 and a few years ago it was $5.
At McDonalds the filet of fish combo with sweet tea is $10 and a few years ago it was $5.
SGT ROCK 11B
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I found I had misplaced a few bricks of CCI SPP that I was using for my 9mm loads and they were $13.99 a brick.
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I still have a good stock from years ago, when my LGS ran a special on sleeves of five thousand, it was, I think, $125 gor 5K. Those days are gone.
It's great to see primers available. With labor, shipping & raw materials costs it will never go back to the price we paid 10 years ago but I think the hoarders are full so I think we will continue to see better pricing.
Sportsman’s Warehouse has em
smoothshooter
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Better be stocking up on ammo and components NOW when prices are even vaguely close to good ( factoring in 25+ percent inflation over the last 3 years ). We have some major social upheaval just around the corner which will send prices shooting up and availability going down.
It’s likely to get pretty ugly.
It’s likely to get pretty ugly.
AJ
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Reading these prices makes me very glad a friend and I stocked up on primers before the Pandemic. We were buying primers from a LGS that was buying estates. We would buy all the reloading stuff as the LGS did not want to handle it. Primers were costing us $10.00/1000, bullets $20.00/500 and powder was $3.00/pound. We stocked up! Now the LGS understands what the items are worth and sells them in the store for considerably higher prices.
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 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.
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AJ
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Never sell to a dealer! Sell yourself at a gun show or on-line. I tell my family to ship it all to a auction house.
I will keep on reloading until I run out of components. That should be about 10 years at the amount of components I have and the rate I am shooting.
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Huskerguy
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Powder Valley is running a "special" on CCI Small Pistol for $69.99 I believe. I was at my local store today the owner says he is getting lots of calls to fill orders for primers he placed years ago. Apparently, the stock on the middle man side is plenty high and they are working to get it sold to dealers. He said the price is a little lower than it has been but not enough to jump in besides what he already has in stock which is about everything. He says it is still too high on the wholesale side. His thoughts, not mine.
Nemo288
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Was at Recobs last weekend and they had Federal LRP and LRPM bricks for $77. 100's were $8.50.
LRPs were the only ones I needed and seem to be the rarest during this shortage.
Then I open up my primer storage locker which I haven't been in for a couple of years
and lo and behold there is an unopened brick of Fed LRP match I completely forgot I had.
Possibly because I am used to using Win LRP and possibly because well .. senility.
Now if I can find some Reloder-7, Reloder-TS11, H4198, or H322 I'll be in business loading my 444's for quite awhile.
The Hodgdon powders made (or formerly made) in Australia seem to be the main ones missing from their lineup these days.
LRPs were the only ones I needed and seem to be the rarest during this shortage.
Then I open up my primer storage locker which I haven't been in for a couple of years
and lo and behold there is an unopened brick of Fed LRP match I completely forgot I had.
Possibly because I am used to using Win LRP and possibly because well .. senility.
Now if I can find some Reloder-7, Reloder-TS11, H4198, or H322 I'll be in business loading my 444's for quite awhile.
The Hodgdon powders made (or formerly made) in Australia seem to be the main ones missing from their lineup these days.
