Looking for primers.

[coreymet]

I just paid $64.33/1000 that's OEM Wholesale. So less than $100.00/ retail is reasonable in todays market.

Where did you find them at that price?

 

[kmk1012]

Where did you find them at that price?

He is an ammo business, gets them at wholesale

 

[Camelfilter]

Where did you find them at that price?

Looks like Midsouth Shooters Supply has the least expensive & variety today, from a company I would buy from anyways.

$.07-.11 per primer, depending on manufacturer & quantity. All small rifle or small pistol.

 

[oremike]

He is an ammo business, gets them at wholesale

My point being that the price is up across the board, and no I can't sell any, they have to be used in manufacturing ammo.

 

[Local Loader]

I just looked at my primary stash the last batch of these primers I got was $9.80/100 so they went up $.19 in just a month.

Well a bright side, the Fiocchi work out to $7.34/100 so not too bad but still not great. I got some srp the other week and they were $76/1000 so I'd still take less over more.

 

[Mikej]

The #41s are ment more for AR platforms but they all work.

I guess I should have clarified, I was talking AR 15, semi auto, free float firing pin.

I've never had a problem with these or CCI 400/450's.
IMHO, the 41's they say should be used with an AR is just a guideline, not gospel.

I've heard that too.

 

[YippeeKiYoRed]

Milspec primers reduce the chance of slamfires in semi-auto rifles with floating firing pins. Garands, M1As, ARs, etc. Winchester also makes a #41 primer. I've only seen #34s from CCI.

 

[Catfishmoon]

With current world events I decided to make sure my reloading supplies were full while the components are available locally.
I visited several Sportsmans Warehouses in the Seattle area recently and each person is now able to buy 1000 primers daily (I bought CCI or Fiocchi small pistol) at .06...
Powder selection was more limited than it was a few months ago.

 

[gmerkt]

Today, I was at the big October WAC show in Puyallup. Fairly early, I was passing by one of those vendors with multiple tables and lots of new ammo. He had two bricks of nice, new production Remington #9-1/2 Large Rifle primers. Price, $110. I bought one; the other one was gone a few minutes later. I know it's highway robbery to pay that much for primers. BUT: Large Rifle primers have been very hard to find the past three years. Now there is a new war going in Gaza / Israel, which may or may not use up US ammo manufacturing capacity, including LR primers for MG ammo. Most US-made 7.62x39 ammo uses LR primers, and that ammo is going to Ukraine. I don't see a lot of relief for LR primer supply for reloaders. The up side of buying those primers at the gun show, no shipping fee, no hazmat fee, and in Wash., no sales tax. And no running around buying them at one or two sleeves at a time in the rare instance they might appear on shelves.

There may have been other LR primers at this gun show, but I didn't see them.

In years gone by, I mostly used Win. primers, then fell into a habit of using CCI. I tended not to by Rem. because they always seemed to be just a little more costly for no good reason that I could see. That's all history now.

 

[Dozer99]

I think we are at the point of "buy what you can, when you can".

 

[gmerkt]

I think we are at the point of "buy what you can, when you can".

Again. We got maybe six or eight months of relief, where stuff was just starting to fill back up. Of course prices mostly stayed high.

 

[Local Loader]

Again. We got maybe six or eight months of relief, where stuff was just starting to fill back up. Of course prices mostly stayed high.

Given all that's going on, I'm going to say with 90% certainty that prices are going to go up again soon. I've already seen prices on 5.56 going up already.

 

[JRMadrid]

Cabelas Tualatin

 

[Local Loader]

Cabelas Tualatin

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Nice to see that, bummer it's all smalls but still nice. Once the panic buying starts again sadly, I'd give it about a week or two before there gone.

 

[Dozer99]

Over the course of a month, I was able to buy 2,000 Sm Rifle Primers at 5.99 per 100. (Sportsman's in KF)

 

[Caveman Jim]

Over the course of a month, I was able to buy 2,000 Sm Rifle Primers at 5.99 per 100. (Sportsman's in KF)

I got in on that deal when they were selling a maximum of two sleeves for $5.99 each. I was doing that quite often when taking the wife to the daughters house. Then they raised it to bricks, the price went up and the availability went away.

 

[gmerkt]

Cabelas Tualatin

Nice to see that, bummer it's all smalls but still nice.

I haven't seen that many primers at the Tulalip Cabelas up here, ever. And certainly not lately. But I haven't been in there in a month. I did buy a brick of SR there a couple of months ago for $100. At that time, they had two bricks on the shelf. I was later able to buy some SR at Sportsmans Warehouse for about $6 per sleeve, limit two sleeves. Last time I was there about two weeks ago, they had lifted the limit to one brick, but they were out.

Yes, the situation is different with SR, at this time, at least there are some around. For now. But LR not so much.

 

[gmerkt]

Cabelas Tualatin

Okay, this very day I was in the Tulalip Cabelas. They did have a pretty good selection of primers on the shelves. All smalls. And all about $100 a brick.

Later, I was at one of my daughter's places, near Sportsmans Warehouse. They had Federal small rifle primers for $62. out the door (including state sales tax) and I bought a brick of them. I should be set now for a while.

I try to keep my reloading stuff in balance. Recently, I bought 1,000 .224 bullets so the brick of primers, some day, will be needed. BUT I have to say, this is the first time in nearly 40 years that I've bought any Federals. For one thing, I don't like the huge packaging.

 

[Camelfilter]

Okay, this very day I was in the Tulalip Cabelas. They did have a pretty good selection of primers on the shelves. All smalls. And all about $100 a brick.

Later, I was at one of my daughter's places, near Sportsmans Warehouse. They had Federal small rifle primers for $62. out the door (including state sales tax) and I bought a brick of them. I should be set now for a while.

I try to keep my reloading stuff in balance. Recently, I bought 1,000 .224 bullets so the brick of primers, some day, will be needed. BUT I have to say, this is the first time in nearly 40 years that I've bought any Federals. For one thing, I don't like the huge packaging.

The Sportsmans website currently notes 2 sleeve limit on all primers.

Don't know if some stores have there own policy (brick vs sleeves), or if this is new today.

 

[Local Loader]

The Sportsmans website currently notes 2 sleeve limit on all primers.

Don't know if some stores have there own policy (brick vs sleeves), or this is new today.

I think it depends on the store, I'm still mad at the portland one since it still says they have dozens of Bricks of lrp but none on the shelves.