primer prices just continue to climb. I bid on some at an auction a year ago. was after one lot, but wound up buying both lots (because I wasn't paying attention) at nearly $80/k (after auction fees) ended up with 20k primers. About choked on the bill at the time - but it's pretty normal now I guess.
It's reached the point where a few of the things I shoot has actually become equitable to just buy factory ammo. Buddy was just talking about that the other day whether it would be worth buying a box of factory, pulling all the bullets and equalizing the powder charge and re-seating the bullets to uniform lengths.
It's probably a waste of time - but we might just try it to satisfy curiosity.