A friend called several weeks ago and asked if I had primers. So I asked and he said he was out! Told him I had plenty as I bought them when they were on sale over the years. Told him I was down to 40,000 various rifle, pistol and shotgun primers. I gave him a bunch so he could keep loading and shooting. Started looking around and saw that primers are $30~$40 a thousand. Wow! Started to read up and found that there are a couple of new primer factories starting up. That's a good thing. Started digging through my stash of primers and found a pack of CCI large magnium pistol primers with an outlandish price of
$1.39 !! I can remember when they were $ .49 a hundred. Started loading for my $35 Trapdoor Springfield when I was 16 years old. Powder and primers were cheap. Making lead styphnate paste and filling the small brass cups and adding an anvil to make a primer is a process I watched on a video. The paste has to cure in the primer cup. It is quite ingenious to watch the primers being handled and packaged. Hopefully they will be more plentiful and the price will come down.