Question on how much do you pay for a pak of primers?

[Swagerman]

I went looking for some large pistol primers today, had to pay about $4.00 for each 100 pak...how much did they cost you last time you bought some.

That figures about double what I use to pay for them.

Guess the cost of gasoline caused that one too.

Jim

[Freightman]

I got the last I bought at the gunshow for $29.95 for 1000, but they were individually marked $3.99 so I guess he figures it is worth a buck to open the box and take them out. I always buy 1000 at a time as I do not want to waste gasoline running back and forth.

[454PB]

I usually buy several bricks at a time. The last purchase of 3K were $16.99 each about a year ago, but recently I saw they are up to $28.99 per thousand.

[trickyasafox]

Just under 16 per K as of last august, so about a year now. I bought as many as I could.

[Johnch]

Just paid $24.99 a K ( picked up at the dealer ) + tax
4 of us split up 25 K of primers

John

[colbyjack]

paid $28.95 for a K here but they go up to $34 here locally also. -chris

[targetshootr]

Last year I bought 10k through our range for roughly $100. I bet it's gone up $30 since then.

[JeffinNZ]

Brace yourself........

USD45.00 per thousand.

Are you standing up again yet............

[Wicky]

Jeff, do you think someone keeps bending us over south of the equator?
price in Aussie is about the same - last lot I bought was around A$50.00 so that would be around the US$45.00 mark.
Probably gone up since then petrol hit A$2.00 a litre last week in town.

[59stude]

Here in Sweden it is more:
Federal 200 SPM US$ 70/1000
155 LPM 68/1000
210 LR 71/1000
215 LRM 84/1000
Magtech SP US$ 43/1000
LP 55/1000
SR 55/1000
LR 58/1000
S&B SP 48/1000
LP 53/1000
LR 53/1000
Hornady Gas Checks .30 Cal US$ 52/1000
.35 Cal 49/1000
so you fellows in US still have cheap prices compared to other places.
And gasoline is SKR 14/litre here = US$ 2.33/litre.

Are you still standing?

[Southern Son]

Wicky, I am certain that there is someone having their way with those of us living down under.

[MtGun44]

Holy crap! Sweden is pretty darned expensive and Australia isn't
real far behind.

I'm guessing that 8 liter or whatever they are V10 Dodge trucks are not
real popular over there. :roll: Not to popular here anymore, either.

Current dealer prices for buying 5K is about $22-24/K depending on brand
for Kansas City (middle of USA)

Sorry to hear that your reloading is so much more expensive.

Bill

[shotman]

well its not the gas but the cost of brass--scrap brass has trippled in the last year-- 59S is that around $9.00 a gal holy **** rick

[dubber123]

$30.25 per 1,000 for Federal #150's yesterday. The dealer does bring them directly to the shoots for us though.

[3006guns]

My oldest son was up for a visit just last week and wanted to do a little reloading (lives in a tiny apt. in the city..loves coming to the "country") At any rate, he went to town and returned mentioning that primers were 14.95/K at the local sports shop. Needless to say, I grabbed the mad money and we rushed back to town. Turns out he was looking at an upside down price sticker...41.95!!! I kidded him about creeping dislyexia (sp) but it doesn't explain how he bought 500 cast .45 bullets for less than thirty bucks...at the same shop!

I've heard the rumor kicked around that the primer/powder situation is directly related to the Iraq war, but I think it's plain 'ol greed in most quarters.....[smilie=1:

[Swagerman]

I wish to thank all of you with the input of post on the various primer prices...which seems to be quite different in certain locations.


Another question please. Is there still a hazmat fee for shipping primers? I would like to know how much if possible...this will determine whether I buy more local, or from some out of state vendor.

Thanks, Jim

[sskimber]

It is running around $23.00 per K localy, I can get a better deal if I purchase mail order but you have to order a lot or getin with a group buy to make the shipping worth it.

[Sprue]

About $27 per 1K plus tax just last week

[500bfrman]

I bought 2K at 30 bucks a pop. HOwever I did pass up 54.99/1000 at bass pro yesterday.

[quasi]

Here in Calgary, Alberta, Canada, 1k is $28.99 can, or $134.99 for a sleeve (5k).

[Down South]

I wish to thank all of you with the input of post on the various primer prices...which seems to be quite different in certain locations.


Another question please. Is there still a hazmat fee for shipping primers? I would like to know how much if possible...this will determine whether I buy more local, or from some out of state vendor.

Thanks, Jim

Hazmat is $20 for primers or powder or a combination of both from most places.

[warf73]

A few weeks ago I paid $107.50 for 5k, it's nice having Powder Valley within a 45min drive.

[Swagerman]

Hazmat is $20 for primers or powder or a combination of both from most places.

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Well, if Hazmat fee is $20.00 I might as well go ahead and buy my 1K primers here locally.

Thanks for the info, Down South.

Jim

[jcwit]

Last primers I bought were $69.00 per 5000, bought all they had. That was last summer.

[clodhopper]

Here in the town of clowns I paid $375. for 15K rem 71/2s last month.

[Bad Water Bill]

An coupler months ago I bought 20 K Wolfe primers for about $20.00 per K. What a bummer. About 25% are duds. To bad no one takes returns on primers. Oh well only 19, 950 times wondering weather the next one will fire or not. :Fire::Fire:

[Earl Brasse]

Bad Water Bill, were the primers new? If so what are the lot #'s so we'll know what to watch for? If you bought them new from a dealer I would think they would do something about it. Maybe Wolfes' U.S. rep could help?

[singleshotbuff]

Primer prices are a bit variable here in N.E. Ohio.

MagTech peestol primers are running me about $25/K, Win peestol are running me $27/k, CCI Mag Peestol (cci350s for the 45 Colt) are running me $28/k.

I shoot a lot of shotguns too, Win 209s are running me $30/k, gonna find a cheaper shotshell primer.

I find primers ADVERTISED for cheaper locally, but they never seem to be in stock at the lower prices. The local Gander Mountain is nuts for primers, $3.99 and UP, PER HUNDRED.

SSB

[copdills]

$28.00per Thousand

[Jimlakeside]

Powder Valley has the best prices on primers and powder that I have found. Large and small Wolf primers are $90.00 per 5,000 + shipping and haz mat fee. I have used thousands of Wolf primers with no problems.

http://www.powdervalleyinc.com/

[Hip's Ax]

I just bought 10,000 Wolf Large Rifle primers from Widener's and its a good thing I did. I ordered last week and they arrived yesterday and now I see that they are sold out. Powder Valley and Midway have been sold out of Wolf LR for some time.

I bought them for my new (not here yet) 6.5-284 Stolle 1000 yard prone gun. I was told they were the best for accuracy (as far as LR primers go). The fact that they are (comparitively) cheap doesn't hurt either.

I do remember people complaining about misfires a few years ago when the Russian primers first landed in the US. The long range shooters loved the accuracy but it turned out that they are a little larger in diameter than US made primers and one had to be certain that they were seated fully to the bottom of the primer pocket to insure good ignition.

[mag44uk]

Just bought 20 k Large pistol CCI primers here in the UK and paid the equivalent of 800 dollars.
How about $60 for a pound of Alliant powder?
Diesel here is $11 a gallon.
I just bought the book Marlin Firearms by Brophy. It came to the UK via Amazon from a shop in PA at a postage cost of $5.50. The same book was twice the price and would have cost $15 from a shop 50 miles from where I live!
Figure that out.
Tony

[trickg]

I picked up some CCI Large Pistol Magnum primers for $29.99 per 1000. The next time I buy, I'll probably get a 5K brick and possibly save a bit more money. I wish I knew some other reloaders in the area because that way we could pool our resources, buy in bulk and save some dough.

[mike in co]

i guess its all economy of scales...or something like that.

i have no idea when the last time was that i bought 100 primers ........

min is 1k, normal is multiple 5k sleeves.......

dont ask me how many i have.....

but if i buy in the 50k(10x5k sleeves) range, i'm still in the low 20's per k

mike in co

[remy3424]

Rem 7 1/2 SR BR....$23.99 plus tax at my local guy today. Bought his last full brick.

[500bfrman]

I shoot a lot of shotguns too, Win 209s are running me $30/k, gonna find a cheaper shotshell primer.

SSB

That's cheap for me I see em for 40.

[Bad Water Bill]

EARL BRASSE The # are NCSR 1-07 As far as seating depth goes I loaded 2 50 round boxes of 218 bee fully prepped new cases. Each rowe was the same 1-1 2-2 etc except that one box used CCI Small rifle primers and the other used Wolfe Small rifle primers. Zero duds with the CCI but 13 duds with the Wolfe. Sure is hard on load development.

[Dorf]

I found some at Sportsman's Wharehouse in Coon Rapids, MN back around the end of June and paid $27.99 / K for Win Small Pistols. Win LRP's were the same price. I think Federals were a bit less. I think the coming political situation has a lot to do with the "availability".
Hope this helps.

[klw]

About $12 per thousand but I bought a lot years ago.

[evan price]

My share of a group buy was 20K Wolf pistol primers (Small & Large) and it cost me $370 total including my share of Haz-Mat and shipping. That's $18.50 per thousand.
Locally I've seen Magnum Match Rifle primers selling for $6 a sleeve of 100. The usual CCI and WIN primers are going for $4 a sleeve. Most stores are now selling 1K bricks for the same price as 10x trays of 100, no more brick price break.
A local shop had 5K cases of WIN Large Pistol primers. He has them on the shelf for $3 a sleeve of 100, I offered him $125 cash + tax for a case of them and he said no.

[JIMinPHX]

WLR, WLP, WSR, WSP were $23-$25/thou at the last gun show I went to about 3 months ago. Local shops have them $24-$38/thou. A small local shop has the best prices here in Phoenix & also good stock. The big box stores are lousy places to get primers in this area.

[clodhopper]

107.95 PER 5000 WINCHESTER SMALL RIFLE at bozo gunshow Frieday evening. Sold out Frieday evening.

[lee n. field]

went looking for some large pistol primers today, had to pay about $4.00 for each 100 pak...how much did they cost you last time you bought some.


$30/thousand, a couple months ago.

Gander Mtn. had primers at $3.75/100, a couple days ago.

[RustyFN]

I went looking for some large pistol primers today, had to pay about $4.00 for each 100 pak...how much did they cost you last time you bought some.

That figures about double what I use to pay for them.

Guess the cost of gasoline caused that one too.

Jim

I get a pack of 100 for around $1.70. I buy them in bulk 50,000 at a time. I get them for $83 per 5,000.
Rusty

[remy3424]

$17 per 1000???....Recently???....CCI, Fed, Rem, Win??? please share your source and what brand??? Wolf?? It has been over a year since I have gotten that kind of pricing. Nice price!! Where are you located Rusty?

[fred2892]

I'm paying £17/1k for magtechs locally here in the UK, thats roughly $35. How about powder prices, I'll bet worldwide theres an even larger variance than primers. I'll start off with £28.50 for one pound of Unique ($58)

Fred

[kingstrider]

$27/1000 as of yesterday

[windrider919]

I buy them locally form a 'kitchen dealer' who puts together group buys. Last buy last year was $28.00 per K.

However:

Interesting story told to me by Ron Gilstrap, a FFL holder here in Alvin, Texas. I have been doing business with him for 22 years. There is no gun store here so Ron orders whatever we shooters want. Cost plus 5%. Last year he did a group buy of 50,000 primers and along with the UPS truck received a visit from BATF agent questioning why he was purchasing so many and did he have links to any terrorist groups OR RIGHT WING ORGANIZATIONS!!! He told me that the womans very pores leaked a socialistic attitude. Showed up with an attitude and it only got worse. Ron is a quiet, soft spoken man and in over 2 decades I have never seen him git upset, even though at times he sure had reason. I know that he did nothing to cause this type of treatment.

FYI - Ron is no longer a FFL dealer because she went through 12 years of his records and only found one mistake, which was no comma between the town and state on ONE form. No unaccounted for firearms, no false addresses / IDs, etc. The agent told him that No errors were allowed on federal documents and that he had a choice, give up his FFL or face prosecution and fines up to $400,000.00. Of course he gave up his FFL since even the cost of a lawyer would have bankrupted him and it was only a 'hobby' business. And now we have to drive 50 miles to the gun store to get high priced components. I also heard that there were 6 other small FFL holders here in Brazoria County and Galveston County to receive the same treatment with about the same results. It seems that the BATF is on a drive to reduce the number of FFL holders and to only have licences held by full time stores. The problem is that some western regions do not have a large enough population to support a full time store and that the 'kitchen FFL 'holder filled that niche. By the way, Ron WAS a member of the NRA but when he called them he got nothing but the runaround and no help of any kind. What else was a little guy to do but knuckle under?

I (and the rest of the reloaders I know here locally) are discussing how we are going to order components to get the best prices so we can keep shooting. The government has made it harder but we will not let it stop our hobby.

[missionary5155]

The only 3 packs I ever saw down here in the Andes cost 20 soles each..about 7.50 each. I bought all 3. Ammo today is about $30 for a box of 50 38 special.

[Fish_N_Russ]

The sporting goods store down the road has some CCIs that have been on the shelf for quite a while with $1.89 marked on the packs........guess I need to buy all of em up!

[Buckshot]

.............I'm still grinning about those LR PMC Primers Graf was closing out at $56/5K. And free shipping too :-)

...............Buckshot

[Emil]

I buy them locally form a 'kitchen dealer' who puts together group buys. Last buy last year was $28.00 per K.

However:

Interesting story told to me by Ron Gilstrap, a FFL holder here in Alvin, Texas. I have been doing business with him for 22 years. There is no gun store here so Ron orders whatever we shooters want. Cost plus 5%. Last year he did a group buy of 50,000 primers and along with the UPS truck received a visit from BATF agent questioning why he was purchasing so many and did he have links to any terrorist groups OR RIGHT WING ORGANIZATIONS!!! He told me that the womans very pores leaked a socialistic attitude. Showed up with an attitude and it only got worse. Ron is a quiet, soft spoken man and in over 2 decades I have never seen him git upset, even though at times he sure had reason. I know that he did nothing to cause this type of treatment.

FYI - Ron is no longer a FFL dealer because she went through 12 years of his records and only found one mistake, which was no comma between the town and state on ONE form. No unaccounted for firearms, no false addresses / IDs, etc. The agent told him that No errors were allowed on federal documents and that he had a choice, give up his FFL or face prosecution and fines up to $400,000.00. Of course he gave up his FFL since even the cost of a lawyer would have bankrupted him and it was only a 'hobby' business. And now we have to drive 50 miles to the gun store to get high priced components. I also heard that there were 6 other small FFL holders here in Brazoria County and Galveston County to receive the same treatment with about the same results. It seems that the BATF is on a drive to reduce the number of FFL holders and to only have licences held by full time stores. The problem is that some western regions do not have a large enough population to support a full time store and that the 'kitchen FFL 'holder filled that niche. By the way, Ron WAS a member of the NRA but when he called them he got nothing but the runaround and no help of any kind. What else was a little guy to do but knuckle under?

I (and the rest of the reloaders I know here locally) are discussing how we are going to order components to get the best prices so we can keep shooting. The government has made it harder but we will not let it stop our hobby.

Having your FFL jerked for one comma, really sucks. I can't think of any other way to describe it!

I was at a gunshow last Saturday (first one in several months) and I was surprised to see an ATF agent chatting with a vendor just inside the door. Never saw an ATF agent at a gunshow, before. He was all decked out in his black utilities and sidearm.

Then as I wondered up and down the aisles, I run into an ATF BOOTH !!! What's that all about? They were giving away free childproof trigger locks and (I guess) there to answer questions. So, I couldn't decide whether the ATF is putting themselves out there as a service to answer questions, etc. and educate us or were they keeping an eye on everyone. THe show was absolutely mobbed. It was an hour after opening and lots of people were buying hardware but I didn't see anyone talking to the AFT guy at the booth.

BTW, two different vendors were selling Win Primers at $26 and $27 per thousand and one had 'em at $125/case of 5,000. The last time I bulked up on two cases (about two years ago), I think I paid $70 or $75/ case. That's a 66% increase from two years ago. I also saw some (really) foreign primers at $14. They were in a cheap paper box and labeled "NON CORROSIVE PRIMERS" and not much else. Didn't see a manufacturer or country of origin, but I'd guess Chinese or Eastern Europe base on the poor quality of the paper box. Primers are still cheap at 2.5 cents (based on $125 for 5000) to get too worried about. Like everything else, reloading is getting more expensive all the way around.

/Emil

[dukers65]

windrider, you should advise your friend to contact the aclu. maybe they will take up the cause. it sure would be an interesting call. dan

[Swagerman]

After we had breakfast at our local restuarant on hwy. 51, I asked the wife to drop me off at the house before she proceeds on to the grocery store.

Also asked her to see if that noisey concert had left our airport community building area, they've been noise poluting our woods 300 yards from my house for two days.

So, later that afternoon about 3:00 PM she tells me the community building is having a gunshow???

I rush over there before they all close down by this time, to try and find some primers, one guy had 8 paks of large pistol of the CCI brand...bought them anyway because the price was right at $1.75 a hundred pak.

The CCI brand are very good but hard to ignite in some of my guns...they are a hard indent primer.

But I should be set for another year with the 12 paks I've got overall.


Jim

[ktw]

I use CCI almost exclusively. I bought a couple of cases a year and a half ago for the equivalent of $19.50/thousand.

I ran into some new old stock CCI350s recently (LPM, small flats) at a little gun shop that was blowing them out at $15/thousand. I bought 5k.

Going rate for new stock CCI's around here appears to be running in the $22/M to $28/M, depending on type and who you are buying them from.

-ktw

[Junior1942]

About a year ago or more, I bought some locally at $2.95 + tax per 100. They're probably more now.

[Swagerman]

QUOTE: I ran into some new old stock CCI350s recently (LPM, small flats) at a little gun shop that was blowing them out at $15/thousand. I bought 5k.

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KTW, those Primers I got at the gunshow for $1.75 a 100 pak were CCI350. Are those considered old issue...if so, how old could they be. Now I'm worried about their reliability.

One pak is CCI300, all are large pistol.

Jim

[ktw]

KTW, those Primers I got at the gunshow for $1.75 a 100 pak were CCI350. Are those considered old issue...if so, how old could they be. Now I'm worried about their reliability.

I consider the "old issue" CCI stock to be the ones in small, 100 round flats with primers on edge in grooved slits. The new stock comes in a larger 100 round flat with each primer laying in a little round individual compartment.

I haven't had any difficulty shooting the old stock CCI350's (no failures to fire), but they can run slightly larger in diameter and take more effort to seat in primer pockets. I don't find this to be the case with the new stock CCI primers. All of my "old stock CCI" shooting has been CCI350, from bricks obtained from a couple of different sources.

-ktw

[454PB]

I'm still working on a bunch (15K) of primers I bought at a garage sale. They were all dated, and ranged from 1976 to 1980. I haven't had one misfire with them yet. As long as they have been properly stored, I have no problem with "old stock" primers.

[hotwheelz]

I have a shooting buddy who get us in on some group buys threw the base shotgun club. I just got my order in and the winchester primers were 104 for 5000, the CCI's were 93 for 5000, and the wolfs were 83 per 5000 I was going to try some wolfs but they were sold out.

[Swagerman]

Thanks, KTW, and 454PB, for the heads up on the long duration of CCI primers...that's reassuring for what I recently bought at the local gun show.

Jim

[Mumblypeg]

I bought 5000 Win small pistol primers about 2 years ago at gun show in Charlotte,N.C. for about $75. Found some large rifle primers in a local pawn&gun store that he has had on the shelf for years and had not sold. I talked him out of them for $20 per thousand. I think he had 2000. I know that won't happen again for new orders.

[472x1B/A]

I bought 2 bricks (k's), 1 of SPP and 1of LPP Federals for $23.50 per brick plus tax. Thats here in center Illinois .

[kidmma]

Just bought some at the local shop yesterday. $38.00 + tax for 1K.....

Ouch. :(

[bcp477]

Locally, they are around $3.89....something like that. So, $4.00 seems pretty typical to me. I can remember that they were something like $2.49....only about a year and a half ago. Yes, I'm sure that it costs an additional $1.40 to make 100 primers now....NOTHING of the price increase has anything to do with gouging for extra profit....sure, riiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiight.

[Bad Water Bill]

I still have 2 K of CCI primers I got about 1968 and have not had a miss fire yet.

[Bill*]

$25.95/K (+tx) ea. last Friday in Grand Rapids MI. I went to a wedding there and came back with around $240 worth of stuff that would have cost me a calculated $400 (with Haz-mat and shipping) here on the right coast! I saved over half our entire trip gas costs (or spent half again our fuel costs...depending on your point of view):mrgreen::mrgreen:

[dukenukum]

29.99 plus 6% sales tax at my local gun store .:castmine:

[chickenstripe]

Just stopped in a local gun shop a few weeks ago. I needed some "different" primers than what I had on hand. Asked foe a 100pk of remington 9-1/2's. Whne she set them on the counter that had $1.79 marked on them...... I bought every primer they had. Averaged to $15/1000ct. Large and small, rifle and pistol.

$2.89/100ct everywhere else around here.

[deboog93]

was at a Bass Proshop and they had large pistol primers cci for 3.99 per hundred so you figure 35 for a gross. I thought that was a bit much and passed. I just bought some locally from my ffl for 2.99 per hundred. Still a bit sticker shocked consider last time buying them at a gunshow they we 22.00 per gross. Guess that is progress