It is enough to make you cry

[FISH4BUGS]

I just got finished casting, sizing and lubing some 2000 H&G #39 (158gr rn 38 bullet - old school) and set up to run them off for my 2+ year supply of 38's.
Tumbled the brass, set up the Dillon 550, and went to the closet stash and grabbed 2 bricks of 1000 each of Winchester Small Pistol primers and an 8lb WW231.
Fortunately I listened to that little voice in my head that I needed to stock up big time in 2019 while things were available. These primers may even be older than that.
I noticed a price sticker on them.
Made me want to cry.
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298992

[Lakehouse2012]

I just got finished casting, sizing and lubing some 2000 H&G #39 (158gr rn 38 bullet - old school) and set up to run them off for my 2+ year supply of 38's.
Tumbled the brass, set up the Dillon 550, and went to the closet stash and grabbed 2 bricks of 1000 each of Winchester Small Pistol primers and an 8lb WW231.
Fortunately I listened to that little voice in my head that I needed to stock up big time in 2019 while things were available. These primers may even be older than that.
I noticed a price sticker on them.
Made me want to cry.
Click to enlarge.
298992Wow, they are older then you think. I was buying cci 500's in 2018 for $23/1000 and would do that price gladly now...

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[FISH4BUGS]

Wow, they are older then you think. I was buying cci 500's in 2018 for $23/1000 and would do that price gladly now...
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You might be right.
I have a great stash that just might last me the rest of my days.... I'm 73 now.
Even with no break on buying in bulk, the price is extremely low.
$1.50/100, $11.50/1000, $57.50/5000
I can't even remember when I bought them.
What we wouldn't give to get those prices now......

[slownsteady22]

If you go into a store that has them(not likely) they have a few 00's added in there.

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[exile]

If I may ask, what is your favorite firearm to shoot those reloads?

exile

[Smoke4320]

$1.50 might get you 10 to 15 primers now

[FISH4BUGS]

If I may ask, what is your favorite firearm to shoot those reloads?
exile
Hard question to answer. But.....
2" Model 36 S&W snubbie
6" Model 28 S&W
Early Interarms Rossi 92 Lever
It is a great caliber, very accurate and not a ton of recoil.
Shoot 38's all day long with the Rossi.

[farmbif]

those are the good winchester primers too, before they switched over to blue box with brass primers.
ive got one of those old pre safety Rossi's in 357 too, one gun I probably never get rid of even though its old and real ugly, probably spent a couple decades under a pickup truck seat before I got it.

[Land Owner]

Buy components when available. Cost will fluxuate. When components are scarce - prices are high. Buy only what you NEED to see you through. Stockpiling now is not the right strategy.

When prices fall, BUY MORE. Then add the former high cost of units to the latter lower cost to AVERAGE their combined price. Prices go up fast and come down slow. The "new normal" won't be the old.

You do this subconsciously now when searching for "lower cost" diesel and gasoline. You buy what it takes to keep your wheels turning and look for cheaper fuel for the fill up. That's AVERAGING...

[elk hunter]

If I'd look I think I could find some CCI primers marked $0.59 per hundred. They're left over from the days when I paid $39.00 for 8 pounds of H-335. Of course in those days I was making $695.00 per month. Yes! times and prices are changing.

[lightman]

I have a move coming up in a few weeks and have been boxing up my stuff. Some of the prices I'm seeing on a few boxes make you look back and think. $1.19 per hundred on CCI primers, $7.99 on a pound of powder, $9.99 on 168 Sierra Match Kings. But I had to work 3 hours for those $10 bullets!

[Geezer in NH]

$12.00 ain't that the going rate now for a 100 sleeve?

[wwmartin]

Only 2 left. I ve had thesea while.

299044
Bill

[FISH4BUGS]

Only 2 left. I ve had thesea while.

299044
Bill

A blast from the past!

[Tripplebeards]

I was paying $1.99 per 100 two years ago. I just about cried when I had to pay $39 a brick last fall. Lol…glad I did. Bought about 18 bricks at that price.

[jsizemore]

Only 2 left. I ve had thesea while.

299044
Bill

73¢ for 2 primers? Times really are desperate!

[jsizemore]

I went to an estate sell last year when the covid isolation had eased a bit. You know, the mask and hand sanitizer period before the "vaccine". Friend and his wife had been to the sale the day before and had seen some reloading stuff. In the basement there were a few things left and some pewter mugs from a canadian flight wing. There was one of those screw and nut organizer drawer boxes with reloading odds and ends and some of those old CCI 1000 primer bricks like the ones in the above post. 6 of them with a price tag of $8.99. I paid $20 for the nut and screw organizer full of reloading stuff. Didn't even haggle over the price. Of course I didn't even set the nut and screw organizer down to fish my money out of my pocket. Wasn't going to take any chance somebody might make a grab for it if I set it down. I discovered that there was a couple sleeves missing from 3 of the bricks. Sometimes it's just bad luck getting shorted like that.

[Land Owner]

^^^ haha ^^^

"shorted like that"

I am SO GLAD I did not have a mouth full of coffee at the instant I read that. I would have blown it all over the screen.

[WinchesterM1]

I just paid 100 per K 2 days ago of CCI 500 SPP… it made me sick, but not as sick as not having any ammo

[vhntr1]

Iv been lucky that i have stocked up the last 20 years my friends told me i was nuts and commponents would never be hard to get ,now they come begging for them!

[Forty Rod Ray]

To this very interesting discussion, may I add….. does any one have a rational answer for this?… minute quantities of tiny amounts of raw materials, loaded into modern efficient, machinery designed to run at fantastic speeds… now, zap! , none available, we’re forced to the beggar’s bowl, to buy a commodity once plentiful. something’s not right…something stinks….

Help an old wrinkled man….

[45-70 fan]

I just got finished casting, sizing and lubing some 2000 H&G #39 (158gr rn 38 bullet - old school) and set up to run them off for my 2+ year supply of 38's.
Tumbled the brass, set up the Dillon 550, and went to the closet stash and grabbed 2 bricks of 1000 each of Winchester Small Pistol primers and an 8lb WW231.
Fortunately I listened to that little voice in my head that I needed to stock up big time in 2019 while things were available. These primers may even be older than that.
I noticed a price sticker on them.
Made me want to cry.
Click to enlarge.
298992

I have some I inherited when my dad passed away. exact same packaging and the price on those was $1.20. I remember when he got into reloading. I was only about 12 years old at the time which would put the date somewhere around 1986.

[Freightman]

Well I have moved to my son's property to a one room house with a bath and kitchen due to my wife passing. We both reload and cast, when we put our powder and primers together it filled a cabinet 7'x3'x30" deep. I had never taken an inventory in all my years of casting and reloading I just bought things that i wanted and at a good price. He is 60 and I am almost 83 so we are set for life I think

[jsizemore]

I used the last of my new CCI 500 primers. Dug out some oldie but goody CCI 500 primers in the small 1000 count black and white box that are OEM primers for commercial use only. C24F lot code on each 100 pack. $7 in ink on the outer box. So far, they've all gone bang.