The price of Federal primers.

[nagantino]

Not a reloading question just an observation…. Today I paid $112(£99), for 1000 Federal small pistol primers! I live in the UK and was told that the next delivery will be higher than that. What do you all pay?

[dannyd]

About the same price with hazmat and shipping.

[Half Dog]

I haven’t seen Federal primers for sale in quite a while so I can’t comment. Let your money make you happy and don’t look back.

[poppy42]

My preferred primers. Last time I found any local they were $12.00 a hundred !

[BLAHUT]

I have not seen any primers for sale in a very long time. So I cannot answer this question? You need, You pay to play. Aint going to get any cheaper. Demorats will see to that.
Tried to buy primers and powder today, two stores, none to be had, just empty shelves.

[reddog81]

Pretty much the same. Powder valley website had 1,000 earlier today for $95. After shipping and hazmat they’d be more than you paid. 3 years ago they were $30 per thousand. Summer of 2020 they were running $200 if you could find them.

[txbirdman]

I bought some Federal small pistols for $10/100 at the local Academy a couple of weeks ago.

[TNsailorman]

The last primers I bought were $19.95 a thounsand but that was many years ago; the 1990's to be exact. I still have enough primers to last me awhile if I am conservative in my shooting. Plus, I have switched to air rifles and air pistols the last 3 years so I should be good to go. I know that sometimes you can get in a bind and need to pay that kind of money but as long as the public is willing to pay the prices being asked right now, the price will never come down. Not condemming anyone, just making a point. And I agree, the market is being manipulated right now by the government and the makers. The scalpers are just taking advantage while they are able. my .02 anyway, james

[dannyd]

It all depends on the person I use 12,000 primers or more a year and definitely have more money right now than time left on the planet.

[stubshaft]

The last gun show they had around here (Oct. 3rd) CCI primers were $169.95 for 1K. Federals were not available.

[Hannibal]

LGS had CCI primers for $80/K except for large rifle. They did have Remington large rifle but those were $120/K. That was a couple of weeks ago. I've not been back since.

[45workhorse]

No primers at Bass pro in Savannah GA. IMR 4227 $49.99 a pound. They still have those same three pounds! I just happened to be in the area, today! Did not spend any money.

[Sig556r]

I see primer prices going down now in gunshows (Pasadena TX last weekend).
Just make sure to shop around though, lotsa gougers still at it (>$100/1k).
Bought some CCI 450s for $75/brick from a regular vendor.

[doghawg]

I guess I better not complain. CCI 550's and Fed 100's for $76 a brick at a local retailer here in Wisconsin.

[jaysouth]

TN Academy Sports are carrying Federal small pistol Mag and Large rifle for 79.99 per K, no limit. No other primers in stock.

[Milky Duck]

$27.50 for federal large rifle magnum...was only box in the shop
$19 for the federal small rifle.

[barnetmill]

The prices on ammunition has gone down a little. Primers are easy to find in the internet that was not true last year. The prices in many cases have not gone down yet that I have seen. There is a tremendous backlog in demand for them. But I predict they will within a year drop to maybe 50-60 dollars per 1,000 assuming that some new crisis does not occur. Inflation is now part of the picture so there are primers, but they are more expensive than they need to be. If it gets any worse I may buy a flint lock assuming I can find some black power lol.

[dale2242]

I have a lead on some primers from a reloader quitting the hobby.
$30K for SR and SP.

[dannyd]

There the Word to keep in mind it's a "Hobby" , so have fun and spend what You think is Right for You. ;)

[murf205]

Not a reloading question just an observation…. Today I paid $112(£99), for 1000 Federal small pistol primers! I live in the UK and was told that the next delivery will be higher than that. What do you all pay?

You didn't get hurt on that deal. In the US we never know what these idiots in Washington D.C will do next. That's one reason for the high prices. At least you have primers now.

[charlie b]

The last primers I bought at Sportsman's here in town were CCI small rifle bench rest at $9/100. The std primers were $6/100. That was earlier this year (april?). June I paid $48 for a pound of IMR4198. This week it was $56.

[dondiego]

I bought some Federal small pistols for $10/100 at the local Academy a couple of weeks ago.

That is a $100 per thousand and that is awful!

[dverna]

Prices are inching down. I believe that trend will continue. And supply is much improved.

Those who were caught unprepared are hurting.

Like others, I switched most of my trigger time to air guns so can last a long time if I have to. Opened my eyes when I traveled down that road. There are some sweet toys in the airgun world.

My hope is the new normal settles into the $55-60 per 1000 range. I doubt it will get much lower and have planned accordingly.

Hopefully, most people will be OK and keep shooting.

BTW, seeing 9mm ammunition for $16/box. That is about 35% more than before the “great event”. If primers follow the same trend, there is hope.

[sqlbullet]

Those who were caught unprepared are hurting.



I felt prepared. After the 2008 shortage I stacked 'em deep. Heading into 2020 I had nearly 25K primers on hand. I am down to about half that amount, but my distribution is not ideal.

I am out of small pistol for all purposes at this point. Have a couple hundred small pistol magnum left. Under 1K large pistol and under 1K large pistol magnum. I still have decent stock of small rifle, and about 2K each of large rifle and large rifle magnum.

Luckily for the short term I can load 9mm, 38 super, and 357 with the small rifle I have on hand. But the lack of large pistol is starting to hurt, especially since myself, my wife, three of my kids, two sons-in-law and my mom finally have finished our wait for a CMP 1911. Feeding eight 1911's at the range once a month makes 45 ACP a hot ticket on my press these days. Hoping to find someone locally that needs small rifle and has large pistol.

[anothernewb]

The price was high, but not outrageous in todays market. The next 30 days will do much to determine the future availability of obtaining any components.

The optimist in me says people have had enough and will make a few changes that should ease the market.
the realist in me says this is still the "good times" and it's about to get really bad.

[farmbif]

whoever jacked up the prices on primers did the same with car and truck batteries at the auto parts stores, primers were about $30/1000 three years ago a truck battery was about $85. today that same battery at all 4 big name auto parts stores that I checked was $259 to get $279. all these retailers are just trying to keep up with one another to separate us from our hard earned dollars. that's what it seems like to me anyways

[Mal Paso]

PVC electrical conduit tripled in price too. It's come down 5%. Hopefully someone will break ranks and prices will fall.

The last few weeks there has been an avalanche of sales for ammo and everything else. Jovid inflation has eaten up disposable income and retailers are tightening up their margins. Brownells has been emailing flash sales which I haven't seen before and all Sales related emails are over double in the last month.

[charlie b]

It does seem a bit like things have peaked. But, every time I think that I see diesel go up in price. That usually means higher prices everywhere else. When I see diesel drop a bit then I'll start breathing again :)

[nagantino]

Well, I feel just a little bit better now after reading all this. The thing is, almost all the primers are made in the US and if you are feeling the pain then I don’t feel as bad. Magtec are much cheaper, £42 , $47 but in a revolver you need 100% ignition reliability so it has to be Federal for that. Magtec are European manufacturers and would clean up if the made a soft primer similar to Federal.

[Mal Paso]

I had trouble with Magtec primers in a revolver but no problem with their loaded 44 Mag ammo. I assume the same primers are used in their loaded ammunition. Each of the primers on the loaded ammo had a triangle embossed into the primer I think to make it more sensitive. I started to try that with my unembossed Magtec primers but quit when Federals came into stock.