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

[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.