JimB
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What are the odds of finding some small rifle primers for sale without having to give up my first born to acquire?
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platekiller
Ultimate Member
Last ones I found were $80 for 1k. The place had more yesterday but sold out before I finished what I was doing and would be able to go.
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JimB
Active Member
80 isn't too bad for these times
Biggfoot44
Ultimate Member
- Aug 2, 2009
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It depends, how much you value your first born .
85MikeTPI
Ultimate Member
Wow. Guess I'm going to have to add my primers to my homeowners insurance rider along with the wifes' jewelry
JimB
Active Member
I would probably have to go 5000 primers for that deal. And NO returns!
platekiller
Ultimate Member
I thought so when I had a pack with the $30 price tag still on it. But I figured I can’t buy 1k of 223 for anywhere close to $80 and I had everything else.
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platekiller
Ultimate Member
They had a limit. I got 1k since it was in one box but otherwise it was limited to 500
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Here's the deal. I'll give you 200 if you take my first born. Seriously, this online schooling stuff is driving me nuts. I'll throw in 1k LRPs if you promise not to try to give him back until full-time in-person learning starts.
Seriously though, call up Hafer's in Hagerstown. They may still have some. They started rationing them out early.
JimB
Active Member
I will try hafers. Thanks
JimB
Active Member
Only problem with kids is they turn into teens! And teens know everything! I did when I was a teen.
byf43
SCSC Life/NRA Patron Life
Heh, my son is only 6 and he's already at that stage. I guess karma is definitely a real thing. That's the only way I can explain it!
$80's not great, but we're only talking like 5cpr more per round over normal times. Factory ammo's something like 30-40 cpr more than it was, you can do the math on whether reloading still makes sense. 
Biggfoot44
Ultimate Member
- Aug 2, 2009
- 33,162
True . But the current limiting factor is availability more so than absolute price .
- Feb 4, 2013
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I had five of these. Down to my last one, and it's not for sale.
I've thought about not opening it, just so I could prove this is what they cost, 'way back when', as my kids ransack my belongings, after I die.
That is about double what I was paying when I first started reloading.
IIRC, I could reload .45 ACP, casting my own bullets from scrap linotype for less than 1.5 cents per round. It was cheaper than CCI .22 LR.
byf43
SCSC Life/NRA Patron Life
Same here.
When I started reloading, primers (all sizes) were less than 75 cents/100.
I remember during one shortage, MD Small Arms Range wanted $3.00 per hundred, with a maximum of 300 primers sold, per person, per day.
(I told them to 'eat them'.)
I still have some Federal "Hi-Power" .22lr in 100 round plastic boxes, and paid 98 cents per box, at Best Products, in Lanham, MD.
Biggfoot44
Ultimate Member
- Aug 2, 2009
- 33,162
And when .22lr was less than $1.00 , people also made less than $3.00 / hr , gas was $0.30 / gallon, etc .
The other day I paid 60 bucks each for 1k of Mag rifle primers, large rifle primers and small pistol primers.
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