What is a case of primers, 10K? I've only seen them for sale in 1K bricks. Where would a person by 10K primers in normal times?
They are generally 5, “bricks”, that contain 10 smaller, 100 count packages.
Then there are large, small, rifle, pistol, standard, magnum, shotgun, BP, not to mention some guns might shoot best with Remington 7 1/2’s, another might like Federal…if you only have one brand I guess you might not know that though.
Then there is some stuff like benchrest rifles where you might want to buy 1 (the same) lot of primers, powder and bullets for its lifetime to reduce lot to lot variables.
Not to mention being able to ride out the next panic, a competitive gun game fellow will go through 20,000 rounds a year easy.
Hazmat fees are also a consideration. Places like Natchez, Grafs, Powder valley, Midsouth will ship you 1000 primers for 1 hazmat fee or 48 lbs of primers for 1 hazmat fee, as far as raising the price per primer it’s easy to see the more there are the less the increase in price is.
A $20 fee on 1000 primers is + $.02 per primer.
A $20 fee on 50,000 primers is + $ .0004 per primer.