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markr6754 said:
Well, I'm at the opposite end...Dayton suburbs, but my wife wants a roadtrip to the Cleveland area. Should that come to pass anytime soon I'll be happy to relieve your overstock of LRP. Just started loading for 6.8 SPC...and R-P and PPU brass takes large rifle. I picked up 5 sleeves at Cabela's a few weeks ago...but that may not last long. That said...I have plenty of SRP and just added to my 6.8 SPC small primer brass bottle.
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No problem at all. If you make the trip up this way shoot me a PM and I'll send you an address and phone number.

Ron
 
So, fwiw I was told, by a well-connected friend in Idaho, that a new independent primer manufacturing facility is being assembled and staffed ... somewhere around Horseshoe Bend. Again, he stressed "independent" but will be able to turn a few million primers a year.

American Reserve Munitions perhaps? I dunno but I do know that I love their Gatekeeper slugs. They're a small family owned operation and extremely patriotic. If it's them then we can bet they'll produce top quality primers. If it's not them ... then I have no clue around Horseshoe Bend. Perhaps some Idahoans in the community will post here and let us know what they're hearing.

If two, or three, or four or however many new production facilities come online here in the next 12-24 months ... that would really help supply I would think. Time will tell I suppose.
 
Airborne Falcon said:
So, fwiw I was told, by a well-connected friend in Idaho, that a new independent primer manufacturing facility is being assembled and staffed ... somewhere around Horseshoe Bend. Again, he stressed "independent" but will be able to turn a few million primers a year.

American Reserve Munitions perhaps? I dunno but I do know that I love their Gatekeeper slugs. They're a small family owned operation and extremely patriotic. If it's them then we can bet they'll produce top quality primers. If it's not them ... then I have no clue around Horseshoe Bend. Perhaps some Idahoans in the community will post here and let us know what they're hearing.

If two, or three, or four or however many new production facilities come online here in the next 12-24 months ... that would really help supply I would think. Time will tell I suppose.
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Oh boy here we go:) The only thing new here is “Idaho” as the location. Most recently before this it was Texas.

I mean no disrespect at all and know you’re just the messenger, but it’s worth nothing to me—I’ll believe it when I see it.
 
LARGE PRIMERS ARE BACK!
LARGE PRIMERS ARE BACK!!!

W00T! ;)
Feeling much better now.
They ain’t cheap but more than one place has them. Mostly rifle but, whatever. As long as they’re shipping SOMETHING in large form factor.
 
Walkalong said:
Be patient, it could be sooner than you think, get past Christmas, then the start of a new year, folks are broke, economy gets worse...........interest rates go up.......folks said the same thing last time, be patient, ease up on the doom and gloom, the glass is half full. :)
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Technically, the glass is always full - it’s just a matter of the air-to-liquid proportions changing.
 
Mark_Mark said:
can’t wait till we stop talking about primers! one day, primers will be a shrug in the shoulder
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Yeah. Kinda like magnetos and vacuum tubes. They’ll be gone so long nobody remembers there ever was such a thing.
Kid: “Grandpa, what’s a primer?”
Gramps: “Oh, those are the things we used back in my day to set off the powder in a cartridge.”
Kid: “Oh. Grandpa, what’s a cartridge?”
Grandpa: “Never mind. Just close the flap on the mud hut and keep eating your gruel.”
 
GeoDudeFlorida said:
Yeah. Kinda like magnetos and vacuum tubes. They’ll be gone so long nobody remembers there ever was such a thing.
Kid: “Grandpa, what’s a primer?”
Gramps: “Oh, those are the things we used back in my day to set off the powder in a cartridge.”
Kid: “Oh. Grandpa, what’s a cartridge?”
Grandpa: “Never mind. Just close the flap on the mud hut and keep eating your gruel.”
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electronic primers will be the hott new thing Elon Musk will come out with!!!
 
Mark_Mark said:
entirely! lol

Me…. putting in an order for 10#’s 2F & 3F
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Speaking of that other powder, I have been seeing some musket caps and No.11’s showing up but at 20-cents per! Way overpriced and sketchy availability. Worse than primers. I wonder if the No.10 is going to be the “new” standard cap?
 
kidneyboy said:
When primers come back I hope some of you guys stock up.
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You mean restock. ;)
It depends on how pricey everything else in life gets. Out here in the boonies the electric cooperative is really putting the screws to us. Fuel adjustments since mid-2020 have doubled the bill and we are stuck with it. I’m not going to buy mass quantities of primers and skip the electric bill.
 
GeoDudeFlorida said:
Speaking of that other powder, I have been seeing some musket caps and No.11’s showing up but at 20-cents per! Way overpriced and sketchy availability. Worse than primers. I wonder if the No.10 is going to be the “new” standard cap?
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oooh yeah, #10 Remington Caps were going for $200+/1,000 - #1 of BP was $45+tax locally.

Everyone was hurting!
 
Two years ago, Remington 61/2 small rifle primers were over $200.00 per 1,000 on Gunbroker. $89.00 sounds like a deal. The days of $3.50 per 100 or less of the 1970's are never coming back.
 
Fishtales said:
Two years ago, Remington 61/2 small rifle primers were over $200.00 per 1,000 on Gunbroker. $89.00 sounds like a deal. The days of $3.50 per 100 or less of the 1970's are never coming back.
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never say Never! I can see $3.50 or $4.00 again
 
This has all been a very interesting discussion. What some people are willing to pay and what some people are not willing to pay so I went over to look at Gunbroker's auction site to look at primer bids. While I realize many consider GB expensive, they have primers that aren't on any store's shelf. There wasn't anything over there under $120.00 per 1,000 plus shipping and most were considerably more. So, one has to do what one has to do. Either buy the expensive stuff or cut down on the amount of shooting one does. Neither one makes for a happy camper.
 
Fishtales said:
This has all been a very interesting discussion. What some people are willing to pay and what some people are not willing to pay so I went over to look at Gunbroker's auction site to look at primer bids. While I realize many consider GB expensive, they have primers that aren't on any store's shelf. There wasn't anything over there under $120.00 per 1,000 plus shipping and most were considerably more. So, one has to do what one has to do. Either buy the expensive stuff or cut down on the amount of shooting one does. Neither one makes for a happy camper.
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You’re right. I’ve noticed one thing though…while I’m shooting I haven’t a care in the world including cost.
 
Everyone looks at shooting and reloading different. First for almost all of us it's a hobby and not how we make our living, so we can control how much we spend.

But I, like many other like to shoot, so I do pay the higher prices especially because I am over 65 and have more money than time to shoot.

I try to go to the range at least twice a week and shoot no less than 50 rounds per trip, but try to always shoot 100 rounds. Which makes over 10,000 rounds a year. This year I am on target already shot 10,400.

People say stock up and most of us do, but if your looking at your primer's instead of shooting them that's not much of a fun hobby is it.

As always your mileage may very. :)
 
To Mark Mark, I do know better than to say never and almost didn't but hoped to get some discussion out of saying it :). Thank you for the response. Hope you are right about the pricing and that it happens within my lifetime :).
 
Mark_Mark said:
Just Because is 100%!
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Understand completely about the boxes/cartons. I have 4-5 boxes of factory .338 Win Mag (even after starting to reload for my rifle) because some store was going out of business (circa 2007), and I bought them for $20.00 a box instead of $30.00 per box. It just so happened that they were the factory loads that shot as well out of my rifle as my reloads.
 
Fishtales said:
Two years ago, Remington 61/2 small rifle primers were over $200.00 per 1,000 on Gunbroker. $89.00 sounds like a deal. The days of $3.50 per 100 or less of the 1970's are never coming back.
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$35 per 1K? Don't bet your last dollar on it. :)
 
Fishtales said:
So, one has to do what one has to do.
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That's about it. When one is sitting on tens of thousands of primers today's going rates may seem pretty high but for someone on their last 500 primers not so much. My thinking has always been on any given day any gun is worth what someone is willing to pay, no more and no less. That now extends to bullets, brass, powder and a gallon of gasoline.

Ron
 
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