Dollar Primers

lizziedog1 said:

Yes, I know, Taurus makes lousy guns.

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Might want to change your signature line to, "Yes, I know, Taurus used to make some lousy guns."

I have Winchester Staynless primers with a .19 cent price tag on them, plus a 1,000 sleeve with $6.70 marked on it. When I first started reloading in 1963, paper bags of surplus IMR 4831 were .35 cents a pound. You could also take your own container, which was usually a 3 pound coffee can (back when they actually held 3 pounds!) to the reloading shop and they would fill it from their bulk barrels. I remember that SR 4756 was about .40 cents a pound in bulk, since it was new production.

I also bought an M1 Garand for $89.95 in 1963 and had to put it on lay-away, and it took me about 3 months to pay it off. I sold that rifle a few years later for $115.00 and thought I had made a killing. Oh, and it was an all original Springfield that had never gone through a rebuild and had British proofmarks on it. Sure wish I'd never sold it, but with a budding young family, I needed the cash for a good hunting rifle, which turned out to be a Browning BAR in .30-06 that I bought new in 1969 for $167.00, including a scope, rings and sling. I still have that rifle and took an elk with it a few years ago.

Of course it's all relative, since I was working for the phone company in 1963 for $1.72 an hour and thought I was in tall cotton. All previous jobs had paid either $1.25 an hour or $1.35 an hour while in college. When I retired 17 years ago, I was making .50 cents a minute and the people doing my old job now are making twice that.

Hope this helps.

Fred

If they come back, we will be crying about other much larger problems.

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Walkalong - you got that right!

I was REALLY hoping Cabela's sale on CCI 500s is because they're learnin we won't pay exorbitant prices.
I've seen em as high as $40/k.
But this past week Cabela's had em for $24.99 (dang right I bought a bunch)

I see their price today is back up to $37.99

I sure wish The $20/K primer days would come back let alone $10/K primers. I don't now how old they are but I can say they are from a time long forgotten...

ArchAngel, if you order enough to justify the shipping, you can get large rifle, small rifle, large pistol and small pistol for $16 or less per 1k from Powder Valley.

Arkansas Paul said:

ArchAngel, if you order enough to justify the shipping, you can get large rifle, small rifle, large pistol and small pistol for $16 or less per 1k from Powder Valley.

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Thank you and yes, I know full well about Powder Valley. We became very good friends many years ago!!

Right now I really don't need primers. I was lucky enough to be able to stock up just before the "shortage" hit...

Thanks again for the info...

I would pay 40.00 per k on primers.
Our only local shop has any size rifle or shotgun 7.99 per 100.
special every day 80.00 per thousand

bandit7.5 said:

I would pay 40.00 per k on primers.
Our only local shop has any size rifle or shotgun 7.99 per 100.
special every day 80.00 per thousand

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Where do you live that primers are still selling for $80/K? Last time they cost that much here was at the height of the "shortage".