Cabela’s Primer Pricing Just Went Berserk

Charlie98 said:

I poke my head into Cabelas fairly often, I was in Monday to look around and I've noticed the trend of prices going up irregularly. A pound of IMR4198 was $40, which is stupid, but setting right next to other IMR powders in the mid- to high $20's. There are other examples, but you get the idea. Just weirdness. I'll buy stuff at Cabelas, but I really watch the prices.

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Yeah, I noticed that also which made 0 sense to me. Its like hey, this is the most popular powder (Varget) lets price it $40-pound when something someone never uses is $23-pound.

Does anyone know why they quit stocking the S&B SPP? I used to grab them on sale for $20 and then the sales went to $27-1k and now you cant even buy them.

ohihunter2014 said:

Does anyone know why they quit stocking the S&B SPP? I used to grab them on sale for $20 and then the sales went to $27-1k and now you cant even buy them.

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From another thread on the subject, consensus is that S&B is not currently importing them for various theoretical reasons.

ohihunter2014 said:

Does anyone know why they quit stocking the S&B SPP? I used to grab them on sale for $20 and then the sales went to $27-1k and now you cant even buy them.

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Probably supply. Of all the reloading components currently available, primers seem to be the most volatile... excuse the pun.

https://recobstargetshop.com/ Check out this vendor if you live in MN or WI. If you live in a Speedee delivery area, your Hazmat is a flat $10 and they drop it at your door w/o a signature.

I heard they had a fire and the place blew up. No more S&B

Went there the other day looking for some cleaning patches. Guess what, not a one in sight. Asked one of the expert sales person if they had any in another location. He just shrugged his shoulders and said I guess we are out of them. I guess Ozzie Osbourne was right, stupid people do stupid things.

Every time this topic comes up there is the dreaded "Haz Mat" fee. If you live in a State that allows mail order. Look around for sales, buy in bulk (primers and powder) (not from Midway as their powder ships from a different place than primers so they can not be combined)

The haz mat fee gets absorbed and ends up less than paying local sales tax.
Example MidSouth haz mat is $28.00
Graf and Sons is $10.00!

You do the math:

https://www.grafs.com/retail/catalog/product/productId/2421

Looks like the Gander Mountain pricing strategy.

Mark it up 20%-30% over full retail

Run an occasional "sale" for -20% off

File for bankruptcy when no one buys your inventory

Yes, the best part of Gander's brilliant 'stragegy' is when they became moribund and held some really great sales at 50-90% discount before they closed. I loved picking through their bones for some great deals.

markr6754 said:

I stopped in to my local Cabela’s to buy an extremely overpriced J Dewey cleaning rod for my .300 Blackout AR pistol. As usual, I passed through the reloading section, first, just to see if the cleaning rods were there (they weren’t). Just over a month ago I bought some CCI 400 Small Rifle Primers, paying $32.99 for a brick. Expensive, but I was finally ready to load .300 BLK, and needed powder and primers.

Yesterday, that same brick of CCI 400 was $40.99, a buck higher than the Federal SRPs at $39.99.
CCI 550s, Small Pistol Magnums we’re also $40.99. The only small pistol CCI 500 Primers were individual sleeves at $3.99 each. If they actually stocked 10 sleeves you could buy a brick worth for less than buying the brick.

Sad...and another indication of what lies ahead I suppose. I’ve tried to buy local...but no more.

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I try to buy in bulk to minimize the hazmat and shipping fees. Sometimes these guys will run a free shipping or free hazmat fee. I find there prices to be the absolute best and they always seem to have almost everything in stock:

https://www.powdervalleyinc.com/product/cci-500-small-pistol-primers-1000/

Cabela's just ain't the same since the Bass Pro people took over.

Eugen said:

Yes, the best part of Gander's brilliant 'stragegy' is when they became moribund and held some really great sales at 50-90% discount before they closed. I loved picking through their bones for some great deals.

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Even then they jacked the prices up. I have always worn Gander guide series hunting clothes and wanted new bibs. The red sticker said something like $170-40% and under that red sticker was the normal price of $130. They almost had me thinking I was getting a good deal at $130 when in reality the normal price was $130. I did find some tree stand harnesses for around $40 that were a steal!

I've bought Unique and Bullseye at Cabela's in the past year and I know they were around $22 or $23 per lb. I was in Cabelas about a week ago looking at powders and saw the prices and walked away. Pistol powders that are usually in the $23 range were over $30 and Rifle powders that I can find just under $30 were over $40! At least I still have Scheel's and Sportsman's Warehouse.
Now what am I going to spend that $200 Cabelas gift certificate on?

Lee Q. Loader said:

I've bought Unique and Bullseye at Cabela's in the past year and I know they were around $22 or $23 per lb. I was in Cabelas about a week ago looking at powders and saw the prices and walked away. Pistol powders that are usually in the $23 range were over $30 and Rifle powders that I can find just under $30 were over $40! At least I still have Scheel's and Sportsman's Warehouse.
Now what am I going to spend that $200 Cabelas gift certificate on?

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Sell it to someone.

frankmako said:

I got a bass pro and cabela's in my area. They are one exit apart on i75 \

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I live in the same area.

markr6754 said:

I stopped in to my local Cabela’s to buy an extremely overpriced J Dewey cleaning rod for my .300 Blackout AR pistol. As usual, I passed through the reloading section, first, just to see if the cleaning rods were there (they weren’t). Just over a month ago I bought some CCI 400 Small Rifle Primers, paying $32.99 for a brick. Expensive, but I was finally ready to load .300 BLK, and needed powder and primers.

Yesterday, that same brick of CCI 400 was $40.99, a buck higher than the Federal SRPs at $39.99.
CCI 550s, Small Pistol Magnums we’re also $40.99. The only small pistol CCI 500 Primers were individual sleeves at $3.99 each. If they actually stocked 10 sleeves you could buy a brick worth for less than buying the brick.

Sad...and another indication of what lies ahead I suppose. I’ve tried to buy local...but no more.

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Eugen said:

They were not always the lowest price, but not unreasonable. They also gave military veterans a discount on everything. But, things have changed since Bass Pro Shops bought Cabelas. Prices seem higher, policies regarding customer inspection of firearms is more limited, etc. Cabelas seems to be heading in the wrong direction.

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Currently my wife and I are good for about $1,000 in Cabela's rewards on the Cabela's visa which now under Bass Pro has become a Master Card. To maintain the Visa Black status they required using the card for $25K annually which we did. I agree since Bass Pro bought them things are not what they were. I ended last year and began this year using my Harley Davidson Visa and will continue to make that our prime card, heck we get better rewards on over priced Harley Davidson products. I'll eventually find a gun I like in their Gun Library and buy it using all the points and slowly end our long relationship with Cabela's. My wife just mentioned Christmas. Every year we have several friends we would send a bacon sampler to. The bacon samplers were 4 pounds of good bacon, a pound each of 4 types. Typically about $60 or $15 a pound. This year the bacon samplers went up to 8 Lbs and were well over twice the old price for twice the bacon, actually $140.

Bass Pro apparently learned nothing from the late Gander Mountain. Eventually enough people will walk away. I just looked at a pound of Varget costing $40. Damn shame too.

Ron

Bass Pro totally screwed up Cabela's in-house clothing line, too. They put elastic in the waistband of the shorts and cargo pants I used to buy. Heavy, itchy, sweat-inducing elastic. I freakin' hate Bass Pro.

I always get CCI primers for $29.99 a brick at our local Runnings store.

I use Cabella's as my showroom, then go and buy online.

Cabelas in the Denver metro area has gone downhill too. I went to the Bargain Basement: nearly empty. I went to the reloading section: half the size it used to be with the same crazy prices. Very few overpriced primers on the shelf and no bricks: 100 count only. It was one of the few times I've walked out of there with nothing. It's just sad, and I probably won't go back. Hello Sportsman's Warehouse.

I typically despise big box sporting goods stores for a few reasons, and Cabellas is falling into that category more and more. I gladly support Academy though, I get good deals in store and good deals online in a variety of categories. I buy primers almost exclusively at Academy now.

markr6754 said:

I stopped in to my local Cabela’s to buy an extremely overpriced J Dewey cleaning rod for my .300 Blackout AR pistol. As usual, I passed through the reloading section, first, just to see if the cleaning rods were there (they weren’t). Just over a month ago I bought some CCI 400 Small Rifle Primers, paying $32.99 for a brick. Expensive, but I was finally ready to load .300 BLK, and needed powder and primers.

Yesterday, that same brick of CCI 400 was $40.99, a buck higher than the Federal SRPs at $39.99.


CCI 550s, Small Pistol Magnums we’re also $40.99. The only small pistol CCI 500 Primers were individual sleeves at $3.99 each. If they actually stocked 10 sleeves you could buy a brick worth for less than buying the brick.

Sad...and another indication of what lies ahead I suppose. I’ve tried to buy local...but no more.

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cabelas is NOT local. Find a local gunshop and take cash.

IlikeSA said:

. Very few overpriced primers on the shelf and no bricks: 100 count only. .

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That has been the BPS model forever. There is a BPS store closer to me than the Cabela's and one time I was in BPS when I found the primers they were al behind the counter and only sold by the 100 sleeve at $4.99