Found Small Rifle Primers today
- Thread starter e rex
- Start date
- Status
AJC1
Member
Wow that's over the top
Mark_Mark
Member
- Joined
- Jan 9, 2021
- Messages
- 17,891
WOW! he’s sitting gold mine
RockRat64
Member
I went to Scheels and noticed from a distance they had SRP. Last time they were $60 so figured I would grab a brick. This time they were $100. Walked away.
docbrown
Member
Ordered 2 bricks of CCI Small Rifle Magnum primers from Brownell's today at $79.99 each, free shipping + hazmat fees. Works out to be a hair under $90 a brick. Still high, but at least they had them. Have tried Bass Pro, Cabelas, Sportsman's Warehouse and even Palmetto State Armory when I was up in Columbia 2 weeks ago and no one had primers of any kind. I think once supplies stabilize, the price will wind up being around $65/1000. Inflation is real and is here to stay.
ArchAngelCD
Member.
Man am I happy I don't need to buy primers, it would make me sick to pay those prices. The SPP are my largest numbers but the stock I have won't last forever. I hope things settle down by then.
IIRC $27/k was the most I paid and I have no delusions that price will ever come back. Does anyone think we will ever see $40/brick? I hope so because more than that is sickening. (not that $40 is great)
IIRC $27/k was the most I paid and I have no delusions that price will ever come back. Does anyone think we will ever see $40/brick? I hope so because more than that is sickening. (not that $40 is great)
bullseye308
Member
I just got 600 CCI 400 SRP today at Academy for $6.99/100 and wasn’t happy, but grabbed half of what they had.
I found some LPP for 100$ out the door I can't believe it but I'll probably buy more at that price. The supply chain seems to be in real trouble coupled with inflation. I will shoot my revolvers more than my semi auto's the ammo seems to last longer.
JEBruns
Member
My indoor range store had LRP's yesterday, Winchesters. Figured they'd be marked high, but were $54.95 per K. I don't use any of those, but was surprised that they had, what is now, a decent deal on them.
twarr1
Member
I know I’m stating the obvious, but as long as people are paying $100/1000 they’ll stay $100/1000
I agree but it's almost like supply is being kept just a little short of what reloaders are demanding. Lots of us are ready to get back to shooting and don't have much patience to wait any longer.
I'm not saying this is a conspiracy or the market is manipulated in any way. Everything that's happened over the last 2 to 6 years is totally legit.
twarr1
Member
A lot of online retails have a 1 brick limit on primers (Looking at you Midway). I’m sure their reasoning is to distribute their limited stock as widely as possible. But the policy also means they believe, rightly so, that buyers will pay any price right now.
It’s a windfall for UPS and FedEx because they don’t do anything extra for a hazmat shipment, all the extra work is done by the shipper; special packaging, paperwork The $20 hazmat fee is an addition straight to the bottom line for UPS/FedEx.
It’s a windfall for UPS and FedEx because they don’t do anything extra for a hazmat shipment, all the extra work is done by the shipper; special packaging, paperwork The $20 hazmat fee is an addition straight to the bottom line for UPS/FedEx.
Nasty Canasta
Member
Sportsman's Warehouse has been helping me get my primer supply stocked back up. I check with them regularly & have been picking up bricks of LPP, SPP, & SRP every other week or so. Last week the wife was with me so we got 2000 SPP at $42 each (they also had 409's, Federal SPP Match, & LRP).
Scheels has been maybe once a month at best & a bit higher priced, haven't got anything there for a month or two.
Scheels has been maybe once a month at best & a bit higher priced, haven't got anything there for a month or two.
60 bucks a 1000 for federal srps and spps and 70 bucks a thousand for CCI's at Academy. They don't always have them but I stop by there atleast twice a week. Yeah it's high but I'm not going to sit around and wait for prices to go down to shoot.
Never seen free shipping and hazmat at Brownells, that's a first for me...
Yea, my last purchase was from brownell at $60 and now everything is back up around $80-90. Just when I thought things were getting better, bam, what gives.
gifbohane
Member
- Joined
- Nov 7, 2016
- Messages
- 1,179
whughett
Member
Naw you didn’t did you I mean your going to want to go back there someday.
Prompts me to ask: So the retailer has to actually send the shipper $20 plus the actual shipping and those retailers where the hazmat fee is above below the $20 either pocket or make up the difference …..?
twarr1
Member
Naw you didn’t did you I mean your going to want to go back there someday.
Prompts me to ask: So the retailer has to actually send the shipper $20 plus the actual shipping and those retailers where the hazmat fee is above below the $20 either pocket or make up the difference …..?
We don’t know.
UPS and FedEx only accept hazmat packages on a contract basis. Retailers *say* the shipping company charges a $20 fee. How much goes to the shipping company and how much is kept by the shipper is a part of that confidential contract.
Maybe MidwayUSA is padding their bottom line as well. Idk. If they can make an extra +|- $10 on every hazmat order, why raise the quantity limit?
whughett
Member
And we as on line consumers just keep supplying the Vaseline.
This may ruffle some feathers, but if I was running Midway, I'd be doing the same thing. As I see it, better to put 1 brick of primers in 1,000 hands vs. 1000 bricks in 1 hand.......and then have them show up on gonebroker for double what they sold them for. The fastest way back to normal is to satisfy as many buyers as possible, as quickly as possible. My guess is the user pyramid has a pretty wide base.....and a single brick is going to ease the edge for a lot of folks looking for primers. Once those buyers have dropped out and product starts accumulating on the shelves, limits should come off.
BTW, I note some large retailers are doing the same thing with high demand items like toilet paper. Sam's Club has a limit of 1 per visit. If not for that, some buyers would probably take the entire lot and fill their pole barn up.....just because. In times of shortages, better to have each customer get one than one customer get them all.
Beyond that, as someone who has just started pulling together a reloading stash, seems like we have seen more primers show up in past 2 weeks than previous 8 months combined. A sign we may be over the hump.
BTW, I note some large retailers are doing the same thing with high demand items like toilet paper. Sam's Club has a limit of 1 per visit. If not for that, some buyers would probably take the entire lot and fill their pole barn up.....just because. In times of shortages, better to have each customer get one than one customer get them all.
Beyond that, as someone who has just started pulling together a reloading stash, seems like we have seen more primers show up in past 2 weeks than previous 8 months combined. A sign we may be over the hump.
twarr1
Member
Why not take it further and limit to 1 sleeve? Then 10,000 can get a few. Where does it become ridiculous? Selling primers by the piece?Obviously we draw the line at a different point. And that’s ok. I’ll wait until the limits get to a point it makes sense to me to pay the hazmat. Either way, things aren’t going to change substantially until peoples’ thinking/panic changes. There’s alway going to be the guy who will spend the kids’ lunch money because of FOMO. I’m not going to compete with that guy (like on GunBroker) because that would make me an idiot too.
Last edited:
- Status
Similar threads
