1500 SPP $82.50 ; $0.05 primers are back!!

Sportsman's is my closest store and is an hour away. Memphis had achedemy, two bps stores and Avery. In an hour I could hit 4 spots and usually score. I did get 4x100 lpp at 8 bucks each but I was down to 500 so I did need some. I'd like to have at least 1k for 45c development.
 
Mark_Mark said:
$6.35? for 1,000? wow
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Now ask how many hours he had to work to earn that $6.35 and what else it could’ve bought. 😁
The house I grew up in cost $6000 in 1954 and my dad’s Teague-designed 232 I6 Rambler station wagon was $1650 cash, brand new with the optional roof racks and deluxe mats.
My way of thinking is, why buy new if you have enough supply to meet your demand?
 
GeoDudeFlorida said:
Now ask how many hours he had to work to earn that $6.35 and what else it could’ve bought. 😁
The house I grew up in cost $6000 in 1954 and my dad’s Teague-designed 232 I6 Rambler station wagon was $1650 cash, brand new with the optional roof racks and deluxe mats.
My way of thinking is, why buy new if you have enough supply to meet your demand?
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But demand is personal. I have 2 beers and 1 drink a night, 1 home cook steak every 2 weeks or so; no expensive hobbies like Boats or Cars or planes. My goal is a Shelve full of Primers to take a selfie with!!!
 
I picked up 1,000 LPP in Lawrenceburg, TN last week for $89.95. Nope that isn't the old price we are used to, but a brick of LPP is like a Unicorn anymore. There were 6 more bricks on the shelf.
I don't live near there, I was there visiting an old Army buddy.

Cliff
 
Cliff6 said:
a brick of LPP is like a Unicorn anymore
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That's what I need most right now. I still have enough to get me by for a bit, but haven't seen anything available locally yet. Our Sportsman's is the best bet to have anything on the shelves.
 
GeoDudeFlorida said:
Now ask how many hours he had to work to earn that $6.35 and what else it could’ve bought. 😁
The house I grew up in cost $6000 in 1954 and my dad’s Teague-designed 232 I6 Rambler station wagon was $1650 cash, brand new with the optional roof racks and deluxe mats.
My way of thinking is, why buy new if you have enough supply to meet your demand?
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Because primers will get you through times of no money better than money will get you through times of no primers (paraphrased from some hippies).
 
Shovel said:
Because primers will get you through times of no money better than money will get you through times of no primers (paraphrased from some hippies).
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Well, yes to a certain extent but what I meant to say is, why buy new primers at 400% markup when you have enough old primers bought at a discount to meet your needs?
I’m not in a hurry to stock up on $60/K primers when I’m still using my stocks or $20/K primers. Most of my current need is for large pistol. I have plenty of smalls in every variety and enough large rifle to last many years.
 
Cliff6 said:
I picked up 1,000 LPP in Lawrenceburg, TN last week for $89.95. Nope that isn't the old price we are used to, but a brick of LPP is like a Unicorn anymore. There were 6 more bricks on the shelf.
I don't live near there, I was there visiting an old Army buddy.

Cliff
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that’s for the Match Stuff, ask for the CCi LPP next time, it’s only $59.99
 
Mark_Mark said:
that’s for the Match Stuff, ask for the CCi LPP next time, it’s only $59.99
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Where YOU are, maybe.

I’m going to keep pounding on this until the thick skulls get it: there is no national price, no national availability, and no national customer service standard. What you see in your area is what YOU get. Retail prices are regional and so is availability. Telling someone in TN to ask for something that is in your local WA store isn’t productive.

We’re still dry here in N.FL and it doesn’t look like it’s changing anytime soon. Congratulations to the people with full shelves but the view around other places is not the same.
 
GeoDudeFlorida said:
Where YOU are, maybe.

I’m going to keep pounding on this until the thick skulls get it: there is no national price, no national availability, and no national customer service standard. What you see in your area is what YOU get. Retail prices are regional and so is availability. Telling someone in TN to ask for something that is in your local WA store isn’t productive.

We’re still dry here in N.FL and it doesn’t look like it’s changing anytime soon. Congratulations to the people with full shelves but the view around other places is not the same.
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Same in Arkansas! my brother said he can’t get primers under $90 for nothing
 
The Sportsman's Warehouse in my area has Fiocchi small pistol primers now also. I've already bought 2 bricks of Remington small pistol for 45.11 a brick, and one brick of large rifle primers for $59.90 a brick.
The Fiocchi spp are 80.99/brick. I'll pick up two or three bricks of them later in the week. I think the Fiocchi spp were backordered or something and they just came in. They didn't have them last week. That's $55.00/k.

edit to add, I'm surprised our store can get them, or is it, Will Get Them. I think all the SW stores could get them if they wanted to.
That's like Academy Sports 3 miles away from Sportsman's Warehouse, they could get them also but don't even try. They told me that.
 
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The only reason the bricks of Reminton spp I bought were so cheap, at $44.11/k, is because they would ring up by the brick, not the sleeve. I'll bet that's what they paid for them, and someone at my store screwed up when they priced them for inventory. I'm sure I won't see that price again.
The 5,99 a sleeve price seems to be what all the rest of the brands are except for the Fiocchi primers of course.

The last time I was in my LGS, he only had srm primers. but he wanted 90.00/k and I have no use for them. As far as I know they're still sitting over there. I stopped shopping there when he stopped selling reloading supplies two years ago. He bought these primers on a whim.

The Sportsman's Warehouse I go to has everything I need, I just wish they would sell Hornady press parts. They have a bunch of Hornady stuff there, even presses, but no press parts.

Someone's been hitting up their powder inventory, it was about half gone yesterday. They have an 8lb jug of 231 I would like to buy but I'm trying to knock down some of my powder inventory and it wasn't any cheaper than buying it by the lb.

It's funny, there's always a lot said about how much powder, and how many primers we should have, but I've never seen a maximum of loaded ammo I can have on hand, so I'm loading it all up and I will store a lot of my powder and primers that way. My son has never shown any interest in reloading so I guess he will inherit loaded ammo instead.

He's never been shy of shooting it.
 
Got enough Fiochi SRP to try my new 223 target load. 6.6 cents each plus tax, so 7 cents total per primer. Won’t replace 22 any time soon but it will let me practice service rifle to 200 yards no trouble. That’s as far as my local range goes.
 
This is going to sound strange but I'm glad the store in my area didn't have Winchester primers. Unless they are the red foiled primers, I won't use them anymore.
I bought a brick of the black ones and found out later they won't run through my priming system on my LNL-AP. They are relegated for my old Lee Auto Prime ll press mounted priming system.
Don't know why they won't run through it but every third or forth round is a primer jam. That primer system on my press always ran good for me in the past 13 years.
After a lot of cleaning and much confusion, I took them out and put a sleeve of the red foiled Winchester primers in and they ran like they were made for it.

What the heck?

Winchester told me the black primers were the same primers as the red foiled ones. I was on the phone with them several times with the color change because we (Winchester and I) thought we had a mixed product of standard and magnums, due to the primer engineers not telling anyone at Winchester that they changed the color for the civilian market.

The red foiled ones now go the military. I don't know what the military's complaint was for sure, but Winchester told me that the Military wanted the civilian primers to be a different color from what they get so they can differentiate between primers that meet their spec and what's sold to us.

While I have some of each, I need to get a micrometer and try to figure out what has changed with them.

I think they probably dropped the quality of the black foiled primers due the fact that when they were all red they all had to meet a certain spec for the Military contracts. Now they don't and we get the lesser quality primers that they are making and the military gets the higher grade stuff.

Either way, unless I'm totally destitute for primers, I won't be using Winchester's black primers anymore. There will be that many more for the rest of you.

Edit to add: Just as a precaution to those who haven't heard yet, Winchester changed the color of the primers foil that they sell to the civilian market. They are now the same color as their magnum primers.
Be careful if you have both on your bench, it may or may not have an impact on what your loading. Just an FYI.
 
Mark_Mark said:
Same in Arkansas! my brother said he can’t get primers under $90 for nothing
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I finally found a reason to go to Bass Akward Pro’s and checked out the primer situation while I was there: CCI 550’s are $90/k and red box Winchester SRP are $110/k. Those were the only two options and they had very few of either. I’d guesstimate about five bricks of each. Maybe. They have a few Hodgdon’s and Winchester powders: HP38, HS6, three of CFE types (pistol, 223 and something else I didn’t notice too closely). Prices are at the $40/lb ++ range. The Autocomp for $38.95/lb + tax (7%) is a little shocking.
I bought the range bag I been looking at for the KelTek SB2K and Remington 870 PM and beat feet outta there.
 
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