At what point will you start buying primers again?

Tinker-S said:
Besides, the things could go bad if not used within a year, who knows
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Nah...I've got primers that are from the 70's and they still work fine.

I don't shop for primers. Haven't gotten low enough to fret over it either. I do buy them whenever I find them at less than $60/1000 because I know a few folks that'll want them at that price. If I see them for ,$75/1000 I'll call a couple of guys and see if they want any. More than that, I walk on by. I've found a few bricks here and there for $40-$50 and they go in my stash.

I do shoot rimfire about 20-1 nowadays though.
 
barnfrog said:
Sportsman's Warehouse has several types of primers listed for less than $6 per 100. Downside is that it's in-store pick up only, 2 boxes per customer and the closest store that has any in stock is over 1000 miles away. :(
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Sounds like a bargain to me! :)
An e-commerce has SRP for 7 cents a piece, but they come in a big brick for $370 bucks. I would say 5K brick, but not sure.
 
I just bought 5k SPP.
Normashooting.com
$65 per K
Free shipping! No HAZMAT!
Just state tax.
Not as low as I had hoped, but low enough to make sense for me.
Now… where are the LPPs?
 
Bcwitt said:
As long as i can buy loaded 22lr for less then the cost of a primer, I wont.
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10 years ago we were loading centerfire handgun, and light rifle loads with cast bullets, and the entire loaded cartridge was cheaper than a 22LR shell.

Now we can't even buy a primer for the price of a 22 LR cartridge.

Ironic, ain't it ?
 
Hooda Thunkit said:
10 years ago we were loading centerfire handgun, and light rifle loads with cast bullets, and the entire loaded cartridge was cheaper than a 22LR shell.

Now we can't even buy a primer for the price of a 22 LR cartridge.

Ironic, ain't it ?
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Shooting 22s is no less gratifing.
 
I buy sleeves instead of bricks. I hardly buy them anymore, it is good to see them on the shelf. I pass on even checking, lately.
 
Tinker-S said:
Well, since I started reloading during the pandemic, prices for me are what they are, and as long as they are in stock, buy baby, buy!?..
No sense to keep 10K of the stuff. Besides, the things could go bad if not used within a year, who knows?
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I still have some primers that I purchased before Clinton signed the AWB (they still work like new) and the last Winchester primers I bought were $125/5000 total after shipping (including hazmat) from powder valley.

Of course I kept more than 10k, I have that many because I know other things can get bad and effect my supply. like Clinton’s AWB, Obama’s re-election/Sandyhook, Covid,…

Not to mention, I always prefer to buy baby buy, when things are at their lowest prices vs as high as they can get and still have people purchase them.
 
Small pistol is essentially back at the new higher prices. I have enough to wait until I get lower to need to restock.

Not sure why people think Large Pistol Primers are going anywhere unless it's thought that everything up to, say, 45 colt is going to SPP someday.

My biggest issue right now is that I want to start loading for 500 S&W and most loads advise Large Rifle Magnum Primers which are pretty much 20 cents per or higher and only on auction sites. Fortunately, I have a supply of Winchester Large Rifle so those will have to do :|
 
To damn many scammers out there. I never know where to even try to find any now days. Wish I knew of a trustworthy site..
 
Bcwitt said:
Paper is just as dead.
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If it works for you, then it works... for you Since .22LR aren’t reloadable, and blanket statements about gratification or satisfaction are pretty typically accurate only for the person making one, it’s kinda off-topic to talk about non-reloadable ammo in a reloading forum and kinda rude to assume what you find gratifying should also gratify everyone/anyone else. Basically, just another form of trolling. Have a nice day.
 
Hooda Thunkit said:
I'm not going to disagree with you, my friend.



I'm not going to disagree with you either, my friend.

I was merely making an observation.
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Agreed. And if all I shot was paper I might also agree. But I have found hunting wild pigs with a rimfire to be far from gratifying. Hunting deer with rimfire is illegal. Besides, rimfire is not reloadable. ;)
 
GeoDudeFlorida said:
If it works for you, then it works... for you Since .22LR aren’t reloadable, and blanket statements about gratification or satisfaction are pretty typically accurate only for the person making one, it’s kinda off-topic to talk about non-reloadable ammo in a reloading forum and kinda rude to assume what you find gratifying should also gratify everyone/anyone else. Basically, just another form of trolling. Have a nice day.
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Im sorry you feel that way, but you did ask my opinion.
 
Bcwitt said:
Im sorry you feel that way, but you did ask my opinion.
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No I didn’t. The OP did. I pointed out the flaw in your assumption - that everyone had the same goal in using a firearm as you, personally do - by stating that, how gratifying shooting .22 LR is depends entirely on what you’re shooting. Some of us shoot more than just paper. But, if it works for you, then it works... for you. Be happy and revel in the glory of shooting rimfire - but I’d suggest that your revelry quite probably belongs elsewhere than a reloading forum. Unless you reload rimfire. Do you reload rimfire and is it less expensive and less work than reloading centerfire?
 
I have to say that I like all kinds of shooting, from rimfire’s to cap & ball stuff but nothing is as satisfying to me as slapping the snot out of steel with the big bore stuff that I cast and reload for. So yeh, although in a pinch rimfire stuff might work to scratch that itch a bit but that will only last so long.
 
Rimfire ammo & primers for centerfire are made on the same production line. Thats a clue something is funny w centerfire primer prices. I didnt mean that to be inturpreted any other way
 
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