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.