Price spike in Reloading Dies

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crestoncowboy said:
Or a real live 426 Hemi..... not the crap they call a hemi now. But a real one. Id buy that too. Without gas.

Only way I'll ever be able to afford either. Both bring 40k or more right now.
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I kept a built 392 on a custom stand for years - just to look at. Built two for a car and the blown one just didn't look right. The car got Hilborns and the blower-Hemi became shop art. Eventually, a pal offered too much to refuse. Same fella bought a Silver Jubilee Triumph that I never intended to hear running.

I do the same things with guns. I keep some merely to look at on a rack with no intention whatsoever of shooting them - ever.

Todd.
 
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ApacheCoTodd said:
"... from a better managed time..."

Todd.
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I strip away the old debris
That hides a shining car
A brilliant red Barchetta
From a better vanished time
I fire up the willing engine
Responding with a roar
Tires spitting gravel
I commit my weekly crime
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“...a better vanished time..”. Too bad Uncle didn’t preserve a Garand and a few loaded clips.
 
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Our local Wal-Mart stocks reloading supplies. I was there yesterday and picked up some RCBS 7mm Mag and .243 dies for $32 each. They also had a complete RCBS starter/master kit with all you need for $329. No primers, powder or bullets though. All that stuff was gone. The rifle dies were cheap, the pistol were a little more as they have three dies. They had a 6.5 Creedmore set, but it was around $69 for some reason. It was Group D instead of Group A... whatever that means.
 
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koni said:
It’s the eBay craze! I was in my LGS today picking up my 30rd mags I had ordered (support your local small business! even more so in a small town!) and this dude in front of me bought every die they had in stock (like all 3 of them, 45acp) Jen the store owner bets me in a hour she could find them on eBay for 5x what she sold them for.
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A guy I work with says his nephew does that, buys every die set he can. I was in the Fin, Feather, Fur store a couple weeks ago, saw a Lee's 223 Rem die set by its' lonesome. Had the urge to buy it just so nobody could do the same. Then I thought, what the heck would I do with it, as I already have a set.

Just have to wait for people to come to their senses.
 
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Really would not be a bad time to load the oddball or obsolete calibers that everyone has laying around. Much more fun then cranking out 556 all afternoon. 50 bmg prices havent changed much. Think positive
 
Mark_Mark said:
.223 is just a mystery to me. It’s free worlds ammo and every country stock piles it. Were the shortage coming from???ALL HYPE
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Most ammo manufactures make there longest green on govt contracts. They arent interested in retailers when there are wars to feed. This happened in the Bush & Obama years. Govt agencies were responsible for that. They simply will not make reloading primers available until orders are full. You would do the same.
 
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Bcwitt said:
Most ammo manufactures make there longest green on govt contracts. They arent interested in retailers when there are wars to feed. This happened in the Bush & Obama years. Govt agencies were responsible for that. They simply will not make reloading primers available until orders are full. You would do the same.
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Yep, primer sales to reloaders are usually overstock. Right now, they are making ammo as fast as they can crank it out, and there aren't many leftover primers for us small guys.
 
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Darth-Vang said:
Ain’t nothing, the scavengers have pick the aisles bare clean. But good thing I still got my other die sets though. Like 9mm, .308 WIN, .32 acp, and .25 acp. These were waay before the pandemic. Just need .223 remington and I’m all set. But the prices have went up 2-3X the normal price.... 0.0
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I just sold a new Hornady 223 die set on Gunbroker a few days ago, wish I had seen this post before then. I would have offered it to you. But, the buyer hasn't paid yet, so...
 
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TheBruce said:
I just sold a new Hornady 223 die set on Gunbroker a few days ago, wish I had seen this post before then. I would have offered it to you. But, the buyer hasn't paid yet, so...
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It’s cool. I know someone’ll want to get rid of their die sets. I’m keeping an eye on ebay and elsewhere so I can snag it at a “normal” price. ;)
 
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Bcwitt said:
Most ammo manufactures make there longest green on govt contracts. They arent interested in retailers when there are wars to feed. This happened in the Bush & Obama years. Govt agencies were responsible for that. They simply will not make reloading primers available until orders are full. You would do the same.
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War! I great equalizer for the globalist.
 
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n2omike said:
Yep, primer sales to reloaders are usually overstock. Right now, they are making ammo as fast as they can crank it out, and there aren't many leftover primers for us small guys.
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Yet one seller's GB auctions I've been watching the last few days has sold well over 100k SPP. That's just the ones I put on my watchlist:what:
 
Will share one more story for the OP and others. While I already had a set of dies for an obsolete caliber, those dies are in the custody of a friend who has been reloading for me, and he is moving 1000 miles away. So while I didn't technically need a replacement set, I've been keeping my eye open for one. A set turned up on ebay.......RCBS.....for what seemed like a bargain price, so I bid on them and got em for $29. Except when they arrived, they were not RCBS.....they were Bonanza dies, with shell holder and appear to me to be unused. They did come in a damaged RCBS plastic box.

If memory serves, Bonanza became Forster? If so, I got a deal. Seller's other stuff was mostly household, so probably got em from a garage or estate sale and didn't realize what they had.

Still watching other listings on a variety of stuff on ebay and GB. Seems to me prices on reloading stuff is still sagging lower. Prices lower and more re-listed items that didn't sell the first time. Got a special private offer from a seller the other day on a watched item that had not attracted any bids.

Hopefully, the crazy stuff is past us and that light at the end of the tunnel isn't an oncoming train.
 
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BigBore44 said:
Maybe you should head over to midway and see if you can find primers or bullets. Then go to gunbroker and do the same search.
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I am just glad I bought my pistol reloading dies yrs ago when I started reloading. My .38/.357/9mm/.44 spec,.45acp all covered. Did not have this situation on supplies,and simply purchased dies for what I was reloading. Is a sticker shock when I see some sites charging $200,yes $200 dollars for reloading dies. As resourceful as we try to be these days,it hit or miss on what one can locate.
 
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jd1368 said:
I am just glad I bought my pistol reloading dies yrs ago when I started reloading. My .38/.357/9mm/.44 spec,.45acp all covered. Did not have this situation on supplies,and simply purchased dies for what I was reloading. Is a sticker shock when I see some sites charging $200,yes $200 dollars for reloading dies. As resourceful as we try to be these days,it hit or miss on what one can locate.
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I just bought:
7.7 Japanese $32
lee fcd 7.7 $13
RSBC 357 sig $29
 
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