CQB45ACP
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Got your attention, yes?
When you’ve gotta have ‘em or you just want ‘em what difference does price make? I love to shoot my pistols and this is a cost. It’s still way cheaper than setting foot near a golf course.
Yesterday, I bought a brick of CCI LPP from Powder Valley thanks to the alert on the primer availability thread. I was limited to one brick @$37–close to last year’s retail price yes?
But, add shipping and hazmat and the total was $66/1000. That’s darn close to current Gunbroker prices for large pistol.
I am also waiting on 2 bricks of large magnum pistols to be shipped to the closest cabelas. Even though it’s 30 miles away, that’s my much preferred way of getting anything. I avoid the shipping and hazmat fees, the inconvenience of having to sign, and no one knows I’m a gun nut.
I’ve only been reloading since September 2019 so getting primers for .03 cents per has never had time to settle into my DNA.
I never started the hobby to save money (everyone used to say you couldn’t anyway, right?) I started when Walmart stopped selling handgun ammo around here and I wanted continued easy access and didn’t want to buy a bazillion rounds every sixth week when the gun show came to town. (So instead I have a bazillion pounds of powder and primers).
I really enjoy cooking up my own loads and being the only kid in town with plenty of ammo is a comforting feeling.
Finally, there are plenty of primers available on Gunbroker and the price is actually coming down slowly indicating so is the demand.
As Simon Roth told Michael Corleone in GFII—“THIS is the bidness we have chosen.”
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When you’ve gotta have ‘em or you just want ‘em what difference does price make? I love to shoot my pistols and this is a cost. It’s still way cheaper than setting foot near a golf course.
Yesterday, I bought a brick of CCI LPP from Powder Valley thanks to the alert on the primer availability thread. I was limited to one brick @$37–close to last year’s retail price yes?
But, add shipping and hazmat and the total was $66/1000. That’s darn close to current Gunbroker prices for large pistol.
I am also waiting on 2 bricks of large magnum pistols to be shipped to the closest cabelas. Even though it’s 30 miles away, that’s my much preferred way of getting anything. I avoid the shipping and hazmat fees, the inconvenience of having to sign, and no one knows I’m a gun nut.
I’ve only been reloading since September 2019 so getting primers for .03 cents per has never had time to settle into my DNA.
I never started the hobby to save money (everyone used to say you couldn’t anyway, right?) I started when Walmart stopped selling handgun ammo around here and I wanted continued easy access and didn’t want to buy a bazillion rounds every sixth week when the gun show came to town. (So instead I have a bazillion pounds of powder and primers).
I really enjoy cooking up my own loads and being the only kid in town with plenty of ammo is a comforting feeling.
Finally, there are plenty of primers available on Gunbroker and the price is actually coming down slowly indicating so is the demand.
As Simon Roth told Michael Corleone in GFII—“THIS is the bidness we have chosen.”
yes, mistake in title. Should be you’re
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