What are your reloading component price range?

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Now that reloading components and equipment are becoming more in stock, I am curious what your price range threshholds are for primers, powders. bullets, brass, dies etc.

I mean, what's your "Wow, gotta buy at this price" to what you are willing to pay because you are low in stock?
 
It depends on the price of the component and the need that I have.

Since I inventoried a year or so of supplies, I can be picky on the price waiting on them to return to near normal levels aka 2010-2012 prices.

Except for sales i doubt we will see pre-2009 prices again.
 
The only thing I'd like to buy soon is some 115- or 124-grain .355" jacketed bullets for loading 357Sig. I don't even know what price to expect to have to pay, but I'm going to start finding out.
 
Id happily buy tula primers at the $20.50/k price I paid early december before the crazy let loose. I wouldnt pay more than $25/k though. Primers are getting low for me, only a thousand of small and large left. Do have 1,500 primed 38 cases ready to go and a few thousand rounds of most calibers so I can last another 6 months before slowing down on shooting.

powder? ill keep buying it locally for $16-17 for most anything per pound or $115/ 8 pounder

dies? 3 die set $30, 4 die set $40

brass?- Ill go out and look like a hungry chicken pecking away at the range brass :rolleyes:

bullets? I havent bought bullets in a long time, but I guess If i had to, $80/k berrys .357 125gr plated and $120/k berrys plated 230gr .451
guess im not one for paying more than last year lol. I forsee a lot of bullet mfg's sitting on a lot of product once this thing finally tapers down.
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Beatledog- not too sure how important bullet profile and dia is in 357 sig as I dont load it, but powdervalley has 1000 lots of berrys plated .356 in 124gr and 147gr.
 
At the low rate I've been shooting this summer I'm stocked up for 2 years. I have 3.5k SRP, 3.5k SPP, 1.5k LPP, and 300 LRP. I could probably stretch my powder supply longer than that but I may require some more LPP and LRP before then. I have enough .224 bullets and wheel weight lead to cast for everything else I shoot. I just need to pick up a couple more bullet moulds.

So being stocked up, not as well stocked as some people but pretty decent, I probably won't be buying anything except primers, .224 bullets, and bullet molds unless I find them at absolute pre-panic prices. I might consider paying 5-10% above pre-panic prices but that's about it. I paid $28/k for Tula primers and about $40 for CCI. $20-30 per pound of powder depending on how much and where I got it. So figure about 10% on top of those prices, that'd be my max. Bullet prices haven't really gone up if you buy them from the better retailers, just gotta catch them in stock.
 
At the shooting range I bought some Win LP, they had a limit of 500. Through the previous shortages they held down the prices. Not this time. With tax they came to 4.28 a hundred. I needed them. I wouldn't complain if they were 3.50 or less.
 
I have 2k or so primers left and about 2 pounds of powder. I have plenty bullets for this summer.

So, if I see primers at $20-25 (tula) I will buy. If I see 8lb jug of powder I use - I will buy. If I see group buy or price for plated RN 124gr 9mm around $70/k - I will buy.
 
Jesse Heywood said:
At the shooting range I bought some Win LP, they had a limit of 500. Through the previous shortages they held down the prices. Not this time. With tax they came to 4.28 a hundred. I needed them. I wouldn't complain if they were 3.50 or less.
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$4.28 per 100 for Win primers isn't too bad. My local Cabela's charges about $41/k for CCI after tax, Win are $1 more pre-tax. Not a great deal but it's not bad if you can't get them anywhere else.
 
Katitmail said:
I have 2k or so primers left and about 2 pounds of powder. I have plenty bullets for this summer.

So, if I see primers at $20-25 (tula) I will buy. If I see 8lb jug of powder I use - I will buy. If I see group buy or price for plated RN 124gr 9mm around $70/k - I will buy.
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I couldn't find them that cheap pre-panic. Lead yes, plated no.
 
Everything costs too much when it can be found. I'm starting to think this time there will be no end to the madness, at least until the 2016 elections are over.
 
I'm not desperate. Close is good. Question was at what price I would buy. Since there is no immediate need I will watch for those prices. I passed on $37 federal and $40 cci primers at local stores. I do tink it will get better. Bu I'm new reloader so no experience here
 
One of the local shops has CCI primers for $34.95 per 1k and H4895 for $24.95 per 1lbs jug. I just got my kit in yesterday and still waiting on the manuals to arrive. Lack of funds till August 3rd prevents me from ordering dies and supplies for my firearms till then. We do have some dies for the 30-30 & 30-06 though. As for what I will pay, as little as possible on my limited income.
 
I haven't really seen any alarming prices since this thing started. A bit higher for some items, but nothing that inflicts serious pain as you walk away from the cash register. I'm still getting CCI primers for around $33 - $35 per K, powder is running $21 - $25 per pound, slightly less for larger canisters. And bullets I haven't really seen much if any difference in retail. But I'm in Az. if that makes any difference?

GS
 
I won't be happy until I see primers @$20/k and powder under $20/lb but i know full well that will never happen. I can live with primers @$28/k and powder under $24/lb. (but that might be a stretch too)

I think I'm not going to be happy for a very long time!
 
i'm going to hold out a while on powder and primers until they come back to reasonable rates. reasonable to me is $20/k on primers and $120 or less for 8b keg. i'm buying berger bullets at $34 or less.
 
I didn't buy anything over priced so I'm not going to start now. Even with all the crazy I didn't pay over $30.00 a 1000 for CCI primers or the going rate before the craze for powder.
 
By buying in bulk, I buy powder in 8# jugs, primers by the sleeve of 5000, bullets by the 1000 or more wads ( I shoot shotgun) by the case of 5000 - most of which I get online, I can get costs way down
 
I am still getting primers for pre-panic prices. I use mainly SPP and have been replacing what I use at $30.95/K. I am overstocked on powder from 2009 so that is not an issue for me. I have switched to hard cast in 9MM for the 1st time. I am saving my small stock of plated & FMJs for harder times.:banghead:
 
In our area it is hard to find stuff. If you go to one of our local gun stores they have pretty much what you want but it is higher than i really want to pay.
 
At this point, the price isn't as big an issue as availability. Living in a small community in Alaska, I have to buy components in Anchorage or Fairbanks. I've been checking for powder and primers on monthly trips to the big cities as able. There just isn't anything to buy yet or my timing is bad. We can't get things via UPS Ground.

I have my fingers crossed that things will smooth out in the next year.
 
Powder depends- I needed Alliant Steel, and found it for $23/ LB at a local shop- bought two pounds.

Saw H4895 for $26.5/ #. I passed, and everyone knows I like H4895. If I had none, I would have probably bit- but I have some, and some I4895, so I didn't need it that bad.

Primers ? Well, the cheapest around here is usually bimart. They have "jacked" the price to 3.69/100- and you can only buy 100/day ( and they mean it, and they know their local people ) I've been buying 1 tray of small pistol a day, even though I have no use for them. All they seem to carry is CCI. There is a muzzleloading shop here that is very proud of his primers- $60/1000, and he's had them all through the panic. If you needed them, he had them. But you were going to be paying double, or even triple, and no- he does not care. He would sell them to you with a smile- $6 for 100, or $60/1000, your choice.

So, I guess I will pay 3.6 per. I will not pay 6 per, lol.

Bullets ?

Pfft.. I havent bought bullets since my last load of 30 carbine at RMR, I think they worked out to 9c each, pre-panic. They are 11c ea now- still a good price, and I would buy them again. (except I have a mould for that too, now.....muahahahahahahahaha)
 
CCI Primers - $26-$30/1,000 - been paying 26 for case lots through all of this

Berry's Bullets - Depends of caliber and style but around $80/1,000

Powder - have all I can ever use but TG is less than $19, H335 8lbs for $167. HP 38 for less than that but can't recall.

I look at Powder Valley prices as pretty much the benchmark. Will pay a little more locally without shipping.
 
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