25 year old primer price pic

[atombaum]

New member, Old Guy! Really enjoying this Forum. Same story: "Been reloading for 150 years...." but I started in the 90s but got "serious" (code word for "thorough") since I retired. But I still don't know much.
I bought these in '97ish and thought you'd get a kick out of the price!
Rick

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I was loading up a test ladder for my 22-250 Remington 700 VS today and the I laughed at the primers I was using. W-W from about 1990, the price tag on them was $1.49. I am glad that I have them. They have just been stored in my safe all this time in an air conditioned house and seem to work perfectly.

 

[CJ6]

.Went on a job with the boss one day for an A/C install ,, going up the stairs I spotted a box in the trash with some empty 9mm brass in it. Job foreman said I could have it so I threw it in the truck . When I got home and sorted out there was about 300 empty 9mm, about 300 mixed bullets And
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I think I have 7-800 of the red & white(but 450's) CCI's and 2-300 of the green and white. Started in 1968.

 

[Joe Maisto]

I started in the 70s not long ago I tossed an empty tin can H4350 $ 4.95 from the non discount shop in town

And I have 3 of the square-empty cans of RL-11 from the late 60's .... Just can't seem to toss them .

 

[urbanrifleman]

Champion Shooter Supply sold Fed Match Small Rifle for $15.50 a brick back in the 1990s.

 

[itchyTF]

Bought at a gun show in Colorado in the ‘90s.

 

[Lesloan]

When I first started handloading, ca 1960, the going rate for primers was $7.50 per thousand. Sounds good, right? The problem was that in those days I never had $7.50 to buy an entire brick. I bought 'em in quantities of 100-200. If memory serves, I was earning something like $2.00 per hour at the time, and had a family to support. OTOH, finding reloading supplies was never a problem like it is today. A buddy & I split some bulk H4895 from the Director of Civilian Marksmanship (DCM - the predecessor of today's CMP). I forget how much we bought, but it came out to about 75 cents a pound. I could get lead free from another buddy who was a lineman for the telephone company and had access to scrap lead, so I learned how to cast bullets. With 2 gr. of Bullseye I could load ,38 Special for less money than the price of .22 LR. .30-06, with the 4895 powder, was a bit more.

Yeah, I'm an old fart.

 

[5spd]

These were 49 cents back in the day.

 

[butchlambert]

I've got a case of Federal 205M that i bought for $120 in the nineties. I looked over some a minute ago and saw a brick that I tried to sell at the shilen Swap meet a few years ago for #10. It is Remington 7 1/2 match primers. I have several boxes of Winchester primers that I couldn't sell for $2 per hundred. The trays in the box are wood.
More old stuff

 

[john 800]

And I looked at 3 bricks of sneller and belliot primers I bought from cabellas right before Obama was elected for 18.99 per 1k and wish I bought more. I dont shoot competitively so they and others I have will likely last me a darn long time but I still wish I would have bought more