Primer prices - having a laugh?

[FNSafari]

CCI BR2's on PowderValley this morning for $140 per thou. That is more than double what they sold for a year and a half ago. PV is about the most honest site I've ever bought from in trying to hold the line pricing wise and I'm sure the increase is what they have to pay plus a reasonable profit.

 

[BobbyJ]

What are you paying for small rifle primers sept 2022?
I bought cci 41 for 49.00 a box 1000 last year at the store 2 year before that 31.00 now its 123.00 grom midway. Well 80.00 plus ship plus hazmat. Rip off not buying.

What kind of prices are you guys paying?
Cci 450 41 or rem 7 1/2

 

[RegionRat]

CCI 450 is 89.99 for limit quantity of 1000 today at Midway, price before they add tax, HAZ, and shipping.

 

[wkdickinson]

CCI 450 is 89.99 for limit quantity of 1000 today at Midway, price before they add tax, HAZ, and shipping.

A couple weeks ago I bought 1K CCI 450s at Scheel's in Appleton, WI for $89.95. The last 450's I bought, I paid $34.95 for, so it goes - better than $125 a few months ago.

 

[davidjoe]

was at gun show last weekend,140.00 /1000 on primers.nuts

So, at $14.00 per tray of 100, that is the same as two 50 count boxes (100 rds) of .22 ammo of a reasonably good match variety or very high target grade, which also have priming compound, but significantly, a bullet, in addition to powder and a larger “case.”

The industry component guys will have to lean on each other to keep it real, or else they will all suffer because practice round count will sharply decline. Take the powder makers for example, “the spice must flow” or else it really doesn’t matter how many shifts Berger runs, annual round count consumption will simply drop, practice will be the first to go, and that means brass will stretch, we won’t need to buy it in cases, barrels will go back to lasting a very long time, and actions and stocks - for generations.

CCI, Hodgedon, Alliant and VV, make your noisy stuff, or the kids will have to leave this sandbox and with them their toys.

 

[old codger]

Does anyone have any info in the new primer facility planed for in Texas? All I see is information posted early this year. I think these guys are seeing the high prices of primers now and think they can sell their production at these inflated prices. They are not planning on the price of primers coming down.

 

[clowdis]

Got some CCI450's from Brownells a couple weeks ago. Price was $95 per thousand but when I got the confirmation they were $105/1,000. Ended up about $125/thousand after shipping and hazmat.

 

[CacheCropp]

I cry a little each time I use some of my existing stock of primers. I don't know if they’ll last until 2024 when prices will come back down again. It’s especially painful because some of my primer boxes still have the $24.99 price tag on them. Salt in the wound.

I’m just biden my time until I don’t need to be wealthy to purchase reloading components. The freedom to live our lives trumps everything.

 

[farmerjohn]

Was waiting to see a doctor last week and walked over the a pawn shop in the same mall and found these, it's getting pretty bad when people start pawning them John

 

[tangocharlie]

It appears that we, as shooters, are victims of the effects of a perfect storm. The supply chain disaster, escalating inflation, huge increases in transportation costs, huge increases in demand for loaded ammunition due to the same increase in new gun owners, the willingness of the current administration to bleed our armed forces small arms ammunition supply dry to support Ukraine…Primers in loaded ammo are much more profitable than primers as components. And, just as an aside, now that we have a ‘special code’ to flag firearms purchases on credit cards, how long will it take to create one for component sales? A reasonable question.

 

[jelenko]

Does anyone have any info in the new primer facility planed for in Texas? All I see is information posted early this year. I think these guys are seeing the high prices of primers now and think they can sell their production at these inflated prices. They are not planning on the price of primers coming down.

I got an email from their director of Expansion Industries sales back in mid July saying primers would be available in 30-60 days.
In emailing with a company that advertises Expansion Industries primers, they are expecting primers in the Spring of 2023 - and that Expansion has been promising primers 'within 30 -60 days' for awhile now

 

[CacheCropp]

So, at $14.00 per tray of 100, that is the same as two 50 count boxes (100 rds) of .22 ammo of a reasonably good match variety or very high target grade, which also have priming compound, but significantly, a bullet, in addition to powder and a larger “case.”

The industry component guys will have to lean on each other to keep it real, or else they will all suffer because practice round count will sharply decline. Take the powder makers for example, “the spice must flow” or else it really doesn’t matter how many shifts Berger runs, annual round count consumption will simply drop, practice will be the first to go, and that means brass will stretch, we won’t need to buy it in cases, barrels will go back to lasting a very long time, and actions and stocks - for generations.

CCI, Hodgedon, Alliant and VV, make your noisy stuff, or the kids will have to leave this sandbox and with them their toys.

Unless there is a large contract buyer out there willing to buy up everything, keeping the manufacturers happy and everyone else SOL.

 

[Beiruty]

Why the LEE/Hornady/Lyman/RCBS/Redding the big names in reloading tools do not get into primers business.
Without primers, their revenues would shrink dramatically.

 

[Thor357]

So of late I'be been bombarded by Bruno Shooters Supplies, often several times a day which just makes me want to unsubscribe from their emails, over primer and powder stock. I decided to check what I paid the last time I bought primers.
CCI BR4 in April 2018 I bought a bunch at an equivalent of $55/1000. Bruno is now touting stock at $140 per 1000 (if bought in lots of 5k). Yes prices should have gone up but not 250% !!! Clearly there's a lot of gouging still going on this market. Let them sit on the shelves for a bit longer yet. Luckily I have plenty for now.

I make my own primers but was able to acquire plenty of factory primers recently so I haven't had to make primers for awhile now. Either way I've got it covered.

 

[farmerjohn]

I make my own primers but was able to acquire plenty of factory primers recently so I haven't had to make primers for awhile now. Either way I've got it covered.

Farmers are pretty good at getting through hard times by making do with what you have to work with but I've never made a primer. I would like to observe your process from a safe distance.... John

 

[Coyotefurharvester]

ESG has a foot in the door in both the public and private financial sector. Petroleum is the main target currently but that will change. By 2024 someone outside the country could well be openly controlling "our government".

 

[Bottom Fodder]

Primers like everything else are only worth what someone is willing to pay
cost=demand, profit= staying Business, do you think retailers are buying at the same price they did a year ago. If your business gets 500 hits a day on your website for primers and your selling them fast as your get them your probably not going to have buy one/ get one free sale lol. but remember primers are only one component of reloading their not giving away powder, brass and bullets.
just think if you read all this, you used up valuable time you could have used searching for $10 per 1k primers the price they were when I started reloading, just wondering are there a shortage of golf balls

 

[Field_2_Fork]

Up here in Southern Alberta BR4s are on the shelf for $220/K. They're the only match primer I've seen in a store for months and months. Guys are asking $275/K for Fed210M online.

 

[nmkid]

I snagged some match SRP Federal's this morning at local store for $90 a brick. Plesant surprise when I saw 16 boxes on the shelf along with a bunch of pistol primers.

 

[BobbyJ]

CCI 450 is 89.99 for limit quantity of 1000 today at Midway, price before they add tax, HAZ, and shipping.

Yea was hoping that was on the HIGH end and maybe a trend downward was starting. Not liking this NEW normal or 3-4x the old prices.