Primers in stock

spladi said:
I'm working with Alliant R-17, and it is working good. In my 30-06 and in my 6.5 Creedmoor, next is my .300-win mag & 190's
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R16 and R 23 go good in 30-06 as well. My best SD was 4.?? Out of Lake City '63 brass with Re23 and the 178eldx
 
Ga6570 said:
yesterday i saw a LGS that had BR-2 - i asked if the price listed was for real. $15.99/sleeve. he told me when they placed the order/backorder last year 18months ago. the price/cost was just over $40 per brick. the distributor apparently went back on the "ordered pricing" and made them pay the "current pricing" before they would ship. - if i recall he said their cost was around 11-1/2 per sleeve. guess they feel that adding the cost of the ordered price to the current price is a fair sale amount… needless to say, with only 6-8 sleeves on the shelf i walked out. ive seen other stores selling for better. - But i guess finding them/having them in stock is the challenge.
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Well consider this; it doesn't matter much what they had to pay for those, what matters is what they'll have to pay to replace them with more.

It's the same reason the price of gas at the pump goes up immediately not until after a new load has been delivered at a higher price to the store.
 
WildRose said:
Well consider this; it doesn't matter much what they had to pay for those, what matters is what they'll have to pay to replace them with more.

It's the same reason the price of gas at the pump goes up immediately not until after a new load has been delivered at a higher price to the store.
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Most of the small gun shops that are the real treasures of our towns aren't getting shipments of primers at a discounted price like they used too. They have to buy them off Larry or Brownells or Midsouth at $8-$10 a sleeve. Even if the big stores let them buy 5-10 bricks they still have to pay those prices. My fav local gun shop used to get all their primers and powder from PV. Apparently PV hasn't got primers in a while so they have to buy and pay hazmat same as everyone else. It's nice being able to go into a LGS and buy 2 sleeves of primers even if it's $12.99-$15.99 each. That's how I was able to get into reloading for 44mag, 7mag, and 9mm furring the pandemic. Of course now I've found primers in the $70-$100 range for a brick but it was nice to have something to shoot a satterlee ladder and such.
 
GrayCreed said:
Most of the small gun shops that are the real treasures of our towns aren't getting shipments of primers at a discounted price like they used too. They have to buy them off Larry or Brownells or Midsouth at $8-$10 a sleeve. Even if the big stores let them buy 5-10 bricks they still have to pay those prices. My fav local gun shop used to get all their primers and powder from PV. Apparently PV hasn't got primers in a while so they have to buy and pay hazmat same as everyone else. It's nice being able to go into a LGS and buy 2 sleeves of primers even if it's $12.99-$15.99 each. That's how I was able to get into reloading for 44mag, 7mag, and 9mm furring the pandemic. Of course now I've found primers in the $70-$100 range for a brick but it was nice to have something to shoot a satterlee ladder and such.
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The small mom and pop shops are almost as bad off buying power wise as we are as individuals.

When they could buy a case of primers at a time they still had to pay the same for shipping and hazmat fees but they could divide it by a thousand sleeves of primers instead of 20-100 and if they can't get them direct or through one of the national wholesalers your'e right, they're paying the same as we do when ordering from Brownell's, Mid South, or Midway.

According to what I was told Federal/CCI has a new primer plant under construction that should be producing in 90-180 days which is going to relieve some pressure but they are so far behind on orders it will probably take them at least 6-12 months after production begins before they can knock much of a hole in the backlog of orders.

As always we'll just have to dig in and wait it out.
 
I was able to pick up 3 bricks of CCI 450's off of a mail order site on Monday and received them today but with hazmat shipping still cost $ 85.00 a thousand but I figured I better get them while they were available. Local shop has #34's large rifle primers for $109 and BR2's for $150 😳
 
Joefrazell said:
I'm pretty sure your the one that came on here blaming people. O wait… that's different because your right and you know it isn't it. Your solution is weak, just as your pov.
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The one whos built how many guns last 3,4,5 years and purchased how many scopes but obviously nothing to feed it.
Started 2 businesses, built 2 homes but couldn't buy components HMMMM.
I guess the no buyer vrs no gougers doesn't add up and its other peoples fault that the gouging would happen again and had the foresight to look ahead.
Probably mine you spent bunch of money on scopes and rifles but not on component too
 
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Joefrazell said:
My local shop was selling br2's for $250 per brick. They sat for awhile but still moved.
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I just picked up br2 for $109 thought that wasn't bad.
Guys we all know some are gouging, we also know lots of guys are scalping.
In fact my place I found had good stock accused me of doing juts that for buying a good amount of rl26 over the timeline they set forth. 1lbs a week.
But my situation is I had a small house no room to reload. All was done at my brothers 3 hours away. Now he lives 21 hours and I have a new house with a room. So all the stuff we had went with him. I'm now trying to setup a room with everything I need. I put off load work for about 8 rifles. A lot of my stuff burns around 100gr at a time so I go through a good amount.
Just try to keep it in mind. The general Reloader is not to blame nor are older ones. The last 3 years have had record breaking gun sales. If only a fraction of them start to reload that's a lot to supply.
In fact that's exactly what several I know did. And they never batted an eye at $500 a brick online to get them started they had no benchmark price to start with.
 
Snox dont take this wrong and just think about what I'm saying here.
Should we be feeding 8 guns right now that take 100 gr. of powder or maybe just 1or 2 untill things settle down? or is it because I just want too?
If there were no buyers would there be gouging going on?
Is paying these inflamed prices doing me, my fellow shooter, kids, grandkids the sport any good?
Whos benefiting? Vista CEO who made
1 Mill. Salary last year and is gonna make 3 Mill this year.
Why can't people just wait 6 months and this would have been long over with, the TRUTH is we are becoming a society of GOTTA HAVE IT NOW AT NO MATTER THE COST.
No body wants to take any blame when you hit the Buy now button and tell yourself its essential, all im asking is look in the mirror and ask yourself TRUTHFUL
the questions I ask above.
 
L.Sherm said:
Snox dont take this wrong and just think about what I'm saying here.
Should we be feeding 8 guns right now that take 100 gr. of powder or maybe just 1or 2 untill things settle down? or is it because I just want too?
If there were no buyers would there be gouging going on?
Is paying these inflamed prices doing me, my fellow shooter, kids, grandkids the sport any good?
Whos benefiting? Vista CEO who made
1 Mill. Salary last year and is gonna make 3 Mill this year.
Why can't people just wait 6 months and this would have been long over with, the TRUTH is we are becoming a society of GOTTA HAVE IT NOW AT NO MATTER THE COST.
No body wants to take any blame when you hit the Buy now button and tell yourself its essential, all im asking is look in the mirror and ask yourself TRUTHFUL
the questions I ask above.
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L.Sherm...tell me where the bad man touched you...

Dude, you are going off like a Tasmanian Devil on meth...

Bottled water can be bought in cases for $.20 a bottle...nearly everywhere.

If I want to pay $.60 for a bottle of that water, instead of the normal $.20...I'm going to buy that bottle of water...it's that simple

At sporting events/social events, those $.20 bottles of water sometimes sell for $3...or 15X's their original cost...get it now?
 

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