Primers

[BE Mike]

CCI PRIMER 500 SMALL PISTOL 5000/CASE - Graf & Sons

CCI primers are highly evolved products because we continuously test and improve. Today's CCI primer is more sensitive, easier to seat, and more compatible with progressive and automated loading equipment than even before. CCI primers have always incorporated modern non-corrosive and...

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A good sign

The CCI primers I measured were very old stock. I'd be the newer ones have the anvil legs protruding slightly, like the Winchester and Remington I measured.

 

[Cameramonkey]

CCI PRIMER 500 SMALL PISTOL 5000/CASE - Graf & Sons

CCI primers are highly evolved products because we continuously test and improve. Today's CCI primer is more sensitive, easier to seat, and more compatible with progressive and automated loading equipment than even before. CCI primers have always incorporated modern non-corrosive and...

www.grafs.com

A good sign

Call me when that case gets down to $300-325 or so. Baseed on other inflationary numbers, that is where I expect them to settle out when that market gets back to normal based on other prices.

 

[Skip]

The CCI primers I measured were very old stock. I'd be the newer ones have the anvil legs protruding slightly, like the Winchester and Remington I measured.

That’s why you have to seat the SA deeper. The anvil has to contact the primer shelf in order to work.

 

[gregkl]

Call me when that case gets down to $300-325 or so. Baseed on other inflationary numbers, that is where I expect them to settle out when that market gets back to normal based on other prices.

I’m a titewad. $250 is where they will have to be before I buy.

I used to pay $175 so a 30% increase is a lot to accept.

 

[BE Mike]

That’s why you have to seat the SA deeper. The anvil has to contact the primer shelf in order to work.

That is a good theory. I'm going to test it this week by seating the SA primers like I do American primers in my Dillon 550 and shoot the cartridges in the Sig M17 to see if they'll be reliable. If they are reliable, I'll put the blame on my improper cleaning methods of the striker assembly and striker channel of the M17. If reliable, it'll save me another step in my reloading process. Being basically lazy, that'll boost my morale.

 

[AndreusMaximus]

I’m a titewad. $250 is where they will have to be before I buy.

I used to pay $175 so a 30% increase is a lot to accept.

Well, I think most of us have been forced to accept a 30% or more increase in the price of most other life necessities in the past 3 years, so...

 

[Skip]

I bought 40,000 primers before the 2008 election. Mixed types. I bought another 40,000 in 2011 when I saw what was going to happen. Less than $14/1000. Switched from 45ACP to 9mm in competitive shooting and supporting a shooting son too, I went through all that store pretty quick. Bought some Federal primers a few years later and kept them for my tuned 38/357 Mag revolvers. Got some Fiocchi sp primers and they were great. Don’t remember the price but it was okay. Recently bought the Uniex (spelling) and the work great too. 5.99/100.

 

[Creedmoor]

Well, I think most of us have been forced to accept a 30% or more increase in the price of most other life necessities in the past 3 years, so...

If that's the case, why is range 9mm ammo back to being cheap again?
One can buy steel cased for $11.00 a box of 50, even buying in bulk a reloader cant use his brass and reload jacketed rounds for that.

 

[AndreusMaximus]

If that's the case, why is range 9mm ammo back to being cheap again?
One can buy steel cased for $11.00 a box of 50, even buying in bulk a reloader cant use his brass and reload jacketed rounds for that.

Good question. I don't have an answer for that.

 

[DeadeyeChrista'sdad]

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Boy, if only that link could be a little longer.

 

[Creedmoor]

Good question. I don't have an answer for that.

I do, its the distributors for the most part, then the retailers.
For a long time reloading was not a huge revenue making business, now it is.

 

[Brian's Surplus]

The truck from the distributor is scheduled to arrive sometime next week.

We will be getting over a quarter of a million primers!
Federal, CCI, Remington and Winchester.
Large pistol,
large pistol magnum,
small pistol,
small pistol magnum,
small pistol match,
small pistol magnum match,
small rifle,
small rifle match AR,
small rifle bench rest,
209A and more!

Unfortunately, no large rifle this time...


Also coming:
Alliant Red Dot,
Green Dot,
Clay Dot,
410,
Bullseye,
Herco,
Reloder 16,
Reloder 23 and
Reloder 26

Hodgdon H1000 & Retumbo

 

[nucular]

If that's the case, why is range 9mm ammo back to being cheap again?
One can buy steel cased for $11.00 a box of 50, even buying in bulk a reloader cant use his brass and reload jacketed rounds for that.

Yeah, I'm seeing cases of 9mm Blazer, Fiocchi and S&B for around $250 online with free shipping putting it at < 300 to my door. It's still hard to hit that price reloading even with the ~$55/brick primers I get. I use AA #7 and once fired brass so i know i could drop the powder price a little but once you factor in labor, its still not going to be cheap enough to make it worthwhile. Primers need to drop to 25/brick and powder prices need to come down.

 

[canebreaker]

Years ago I had MidwayUSA on an email notice fast link. They were having an extended Black Friday sale. It was computer generated. An item could be cheap one hour and high the next. When Wolf SP primers got to $12.50 per carton I bought the Hazmat limit. A few days later they got to $12.75 and I bought again. At the time I knew a reloading dealer that sold them for $100 per sleeve.
I haven't seen a case of primers since I was 13.

 

[Creedmoor]

The truck from the distributor is scheduled to arrive sometime next week.

We will be getting over a quarter of a million primers!
Federal, CCI, Remington and Winchester.
Large pistol,
large pistol magnum,
small pistol,
small pistol magnum,
small pistol match,
small pistol magnum match,
small rifle,
small rifle match AR,
small rifle bench rest,
209A and more!

Unfortunately, no large rifle this time...


Also coming:
Alliant Red Dot,
Green Dot,
Clay Dot,
410,
Bullseye,
Herco,
Reloder 16,
Reloder 23 and
Reloder 26

Hodgdon H1000 & Retumbo

Brian, I'll take 5 or 6 cases of these again.
I weeped a bit this morning while opening them up.

 

[Brian's Surplus]

Brian, I'll take 5 or 6 cases of these again.
I weeped a bit this morning while opening them up.
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I really wish I had a time machine...

 

[Creedmoor]

I really wish I had a time machine...

Yea, I bought well, but I could have bought better.

 

[BrockStrader22]

The truck from the distributor is scheduled to arrive sometime next week.

We will be getting over a quarter of a million primers!
Federal, CCI, Remington and Winchester.
Large pistol,
large pistol magnum,
small pistol,
small pistol magnum,
small pistol match,
small pistol magnum match,
small rifle,
small rifle match AR,
small rifle bench rest,
209A and more!

Unfortunately, no large rifle this time...


Also coming:
Alliant Red Dot,
Green Dot,
Clay Dot,
410,
Bullseye,
Herco,
Reloder 16,
Reloder 23 and
Reloder 26

Hodgdon H1000 & Retumbo

what does 1000 Winchester small pistol go for these days?

 

[Brian's Surplus]

what does 1000 Winchester small pistol go for these days?

$75.71 plus tax ($81).

 

[BiscuitsandGravy]

Brian, I'll take 5 or 6 cases of these again.
I weeped a bit this morning while opening them up.
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I will weep with you. The good ol days of summer 2020 at Brian's.