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29 September 2009, 03:19
Wm.S.Ladd
Primer Price Gouging
Found some Large Rifle Primers -- 7 boxes Winchester at $5 a box. Then at another shop 3 boxes of CCI at $4 a box.

Seems like a "brick" used to run about $12 -- all the shops had them, and you could buy as many as you needed.
29 September 2009, 04:14
homebrewer
quote:
7 boxes Winchester at $5 a box. Then at another shop 3 boxes of CCI at $4 a box.

I assume you are talking about a 100-count flat? That's pretty high. I got my last 1000-count of small rifle for 40 bucks-- and I was damned glad to get 'em...
29 September 2009, 04:19
ramrod340
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Seems like a "brick" used to run about $12 -- all the shops had them, and you could buy as many as you needed.

Yep years ago. Seems like the everyday price is now in the low $20s per brick or at least that is what I paid for several 1000s when I was in Grafs last month.


As usual just my $.02
Paul K
29 September 2009, 04:39
jeffeosso
quote:
Originally posted by Wm.S.Ladd:

Seems like a "brick" used to run about $12 -- all the shops had them, and you could buy as many as you needed.



hasn't been 12 bucks in SIXTEEN years, since before the clintons

gouging? did you BUY them or not? gouging is what someone PAYS, not what someone charges


opinions vary band of bubbas and STC hunting Club

Information on Ammoguide about
the416AR, 458AR, 470AR, 500AR
What is an AR round? Case Drawings 416-458-470AR and 500AR.
476AR,
http://www.weaponsmith.com
29 September 2009, 09:38
Alberta Canuck
I don't know anything about gouging,so won't touch that one. But I'd guess primer prices vary considerably sometimes, by location.

Here on the I-5 corridor, until just before Mr. Obama was elected, I was able to buy primers in 5,000 primer packets for $60 at every local gun show for the immediately previous 3 years or so.

There was a fellow who would travel the I-5 corridor with a truck-full to make all the bigger shows, and that was his standard price...Winchester brand all the time, and Federals sometimes. So, at every gun show (twice per year locally) I'd buy at the very least 20,000.

Just before Obamas's election the hoarding began, and all of a sudden they were made of unobtanium.


My country gal's just a moonshiner's daughter, but I love her still.

29 September 2009, 10:03
seafire2
well on a private sale last week, I was able to buy 7 boxes of Fed 215s for $12.00 a box of 1,000...

this was after someone had passed away...I'll put them to good use!

someone beat me to all the Fed 210s they had..
29 September 2009, 17:14
Jim C. <><
quote:
gouging? did you BUY them or not? gouging is what someone PAYS, not what someone charges

Roger that. I can't be gouged because I WON'T be gouged.

Seafire, I'm glad you got a good deal. I know a guy who got a pile of primers and powders FREE after his shooting buddy passed away. But that kind of deal really doesn't have any meaning to the rest of us.
29 September 2009, 17:30
DMB
quote:
Originally posted by jeffeosso:
quote:
Originally posted by Wm.S.Ladd:

Seems like a "brick" used to run about $12 -- all the shops had them, and you could buy as many as you needed.



hasn't been 12 bucks in SIXTEEN years, since before the clintons

gouging? did you BUY them or not? gouging is what someone PAYS, not what someone charges


Exactly, on all counts.
Primers have not been $12 for a very long time.
My local store used to sell primers, when they had them, but the 100 count for between $4 and $5. A brick of a thousand was $34, when they had them.
If you can't afford them at the $5 price, don't buy them. No one is holding a gun to your head forcing you to pay $5 for a 100.




29 September 2009, 17:50
butchloc
cci's are loosening up - rest are still going into loaded ammo.
29 September 2009, 19:09
butchlambert
Don't buy them seafire, wait 5 years and check the prices and you will say oh shit.
Butch
29 September 2009, 21:54
Wm.S.Ladd
You damn straight I bought them! First Large Rifle Primers I've seen in 9 months.

Now I have 1000 of them, and I've returned the flintlock to the back of the gunsafe.
29 September 2009, 23:03
fredj338
Yep, I still have a 1K RPLP bought duirng the Clinton shortage @ $12.95. Under $30/1K is about the going rate, pay more & you are getting hosed IMO. You can thank the Obama admin. for scarying everyone into hoarding or forcing them into reloading becasue of ammo shortages, also caused by hoarding. middlefinger Buy what you need, if you find them cheap, buy more than you need. I don't see things getting much cheapercoffee


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30 September 2009, 01:58
butchlambert
I thought I paid too much for the SM match.
http://www.24hourcampfire.com/..._Primers#Post3338739
Butch
30 September 2009, 02:57
MyNameIsEarl
Price Gouging is the guy trying to sell me 200 primers for $20. I told him I would go without and find them somewhere else. He said he has sold about 2000 this way over the past month. I just walked out there was no sense in saying anything else because he felt so good about it. I did tell him that my future business would be done elsewhere.
30 September 2009, 04:40
jeffeosso
<sigh> over flowing shelves in the houston carter's country .. 35 bucks per k.. no federal 215, limited small rifle mags ... HUGE numbers ..

its regional .. i guess the hoarders have more money than in houston


opinions vary band of bubbas and STC hunting Club

Information on Ammoguide about
the416AR, 458AR, 470AR, 500AR
What is an AR round? Case Drawings 416-458-470AR and 500AR.
476AR,
http://www.weaponsmith.com
30 September 2009, 06:32
7.62Rebel
No gouging-just supply and demand....it's like people buying Gold for SHTF,don't understand it,a handful of .22 will be more valuable than a handful of gold.IMO


Go Galt
30 September 2009, 06:43
rolltop
quote:
Primer Price Gouging

A typical liberal viewpoint!
30 September 2009, 08:39
model7LSS
I found some primers today going for 5.99/100 or 46.99/1000.......


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