PRIMERS at 500 per K
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mmcintyre1220
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C & R Endeavors auction, someone has a $135 bid on 100 Federal 210 LR primers as we speak ........ Really.
mmcintyre1220
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Haha I can't believe what people are willing to pay. Maybe it's time to sell some primers. I would gladly take an ounce of gold for 2500 Fed215's
I don't invest in PM's but I would do the same lol. The huge issue is that if people keep paying this crap it will never get any better.
It will get worse until manufacturers can reduce the backlog, probably 2024-25, as folks will start hoarding them again. I will be surprised if they are ever back below $100/brick at the stores.
Wait until next fall when another summer of target shooting has passed. Then the real money will show itself.
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Too many primers in one week. Stretching them out over 4 weeks would have doubled the price.
I can see your point; I may have missed the bubble on the peak but selling primers for 5800 bucks that probably cost me 250 isn't really a disaster. The world is crazy.
$250 for 9 or 10 bricks? With mid 2000’s labeling.
Maybe USD pricing or some special group buy many years ago? Business closing deals perhaps?
No way that was retail CDN pricing mid 2000’s
Ah good for you. Primers are one hell of an investment. Keep them, use them, or sell them.
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It is possible when you buy them by the skid.
Some guys unload their primer and powder order with a forklift.
I realize that. That was pretty much what I was referring to.
The last primers I bought were in 2019 or 2020. I remember that 2 cases wasn't enough for the $300 I needed for free shipping so I got more. I've been watching component prices go up and down since I started loading around '82, and yeah there were times when a forklift was involved. Often that wasn't because of a volume discount; more often the orders were big because the prices were good.
There's a few lots ending in the next 2 hours on Extreme Long Range Outfitters. Price definitely depends on type and brand; but small lots of Federal 215 Match, 210 Match, and Regular in both sizes look like 60 cents to a buck a primer with a buck within reach. Wins do well, off-beat and vintage not so great. Not great is a relative term though.
ELRO handles the shipping, for the buyers, 50 bucks or so.
If I sell any more it'll be in small lots of maybe 300.
A buck a primer is cause for some solitary brooding and pondering on the price of things versus the value of things. A primer is a couple pieces of precisely formed metal with a small charge of actual explosive. Some of them are even shiney. It has its uses and been used to spark up cartridges that have fed families, saved lives, over-thrown governments, won wars and changed history more than a few times.
What is the worth of this miraculous product? Is it priceless? The odd one probably was. In spite of the pure utility of the primer; across my 40 plus years of handloading and average "normal" prices there isn't a coin in Canada small enough to buy one most of the time. Usually it was 2 or 3 for a nickel. Who hasn't dropped or spilled primers and concluded they weren't worth the effort to pick up? That all sort of changes when you're out, and your carefully chosen and cherished rifle is only good for a club or propping a screen door open.
What is the worth of this miraculous product? Is it priceless? The odd one probably was. In spite of the pure utility of the primer; across my 40 plus years of handloading and average "normal" prices there isn't a coin in Canada small enough to buy one most of the time. Usually it was 2 or 3 for a nickel. Who hasn't dropped or spilled primers and concluded they weren't worth the effort to pick up? That all sort of changes when you're out, and your carefully chosen and cherished rifle is only good for a club or propping a screen door open.
LeadMonkey
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I predict it will will reach $3-$4 per primer and nobody will be even willing to part with them for any price. TicToc to global war and the end of all firearm related imports.
