PRIMERS at 500 per K

Honestly...do you think the price will ever come down?

Well, if they do then I have a good deal on prime waterfront real-estate in West Richmond.
Just West of the dyke and its unobstructed view down to East Point all the way to the Southern end of Texada Island.
Back to primers, Reliable had a bunch as of Friday Small Rifle and Small Pistol 2k per household limit.
About $120, plus applicable taxes.
Rob
 
Those prices are bordering on insane. Buck apiece? Good grief!

I have 2 bricks of WLR primers here in my stash.
The price tag says $2.29/flat [$22.90/1000]

No, they are not for sale even though I could profit handsomely if I
did sell them. I have to look at myself in the mirror every day. If
I don't like the guy looking at me, it's time to change something. EE
 
I would bet on $180-200 per brick in Canada. You cant just do the exchange rate, have to account for extra shipping costs and distributor markups.
 
Hauled some primers to the auction again the other day. Some bricks had 3 prices on them, per 100, per 1000 and per case. Case price was 112 bucks. At that rate its pretty hard for me to lose money, but if guys want to shoot they can decide the price amongst themselves. I fail to see how that makes me a bad person.
 
The days of $60/K seem gone but about double that is going to happen. The $500/K nonsense is not going to last much longer.

When the price of ammunition starts to get to a point that it's almost or just as cheap to purchase components for reloading, prices may come down a bit.

Back before the seventies, handloaders were looked upon as alchemists, doing the Devil's work.

The only people that hand loaded were bench rest shooters and black powder muzzle stuffers.

The other thing at the time was that there were still tons of surplus ammunition from WWII, Korea, Viet Nam and countries disposing of the stockpiles left behind by the Colonizing nations, such as Italy, Germany, England, France, etc.

There were also only about 3 billion methane producers scouring the planet for anything edible or valuable.

Today, there are 8+ billion methane producers competing for what's left and the surplus has just about come to an end for one reason or another.

Shooting/hunting are quickly becoming sports that will only be viable for the wealthy and later only the rich and privileged.

On top of this, we're competing with world governments replenishing their relatively empty war supplies, which they've allowed to dwindle away over the last 50 years.

After the Soviet Union collapsed upon itself, the world didn't believe that there would be a ''shooting war'' in Europe ever again and geared up accordingly.

Now we see that most of the socalled ''wonder weapons'' that have been touted and waved in the faces of the plebes are extremely limited in numbers and we're seeing the latest European war being fought with 50+ year old equipment and that includes drones.

When the world settles down, these components may become available again at prices we can afford. Anytime soon is a bucket list wish IMHO.
 
I bought 1000 Bosnian LRP at my lgs last night for $200.
Never thought I'd pay that for primers, but it's going to be a long time before they are commonly available. If Winnie the Pooh, invades Taiwan, all bets are off.
 
Hauled some primers to the auction again the other day. Some bricks had 3 prices on them, per 100, per 1000 and per case. Case price was 112 bucks. At that rate its pretty hard for me to lose money, but if guys want to shoot they can decide the price amongst themselves. I fail to see how that makes me a bad person.

Definitely does not make you a bad person. Demand determines cost. I just set limits on myself to
ease my conscience. [just in case greed kicks in, lol] :) EE.
 
Thats where the auctions are good. The buyers set their own price. Out of my hands.

I actually think it's very gracious that you allow someone the opportunity to purchase a component that they may need. You can determine who desires them the most by putting them up for auction and allowing those who interested to bid for them. We aren't talking about bread and water here or some kind of medicine shortage. If we all just sat on our components and did not offer them for sale would all the whines be better off?! I think not. I'n fact if we all offered our extra components for sale there would be far less of a shortage and prices would come down.
I for one am not selling off any of my components even though I have more than enough. I feel like I'm the one being a jerk for not giving anyone the opportunity to purchase at the going rate.
 
I’m in the process of moving, and every time I nudge a box or bag I have to look in it and also see whats behind it. Its crazy what you find. It used to be that selling amongst friends that anything less than a case was almost embarrassing to mention. Now I’m staring to think that the poor bastard that goes high on a single sleeve just wants to keep his hunting rifle running to get through this.How much he cares is up to him, but a few more people will have a choice, which is better than nothing.
 
I actually think it's very gracious that you allow someone the opportunity to purchase a component that they may need. You can determine who desires them the most by putting them up for auction and allowing those who interested to bid for them. We aren't talking about bread and water here or some kind of medicine shortage. If we all just sat on our components and did not offer them for sale would all the whines be better off?! I think not. I'n fact if we all offered our extra components for sale there would be far less of a shortage and prices would come down.
I for one am not selling off any of my components even though I have more than enough. I feel like I'm the one being a jerk for not giving anyone the opportunity to purchase at the going rate.

It's funny you post this.

I set aside three years worth of heavy shooting and sold the rest. If I can't buy what I need off the shelf in three years, the world (or I) have bigger problems.

Over 10k 210M and 215M so far. I also gave away a pile of single and part 100 packs to friends that casually reloaded for their hunting rifles.

Lots of hate on here for sellers, but every person I've sold to was very pleased to get a reasonable amount of primers and keep shooting.
 
It’s getting pretty sad pretty quick. A buck a primer milsurp ammo more than commercial ammo. Pretty well the same south of the border.
 
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