Primer update

I bought Federal 100's (small pistol) for around $29.xx mid-last year. Today I seen it for $49.95. Ouch! Now I need brass and bullets to go along. Anyone on the west coast selling these at a reasonable rate? (does shipping from out east get prohibitive?)
 
Visited WSS in Winnipeg yesterday cleaned them out of Win small rifle primers 3000 they had NO Varget and no IMR 4895 no bulk .224 diam bullets. The icing on the cake was the till price was 20% higher on all reloading stuff than their newest catalogue.....:mad:
We are going to be if not allready in a world of hurt for all firearms related stuff.
Pete.....
 
Lefty #### said:
If you were not here in the 90's, or if you did'nt learn from the 90's.
Too bad.
Been there done that.
Just bought another 2000 primers today.
1000 BR2 CCI's
and
1000 Fed 205's

Not because I actually need them today, but thinking about tomorrow.

Geesh, that sounds like RSP advice, not reloading advice.

Hmmm
Gotta wonder if this save for tomorrow thing is gonna ever catch on?
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I agree 100%, however I just started reloading a couple years or so ago. I don't have a very big surplus built up yet. I'm having a hell of a time finding small rifle primers. :( I still have 500 or large rifle on the shelf, but I want to go shoot them all off :evil:

Now the wife and I want to get handguns, so I will have to buy components for them as well. I have a feeling its going to be slow going for a few years...
 
Grouse River Outfitters in Kelowna seemed to have a lot of Federal primers. I bought 1000 yesterday (expensive though, $50) of the #215.

I reload for a 45-70 so my 1200 primers and 13lbs of bullets seems almost adequate for now... If I was reloading for something smaller, I would keep more.

Ryan
 
Well, I'm sitting on 14-16k primers now. An assortment of large/magnum rifle and large pistol. I don't shoot anything that uses small primers. Also scored another 20 lbs of powder. Total cost for 11000 primers, 2 x 8lb cans of unique powder and 4 x 1lb cans of 4195.....4895....crap...can't even remember the number now....took what was in the reloading book for 300 win mag. Anyway.....total cost was almost $900. Now all I need are a few hundred bullets and more wheel weights for casting. I primarily shoot cast BTW. Hopefully I've already got enough of the hard to find stuff to outlast this presidency. Hopefully by that time, the Americans will lighten up a bit and open the gate a bit on reloading components. I should note. I couldn't afford this, but I'm guessing a month on the credit card is going to be cheaper than trying to buy this stuff 6 months or a year from now.
 
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It sure is sad that Canada has no commercial ammo manufacturing .....
What about the Euro's? Are the Americans producing all the world's primers?
 
primers at gold exchange prices !

I found a small gunstore here in Saskatoon that had a small stock of both win. and fed. primers in small and large rifle sizes . I guess it just depends how badly you want or need them, he was limiting purchases to 300 caps of any type per customer at a retail cost of s/r $6.00 per 100 and l/r $7.00 per 100 . Aparently he will likely have them for a while as I or anyone I shoot with would rather pay shipping and wait than pay a pirate his due.
 
Federal 210Match

I bought a brick of Federal 210 Match primers from North Pro Sports in Saskatoon, they cost me $69/1000 ouch...but I figured they were worth it in the long run.

Sask Hunter
 
Been checking Federal large rifle can go as high as $70 per thousand now tax included.

If you can find them.

Some what off topic what about winchester powder has anyone run into problems re supply.
 
i don't know if anyone cares or not but i bought 1000 small pistol primers at Shooters Den in Sudbury and he had lots of Winchester primers left looked like some CCI as well....
 
Everyone notice what happened with the price of gasoline with relation to crude once we got used to paying more?

Anyone paying $50-$70/1000 should really think about what they are doing. $25/1000 six months ago was too much to lay in a supply, now we should buy up everything at 2-3X that amount? I guess everyone will do what they think is right but, really........
 
French Primers

Can-down said:
It sure is sad that Canada has no commercial ammo manufacturing .....
What about the Euro's? Are the Americans producing all the world's primers?
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Cheddite produce a 209 primer for shotshell reloading, Don't know if they make any rifle products. There is a pile of ammo made in Europe, doubt they would import primers from the USA. FS
 
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