8:34 you're welcome. Way to much because people pay it. I remember when I bought 25k S&B primers from Cabelas of all places, $19.99/1K. Wasn't that long ago. Nice video.
My brother in law got out of reloading, so I bought out all his supplies and equipment. He had bricks of primers that stretched from the mid 60s to 2015. And powder from WWII to resent. I started testing the real old stuff, it all goes bang with little to no different in velocity. So don't disregard the old stuff.
Totally agree! Old doesn't mean bad, it just means old, LOL. If the components were well stored over time there should be no issues as you've discovered.
If I remember correctly I heard Palmetto State Armory was spinning up a primer manufacturing facility to go with their AAC line and I think I heard they spent $100,000,000 on it. That is crazy money.
For large rifle primers all I could find here in Canada was Ginex at 21.00 per hundred, starting to see some Remington and CCI showing up at over 20.00 per hundred
In this particular purchase, this is all gouging on the seller side since these primers are from the early/mid 1990's where a brick of 1,000 primers was $20 or less. For current run primers from a name vendor, I'm guessing production costs have gone up due to supply location and or shortages and from that point on everyone is tacking on their degree of, IMO, too much greed resulting in current prices. Only way prices will drop is once we reach over saturation and no one is buying or we're not at war with the rest of the world. Good luck on reaching either of those conditions.
Some names I've never heard of (which doesn't bother me), but I've never seen "factory seconds" before in primers...something I don't think I'd be purchasing personally for the most critical part of a cartridge to go bang reliably. But, that's just me.
8:34 you're welcome. Way to much because people pay it. I remember when I bought 25k S&B primers from Cabelas of all places, $19.99/1K. Wasn't that long ago. Nice video.
My brother in law got out of reloading, so I bought out all his supplies and equipment. He had bricks of primers that stretched from the mid 60s to 2015. And powder from WWII to resent. I started testing the real old stuff, it all goes bang with little to no different in velocity. So don't disregard the old stuff.
Totally agree! Old doesn't mean bad, it just means old, LOL. If the components were well stored over time there should be no issues as you've discovered.
If I remember correctly I heard Palmetto State Armory was spinning up a primer manufacturing facility to go with their AAC line and I think I heard they spent $100,000,000 on it. That is crazy money.
No doubt. Gotta sell a LOT of primers at $100/brick to break even on $100,000,000 investment!
For large rifle primers all I could find here in Canada was Ginex at 21.00 per hundred, starting to see some Remington and CCI showing up at over 20.00 per hundred
Wow, that's crazy pricing!
My white and red stripe boxes were bought in 1987-1988.
My recent overpriced, IMO, pick up is definitely vintage!
My local Academy has Winchester and CCI for $8.99/ 100.
So for a brick of 1,000 that $89 plus tax, or roughly $100...which is $0.10/ea...too high IMO.
Still expensive around here. At least they are plentiful again.
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Who is profiteering here? Manufacturers or retailers? I can't believe inflation alone justifies these prices.
In this particular purchase, this is all gouging on the seller side since these primers are from the early/mid 1990's where a brick of 1,000 primers was $20 or less. For current run primers from a name vendor, I'm guessing production costs have gone up due to supply location and or shortages and from that point on everyone is tacking on their degree of, IMO, too much greed resulting in current prices. Only way prices will drop is once we reach over saturation and no one is buying or we're not at war with the rest of the world. Good luck on reaching either of those conditions.
Branden for director of ATF!
American reloading. Great price.
Some names I've never heard of (which doesn't bother me), but I've never seen "factory seconds" before in primers...something I don't think I'd be purchasing personally for the most critical part of a cartridge to go bang reliably. But, that's just me.
@ReLoadersBench I hear ya. They have worked great for me, but to each their own brother.