I am sure they will disappear fast but as of this post 75 per 1000
https://www.midwayusa.com/product/1301332027?pid=332027
https://www.midwayusa.com/product/1301332027?pid=332027
CCI 500's instock at Midway
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chris in va
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No, it’s Midway. Cabela’s hasn’t raised their primer prices, got a brick of CCI SRP for $39 which was their usual price.
You got a good deal. When was that? The price now is $55. If they have them.
https://www.cabelas.com/shop/en/cci-primers
Just not as much "gouging" as Midway, eh?
FoghornLeghorn
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Keep in mind that scalpers are using computerized bots to constantly monitor Midway, etc. As soon as Midway, et al, posts primers for sale, these vultures' computers buy all the vendor allows.
But the vultures have multiple accounts with different credit cards to buy all Midway and co allow.
Even if I happen to stumble onto Midway's offerings as it's posted, I can't type as fast as the vultures' computer can place its orders. I type maybe 50 words a minute? The computer is communicating at 186,000 miles a second. Clearly no contest.
They were doing that at Powder Valley but PV got wise and cancelled the sales. Now PV has a captcha feature for orders. Good on PV as I am buying from them when possible, and they'll be my go-to vendor when this mess subsides, if it subsides.
But the vultures have multiple accounts with different credit cards to buy all Midway and co allow.
Even if I happen to stumble onto Midway's offerings as it's posted, I can't type as fast as the vultures' computer can place its orders. I type maybe 50 words a minute? The computer is communicating at 186,000 miles a second. Clearly no contest.
They were doing that at Powder Valley but PV got wise and cancelled the sales. Now PV has a captcha feature for orders. Good on PV as I am buying from them when possible, and they'll be my go-to vendor when this mess subsides, if it subsides.
They've actually been showing up with some regularity and then vanish fast. FoghornLeghorn is right about the bots. They peaked in 2016 at over 50% of all web traffic, counting both good and bad bots. Today it's down some and bad bots are variously estimated at 20-25% of web traffic.
I expect if you learn about the dark web you could find bots for sale and get your primers that way. Probably the best way to disrupt the whole unethical process of people taking everything for resale before the end-users can get them would be precisely that. Home shopping bots that, like an auction bid, you set price limits on and turn loose on the web. Enough of them would level the playing field and take the advantage away from the real gougers.
But the Captcha thing works in the meanwhile and perhaps we ought to have a suggestion campaign aimed at Midway and Midsouth to add that to order taking. I intend to suggest it to them.
I expect if you learn about the dark web you could find bots for sale and get your primers that way. Probably the best way to disrupt the whole unethical process of people taking everything for resale before the end-users can get them would be precisely that. Home shopping bots that, like an auction bid, you set price limits on and turn loose on the web. Enough of them would level the playing field and take the advantage away from the real gougers.
But the Captcha thing works in the meanwhile and perhaps we ought to have a suggestion campaign aimed at Midway and Midsouth to add that to order taking. I intend to suggest it to them.
things seem to be lasting longer and longer now, those primers were up for over 30 min. A few months ago they would not have been up 30 seconds. My local stores are small receiving shipments of powder and primers every 3 - 4 weeks where they went 6 months with no shipments at all. Just my opinion but things are looking up.
FoghornLeghorn
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I'm looking at Midway's primers. They're all out of stock but they have their prices. Remington small pistol primers: $74.99 per 1000.
Midsouth Shooter's Supply: Remington small pistol primers: $45.11 per 1000.
I can't imagine Midsouth getting that much better a deal than Midway.
Maybe the last price from the last time they got a bulk shipment from the maker. Since Remington has been in hiatus they probably haven't received an updated price for a while.
chris downs
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I just got a Midway order in for 1000 CCI large pistol primers (1000 is max order). To my door it's $105. Like hitting the daily lotto.
Uh, if you say so. For the life of me I don't understand why guys who have been on this and other gun sites for 15 years and more, and have been thru several of the 4 year cycles of ammo related shortages, were not prepared for this and sitting on everything they need. So many grasshoppers, so few ants.
Don
hammered54
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USSR......so new loaders should just sit it out ?
look...if its in your budget buy what you can find.....sometimes good things do come to an end.
Matt.
look...if its in your budget buy what you can find.....sometimes good things do come to an end.
Matt.
chris downs
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Yeah, I should have, but I didn't stock up. Thanks to the free enterprise system I can STILL buy primers. I love this country.