When is a primer too expensive?
- Thread starter Prof Young
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That is probably a good general rule. Guys shooting 9 mm will reach that point first. People shooting rare obsolete rounds will probably never get there. Of course, if your gun only shoots to the potential you want to achieve with some special loading you developed, that's another matter.
Wow! $0.205/round before powder. Of course, shotgun shells have been this way for a long time. It's often the case that you can get the seasonally discounted field loads for less by the case at Wally World than you can reload them for. Perhaps the industry is hoping to bring that situation to metallic cartridges. Time will tell.
Exactly.
As long as people are buying them fast enough to keep them scarce, they are obviously not too expensive.
As long as people stay panicked when the supply is scarce and buy large quantities of them at virtually any price, the price will keep going up.
I think a lot of primer buyers:
1. See reloading as a hobby in itself and while they justify it as a cost saver, would reload even if the resulting product cost more than factory.
2. See the ability to reload as a hedge against TSHTF type events and/or legislative restriction and would buy the supplies to keep that hedge in place even if it's not cost effective.
Which means, IMO, that there are a significant number of buyers out there who will continue buying components even if it doesn't make good sense when viewed as a simple comparison between the cost of the reloads vs. the cost of factory ammo.
To me that just sounds like an excuse to go buy the expensive primers
. Anyway, not my 'new' normal. I've pretty much stopped buying gun anything now... Almost ... I did pick up (in the mail) percussion #10 and a #11 primer makers from https://22lrreloader.com/ for kicks... And some priming compound. Get back to the basics .After 3 years, it is quite clear to me that, along with everything else, primers are more expensive than they used to be.
The prices we were used to are never coming back. With factory 9mm going for 30cents a round, 10cent primers are still a deal.
I haven't bought any components in 3 years. I'm done waiting. I'll pay what I have to to get back to shooting.
The prices we were used to are never coming back. With factory 9mm going for 30cents a round, 10cent primers are still a deal.
I haven't bought any components in 3 years. I'm done waiting. I'll pay what I have to to get back to shooting.
I only buy Large Rifle primers, and will go shoot 50 rds a session to practice.
Gone are the days me and a buddy blowing thru 500 to 1000 rds of 9mm or 45 acp a range session.
Im in stocking mode . I haven’t shot factory ammo in almost 4 years all goes in the coffers when I buy some.
They will eventually come down when the supply out weighs the demand. now will we see 3 cents a primer again…. uh no , but we could see. 5 to 6 cents and that would reasonable.
Its hard to fathom a 300 to 500% increase isnt it.
Gone are the days me and a buddy blowing thru 500 to 1000 rds of 9mm or 45 acp a range session.
Im in stocking mode . I haven’t shot factory ammo in almost 4 years all goes in the coffers when I buy some.
They will eventually come down when the supply out weighs the demand. now will we see 3 cents a primer again…. uh no , but we could see. 5 to 6 cents and that would reasonable.
Its hard to fathom a 300 to 500% increase isnt it.