Originally Posted by Swifty52
Originally Posted by bsa1917hunter
Originally Posted by leomort
@bsa1917hunter,

Thank you for your reply! I seen the prices of CCI BR4 during these shortages and I'll be looking at those other alternative you listed, lol!

Ha ha. I fully understand. From what I've seen, the CCI 450's are very similar to the 7.5's and BR4. There are charts you can check out online, but those 3 are very similar. I've heard some shops are getting in some small amounts of sr primers. Here locally Sportsman's has been getting in small shipments, but if you are a working guy like some of us here, it's damn near impossible to get your hands on any of those. I feel for the guys that are not stocked up and needing them... Good luck with finding what you need. Eventually we will be seeing more and more, but that is going to take some time..


Yes the 3 are similar however, I quit buying BR2 and BR4 when the price jumped from 36 bucks a thousand to 54.95 a thousand. Standard CCI’s, GMM and REM 7 1/2’s gave just as good if not better results than the BR’s for 20-25 bucks cheaper. CCI priced them out of the market years ago.

Originally Posted by bsa1917hunter
Originally Posted by Swifty52
Just picked up 5 cases of primers yesterday. CCI’s, REM 7 1/2, GMM.

Rearranged my reloading stash. Picked em up and moved them to a different spot. 😀

Geez, you were busy. You better sit down and have a break...


Had too, didn’t want to. It was easier than getting ready for the new flooring going down.


ha ha.. I totally understand the price thing. Luckily for me, most of my benchrest primers have came to me at good/great deals. About 5 months ago I had a buddy sell me 3 bricks of BR2's for $30.00/brick. The last BR4's I bought 5 bricks for about the same price a few years ago. Those have worked very well for my AR's. If a guy can get by with the slightly thinner cup, the CCI 400's work very well too and they aren't ridiculously priced. At least in the past they were reasonable.

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