Home Forums Hunting & Shooting Hunter's Campfire Your "will buy" price on primers?

When they drop below $45-$50 per 1K. More than that I don't need them, probably wouldn't ether way. I did pay as much as $65 before they got unobtainable just to pad what I had.

Primers are like diesel fuel...if I need it I will pay what the market is asking!!!!Plain and simple.

Okay, time to lay this to rest.

You only think you are desperate...sold on USED GUNS today (not by me, if they were mine I would have kept them).

I have been shooting and reloading for over sixty years. I have been gunsmithing and shooting competitively for fifty years. I will stop shooting centerfire competitions if I have to pay 150 bucks for a brick of primers. I keep a thousand or so for a potential SHTF scenario, but apart from that, I'll use what I have, then I'm done. I have enough ammunition to hunt for the rest of my life. I have an aversion to getting ripped off and we are getting ripped off. By the way, it isn't Bush's fault, Obama's fault, Trump's fault or even Biden's fault. They aren't profiting from the sale of primers, but some are. GD

If you can't find standard primers, take a look at your load data. With a slight decrease in powder you can often use magnums, especially in the larger calibers. They tend to be more available. If your loads are on the mild side, you likely won't need to adjust the powder load at all.

I think those of you waiting on primers to go back to "Normal" prices are in for a long long weight.

As long as there are people willing to pay high prices, we are in for a long wait. GD

I guess I'll pay the best price I have to pay when I finally run out of the stash I bought right after Sandy Hook happened. Until then, all y'all can fight over these price gouged nearly extinct primers these days.

I have enough primers to last a while.

Meanwhile, I bought a Brown Bess. 75 cal/11 Gauge bore. It fires ball, shot, pea gravel, whatever. I can dig flint from a local road cut and I bought a lifetime's worth of sulphur and potassium nitrate. When that latter peters out, I know how to make it from grass clippings and urine.

I'm about to do the burn for my first batch of charcoal. I also have a cache of lead that's good well into the next generation.

My finished product will be Revolutionary War-level black powder-- perfect for the 'Bess. Once it's made, it will store for 100 years or more. They improved the process after 1800 and what you know now as BP is about 25% more powerful. If I take what I'm making and run it through a hydraulic press, dry it, and regrind it, I can probably match Goex or Swiss.

I bought a case of 5000 small pistol primers this spring to feed my Lee 6000.

Them boys like shooting 38's.


You got a break on the case....shipping or hazmat...can't remember.


I think it was 90 bucks a thousand to my door.

Watching them boys smile is worth the money.

Oh and by the way....I saw the shortage coming so I stashed away all the beef and lamb I would need to last me a life time.


You would be stupid not to.

That's why I made sure I had enough that I can wait. If they get cheap enough I'd likely add some more for a just in case. If they never do, I'm good.

Hoarder!