Local gun shop had cci 500 pistol primers for a whopping 65.00 per 1000. I picked up a couple. Hoping for the days when they were 20.00. Glad to finally get some!

If you are out. You do what you need to do. Hasbeen

Yeah, I missed out. Never loaded pistol really. I loaded for a 10mm years ago but had sold it. Always loaded rifle. So now playing catch up. Glad to get some even though the prices are 3x what they use to be.

I paid about the same a few months ago for a brick at a LGS. 32 S&W Long is my primary small game a plinking round, though, and my rifle likes the 500s, so it was just a bite the bullet deal. 🤷‍♂️

I hear ya. Well luckily I only have one expensive hobby.

I fish a lot, too, but these days that mostly just costs me gas. Just waiting on ice now 🙄

That's the cheapest they've been in awhile. They keep coming down.

They were $69/1000 a couple of weeks ago at one shop in Medford, Oregon.

Although I'm in pretty good shape, I think I would have bought a couple at $65 with no hazmat fee. Dollar cost averaging.

I may go back and grab another 2,000, if they have any left. I have been slowly working up a 9mm load for plinking. Ive been using 3.4 N320 and 147 grainers. Want to try N340 for some subsonic loads.

I was in a shop the other day, they had primers for $99/K, I had to pass.

Vista outdoors, who owns CCI, Federal, and a bunch of other companies put out a statement today that there will be no primers in the near future. So don't bet on prices going down anytime soon.

Great.
Must be larger profit margins in loaded ammo.

I went back, sold out of small pistol. Had some large rifle primers still.

Only thing I'm really short on right now are large pistol, gonna go do a LGS crawl tomorrow and see if anything comes home with me.

Hope you find some

One shop had a few hundred Fed 150M, which I needed, so I grabbed those. Most of them had a fair bit of powder, but no primers.

I hit Cabelas on the way back, no primers or powder, but they did have a lot of factory ammo. I did end up grabbing a box of .257 TTSX bullets there.

Not 20 a 1000 in years ..