Primers current value

[Tim.243]

Before the pandemic I bought a 1000 federal large rifle primers and a 1000 small rifle primers they were £47.00 a box now it’s ridiculous

Bar a few misses that is a lot of deer...975?

 

[Foxshot]

The rounds/cartridges are the cheapest part of shooting. Decent weight deer in the game dealer say £1.50 a kg then your 2 quid round is a bargain.
75p for a high end cartridge and people pay £50.00 to shoot a pheasant...

7kg muntjac doe at 50p a kg.. ammunition will soon cost more than the carcass

 

[Tim.243]

7kg muntjac doe at 50p a kg.. ammunition will soon cost more than the carcass

60kg Fallow @ £1.50kg @ x1 round.
122kg Red @ £1.50 @x 1 round
Give the Muntjac to friends & family....

Fags are 15quid and so I am told a pint of larger and two pkts of crisps is close to a tenner.

 

[timbrayford]

£ 114.50/1000 on the Isle of Wight, cheaper on the mainland if you shop around...or apparently mega money at shooting shows

 

[GGG]

One of the stalls at the Northern Shooting Show had CCI 200 large rifle primers on sale for £25 per hundred ...

Jamsie

They were indeed
I’m still using some Federal from about 10 years ago with a £26 price sticker on the box. Quite a price increase in anybody’s book!

 

[Bavarianbrit]

I just took a shot at a fox with a factory RWS .222 rem round (the primer did not ignite) a first for me.

 

[JTO]

What do you reckon the going rate for 100x Federal GM210M primers would be?

I've got 1000 SRP GM205. Are they similar?

 

[Roonster]

I've got 1000 SRP GM205. Are they similar?

I think the GM205 is basically the small rifle version of the GM210?

 

[Roonster]

They were indeed
I’m still using some Federal from about 10 years ago with a £26 price sticker on the box. Quite a price increase in anybody’s book!

Sounds like they're still £26 a box?

The only difference is that yesteryear's box contained 1,000x and todays box contains 100x?

 

[JTO]

I was called out for buying 10,000 Murom primers a couple of years ago, but who is going to do a 280 mile round trip to buy 100 prmers?

 

[Sandyb]

I was called out for buying 10,000 Murom primers a couple of years ago, but who is going to do a 280 mile round trip to buy 100 prmers?

A lot of my reloading components I had ordered in, and paid for in advance.. your not depriving others of consumables as they’d not have been on the shelf otherwise… People are just frustrated that they either didn’t have the foresight to invest in their hobby or interest, or lacked the funds to make such an investment..

A fellow shooter at the rifle club I’m a member of had the opportunity to buy in with me on a bulk primer order… when it came to the crunch to pay, he ducked out..
Unless finances dictate otherwise I don’t see point of buying primers by the 100’s or even a single box of 1000.. not given how they’ve increased in price.

 

[JTO]

The problem is, once they know how much people are prepared to pay..........
Same as the government seeing how much people will pay for road fuel.

 

[Rusty Gate]

Two days after Putin's 2022 march into the never ever land I bought 5,000 Murom Russian small rifle primers for 164.90 Euros. = 0.033 cents each.

Decent primers to!

 

[Tim.243]

Whilst I don’t disagree with your general sentiment it’s not universally applicable. For people who are involved mainly or entirely with target shooting, ammunition costs form a significant part of the total yearly shooting budget.

What ever you do as a hobby you have a budget, I don't do clays or game shooting as one is really expensive the other I have no interest in these days. I might fire a dozen shots on a flt on the marsh but it will be a few hours of some very good shooting also the dogs get a good run.
The flip side of the coin is I might well pay for my whole years worth of materials with 3/4 decant deer also I might only shoot 1/2/3 deer a trip so my hobby is very light usage, peoples target shooting hobby will consume a vast amount.
So it is not universally applicable as I personally don't get through tubs of powder boxes of primers and boxes of heads.

 

[SamHuntVic]

Just bought in Aus. last month 1000 Large Pistol and 1000 Small Rifle primers. $200 each so it looks like a little cheaper here.
Grant.

 

[Klenchblaize]

What do you reckon the going rate for 100x Federal GM210M primers would be?

As these are clearly preowned, half the retail value or less.

K

 

[shakey jake]

As these are clearly preowned, half the retail value or less.

K

spunds like they are a collectors item now. think of a number and double it

 

[HonestJohn]

Hindsight is a wonderful thing.

Bitcoin and primers are quite similar in that whenever you buy them, it always feel very expensive but in a vanishingly small period of time, your previous purchases feel unbelievably sound and good value.

Until they drop 80% in value of course

 

[kenbro]

Sounds like they're still £26 a box?

The only difference is that yesteryear's box contained 1,000x and todays box contains 100x?

Same with diesel, cost me £25 years ago and still only £25 now.

 

[HonestJohn]

As these are clearly preowned, half the retail value or less.

K

Once fired