rutilate Posted April 17, 2013 Share Posted April 17, 2013 I've been carefully following primer availability and prices on a couple of sites and just noticed a massive price spike on primers. Federals are now up to $47.99 at Cabela's, and CCI is up to $35.12 at Natchez. Anyone else seeing this? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CAB33 Posted April 17, 2013 Share Posted April 17, 2013 Shop at Powder Valley. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
atbarr Posted April 17, 2013 Share Posted April 17, 2013 Shop at Powder Valley. CCI $26.00, get with some friends and purchase enough to get past the Hazmat. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rutilate Posted April 17, 2013 Author Share Posted April 17, 2013 I would be surprised if Cabela's and Natchez are price gouging. Powder Valley is expecting more Tula primers shortly but haven't had Federal/CCI in for a while. My suspicion is that their prices don't yet reflect new distributor pricing (and why should they, as they are no longer taking backorders)? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cy Soto Posted April 17, 2013 Share Posted April 17, 2013 My suspicion is that their prices don't yet reflect new distributor pricing... There is a persistent rumor floating around that claims that ATK is going to be reviewing their MSRP's. If this is true, I would imagine that we will be seeing a 5% to 10% increase which would put Federal primers in the mid $30 range. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wgj3 Posted April 17, 2013 Share Posted April 17, 2013 My wife works for ATK and they have an employee purchasing program. You would think this would make it easy for me to get my primers (Fed or CCI), but alas, they are not even filling their employee orders in the last couple ordering periods... So, I too am looking to find them anywhere that I can find them and paying a bit of a premium at this point. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
match308 Posted April 28, 2013 Share Posted April 28, 2013 Seems I cant find small pistol primers in stock anywhere, at any price. If anyone has a source I would greatly appreciate a lead. Thanks Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steve RA Posted April 28, 2013 Share Posted April 28, 2013 I think PV just raised the price on Tula primers on their web site, although they still don't show any in stock. Seemed like it was/is an additional $2.00 per K. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
outerlimits Posted April 28, 2013 Share Posted April 28, 2013 (edited) Natchez has cci small rifle magnum right now for less than $40 Edited April 28, 2013 by outerlimits Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MoNsTeR Posted April 29, 2013 Share Posted April 29, 2013 Raising prices is the correct thing to do in a shortage and I wish more vendors would do so. Rationing by price is more efficient than rationing by waiting (months of backorder) or by luck (buy the instant things come back in stock). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DiamondJim Posted May 16, 2013 Share Posted May 16, 2013 Just picked up 2K CCI #250 Large Rifle Magnum & 2K Remington 6 & 1/2 Small Rifle for $37.99/1000 at my local Sportsman's Warehouse in Southaven, MS this past Monday. I also got two lbs of H380 ($27 each) and two 100 count boxes of Sierra .308 175 grain SMK's ($37 each) at the same time. Primers were $32.99/1000 last November when I saw them last, so although it was an increase it didn't seem that bad. Midway currently lists the CCI's at $33.99/1000 and the Remington's at $38.99/1000, of course they're out of stock, but I didn't have to pay hazmat or shipping either. The powder and bullets both went up about $5 each, but in February I got six 20 round boxes of .308 168 grain Federal Gold Medal Match ammo for $22.99 each there, that was ridiculously low as far as I'm concerned. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
leewongfei Posted May 17, 2013 Share Posted May 17, 2013 I walked in my local shop and paid $32 for a thousand small pistol winchester primers. This is up from $28. Its a bit higher, but at least they had some. now i am back to over 7k small pistol primers. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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