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Post by AxeHandle on Jan 10, 2024 7:27:50 GMT -5
Stock guns generally run every primer I've tried well. Tuned actions can be picky. Personal experience tells me that Federal Primers suit my guns best. I actually like CCI Primers in my magnum pistol cartridges. I had 10,000 Remington pistol primers a few years back. Paper punchers did NOT like them. Same but not quite as bad, with Winchester. I see killer deals on inported primers. Winchesters primer are available and much cheaper than Federal. Can't be cheap enough if the guns won't run with them.
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Post by jeffh on Jan 10, 2024 7:43:52 GMT -5
Here, here! I'll second that.
I do make it a point to tune my revolvers, particularly those using SMALL primers, so they will reliably set off CCI rifle primers. All but a recently ditched Taurus 605 would reliably set off Wolff "Magnum" SRPs, which weren't really magnums primers, just a thicker cup to reduce slam-fires in semi-auto guns.
I've had very good lick with S&B primers, but don't see them anywhere right now. Last seal I got on primers was $24/k on CCIs Spring of 2020.
Most guys I know who have revolvers tuned to shoot competitively dote on Federal primers. Their guns won't set anything else off reliably.
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Post by markwell on Jan 10, 2024 11:16:18 GMT -5
I've used mostly Winchester primers for a lot of years. Being an OLD IPSC shooter, we've popped a bunch of them since we started competing in 1977. Never had an ignition problem in either autos or revolvers and they feed reliably when loading on our 2 Dillon 550s and a 650.
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Post by x101airborne on Jan 10, 2024 20:26:25 GMT -5
Could you say where you are finding "killer deals" on imported primers? I would very much like to know.
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Post by Deleted on Jan 10, 2024 20:53:41 GMT -5
I think saw foreign spp. 5000 for 350. 70 a brick is not good price by my standards. I miss the $35 bricks I passed up all over the place.
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Post by nicholst55 on Jan 10, 2024 21:11:09 GMT -5
I'm thinking that $70 for 1K primers is the new normal - at least for SPP and SRP. LRP and LPP go for about $120 or more, from what I see, when they're available. The days of paying $35 per 1K for primers are gone forever, IMHO.
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Post by bigbore5 on Jan 10, 2024 21:15:22 GMT -5
Maybe $35 is gone but I predict the return of $50 in the next year and a half if the political situation stabalizes
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Post by z1r on Jan 11, 2024 10:34:22 GMT -5
I found two boxes ea of 1000 CCI 400 primers, both had a price sticker on them of $8.00 a brick, lol. I'd love to see the return of $50 bricks but a buddy just paid $130 last night for a brick of WLRP!!! He was lucky to find them. All I ever see locally are SP or SR primers. Guess I'll be shooting my .32's a lot more often this year!  |
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Post by AxeHandle on Jan 11, 2024 11:34:16 GMT -5
Federal LP or SP for $110 here. Maintaining a 5000 count stash of each. Winchester SP for $70. See 1500 SP Fiocchi for $100. May pick up a box to try.
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Post by bigbore5 on Jan 11, 2024 12:03:13 GMT -5
I'm not shooting a few hundred a week now, that's for certain. I'm down to 3-400 a month.
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Post by sixshot on Jan 11, 2024 14:27:07 GMT -5
I think we will be very lucky to ever see $50 primers again, pretty sure those days are gone. That's for a brick of CCI, Winchester or Remington. It's around $70 most places here.
Dick
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Post by z1r on Jan 11, 2024 17:11:31 GMT -5
I think we will be very lucky to ever see $50 primers again, pretty sure those days are gone. That's for a brick of CCI, Winchester or Remington. It's around $70 most places here. Dick Around here, those prices would be a bargain! Typical range is $90 to $130 per 1000. I would welcome $70 bricks. |
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Post by edk on Jan 11, 2024 17:40:50 GMT -5
I think we will be very lucky to ever see $50 primers again, pretty sure those days are gone. That's for a brick of CCI, Winchester or Remington. It's around $70 most places here. Dick I tend to agree. True, the political climate could change things up. However 5 years have passed since anybody has purchased at that price. Since then inflation has us routinely paying an additional 30-40% for items that are much more mundane such as a dozen eggs or lumber. It's called "sticky" inflation for a reason: it is not coming back down. |
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Post by sixshot on Jan 11, 2024 18:08:34 GMT -5
I've bought CCI SP twice in the last month for $5.99 per hundred pack at Sportsman's Warehouse. I buy 200 every time I'm in town & have Callshot do the same for me. Keeps me from using my stash.
Dick
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Post by wilecoyote on Jan 11, 2024 19:25:06 GMT -5
...See 1500 SP Fiocchi for $100. May pick up a box to try. ...you will not be disappointed, sir: the cost here today of the CCI, which I have always used, not to mention their availability, has made Fiocchi an obligatory choice for me, but I don't regret the change |
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