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November 27, 2020, 02:53 PM | #1 |
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Small Rifle Primers Available
They are pull-down recovered fron 1970s 30 Carbine ammo. Not cheap @ $75 per thousand. I am glad I have thousands of Tula 556m.
http://www.gibrass.com/misc.html
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November 27, 2020, 10:29 PM | #2 |
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They have lost their minds lol.....wait a minute, I meant the consumers have lost their minds. I will throw rocks before paying that price for factory primers not to mention that crap they are peddling.
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November 27, 2020, 10:49 PM | #3 |
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I recall Jeff Cooper suggesting one should keep a good stock of 22 Long Rifle as he foresaw, in a post-apocalyptic world, that these cartridges would become a medium of exchange due to scarcity making them valuable. Primers look better from the standpoint of compactness, but handloaders are not as common as owner's of 22 LR guns, so the selling of primers for exorbitant prices depends on civilized avenues of communication to get the buyer and seller together. Not quite post-apocalyptic media.
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November 30, 2020, 05:49 PM | #4 |
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If we ever get out of this hoarding of ammo... I will be stocking up on my hornet and 222 supply's. Then I can take all of that toilet paper out of my gun vault and stock pile primers...
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December 9, 2020, 08:47 AM | #5 |
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They Sold Out.
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December 9, 2020, 09:42 AM | #6 |
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"pull down primers "? Can you say "etched boltface" ? This is a peek at how desperate people are getting from lack of pre-planning.
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December 9, 2020, 10:26 AM | #7 |
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I was at Cabelas last Tuesday and they had bricks and 100 ct CCI boxes of Small Rifle.
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December 10, 2020, 10:25 PM | #8 |
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Oh how I miss 100 primers for 2-3 bucks. I also have to find new favorites for my 222 rem. and 22 K hornet. Remington wiped them out. especially for the Hornet.
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December 13, 2020, 07:07 PM | #9 |
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ah the good ol days, (earlier this month) when primers were just $75 for 1000 for recovered primers such a bargain. Now they are going for $250 per 1000 on gunbroker......
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December 14, 2020, 08:35 PM | #10 |
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I don't know I would trust pulled primers for anything serious.
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December 15, 2020, 01:53 PM | #11 |
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Thank God I bought a healthy stash of 17 hmr and 22 wm this spring just as the zombie apocalypse scare was taking hold.
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December 17, 2020, 11:34 AM | #14 |
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One would assume primers in the Cabelas/BassPros supply chain is a good thing, period.
Yes, check your local store, if you lacked the foresight to pre-supply.
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