Cheap primers

[jbuck88]

Just digging through a box of stuff I got handed down. Had a few thousand primers in there as well.

Price wasn't too bad. $1.59 per 100. Or $7.90 per 1k. Any idea on dates? BTW they work just fine still.

 

[DIBBS]

I have a few boxes of pistol primers like that on the loading bench. Am guessing early to mid 80's perhaps? Trying to remember when I started loading for a pistol or two.... It would appear that I don't shoot pistols much at all...LOL

 

[Rocketmandb]

You could carbon date the moldy looking stuff on top of one of the boxes

 

[jbuck88]

Those are cob webs.

 

[chevy_man]

70's to 80's.

I just fell into a mixed case of the same. They do still work just fine.

 

[TSULLI]

Question is do you use them? Or wait another 40-50 years to hand them down again...

 

[Shoots 700's]

Late 70’s

 

[XikoPlavi]

I’d just keep em for historical vintage collection purposes. I can say I had some from 1998 and loaded up 50 and had like 15 not fire and eradic groups on ones that did fire. Just saying. Cool though

 

[308pirate]

I have a few boxes of pistol primers like that on the loading bench. Am guessing early to mid 80's perhaps? Trying to remember when I started loading for a pistol or two.... It would appear that I don't shoot pistols much at all...LOL

I'll take them

 

[jbuck88]

I loaded up 50, and all went bang just as they should have.

 

[Foul Mike]

I have a couple thousand SRP in the same color boxes and they work just fine. Probably from the 80s I would guess. $1.20 per hundred. $10.00 per thousand on the price tags.
They work just fine. No complaints.
They were stored right.
That has a lot to do with things.

 

[jinxx4ever]

i've got about 20,000 federal i bought in 2010 that i paid less than $20 a brick for

 

[acudaowner]

I wish that was the price now lol my last purchases were 160.00+md tax per 1k and I could only get 8 boxes of them

 

[Dead Eye Dick]

When you look in the dictionary for an example of “Oxymoron”. It says, “Cheap Primers”

 

[BuLLet]

CCI primers were about $10 box back in 1979, so they are probably older then that. I still have some old stuff laying around in those same boxes.

 

[supercorndogs]

I had about 5k of them in those boxes I picked up in a trade. I have been through about 3k of the ones in oldest boxes. No problems.

 

[BuLLet]

Some of my old stock... same cci boxes and from late 70's and early 80's....

 

[whatsupdoc]

Some of my old stock... same cci boxes and from late 70's and early 80's....

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LOL Leslie Edelmans

 

[whatsupdoc]

I have a brick of Winchester large rifle primers dated 2/20/87 price was $10.10

 

[DIBBS]

From the museum... shrine...or something...

 

[BuLLet]

How many of those 'Lifetime Warranties' did you buy?

LOL Leslie Edelmans

 

[titandriver]

Bought these late 70's perhaps, dunno for sure.

 

[jbuck88]

Just because. Got then from my FIL in a box he had in his garage. He had a rcbs kit and a bunch of reloading stuff he bought back in the day when he was going to start reloading. That never happened so he gifted it to me Instead of tossing it.

Always this was one of those primers today. Still worked just fine.

 

[MarshallDodge]

I have a brick of Winchester large rifle primers dated 2/20/87 price was $10.10

In the early 90s we would buy bricks of Winchester primers at the gun show for $10 out the door. Then Clinton got elected

I still cringe when I have to pay more than $20/brick today but 2 years ago I paid $30/brick for Federal on sale.

 

[Bacarrat]

Checked my old invoices from 09 and got 25K Wolf primers for 350 shipped. Did a inventory the other month and still have over 40K primers available and most of them were bought over 10 years ago during the Obummer era. It's going to suck the day I have to buy primers again. Blows my mind how people are paying close to 200 for a thousand primers.