Originally Posted by
Bimmer
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I buy primers every 5-10 years, but I'm watching prices constantly. When prices are low, then I stock up. Before the COVID panic, prices were rock bottom.
FWIW, I decided last month that I don't even need/want 10,000 of those Wolf SPPs, and I passed them on to a friend, who traded me 4,000 cast bullets.
Win-win: I calculate that I paid 5¢/bullet, and he calculates that I paid 60¢/bullet, because he can't find primers for less than 12¢ each.
My point is that when things were normal SW or Brownells were selling primers for ≈2¢ each, and presumably still making at least a marginal profit, then the wholesale price for primers must be significantly lower.
Even if materials and labor are now more expensive, they're not 50% more expensive... (Not yet, anyway.)
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