Thread: Cost of primers.

We seem to be stuck on a wheel of component shortages. Or eye watering increases.
Sometimes it's all components together,, in 40 plus years of reloading, I have learnt to get what I can when I can. If you shoot high volume you have to try and keep a year ahead. I see primers are trending down (to my mind) and projectiles are trending up. Brass became unobtainable but is available again, but I think it's price will continue to rise steadily. Powder stocks should stabilize and their price will trend with shipping fees, that are increasing for now.The US reloader is paying less than we do for European product, we need to get ahead of that. But we are a tiny market.

Originally Posted by Micky Duck

We ,down here in south Canterbury,have very very few feral goats at all....funny thing is I miss having them to shoot... Just because they are so good for teaching folks with. Would have had a ball as a teenager had I owned the 223 instead of the 270 lol.

Yeah up Whanganui way and Wairoa area they are just about swinging from the trees

I understand that some of the HUNTS courses go near the Forgotten Highway for their training using goats as a starter - doing the world a favour getting rid of them

Originally Posted by Billo

Make yourself as wet as possible sunshine, having owned Semi auto's and watching too many monkey's use them we are better off with out them. They sure are a handy tool but idiots end up wrecking the show.

I bet you Bowl Underarm too.

Originally Posted by BSA

I bet you Bowl Underarm too.

Leg and off spin back in the day, the boyz got the job done, legendary dummy spit

Photo taken in December 2021 when we were complaining about the price of primers at the time.
The $76 box bought in 2015 I think.
$139 for 1000 doesn't seem so bad now.

Primers under $200 in AU would be a sight for sore eyes.

In 2018 I paid $45

I recently paid $30 for 150 Fiocchi, so $200 per 1000. Thought that was reasonable, although my day is now so I can't complain about the good old days.
The cost of a shipping container is still mental. It hasn't recovered from Covid days. It doesn't help that there's a shortest of water in Panama reducing ship movements through the distant canal.

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Originally Posted by Eat Meater

I recently paid $30 for 150 Fiocchi, so $200 per 1000. Thought that was reasonable, although my day is now so I can't complain about the good old days.
The cost of a shipping container is still mental. It hasn't recovered from Covid days. It doesn't help that there's a shortest of water in Panama reducing ship movements through the distant canal.

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And a land war in Europe leading to many manufacturers reducing or stopping civilian production.

Originally Posted by Oldbloke

I might add. The additional costs relating to transport overseas would be: ( I think)

Modified shipping containers with venting and wood lining.
Additional insurance.
Additional DG signage.
Additional documentation.
Perhaps Additional importing fees.

But I'm no expert.

Also, primers can't travel with some other DG cargos so get offloaded as usually a 1- or 2-can shipment at most, where the other DG cargos can be in the 10's of containers so get priority. If they are offloaded they have to have special treatment and be segregated on the wharf they are offloaded at, which is expensive too. It's an all-round ball ache.

I wonder what the limit for primers in a container are, one TEU would see us through for a year, it could be made up from different suppliers. But i suspect that the total allowable quantity in a box is pretty light.
@Oldbloke do Thales make other bits besides powder or import them, I know they have a line of brass but not sure if thats made in Au or elsewhere.

Originally Posted by johnd

I wonder what the limit for primers in a container are, one TEU would see us through for a year, it could be made up from different suppliers. But i suspect that the total allowable quantity in a box is pretty light.
@Oldbloke do Thales make other bits besides powder or import them, I know they have a line of brass but not sure if thats made in Au or elsewhere.

They make:
brass guessing. 5.56, 7.62 NATO 0.5" bmg , 20mm
Powder
Primers are sourced
Most bullets sourced too I think

Long time since I was there.


I'd guess shipping container would only be about 50% full.
It would vary depending on the explosive class. 1.1 would be different to 1.3 for example.

@No.3

"Also, primers can't travel with some other DG cargos"

Absolutely.

Originally Posted by gimp

What are you hoping to achieve here

Its a keyboard bro-down! And you're hogging all the popcorn haha

i wonder how easy it is to get them shipped over from overseas?

Originally Posted by Oldbloke

Currently US$60-70 in the US.
Friday I was quoted au$210 per 1k. . I'm in no rush so I'm waiting.
Often it's as high as $235

I know they are dear in NZ.

In the last couple of years 3 or 4 new companies have set up new facilities and started manufacturing.

But I reckon importers are simply gouging. BIG time.

Before covid commonly AU$70 per 1k. Sometimes much less.

At those prices in the US we should be at the very least under $120


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Opinions?

Next time you are unhappy with fuel prices, give your local fuel station the what-for, the stuff literally comes out of the ground in the Middle East, so it should be cheap!