I'm aware - been using TC dies for a few decades and I usually leave a hair's width. This was to see exactly how far down I could get the TC insert to size the case.
I'm aware - been using TC dies for a few decades and I usually leave a hair's width. This was to see exactly how far down I could get the TC insert to size the case.
Same here Andy, the press normally has a tiny bit of movement open when you press in the case so the die and shell holder do not touch.
I see that Brownell's has CCI Large Pistol Magnum primers for sale.
Damned expensive, but if you are nearly out like me, what do you do?
Rather have some than none, even at today's inflated prices.
Rather have some than none, even at today's inflated prices.
I can remember 40 years ago a local Big Box Store would run leader sales on primers for $9.99 per 1000
According to the inflation conversion tables that $9.99 purchase price from 40 years ago is equivalent to $205.50 in todays inflation driven world😰
According to the inflation conversion tables that $9.99 purchase price from 40 years ago is equivalent to $205.50 in todays inflation driven world😰
I don't know what table you are looking at, but I checked two different ones and they gave me $27.90 and $29.76 which sounds a whole lot closer to me.
Either way, if primers were - for the sake of the argument - $90/1k more expensive than before, I'd pony up that extra $90 to be able to make 1,000 rounds of ammo (as opposed to saving the $90 and having no ammo).
@bob-cohee not that it matters since it is not 1940 but I attached the page that adjusts for yearly inflation and list $205
Either way, if primers were - for the sake of the argument - $90/1k more expensive than before, I'd pony up that extra $90 to be able to make 1,000 rounds of ammo (as opposed to saving the $90 and having no ammo).
I wish it was $90.00.
I ordered 2000 and split them with a friend. With hazmat, shipping, and sales tax they came to $117.00 per 1000. I think that is double what I have ever paid in the past for primers. We have been watching for months and that is the first of the CCI Magnums I have seen.
I said "$90 more expensive" 😉 - I'm assuming $30/1k a few years ago +$90 = $120. If I had none, I'd have bought them too (grumbling all the while, admittedly - but I'd have them).
I said "$90 more expensive" 😉 - I'm assuming $30/1k a few years ago +$90 = $120. If I had none, I'd have bought them too (grumbling all the while, admittedly - but I'd have them).
I see that now, I should read better. 😀
I'm still seeing red over that price though.
I sure hear you. If prices ever leave the realm of lunacy, I'm going to buy 10k of all 5 types.
About 4 months ago my local Cabelas received a shipment of Federal Magnum Large Pistol Primers. I have no clue where they got them (none since) and you were limited to one brick of 1000. So the wife of course bought a thousand for me as well. They were $88 which burned my butt but I knew I would eventually need them with the situation the way it is. I remembered 2 years prior at the beginning of the pandemic, when I was looking for Federal 210M large rifle primers there were 5 bricks of 1000 on the shelf for $42 (the most I ever paid for a brick of primers) and I bought 3 of the 5 (no limit at that time). My wife said why don’t you buy them all but I was sure that was enough for the next year so I’ll get more later. As they say, hind sight is 20/20…..I have relived that moment in my mind over and over since that day about how stupid I was. But at that time they almost always had primers anytime I went there. I am getting ready for a hunting trip to Alaska and this weekend I opened up my last case (5 bricks) of Fed 215M primers…..reality set in because I’ve gone through close to 1000 Fed 215M’s in the last month. I probably bought that case from Graf’s 3 years ago and haven’t seen any primers for sale in the last 2 years or more. I saw the CCI primers at Brownells and I’m hoping this is a sign that the primer situation may loosen up a bit
About 4 months ago my local Cabelas received a shipment of Federal Magnum Large Pistol Primers. I have no clue where they got them (none since) and you were limited to one brick of 1000. So the wife of course bought a thousand for me as well. They were $88 which burned my butt but I knew I would eventually need them with the situation the way it is. I remembered 2 years prior at the beginning of the pandemic, when I was looking for Federal 210M large rifle primers there were 5 bricks of 1000 on the shelf for $42 (the most I ever paid for a brick of primers) and I bought 3 of the 5 (no limit at that time). My wife said why don’t you buy them all but I was sure that was enough for the next year so I’ll get more later. As they say, hind sight is 20/20…..I have relived that moment in my mind over and over since that day about how stupid I was. But at that time they almost always had primers anytime I went there. I am getting ready for a hunting trip to Alaska and this weekend I opened up my last case (5 bricks) of Fed 215M primers…..reality set in because I’ve gone through close to 1000 Fed 215M’s in the last month. I probably bought that case from Graf’s 3 years ago and haven’t seen any primers for sale in the last 2 years or more. I saw the CCI primers at Brownells and I’m hoping this is a sign that the primer situation may loosen up a bit
To go through that many of the 215's you must be burning up the magnums pretty hard.
Years ago I loaded identical loads in a 300 Weatherby and a 338 Win mag using 215's in one set and Winchester Large Rifle Magnums in another set. I got identical results in both rifles, primers made no difference. The Federal 215's were always hard to find and more expensive and I wondered if they really were that much hotter than the Wincjesters like all the books said.
