TonyH Posted January 7, 2011 Report Share Posted January 7, 2011 I dropped into The Sportsman (Exeter) for my bi-annual sniff around their shelves today, bought a few primers for working up a load - Fed205M, to test alongside Rem7.5. I thought they were expensive at £45/1000 - what are others paying? Incidentally the shop didn't have CCI BR4, and no bullets at all in 20 cal - the young man tried to tell me there was little call for them "down here" since hardly anyone used anything in 20 cal, I suppose on the basis that we're all swede-bashing yokels who've never heard of anything since .222 in the 1950s... I told him not to worry since I'm calling at Reloading Solutions next week to collect some stuff, and they always have 3-4 brands of 20 cal bullets in stock, plus a variety of primers. Tony Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Finman Posted January 7, 2011 Report Share Posted January 7, 2011 Last time I bought some primers I paid around £3.5 per box...(CCIBR2 and Fed210M) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
andybrock Posted January 7, 2011 Report Share Posted January 7, 2011 Just looked at the last box of primers I bought and they were £35.50 for FED 205M from Target Sports when they used to be in Bolton. Just as a heads up I now buy most of my stuff from Trent Firearms great little shop for reloading gear. Andy Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
garyw Posted January 7, 2011 Report Share Posted January 7, 2011 my last lot of federals were from BRIAN FOX,bought 3000 and 3000cci. the feds were 31.00per thou and cci 32.00. that was 18months ago. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
baldie Posted January 7, 2011 Report Share Posted January 7, 2011 Primers went up with a hell of a bump last year, i dont know why. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jack Posted January 7, 2011 Report Share Posted January 7, 2011 http://www.hps-tr.com/prices.asp?category=8 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Elwood Posted January 7, 2011 Report Share Posted January 7, 2011 Just looked at the last box of primers I bought and they were £35.50 for FED 205M from Target Sports when they used to be in Bolton. Just as a heads up I now buy most of my stuff from Trent Firearms great little shop for reloading gear. Andy And a very helpful chap as well. I was trying to source a 7x57 neck die the other day and although he didn't have one he put me onto someone who did. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
onehole Posted January 8, 2011 Report Share Posted January 8, 2011 I knew this would happen 2 years ago! primers,heads,brass and powder so got some in!!!Primers @ £24 per 1000 you can guess the rest!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Scotch_egg Posted January 8, 2011 Report Share Posted January 8, 2011 one hole, what are next weeks lotto numbers???? On a serious note I should have picked up on the price hike and done something about it Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TonyH Posted January 8, 2011 Author Report Share Posted January 8, 2011 Thanks chaps. Confirms that The Sportsman's price is a little high, though I note Baldie's comment re rising prices. These never seem to go down, of course, so probably we should all be stocking up for a decade or two ahead. I met someone in the States in 2009 who'd done this a few years before, in one of the regular gun-control scares they have: he'd bought 40,000 primers and still had a long way to go before they were finished... Mind you, he had the biggest loading room I've seen, about the size of my living room, with 3-4 presses permanently mounted plus a great rack of dies, shelves everywhere. TonyH Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CRT Posted January 8, 2011 Report Share Posted January 8, 2011 i bought some Rem, 7 1/2 BR's about a year ago and they were $28 USD per 1,000 I went ahead and picked up 10,000 so i didn't have to worry about it for awhile. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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