Thread: Shit getting expensive

Just looked at some 215m primers and the receipt from 2015.
These were the days!

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Originally Posted by andyanimal31

Just looked at some 215m primers and the receipt from 2015.
These were the days!

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Did u pay over $1 per primer?

Originally Posted by andyanimal31

Just looked at some 215m primers and the receipt from 2015.
These were the days!

why was your signature a willy?

At the Tauranga militaria show this morning, Winchester LR primers we’re being offered at $350 per 1000 from memory.

I’ve just got back into reloading recently after at least 10 year hiatus.
The reason is because I can’t purchase Factory ammo that has the components / configuration that I require.
The reality is that I’m paying way more than Factory per round, but “ Such is life “
I remember a line from the “ Chopper Boys “ book years ago and I’m not quoting accurately but it’s along the line of .
“ Mate the ammo is the cheapest part of the whole operation “

It was only 2019 I bought a 1000 box of federal primers for $99.95
Regular inflation is one thing, but a doubling in price in 3-4 years is a whole new level.

IMO, buy what you can.
As even the yanks are having a hard time finding a regular supply of primers

Bought 2k of Fed 215m earlier in the year at £45 per k. According to the guy running the counter, they were 'old stock' and needed cleared out. OK, no bother pal!

Decided not to be a cunt and only bought 2k out of the 5k available, hope the man upstairs was watching the atheist down below being a good boy and keeping notes...

Originally Posted by omark

Did u pay over $1 per primer?

10c as bought a 1000.
I think when I started loading and the wholesaler had stock they were $35 per 1000

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A brick of Winchester 22 power point used to be $25 when I bought my 10/22 as a young fella, was up to Shooters World in Gore every 2nd or 3rd Friday night to restock, ah the good old days!

Is Lindsay still around?

Originally Posted by jakewire

Is Lindsay still around?

Retired, but lives in Gore still. Been under new ownership a couple years now.


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He was/ is a good man
Let me pay off numerous firearms over the years when I was younger.

Originally Posted by Dusty Fog

had a look in wilsons this morning for a pard 007s and the prices for a sako finnlight was eyewatering, to thing i brought a sako vixen in 1970 for 100 dollars

Was that new price?!

Then again, $100 probably went a long way back then!

Originally Posted by Dusty Fog

what you mean expensive, went on a site and brought some packets of projectiles they had on sale to be later posted as unobtainable, i can handle the expensive but i cant handle unobtainable
to put things in perspective i brought a house in petone way back in 74 for 17k, n last time i looked it had a value of over a mil, my first wage was 10 pound and 10% of that was tax
so buy buy buy while you can

Ah unobtainium the rarest of all materials.
Rumoured to exist but never found.

Unlike chinesium very abundant, but of low quality and low strength.

The old days always will be "good old days" with prices lower than today.