I have Remington 6-1/2s too. I keep them with my small magnum pistol primers. But I really don't use much for small pistol magnums. I just went to bigger calibers. I just checked GunBroker, primer prices seem to have leveled out a bit at approx. $200.00/1K. They were $50.00 higher earlier this week. Large rifle primers are less, there are still some in the supply pipeline, CCI primers are nearly double anybody elses price.I did not realize this. My FIL cast and loaded for the .30 Carbine and he had a few bricks of the 6-1/2s left in his estate. Now I know why. I figured they'd work for .38 Special full-wadcutter loads, am I right?
Added factoid--in the smaller rifle calibers I listed above, changing out to the Rem #6-1/2 from CCI #400 and WSR in those smaller calibers shrunk group sizes (sometimes in half), SDs and ESs in these calibers. This was across-the-board in all of the calibers. Our member "Urny" (Ernie Beller) mentioned their use in the 22 Hornet, and the immediate success it enabled in that caliber prompted me to make the change in the other chamberings. I have yet to try the experiment with the SPM/CCI-550 primers in these smaller cases.
Check this out!so I got to digging around and discovered I have a sleeve of federal small pistol match primers, and a sleeve of federal small rifle match primers.
I don't remember buying either one of them and probably don't need either of them.
so the big question is, if I decide to sell them what do you guy's think I should ask for them?
All true. I bought some of them, and happily drove about an hour each way to get them.I sold 16K primers this summer to friends, all at $30/K.
Don’t worry guys, I have enough to last me many years.
I thought some of you would like that. Notice that they all had bids on them at those prices. That is what some guys are dealing with while us ants sit back and quaff mint juleps. This won't blow over soon.That is unbridled insanity. GTFO!
Keep in mind, though--prior to this most recent shortage, the ammomakers were getting over a dollar per round for their premium lines of self-defense pistol ammo. That was ridiculous in and of itself.
And that's generally the cheap stuff, so-called "range" or "promo" ammo. 115 gr 9mm ball is generally the lowest of quality. The cool kid stuff is over $2.00/round for the really good stuff, that seemed offensive at $1.00/round.Why would you pay that much?
A buck a round for 9mm?
And the power of the credit card. Just pay once a month, like you do your rent!When a first-time gun owner -- and their number has increased by the millions, since March -- does not know the pre-panic price of ammunition, it's easy to justify the $1-plus per round pricing.
Same goes for the post-panic reloader not knowing the prices of pre-panic components.
Shameless thread drift: Toilet paper panic buying is back, at least locally.