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Re: CCI #500 available at Natchez -- $35 a brick
« Reply #1 on: June 06, 2013, 01:21:03 AM »
$16+ shipping and then a $27 hazmat fee... man that hurts!
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Re: CCI #500 available at Natchez -- $35 a brick
« Reply #2 on: June 06, 2013, 02:16:58 PM »
$16+ shipping and then a $27 hazmat fee... man that hurts!

It does, but the price at GunBroker is around $90-$120 per brick, +$27 + shipping and you are at as much as $150 per brick.    When Scheels starts selling CCI #500's again at $35  per brick I buy them.  But, I'm guessing that such prices may be a LOOOOONG time coming, if ever.   When the sole remaining lead smelting plant in the USA (Missouri) closes at the end of this year the price of bullets will rise again.

A gun without ammo is a paper weight.  I have enough powder and bullets to recycle my  600 casing several times, but I had less than 400  large pistol primers left.  It costs me about 16 cents a round to shoot.  The cheapest 9mm 124gr rounds are about 58 cents a shot.
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Re: CCI #500 available at Natchez -- $35 a brick
« Reply #3 on: June 06, 2013, 08:01:29 PM »
$16+ shipping and then a $27 hazmat fee... man that hurts!


That's why you need to get a bunch of guys together and do a group buy....

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Re: CCI #500 available at Natchez -- $35 a brick
« Reply #4 on: June 06, 2013, 09:49:38 PM »
That's why you need to get a bunch of guys together and do a group buy....

Each kind of primer has a limit of 2 boxes per day, so a group buy would be pretty limited anyway. 
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