Rip off

[[email protected]]

My LGS is selling most primers for about $100 per K. Pretty good supply too. I dont know if they have any caps, they keep them off the shelf.

 

[M. De Land]

Sportsman's Warehouse has primers for $7.99 to $10.99 depending on brand. No caps, though.

I picked up a brick of CCI 400s today for 75.00 at a gun show. That's the best I've seen them post Covid ! I use these competitively in my Martini cadet loads, one chambered in .357 Mag and the other in .357 Max.
Both those revolver cartridges are different animals in 26 inch rifle barrels with 216 grain gas checked hard cast bullets..

 

[#BPBReloadingFFL]

Do you happen to know how well Triple 7 handles load compression !

Very well from my past loading

 

[Hawk54]

I was at a shop yesterday and they had CCI #10 percussion caps for $12.95 a tin.

 

[#BPBReloadingFFL]

Primers Remington SRP not plated $75K The others 90-125$k.
I haven't had any LRP since spring.
Caps, nothing from my distributors for 4+ years.
XhiMart on and off $5.69/ 100.

 

[M. De Land]

I think I got lucky at the local gun show last weekend. Saw 6 packs of CCI 11's for $10 each. I bought 2 and left the others for someone else who might need them, though it was Sunday afternoon and not long before the show closing.

Good snag!

 

[Bad Karma]

Bad karma just so you know. I was asked to go and evaluate the value of said firearms. They wouldn't listen. Told them they were worth more.! The two punks running the sale were know it alls. So I paid what they wanted and walked away..! I gave up arguing with stupid people long time ago..!

I bought my wife’s favorite rifle from a fellow years ago, (an unfired 6mmmodel 700 ADL) he was not a shooter but a deadbeat renter had left it for him in lieu of part of his last months rent. He wanted $150 for it even though they were selling for much more than twice as much at any local gun store. I put up a little resistance, but not too much.

Do you happen to know how well Triple 7 handles load compression !

Some people say no compression (think Hodgdon says this in the loading manuals) others claim success with strong compression in revolvers. I’ve used it in revolvers and rifles and have struggled with it in revolvers. Maybe I’m just ham handed but I find velocity and accuracy are not as consistent as with real black so I tend not to use it much. I have used it in caplock rifles and it works fine there where apparently I’m able to apply more consistent loading pressure. It is powerful stuff and if I lived where you do, with the limited availability of black powder I could probably make peace with it somehow. Or begin milling my own black powder…

 

[D Yager]

Do you happen to know how well Triple 7 handles load compression !

T7 likes a small amount of compression. If you try to compress it hard the pressure get erratic. This from numerous members on another forum that have chronographs and the time to play with such things.

 

[M. De Land]

T7 likes a small amount of compression. If you try to compress it hard the pressure get erratic. This from numerous members on another forum that have chronographs and the time to play with such things.

Much obliged !

 

[tom in nc]

T bought a tin of 100 CCI #11 caps yesterday for $15. I started buying powder & caps in 1973, the year I bought my first 1860 Colt Army and a fullstock long rifle. They were cheap back then.

 

[springfield art]

Gun shows are the worst place to get caps and primers . Hang on, they are slowly coming back into circulation.

"Slowly" being the key word!

 

[springfield art]

I think I got lucky at the local gun show last weekend. Saw 6 packs of CCI 11's for $10 each. I bought 2 and left the others for someone else who might need them, though it was Sunday afternoon and not long before the show closing.

You deserve a 'halo'!

 

[M. De Land]

I bought my wife’s favorite rifle from a fellow years ago, (an unfired 6mmmodel 700 ADL) he was not a shooter but a deadbeat renter had left it for him in lieu of part of his last months rent. He wanted $150 for it even though they were selling for much more than twice as much at any local gun store. I put up a little resistance, but not too much.


Some people say no compression (think Hodgdon says this in the loading manuals) others claim success with strong compression in revolvers. I’ve used it in revolvers and rifles and have struggled with it in revolvers. Maybe I’m just ham handed but I find velocity and accuracy are not as consistent as with real black so I tend not to use it much. I have used it in caplock rifles and it works fine there where apparently I’m able to apply more consistent loading pressure. It is powerful stuff and if I lived where you do, with the limited availability of black powder I could probably make peace with it somehow. Or begin milling my own black powder…

I had a BDL bull barreled 700 in 6mm Rem for a couple years. Best 6mm factory cartridge ever made in my view. I liked it better than the .243 Win I shot for a couple years. I have since picked up a 6mm/284 that is a real hot rod in a 26 inch Apex barrel ! Never tried black powder in it though ! Tisk Tisk
I'm spending most of my time now days in my twilight years with flint lock rifles and percussion revolvers. Strange how we change over the years in our tastes !

 

[FishDFly]

Why are modern guns being discussed on a ML forum?