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Posted: 4/26/2009 7:52:40 PM EDT
Took some looking and walking, but this is what I came away with.
Box of 223 brass, about 95% once fired, a mix of Win, Rem, LC, and misc mil. I'm guessing about 2k. $60. Loaded up all 4 of my tumblers, will tumble overnight, about 1/3 of batch left waiting to be tumbled. #8 of H-110 for $100. Unopened. 
New lower, no paper $175. Lower kit, $80. Some shotgun primers here and there, asking $2 per box of 100. Not bad. LR, LP, SP 1k boxes for $60. 
Most of these were the nickel plated Win that sold for $15 back then. Only saw 1 sale in two days. Good to see not everyone is that desperate. Picked up 200 Montana Gold 115 FMJ .355 for $18. Same table, 22 cal 55gr Win PSP were $10 per 100. Got some factory ammo for a friend, 45 ACP, box of 50 Blazer Brass was $24. Passed on some 380 FMJ box of 50 Fed red box for $25, 10 minutes later, they were sold out. Doh. Brick of 500 Rem HP's, 22 LR was $25. All other bricks I saw were $29 to $30. $20 would buy a 325 bulk box of Federal 22 LR. Looked for .311 bullets and 7.62 x 39 brass, but came up empty. All in all a successful show. |
Hunting for deals on reloading supplies or equipment here is like looking for a needle in a haystack. A couple of dealers show up at two shows with normal prices on new stuff, another man has nothing but dies, enough to choke most of the horses on the planet, and prices that make me  ; he acts like some old set of RCBS or CH dies for a common caliber are rare collectibles. You might have seen his set up at Tulsa.
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Went to our local show this weekend.
Wasn't as good as usual... but I $pent more than usual. 
Went with the intention of picking up some AR parts... but none of the parts guys were in PA.... apparently there was a HUGE show in Chantilly, VA this past weekend. None the less, the wife got an AR lower (new) for $120... she wants to build her own "precision AR15". I got sucked in & bought a new CZ527 Varmint 24" in .223 for $650 and a used Anchutz .22 Target rifle for $600.... both total out the door. Think I got an OK deal. That was Saturday... then Sunday I got to shoot 200 rounds of .357 Sig compliments of the state. Then I got to keep about 1000 rounds of brass!! All in all... not a bad weekend, even though I had to do yard work Saturday afternoon! 
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I went to a local show this weekend I walked up to a dealers table and noticed he had three types of small pistol primers displayed. One box was 31$ k the other two were 50$ k. As soon as he saw me looking at the cheap box he removed the box saying that was his last one and he needed to keep it for himself. This was 5 minutes after the show opened on the first day of the show. Nobody else had even made it to his table yet. I passed but did notice he was the only dealer selling small primers. He stayed very busy and later walking by his table I noticed his price was up to 60$ k. I stopped by a local pawn shop this afternoon and picked up the only box he had for 30$ k.
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The days of picking up 1k of .224 FMJBT's for $20 to $30 are gone.
There was a guy I forgot to mention selling .224 55 gr FMJBT's for $150 per k, "next k is only $140" he says. 
Also had 30 cal FMJBT's, I didn't bother to ask the price. Seems like brass is the best reloading item I have been finding. Update on the box of 223 brass pictured in my first post. I have 3/4's of it tumbled and sorted. The rest is in the tumblers now. Only about 25 reloaded cases so far, the rest is once fired. More Win than anything else, then RP, S&B, and Rorg '91. I am
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