Unbelievable! Primers are now $2.30 apiece. Who would have thunk it!
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Unbelievable! Primers are now $2.30 apiece. Who would have thunk it!
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Not here.
Aim small, miss small!
Yep. I got a dozen last week.
KE4GWE - - - - - - Colt 1860, it just feels right.
Hmmmmm Kimosabee . . . . why you buy rocks when you can pick them up off ground?
Who buys just one or two at a time? If you buy as many as 25 or more, there is a discount.
I bought 50 pounds of British surplus from India awhile back, im good for a long while
if you are ever being chased by a taxidermist, don't play dead
Don’t believe the shortage mongers. Visited Reading a few years ago. Couldn’t believe it, they had so much flint the parks were paved in it!
I just ordered flints from Track-of-the-Wolf. They will only allow you to buy 12 at a time. They're only $2.00 each then. Plus Shipping!
Good flints make a difference. Wish I could find a source of good ones at a better price even if it meant buying a larger quantity. I don't want to make them at the prices they are currently selling for. Looks like a lot of work to me. But with my Harpers Ferry I'm only getting 8 to 12 shots before I have to touch them up or replace them.
BIG OR SMALL I LIKE THEM ALL, 577 TO 22 HORNET.
I just bought 2 boxes of 1000 small pistol and 1 small rifle a couple days back. $80 each and tax at a local gun shop. They had large rifle for $157 , too rich for my blood . A couple weeks earlier I stumbled upon 4 cans of #11 percussion sitting right in Runnings . Add that to the couple cans I found last year the same way I’m set for a decade or more.
My secret is every time I go by one of those places I go in and ask or call. You’ve got to grab what’s there when you get lucky. Last year that local gun store would only sell me 100 of each . This time they wouldn’t split the brick………ya never know.
Can't you still buy them by the hundred? That's the only way I have ever bought them.
todd - Many years ago, I watched a fellow down at the Nationals at Friuendship who gave demostration on knapping flints - it was an interesting thing to see but I'm sure it takes time and a lot of practice. I haven
t bought flints a long time -still have some stockpiled. I use the large musket size flints on my Fusil-de-Chase and I have played some with refreshing the edge using a small brass snapping hammer - I was able to get the edge sago again but by no means a professional job. The nice thing about flints that size is the once worn, I could at least get the edge knapped to work well with my fire steel and they were a great size to keep in my flint and steel / char kit.
I agree though . . . store bought flints are MUCH more convenient and less time consuming that if a person tries to make their own. LOL
bedbugbilly,
i know of one or two, arrowhead?, collectors in my area and they go to ploughed-up fields and rivers and creeks in the neighboring counties. sandstone is regularly found in my areas. limestone is next and coal!!!!
i went to "class" or rather a gun show to knap rifle flints. he showed us HOW to do, but never any classroom experience. i gave up trying to find flints, so i bought them instead. i had a commercial german agate flint that went thru two frizzens. man, that was some hard german agate!!!! the TC flints are worthless, so i buy heritage products ( http://heritage-products.com/ ). the french amber flints seem to be good, i have 50+ firings on the one i use. i betting that its 100 plus+ firings till i'll need to replace it.
i have a left hand FL cva hawkens in 50 cal that i think i've got all the bugs worked out of it. it doesn't like maxiballs (245gr and 3something gr) but it luvs prb. the patch i use is .005" and rmc liquid wonder lube, but only about 4 or 5 shots. i can use .010" patches, but after 2 shots the bore needs cleaned. i use spit on my patches on the range. i tried lubes, moose milk, bore butter, ez wonder lube, bees wax and crisco...... but that is about the only thing i use (spit and rmc liquid lube).
The last time I ordered flints was October 2019 from TOTW. They were $2.20 each then, so no big jump. The only thing that changed is you can't buy them in bulk, you are stuck to a dozen or less at a time for now. It sucks for the guys with TC, CVA, or other poor quality rock smashers. This really puts into perspective how valuable a good lock that can go 75+ shots per flint really is.
P.S. The reason some of us buy individually is to get a few different sizes to see what fits. Once you find what size you need, then it makes no sense to buy less than a dozen, and by the hundred was best.
Guys. I am having some fun with the centerfire shooters. Our "primers" are $2.30 each.
On the average, how many shots can you get per rock primer
Don't shoot my Flint rifle all that much. More into Caps and 209s. Although the last few flints I purchased from Roger Pierce. Most of Roger's I purchased are still un-used. A hard flint that showered spark well. Have a TC 50cal. Lately I've been giving some thought to changing out my T/c lock with a L&R. Only one problem? justifying the 200.00 cost of.
You can always Sell your TC flintlock and buy that L&R lock.
The TC locks at auctions go for $250.00 or more.
why are you calling gun flint's primers? am I missing something? primers are made out of brass, and are filled with a priming compound?
BP | Bronze Point | IMR | Improved Military Rifle | PTD | Pointed |
BR | Bench Rest | M | Magnum | RN | Round Nose |
BT | Boat Tail | PL | Power-Lokt | SP | Soft Point |
C | Compressed Charge | PR | Primer | SPCL | Soft Point "Core-Lokt" |
HP | Hollow Point | PSPCL | Pointed Soft Point "Core Lokt" | C.O.L. | Cartridge Overall Length |
PSP | Pointed Soft Point | Spz | Spitzer Point | SBT | Spitzer Boat Tail |
LRN | Lead Round Nose | LWC | Lead Wad Cutter | LSWC | Lead Semi Wad Cutter |
GC | Gas Check |