Sellier & Bellot small pistol primers

No I don't think they are.

I use them also. Cabela's was the only major distributor that carried them, a few smaller firms did as well, but I don't think they were ever as popular as the American brands.
Last year Cabela's had a big sale on them, and another in February. I have not seen them since. It would not be surprise me if they stopped selling them.

They are gone.
Check federal rebate. Basically 20% off with $100 purchase. I think shipped I was able to get them for 2.6 cents each after rebate, shipping, and hazmat

S&B quit importing them. They wanted out of the component business.

Too bad!

I bought 10K a few years ago, and they have worked out wuire well for me.

If they're no longer available, I'll go back to Remington.

I have many thousands of S&B primers, of various sizes. I've never experienced any problems with them.

It's a shame they are no longer available, it was a good product at a decent price.

I wonder if perhaps the import restrictions had anything to do with the decision to stop selling here ?

Just for kicks, I sometimes keep an empty box with the original price tag.

I looked in my souvenir box last night and found the container for the very first "full one thousand" primers I ever bought.

They were RWS. They came packaged in plastic boxes of 250 primers, with four boxes per carton. Bought from a full retail LGS, the price tag was for $4.25 per thousand.

(Of course, sometimes I forget that at that time a Patrolman First Class was paid $450 per month salary.)

Erief0g said:

They are gone.
Check federal rebate. Basically 20% off with $100 purchase. I think shipped I was able to get them for 2.6 cents each after rebate, shipping, and hazmat

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I did the same. It’s the best deal going right now.

Magtech and Fiocchi primers are still available.

I know we can't get Russian primers because of sanctions, are there any sanctions on the Czech Republic? Maybe that's why S&B primers are out of stock for now.

Right now several vendors are offering Fiocchi primers in 12,000 primer packages for about $21 per 1K.

Wow! Shame about S&B primers no longer being made/imported. Glad I bought a ton of them a few years ago. They seem to work very well for my applications.

rfwobbly said:

Right now several vendors are offering Fiocchi primers in 12,000 primer packages for about $21 per 1K.

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I have not seen them that cheap. You have any links? That would be $252/12,000.

Last order I did was Cabela's on 02/14/19 for 10K of the rifle primers @ $18.80 per 1 K. Using my Cabela,s Club Card I got free shipping but paid a $20 HAZMAT fee. It seems S&B primers has always been a spotty thing on the shelves at outlets or online. I have seen post on this subject going back over 10 years, like on again and off again. Beats me what the truth is.

Ron

Texas10mm said:

I have not seen them that cheap. You have any links?

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Ammo Seek also does reloading supplies. https://ammoseek.com/ Click on "Reloading" and you can chase components.

cheygriz said:

If they're no longer available, I'll go back to Remington.

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The problem there is that Remington small pistol primers are $10 more per 1,000 than CCI or Win.
Cabela's & Bass Pro want to sell 'em at $39+/k.
Where CCIs are $31/k elsewhere

Seems to me the take over has made Cabela's a less friendly place to shop.

Hondo 60 said:

The problem there is that Remington small pistol primers are $10 more per 1,000 than CCI or Win.

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I don't think that's Cabela's fault. Look at Remington 209 shotgun primers.

My question is: are the Fiocchi primers any good and does anyone have any experience with them?

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Ammo Seek also does reloading supplies. https://ammoseek.com/ Click on "Reloading" and you can chase components.

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Of course you can't/won't supply a link. If you make a statement like that be prepared to back it up.

Havok7416 said:

My question is: are the Fiocchi primers any good and does anyone have any experience with them?

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They're good primers. I haven't personally used them but many people over at Brian Enos forum have used them.

I used only 1500 Fiocchi SP primers a friend gave me during the last shortage. I used them mostly in .38 Special ammo and didn't notice any difference with them or the CCI SPP I usually use. I now wish I would have paid more attention to possible accuracy differences but I didn't.

Well, I've fired 1,000s of Fiocchi ammo.
The question is, are they the same primers they sell as components?

If so, then ya, they're very good.