Wish me luck

[Aragorn243]

I believe I can get Privi for this one at Cabelas. I'll make a trip up there one of these days soon. Privi is not available for the Type 99, Hornaday was the only brand I could locate and it was $25 a box which I consider expensive. I remember seeing the 6.5 and wondering why they have that but not the 7.5. The Hornaday brass is Privi. Anyway, Privi is usually about $14-$15 a box.

I had approximately 150lbs of faucets (brass) and 100 pounds of copper wire and pipe. Brass is bringing $1.80/lb and copper $2.80/lb I had some other odds and ends but that was the main source of my funding. Aluminum doesn't amount to much unless you have a LOT of it. I have probably 400 lbs of insulated copper wire. Can't burn the insulation off anymore and doing it by hand would take years. It's also in a huge pile in the back of my basement. I put it there in very small increments over the last 20 years and now it's just too big to do anything with. I might take an evening and shove it out the basement window and load it up that way. They will buy it with the insulation on, you just don't get as much, about 60% of what the copper is actually worth. I hate losing that 40% but the time involved or the risk of the EPA breaking down my doors for burning it make it look more attractive each day.

[HOOKED ON HISTORY]

Privi is usually about $14-$15 a box

That is good to know I was not aware Privi was avaliable in 6.5.
Someone boosted one of my local heavy equipment dealers AC units and copper pipe recently. I doubt he was buying old guns with the proceedes.

[Aragorn243]

Drugs would be a better bet. I have to produce my drivers license every time I go to the scrap yard. Been this way since the recession hit and metal, especially copper, prices started going through the roof.

I may be wrong on the Privi-Partisan ammunition. Checked Cabelas website which is worthless for ammo and then Privi's site. It isn't listed. I could have sworn I saw it up there. I'll be disappointed if it isn't.

[Patrick Chadwick]

I may be wrong on the Privi-Partisan ammunition. Checked Cabelas website which is worthless for ammo and then Privi's site. It isn't listed.

Ammo no, cases yes:

http://www.prvipartizan.com/cases.php

[Aragorn243]

I'm heading up to Cabela's tomorrow so I'll know one way or the other for sure. I could have sworn I saw it when I was shopping for my 99. I distinctly recall being irritated that they had the one but not the other and the "other" was the one I needed that evening. But for all I know, it was some other ammo I was after at the time. I have too many different calibers and they keep getting worse.

My hope is that they simply haven't updated the web sites yet. But in that no other company on the net is selling Privi, I think that's wishful thinking. I did find another brand that is a little less than Hornaday, Precision Cartridges (PCI)

[Aragorn243]

No Privi at Cabela's and no spot on the shelf for it so I am disappointed.