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I came across this little rarity at the Nashville gun show today. Fair price so it came to my house. I honestly tried to give someone else a chance to buy it as I walked away when I first came upon it. 30 minutes later it was still there so that was a sign.
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With the powder shortage what have you recently come across?
Got a fiver of RE 7 and RE 19 this year. I'm happy with what I have on hand now.
I went to several stores and even a gun show and have no powder or primers to show for it.
Made a trip to Simmons Sporting Goods in Bessemer, Alabama.
They're usually loaded with powder and primers.
I picked up 2lbs of Varget and 300 CCI LR primers
After getting my wisdom teeth removed today I stopped an bought some AA#7 and 500 Hornady HAP bullets for the 10mm.
Day before yesterday (or so) I bought 4 lbs, of IMR 4064 from Powder Valley...
I haven't had any trouble getting powder since this "shortage" started. Every time I go into the LGS he seems to have what I want and usually asks "how many do you want"? The only powder I had to do anything special with was order ahead for WW296 and got it in a couple of weeks. I still had over a pound on hand so I never ran out. I think the only thing going on has been no one wants to carry inventory.
4# of AA#9. First time using it and seems promising so far.
8lbs of 4064 and 8lbs of SR4759 the other day.
I got an 8# jug of SR4759 delivered to my house today from Midsouth/UPS. (around $175) I read that the company isn't going to be making it anymore so this should keep my K31's fed with cast bullet ammo for the rest of my lifetime. I plan to also use this for mid power plinking ammo for my 450 Marlin.
I'm trying to consolidate my powders for most of my full power medium rifle stuff and IMR4320 is going to be my go to propellent for .223, .22-250, and .308. It even works great with 75gr bullets out of my 25-06 (3700+ fps). I've had really good success with working up suitable loads with this stuff. Not sure why it's such an overlooked propellent but I'll take it. :mrgreen:
H4895, Varget, and 300MP to try out. I hate buying it by the pound now, but I will take a few here, and there to fill my need. We are our own worse enemy when it comes to availability.
I managed to find some talcum powder this weekend. Does that count?
Sounds like you went to the wrong section. Try sporting goods...:Fire:Quote:
Originally Posted by Bohica793
I was having luck till a month or so ago, now I can't find anything but magnum rifle powder.
I just got into the .300 Blackout and I have a half pound of 25 year old IMR 4227 and nothing else suitable. I've made a full list of about a dozen usable powders but a half dozen trips to Cabela's and the LGS's have turned up nothing. Plenty of primers, but they don't do me much good with no powder.
Just bought 6 pounds of Vihtavuori N310.
Tax return season is upon us. Expect the shelves to be bare until mid summer as everybody "stocks up" with their tax returns. The Christmas shopping lull allowed what you see hitting the shelves to actually hit the shelves.Quote:
Originally Posted by destrux
Buy what you can when you can. You are only a hoarder to the have nots.
My tax return wont even buy me a tank of gas. It was a whole $44. Imagine my surprise which my accountant told me that. I was expecting about 20 times that.
Somewhat on the bright side...
I just got in 2 lbs of IMR 4759 from Brownells. The other 8 were backordered. We all know what that means....
I picked up a pound of IMR-4350 at Cabela's just because it was sitting there lonely on the shelf with only some H50BMG keeping it company. I was running low after discovering my .30-40 Improved liked it.
Last purchase was IMR 4831 for 243 shooting paid about $27 per pound :roll:
Oh, well at least I found some.
When are you going to jump on the heavy bullet and Retumbo or Ramshot bandwagon. I'm getting 3110 FPS, very minimal vertical, and outstanding accuracy out to 1,000 yds. I get sooted necks even after I've annealed multiple times, but the accuracy, SD, ES and vertical are so fantastic that I'm not changing anything.Quote:
Originally Posted by Artful
ETA: I'm not even at the max charge.
Picked up a 1 pound jug of Winchester 748 in Snappy Sport Senter in Kalispell yesterday afternoon. They had a 1 limit so I could not get the 2nd jug they had. Had to pay $27.00 for the pound of 748.
What was left when I departed was (1) H50BMG, (1) US869, (1) W748, and (1) W296.
Last week I bought a 14oz jug of Hi-Skor 700X at Cabella's in Kalispell to use as a booster in Duplex Loading with my stash of W860 and W872. Had to give $29.00 for that 14Oz jug. Have wanted to pick up Unique for last 2 years, but no luck. I only have 1/2 pound left in Unique.
Picked up 4 1 pounders of Unique at a local shop. I left 4 on the shelf. Anyone in the Ark-La-Tex area in need it let me know in a PM. He also had power pro 2000 and 4000 along with a bunch of Winchester AA feather lite and a little green dot.
When this barrel is shot out - I have a fast twist 243 shilen barrel in the wings but I'm not done with this one yet. Besides I have about 800 87 grain bullets left in the cupboard :wink:Quote:
Originally Posted by Love Life
I wish I had found that Varget, I burned up 4 1# cans loading 1/2 of my 223s this winter!
Picked up three 1# containers of Unique last week for myself and a friend.
Bought 3 pounds of N105 today.
I picked up a lb of unique and a lb of red dot for $59.90 today
Ouch.Quote:
Originally Posted by 6bg6ga
I passed on 5 pounders of RE 19, sorry Lloyd, and 8 pounders of either H110 or 296.
I did get 5 K Win small pistol primers for 150 bucks plus tax.
I picked up 1 lb of 4227 yesterday at a local gun shop . then today at another local gun shop I saw 4 -1 lb containers of pb on the shelf and I snagged them all . I know I should have left 1 or 2 for someone else but ever since I heard that pb is on the go away list I grab every container of it I can find. they also had 2 containers of blue dot on the shelf im wishing now I would have grabbed 1 of those as well .
Didn't buy anything today but I'm at 44#s over the past three weeks. I'm transferring a pistol tomorrow morning so I will most likely be coming home w/ more. I'm set for a good amount of time but I really need to increase my LR primer stock. I know I can buy all I want tomorrow, at $50 per thousand. So I will not be buying any :(
I am still working on a 15 pound keg of Bullseye I boughtvduring the panic when Jimmy Carter was elected.
Unique, 1 lb. First one ive seen around here in about a year
Not today but last week... 8 lb kegs of SR4759 and 4227. Found em at Gamaliel shooter supply (online order.)
58lbs of powder, 1300lbs lead, and 27,000 primers. I can weather the storm for a bit.....
I loaded up back before the 2nd term election, my local gunshop had everything a guy could ask for, and they also have Layaway, that's a big plus to me! I got #4 of w296, I4064, i4895, and 2k each of large rifle, small rifle, small pistol, and large pistol. All for the low price of $415, and I had 6 months to pay it out! They still have a lot of components, but the prices are inflated by far!
Local guy sold me 2 lbs of Bullseye the other day at $20 each. Course I slipped him a 20 lb bar of linotype. Seems all Alliant is hen's teeth these days.
Gun show yesterday had Unique 8 pound jugs for $110. Had I known it was that hard to come by, I would have grabbed it. I bought a pound last week for $16.
Nothing today since they had no powders I was interested in. Their selection was the worst I've seen it in months. I was told they have more coming in this week but that didn't help me today ;)
I jave done petty good recently. Got h110 and some blue dot at bass pro, ran across some 2400 at a pawn shop, got titegroup at outdoor junction in cookeville (they had a couple cases). No problems finding rifle powder at all.
Had a gun show today and got some much needed powder:grin: