Powder shock

[abunaitoo]

Had to buy some powder today. Only one shop had it.
IMR4350.....$37.00!!!!!![smilie=b:
We have a real problem here. Powder and primer prices are ridiculous.
Shipping cost are outrageous.
Most times order through a friend who has a home business.
He hasen't ordered for a while.
Everytime he tries to order, his vendor is out half the order.
What are you paynig for powder????

[starmac]

Bought 4350 today for 29.99 and unique for 21.99. Today was the first time this particular has had any for a good while, it will be gone tomorrow.

[JeffinNZ]

Just bought 500 grams of Benchmark today. NZD69.00. USD55.00. I win.

[smokeywolf]

Just looked at Graf's website. They have IMR 4064, 4227 and 4759; all for $23/lb. give or take. They also had Rem large and small pistol primers @ $37/1000.

[FISH4BUGS]

I bought an 8 lb jug of WW748 for 169.99. I was happy to find it, but pissed off at that price. The last one I bought was $129.
Welcome to the new normal.

[captaint]

I haven't needed or bought powder in a while, but I'm not paying more than 25/lb. That's nuts. I did manage to get 5K Win SPP from Midway,no less, for about 24.00/K. After the shipping and hazmat, it worked out to about 30/K. Not so bad. One LGS was selling primers, and they had plenty, for 4.00/hundred. Yeah, right. I just smiled and said, no thanks. Mike

[marvelshooter]

Unique and 2400 were about $23 for single pounds about a month ago and a bottle of Trailboss (9 oz) was $16

[CastingFool]

A couple of months ago, I bought 4lbs of 2400 for $75 plus tax. Also got srp and spp for $35/K.

[farmerjim]

I still have lots of IMR 4350 that cost me $1.50 per pound 50 years ago. The powder at the LGS costs too much. I will use what I have in what I load till the prices come down.

[Ron]

A couple of months ago I bought one pound bottle of Win 231 for the princely sum of AU$50.00. Prices for the ADI powders are not much better.

[JonB_in_Glencoe]

They have quite a few 1 pound canisters of powder at Cabela's. starting at $24 and up to $30.

If enough of us can hold off on buying, maybe prices will come down...may take a year or so ?
Jon

[shdwlkr]

I found an 8 lb of 4064 for $170 at one of my LGS and thought it was expensive but at least they had some have seen it around $240 in 8 lb cans at one place. It has boiled down to if you need it you pay the price if not then you just look and shake your head.

Will prices come down to the old level we knew you a little over a year ago? I really wonder with at least 45 million new shooters I wonder if the firearm industry and the components industry see a ready source for their products no matter the cost.

[plmitch]

Last Saturday I picked up a 2lb’s of IMR4895 and 1,000 CCI LR primes for a kid I’m mentoring. The powder was $40.00 a pound and the primers were $45.00. Also picked up two bricks of Remington .22’s for $50.00 each. Plenty of stock on the shelves at a decent price. Looks like good times ahead.

[shdwlkr]

plmitch

Last brick of 22lr I picked up for around 23 a brick and you could only buy one. Here they are still in short supply of most 22lr comes in and goes out within a day of it being put on the shelf.

[KCSO]

And bullets are no better, Midway flyer 100 BLEMS $35.00!

[bandit7.5]

I haven't needed or bought powder in a while, but I'm not paying more than 25/lb. That's nuts. I did manage to get 5K Win SPP from Midway,no less, for about 24.00/K. After the shipping and hazmat, it worked out to about 30/K. Not so bad. One LGS was selling primers, and they had plenty, for 4.00/hundred. Yeah, right. I just smiled and said, no thanks. Mike

The local here is called poor boys guns. And ALL primers are 7.99 a hundred even shotgun.

[plmitch]

plmitch

Last brick of 22lr I picked up for around 23 a brick and you could only buy one. Here they are still in short supply of most 22lr comes in and goes out within a day of it being put on the shelf.

That seems cheap enough. There has been no real shortage of powder, primers or ammo around here, just limited by what you wanted to pay. Prices here may seem little high to some but spending the few extra bucks isn’t going to kill me.

[backroad]

I consider myself lucky bought 1# each of titegroup and varget 17.99 and 1000 cci primers 29.99 they had lots of small pistol but i got the last of large pistol.This was at two stores one was in illinois who"d a thunk.

[dragon813gt]

If you think prices are coming down, think again. Just look at what happened after the last shortage. They never went back down to where they were before. Only item I've seen go back to the previous prices is ARs. But that's only because the supply is there and the market is saturated. The supply of powder and primers isn't stable so we are nowhere close to a saturated market.

[MT Gianni]

If you think prices are coming down, think again. Just look at what happened after the last shortage. They never went back down to where they were before. Only item I've seen go back to the previous prices is ARs. But that's only because the supply is there and the market is saturated. The supply of powder and primers isn't stable so we are nowhere close to a saturated market.

Add to that all the folks who kept one or two lbs of powder that now want 4-6 lbs. Demand will be strong for at least 2-3 years, IMO.

[oldred]

One LGS was selling primers, and they had plenty, for 4.00/hundred. Yeah, right.


I know where you can get them cheaper- $3.99! No joke, your $4 price prompted me to post because I just found CCI standard LR primers for $3.99 per hundred and since I am getting low I bought 500 at that rip-off price, but hey I beat your LGS by a whole nickle on the total!

[starmac]

Primers here vary by manufacturer, but have been 34/1000 for federal to 41 for cci, this was the price even before the scare remingtons are even more. The prices are about the same now if you can find them at all, it has been a long time since I have seen the cheaper federal ones.

[bangerjim]

I pay $26-32/pound locally at my gun stores. Don't have a problem because they have it. And I refuse to pay that ridiculous hazmat fee thru the mail. The LGS's have to roll that in, so I see they have to add some on. Not a problem at all. None of them have gouged on stuff during this Obummer skirmish.

Being a local business owner, I purchase almost ALL my business and personal items locally to keep the money local. I refuse to spend money in other states. Sure I may pay more, but it keeps MY economy going............not some other state!

bangerjim

[starmac]

I pay $26-32/pound locally at my gun stores. Don't have a problem because they have it. And I refuse to pay that ridiculous hazmat fee thru the mail. The LGS's have to roll that in, so I see they have to add some on. Not a problem at all. None of them have gouged on stuff during this Obummer skirmish.

Being a local business owner, I purchase almost ALL my business and personal items locally to keep the money local. I refuse to spend money in other states. Sure I may pay more, but it keeps MY economy going............not some other state!

bangerjim

I am with you, anything I can buy locally I do. I even order through locals, because if they can add it to a regular stock order it helps on shipping. I can see a time coming that most things will have to be ordered over the internet because local businesses will not be able to stay in business because folks will order something to save a quarter.

Here live ammo, powder and primers can't really be ordered except for on a large scale, so if we don't support those that stock it, by buying their other stocked items too, there will come a day that powder, primers and live ammo will be harder than we can imagine to get.

[Kraschenbirn]

Our one and only LGS, by virtue of being "the only game in town", was price-gouging on reloading supplies long before the current drought set in. Fortunately, about 30 miles away there's a farm supply/outdoors store (not really a 'big box' but part of an in-state chain) that handles guns, ammo, and a limited stock of reloading supplies that I drive past at least once a week on business. Last week I picked up two lbs. of H4350 for $23.50/lb. from the farm store and, just from curiosity, stopped by the LGS to find his price was $29.95/lb...with a 1 lb. per customer limit.

(While I was typing the above paragraph, my buddy, the ag equipment rep, sent me a text message from someplace in Iowa to tell me that he'd found a place he could buy 4 lbs of IMR4198 for $100 and asking if I wanted to split the cost with him. Took me about 15 seconds to make up my mind and another 30 seconds to answer his text.)

Bill

[perotter]

The price at the farm store here about $24 a pound. At the LGS the prices are about $27 a pound.

[gsdelong]

Vance's in Columbus Ohio had Alliant powders 10% off blue dot and unique $17 pound. Columbus cabelas of all places had federal sp match on close out for 29.99 per 1000. Sportsman's Den seemed to have most powders for a fair price green dot was $16.99. Also had good deals on 22mag and 17hmr limit 5. Component buying road trip.:drinks: My usual sure bet fin fur feather was pretty much bare. Everyplace I stopped had 22lr limit 1. But got mini mag and the federal 325 auto match.

[TXGunNut]

I'm paying the same price for powder now that I was before this latest "shortage". Noticed that the pound of IMR4895 I bought a month ago @ Cabelas was a different lot than the two pounds I bought last weekend, all $28. LGS ordered some powder for me $22-24/lb. I don't use much powder so I'm ready for the next shortage, this last one lasted a little longer than I'd planned on so I ran a little low.
Still waiting for primers to settle down a bit, can't seem to find 210M's at any price.

[codgerville@zianet.com]

I found an 8 lb of 4064 for $170 at one of my LGS and thought it was expensive but at least they had some have seen it around $240 in 8 lb cans at one place. It has boiled down to if you need it you pay the price if not then you just look and shake your head.

Will prices come down to the old level we knew you a little over a year ago? I really wonder with at least 45 million new shooters I wonder if the firearm industry and the components industry see a ready source for their products no matter the cost.
Was in WalMart this morning, the only powder they had was 4064 at $28.00.