Panic buyers drive up prices and feed scalpers.
Panic buyers drive up prices and feed scalpers.
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NRA Benefactor 2008
I and several of you are responsible for the shortages that lead to higher prices. If I go into a shop needing a pound of powder, I will usually buy as much as they will sell me. Which probably won't get used up for a couple of years.
Us hoarders are to blame. But go ahead and blame bidumb. He needs it.
I don’t use many different powders. So I buy in 8 lb jugs unless they only have 4 lb jugs in stock.
I never expected he shortage to last this long, so I ran out, too, but I've been lucky with finding components here and there locally. Just a week ago on vacation I found CFE223 at Ruffs Guns in Flagstaff for about $33 a pound. Nice little shop, too.
Compared to primer prices( if you can find them) powder at $30-40/lb. is a deal. That will be the new normal and when(and if) primers are commonly available expect $60-75/1000 to be the going rate. Thank God my supplies are sufficient.
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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 |
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