I have seen locally where prices on primers has gone up to $3.00 per hundred, and while the prices have gone up, the availability on the shelves has gone waaaay down...

Now on several other forums, I have seen guys talking about paying $29.00 to $30.00 for a pound of H 4350 powder, and several others...

Anyone else seeing that happening in their neighborhood??? I haven't seen a dramatic increase in powder prices since they went up 10% last spring or so...

I am just wondering if there is some more BS price increases we all have to brace ourselves for... while everyone gets in on the oil companies's acts... creating mystical problems so that they can jack up prices...dramatically and unwarrantedly...

They have went up 7-8.00 per K and powder has went up about 3.00 / pound, on primers you pretty much have to take what you can find. Shot has went thru the roof and the big three shops locally quit carrying it because the price was so high, 42-43.00 for a 25# bag, The Littleton Shotmaker is looking more interesting all the time.

Since a lot of powders are foreign made the price will have to be adjusted to reflect the weakening dollar....it will take more of them to buy them.....this might be good as in the end there will be domestic production again.

Vote for Hillary. She'll fix it. No powder, no bullets, no problem.

Ray

I've heard the primer shortage is due to companies focusing production on war efforts so they can't always keep up with civilian demand.

I bought 4,000 primers at Cabelas last week for $24.99 per thousand. I didn't pay any attention to what the 100 packs were selling for. I don't buy many reloading supplies from Cabelas anymore because their prices are getting out of hand compared to the online sources, but I had a gift card good for $30 off a purchase of $100 or more. Cabelas gets around $26 a pound average for rifle powders. I just bought a bunch from Powder Valley for around $17 a pound. Even with the hazmat and shipping its still cheaper.

Yep, one reason I am forced to buy online from PV or sim. outlets. The local stores pretty much can charge what they want, there are so few competing gunshops around here anymore.

My local Gander Mountain marked all their reloading supplies up. They marked up the Winchester powders from 19.99 to 29.99 a pound. That was two months ago. I confronted the guy behind the gun counter about the prices and he said they couldn't get Winchester powder so they marked it up. Needless to say I told him Id never buy another thing from Gander Mountain and left.

Sadly , while it was available, many of our bretheren did not take advantage of the surplus powders. Well we are nearing the end of that story.

Some of the best investments this brotherhood can make today are in sought out bargins on bullets ,primers, powder and brass. Stocks, bonds and realestate aren't going to make small groups.

I kid you not. roger

Wow, I'm glad I don't have a Gander Mountain locally!

Best thing about my local shop is price competitiveness. He takes his wholesale price of whatever he buys, marks it up 10-15% and sells it to the customers. Comes out about the same or just a tad higher than I would pay Midway, et al; but no shipping or waiting

Well, with gasoline at $3.15 a gallon here today, and more elsewhere, just what do you all expect? We truck everything everywhere, and those costs have to be passed along on EVERYTHING ANYONE BUYS!! including powder, shot, food, clothing, and Idon'tknow whatall! Get used to it! BIG inflation is back, thanks to our Arab neighbores (and the fact that WE don't have sense enough here to develop locally available alternative energy sources.

As the great Soviet ecnonomist Kondratiev observed, the dustbin of history is filled with economic systems that failed to cross technological discontinuities. He thought that capitalism was immune from this problem because it renews itself periodically. Stalin didn't like that idea much!! We need to begin renewing, however!)

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Originally posted by bartsche:
Sadly , while it was available, many of our bretheren did not take advantage of the surplus powders. Well we are nearing the end of that story.

Some of the best investments this brotherhood can make today are in sought out bargins on bullets ,primers, powder and brass. Stocks, bonds and realestate aren't going to make small groups.

I kid you not. roger

Like my brother says
"When times get tough the best metal to be invested in is lead."

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He thought that capitalism was immune from this problem because it renews itself periodically.

Capitalism has a characteristic of life,
it evolves as conditions change. If gas gets too high rail transport will get busier.