Went today to get some varget at the only place in town that sells, and 31.99 later got a pound. Ask the guy if its going up, "Oh yea" he says. Call a store i know of out of town, ask them their price, 24.99. Is is going up I say, "not that i know of, been this price for a while". Go home and look at the pound that I bought back last december from second said store, 24.99. I know for certain the second store sells a LOT more powder and components than the other. What the hell is going on? Anyone else seeing big jumps?

No staying about same as last year here, i was in Sportsman Whorehouse yesterday for cleaning supplies, glanced at powder 20.99 for Hodgdons ex

that guy's playing the "obama-scare" game on you...so many guys are doing that around here it makes sick... a guy does/says that to me, it's the last time he sees me in his store.
if the price does go up, fine, i'll just bite the bullet and pay for what i want to spend my mad-money on, but when he replies with a remark like " oh yea...., ( in other words, get ready,"cause i'm gonna hammer you good!) he's a crook that thinks he's got his fingers in your wallet already.

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Originally posted by model7LSS:
Went today to get some varget at the only place in town that sells, and 31.99 later got a pound. Ask the guy if its going up, "Oh yea" he says. Call a store i know of out of town, ask them their price, 24.99. Is is going up I say, "not that i know of, been this price for a while". Go home and look at the pound that I bought back last december from second said store, 24.99. I know for certain the second store sells a LOT more powder and components than the other. What the hell is going on? Anyone else seeing big jumps?

You got raped. The most expensive around here is $25.99 for Varget.

the price has been steady here but it has been hard to find some types of powder. i have never seen a can of rl-17 yet

I sell powder almost everyday and the price is still the same, averaging $20 a pound. What we have seen and is the reason some less than honest places are upping the cost, is people scared that it is going to vanish or become outrageously priced that they have to buy every single pound in the store. All of this hording caused by mass hysteria has created the very thing that they were afraid of, a shortage of powder.

I load on a college students budget, I dont have the money to buy enough to justify the hazmat fee, so im stuck. But, I will not be buying from this store again. Powder anyways, though I may go get a few boxes of the old stock 30 cal 165 gr partitions they have at 18.65 a box!!!!!

It's very location dependant. In So.Cal. I have to pay full retail, $26/#+ for powders. SO I order from PowderValley. Order 10units (any combo of primers & powder) & the HM fee is only $2/unit. Even after paying HM fee & shipping, I am way less than paying retail + sales tax here. Find a buddy to go in with & split a 4# jug & 5K primers.
Great deal on the partitions though. Buy them all & trade for some powder. A boxo of bullets for a pound of powder.

X2

I bought some R-19 and 22 last week and the price was .50 cents more than last year. Bought it at Sportsmans Wherehouse.

POWDER WENT UP EARLIER THIS YEAR 5-10 %. YOU KNOW WHERE NOT TO TAKE YOUR BUSINESS NOW.

I'm just looking at the price of a pound of Varget here in the UK and it is £39 which, I guess, is about $75 plus a £15 hazardous delivery charge on top of the standard delivery charge of £20. I would make that about $140 per pound, though I guess you could spread the order out over a few things. Of course you need a licence, of a sort, to buy or keep powder for reloading so you can't buy in bulk as they will only allow a small quantity.

I could try and buy it locally but because shooting in the UK is, in some senses, almost driven underground by political pressure from the green/anti nutters local supplies can be tricky to find and local retailers will almost always charge a premium as they know we have no options.

Just remember this the next time you go to buy some powder: let the green nutters get on top of you and you too will be paying $140 for a pound of power, once you've applied for the licence to purchase it and had that processed, and once you've proven that you have "good reason" to possess it, and once you've had your storage approved by the police...

I could go on, and don't even ask what it takes to buy a box of Nosler Partitions (approx $60 per box, but I can't get them locally and can't order them mail order) in the UK, but you need to be thankful for what you've got and you need to fight to hold on to it. I'd love to be able to walk into a shop and simply hand over $31.99 for a pound of the powder I want. If I could get the paperwork done and approved I'd feel it was a great deal.

Some of the powders I use (n-133 n-135 n-540 H322 H335 HS-6 W231) get scarce from time to time, but the suppliers I use don't gouge me like that. Bruno.com championshooters.com. Grafandsons.com

UK, THERE USED TO BE A LOT OF POWDER FROM SCOTLAND CAN'T YOU GET THAT FOR LESS??? IMR IS MADE IN CANADA!!!

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Originally posted by harry carey:
UK, THERE USED TO BE A LOT OF POWDER FROM SCOTLAND CAN'T YOU GET THAT FOR LESS??? IMR IS MADE IN CANADA!!!

I think you will find times have changed. The powder plant in Scotland that used to make the Brigadier series, and at one time some of the Herter's powders, and also at one time H-4831 for Hodgdon, burned down almost 20 years ago. The (not so) gun-friendly Brit government would not grant a permit to rebuild it.

As for being made in Canada making powder easier to import to England, not so. Neither are rifles made in Canada.

Canada was once under British rule (via the British-North America Act of the English Parliament) but that is no longer true either...and hasn't been for a good long time. In a ceremonial sense, the Governor-General, as the Queen's representative in Canada still has some "powers", but they are simply a traditional ritual, not a factual exercise of decision-making.

I saw an 8 lb keg og or Win 760 at Gander this weekend for 199.99

Whoa.......

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Originally posted by harry carey:
UK, THERE USED TO BE A LOT OF POWDER FROM SCOTLAND CAN'T YOU GET THAT FOR LESS??? IMR IS MADE IN CANADA!!!

Unfortunately Harry this isn't a simple matter of proximity to supply. Even if the powder were to be made next door if the government don't want me to have it and if they are under pressure from a very, very vocal minority of green/anti nutters then I'm in difficulties.

In any situation if there is a will there is a way and while I've never met anyone acting outside of the law we are certainly working hard to make the best of a bad situation. However, delivery times for something as simple as a one pound jug of H414 can be in terms of 6 or 12 months and, of course, the law makes it impossible for me to stockpile. So, the reloader can spend a lot of time on the phone calling around to see if anyone has a jug of H414. This, of course, tips the supply and demand equation very far in the favour of the seller and so they can, by and large, charge what they want. This, in turn, suits the green/anti nutters for whom this is largely a class struggle and who can paint those who shoot as "rich toffs" just as they did with those who engaged in fox hunting. The left wing press were only too keen to jump on this band wagon and pressure politicians into banning the sport. Of course the more expensive it gets to shoot the fewer people who do it and the fewer working class people, like myself, who can afford to do it and so the green/anti nutters engineer their victory despite their vanishingly small numbers and scant support.

I guess all of this is still ahead of you.

Just bought 8# of Varget a couple of weeks ago from Powder valley for 124$ That plus hazmat fee isn't bad ( I bought a bunch of other stuff so it was even better.)
C.G.B.

hold your buying folks....the price will be going down following the crude oil drop

Graf's is reasonable.

just make sure you order enough to justifiy your $20 hazmat fee.

Add a C&R FFL discount and it seems like a steal compared to your local gun shop.

Caorach,
Couldn't agree more. I've been waiting for some Blue Dot to come in to my local shop for 3 months. Great powder as it goes alot further weight wise than traditional rifle powders making it much cheaper and burns cooler too. Anyway, gunshop owner told me that his bulk order of powders is sitting on a dock somewhere on the east coast of the US because there are no boat skippers with the bollocks to carry it over the Atlantic! I've heard some corkers in my time but this one is a winner!
We'll be reloading primers next if the price goes above 3p each. Better start hoarding the swan vestas!

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Originally posted by fredj338:
It's very location dependant. In So.Cal. I have to pay full retail, $26/#+ for powders. SO I order from PowderValley. Order 10units (any combo of primers & powder) & the HM fee is only $2/unit. Even after paying HM fee & shipping, I am way less than paying retail + sales tax here. Find a buddy to go in with & split a 4# jug & 5K primers.
Great deal on the partitions though. Buy them all & trade for some powder. A boxo of bullets for a pound of powder.

Thanks for the info