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I’m still surfing the popular reloading suppliers weekly. Other than those elusive CCI 250s, there’s nothing I need. Guess it’s just muscle memory from the lack of availability the last 30 months.

For a while I barely even looked at price, if they had it and I needed it, I bought it.

Now? I’m seeing a big disparity in prices for powder. As much as $7-8 a lb difference. Midsouth and Powder Valley seem to be the cheapest per lb. I haven’t looked into their shipping/haz mat fees but they never seemed excessive in the past.
 
kalielkslayer said:
I’m still surfing the popular reloading suppliers weekly. Other than those elusive CCI 250s, there’s nothing I need. Guess it’s just muscle memory from the lack of availability the last 30 months.

For a while I barely even looked at price, if they had it and I needed it, I bought it.

Now? I’m seeing a big disparity in prices for powder. As much as $7-8 a lb difference. Midsouth and Powder Valley seem to be the cheapest per lb. I haven’t looked into their shipping/haz mat fees but they never seemed excessive in the past.
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I never got away from price shopping. It helped that I kept a massive surplus.
Lately all I have been buying is casting equipment. I might cave and buy some 68 VMAX for my Weatherby. I'm down to less than 50 bullets.
My primer threshold is <90 per thousand.
I will revisit powder in about 10 years.
 
I never started price shopping. Life's too short to skip interesting experiences for a few pennies. My latest new adventure is Autocomp but between the darn cardio problems and the storm, roof cave in, etc. it's been hard to have fun. I'll get a round tuit. ;)

Live while you can because tomorrow is never certain.
 
GeoDudeFlorida said:
I never started price shopping. Life's too short to skip interesting experiences for a few pennies. My latest new adventure is Autocomp but between the darn cardio problems and the storm, roof cave in, etc. it's been hard to have fun. I'll get a round tuit. ;)

Live while you can because tomorrow is never certain.
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But prepare for the famine because it will surely come just don’t starve while doing it.

Because I typically bought just a pound or just a brick here and there, I can’t even guess accurately what I was paying. It made no difference because I needed supplies. But if I had to buy many pounds or many bricks then I could tell you.
 
ballman6711 said:
I've been buying supplies all along, but only as I need them. Or if I find a good deal, which hasn't happened in a while.

Supply is coming back, now if prices would just come down....

chris
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It’s strange to get nostalgic for just three years ago but I really enjoyed walking through the gun show juggling powder and primers trying to get to my car without dropping it all. Like a Yankees game on a warm spring day, I’ll never experience it again.
 
stonebuster said:
Stay safe, good luck hope it fizzles too. My daughter & grandkids are in Tampa.
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All the best to them, too. I’m a Florida native, been through a dozen or more of these. It’s not the eye that does the big damage, it’s the flooding that comes after. I don’t think Tampa is going to be anywhere as bad off as the early speculators said. I’m thinking they will come out just fine. Still, couldn’t hurt to give a call and reassure. ATB
 
FROGO207 said:
GeoDude don't miss your chance to test out how that long range ammo bucks the cross winds and water LOL.
Hopefully everyone down there comes through it intact and just a bit inconvenienceed.
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Aw, shucks, I'm not an expert on all things ballistic. I doubt I could hit the hurricane in the eye with a Red Ryder BB rifle.
I was kinda hoping LiveLife would do a MythBusting episode on tidal wave effects on Ball powders vs. Single-Base. Of course, EVERYONE knows single-base powders don't work in a cyclonic event, so.... ;)
 
kalielkslayer said:
Now? I’m seeing a big disparity in prices for powder. As much as $7-8 a lb difference. Midsouth and Powder Valley seem to be the cheapest per lb. I haven’t looked into their shipping/haz mat fees but they never seemed excessive in the past.
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I lucked into a free shipping deal from MidSouth earlier this month. HazMat was about $20 and Tax was about $20, yet my delivered price on a jug of H335 was lower than I could obtain anywhere else. Yeah...some pricey powder if comparing to pre-Covid, but best I've been able to find...and if you need it (I needed it), you pay what they ask. Oh, for those ancient $0.01 HazMat days at MidWay USA.
 
ballman6711 said:
Supply is coming back, now if prices would just come down....
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Just like in previous shortage cycles, prices have started to come down:
I stocked up reloading components to last around 15 years before retirement but had to liquidate over 90% recently (Choose your parents carefully :p) and I am back in the market to restock like the rest of you.

I think we may dip below $30/500 shipped for 22LR and primers looks to be coming down, especially with market pressure of foreign manufacture primers like Ginex/S&A hitting the market. I will be monitoring component prices, particularly primers before I restock for retirement.
 
LiveLife said:
Just like in previous shortage cycles, prices have started to come down:
I stocked up reloading components to last around 15 years before retirement but had to liquidate over 90% recently (Choose your parents carefully :p) and I am back in the market to restock like the rest of you.

I think we may dip below $30/500 shipped for 22LR and primers looks to be coming down, especially with market pressure of foreign manufacture primers like Ginex/S&A hitting the market. I will be monitoring component prices, particularly primers before I restock for retirement.
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I’ll pay $150/1,000, maybe more for those elusive CCI 250s.

Everything else, I’m looking at price.

I started loading shotgun in the 70s. Centerfire rifle in the very early 90s. Unfortunately I started loading handgun about 30 months ago. After 2 sessions with my Rockchucker, I knew that wasn’t gonna be how I did it.

So in the last 2.5 years I became the proud owner of a Dillion 550. And I purchased all the components I’ll ever use the rest of my life, for the current calibers I shoot. Price wasn’t a consideration.

Then, 5 months ago I got back into shotgun sports. 20,000 wads, 25 lbs of powder, 11,000 primers, 600 lbs of shot later, I feel comfortable for a while. I’ll watch shotgun primers and wad prices and jump in when they are what I consider reasonable.

But those elusive CCI 250s.
 
LiveLife said:
Just like in previous shortage cycles, prices have started to come down:
I stocked up reloading components to last around 15 years before retirement but had to liquidate over 90% recently (Choose your parents carefully :p) and I am back in the market to restock like the rest of you.

I think we may dip below $30/500 shipped for 22LR and primers looks to be coming down, especially with market pressure of foreign manufacture primers like Ginex/S&A hitting the market. I will be monitoring component prices, particularly primers before I restock for retirement.
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I was lucky enough to find standard velocity target .22LR on liquidation shelves at a few stores around the state on various road trips between shortages. I’ve got enough CCI, Fiocchi, and Aguila SV LR to keep the High Standards and Colts running for the rest of my life. Most of those bargains came from pawn shops that stocked what they could get during the lean times then dumped what didn’t sell cheap to reclaim the shelf space. It never hurts to ask the shop owner if they have inventory they want to dump. Sometimes you are doing them a favor by asking, even if it don’t quite sound polite at the time.
 
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