Powder-what is a good price?

[B-LOT Banga]

Since gas was mentioned, meanwhile in Hawaii.….

Anyways I walked past 10 bottles of retumbo last year because it was $50 a bottle and now it's gone. So basically for about $100 (I would had bought it at $40) I let go enough retumbo to last me my lifetime.

So when you look at it, either you pay the price or suffer in silence. For a measly $100 all this regret, anxiety and wondering would have been non existent. If it came on this week I would buy it for $60 without thinking.

It is what it is…. Someone else will buy it as soon as I turn my back. Just my 2 cents. Stay well brothers…

Aloha!!

 

[ahammer]

New normal price for me locally has been about $75 lb

 

[Calvin45]

In Canada I'm seeing (welll most of the time I'm actually just not seeing it haha) 60-75 bucks a pound as typical now. Sounds shocking BUT when one corrects for the exchange rate (1usd =0.80 cad today) it sounds like we're more or less in the same boat (except y'all south of the border don't have nearly so hostile a culture and government towards guns in general but that's not what we're discussing) 50 bucks American is 62.50 Canada . What always grinds my gears is that IMR powders are MADE IN CANADA!!!!. But I understand that in no way means anything haha.

 

[Mike Matteson]

Got that right on Diesel. Don't need to tell me about fuel costs with 3 Pet's on the road.
I generally get 8# containers which work out to be about $37.00#. I gotten a couple of 1# cans for special reasons. Generally don't get the smaller can's.
I watch also everyday for powder, and primers. Don't find much in primers. Powder is hit and mostly miss.
SAD!

 

[CapeEsperance]

Just picked up 2# H1000 at "Green Top" north of Richmond VA last week for $50 each (limit 2). Have been watching most suppliers hovering around 45-55 per pound for awhile now. limited selection of desired powders continues to be a challenge! Off to Dulles gun show to see what is available this weekend...

 

[chav0_12]

I know the LGS here has/had primers at $10-$12/100 the guy told me they had to pay a lot to get them there and they weren't making a ton of money on them. They were only selling 200 at the most per person, makes it sting a little less than paying $120/1000. I paid around $50/lb for 2lbs of XBR8208 and 1lb of H1000. Not so bad considering those are a couple of powders that have been close to unobtainable.

 

[nbacguy69]

So what is a good price? What is the "new norm"? The other day I stopped at a local gun store and couldn't believe my eyes! They had Varget, something I have been looking for for a year or more, at $46.95/lb. Does anyone think this is to high? or the new norm? One pound limit, but that's all I really needed.

down here in south texas,i can get varget for 37.00 a pound

 

[Mike Matteson]

In Canada I'm seeing (welll most of the time I'm actually just not seeing it haha) 60-75 bucks a pound as typical now. Sounds shocking BUT when one corrects for the exchange rate (1usd =0.80 cad today) it sounds like we're more or less in the same boat (except y'all south of the border don't have nearly so hostile a culture and government towards guns in general but that's not what we're discussing) 50 bucks American is 62.50 Canada . What always grinds my gears is that IMR powders are MADE IN CANADA!!!!. But I understand that in no way means anything haha.

I wonder why up north they kept voting in the same people? At lease from time to time we vote some out of offices here in the USA.

 

[nbacguy69]

I know the LGS here has/had primers at $10-$12/100 the guy told me they had to pay a lot to get them there and they weren't making a ton of money on them. They were only selling 200 at the most per person, makes it sting a little less than paying $120/1000. I paid around $50/lb for 2lbs of XBR8208 and 1lb of H1000. Not so bad considering those are a couple of powders that have been close to unobtainable.

look at the midwest powder site,they have pretty good supply of primers,or at least they did yestaurday

 

[Calvin45]

But the real crazy happens on auctions. You can even get mad at the auction house or seller….it's the buyers that are crazy!!!! There's an awesome online gun action out of my home province of Saskatchewan, EXTREME RANGE OUTFITTERS, and for a year now I've yet to ever see a pound of H1000 oR RETUMBO sell for less than 140 bucks Canadian. I'm not joking! I've seen two pounds of h1000 exceed 400 dollars bidding. And this auction is only open 2 weeks for any given item. That's how high it gets on it's own.

I find myself thinking

A) must be nice to have money to blow like that.

B) they can keep it! . I myself had a stash of h1000 I sold on there, no regrets. I have other powders that work for me and it's pretty hard to justify holding on to a product that I can get 3-5 times back what I paid for it when I got kids to feed, schooling to pay for, and lost my job this year. They want it that bad, I'll let them squabble over it haha

C) as long as people have this much money to spend idiotically and continue to do so, this is NEVER going to get better.

 

[Allen Kitts]

Things are not going to get better! If things escalate in Ukraine, which they could, its going to get even worse. Don't mean to be a pessimist but that's the way I see it. The days of $19-a$23.00 a pound will never be back. If you can find the powder, primer or bullets you need or want, you better buy it!

 

[Snoopy 44]

So what is a good price? What is the "new norm"? The other day I stopped at a local gun store and couldn't believe my eyes! They had Varget, something I have been looking for for a year or more, at $46.95/lb. Does anyone think this is to high? or the new norm? One pound limit, but that's all I really needed.

As long as people go and pay these gouging prices, manufactures and retailers see that demand and respond in kind. The so called pandemic has set the world up for this economic adjustment. If the sky is the limit to you, go ahead and pay it.

 

[OldElkHunter1961]

How much is too much for steak? Gasoline?

Look at u'r tax return. That'll determine what's a high price to you.

 

[Calvin45]

I wonder why up north they kept voting in the same people? At lease from time to time we vote some out of offices here in the USA.

Don't get me started haha….put simply the greater Toronto area has way too much of a say about how the rest of us would like to live. It's never actually gonna happen I don't think but the west has been murmuring about separation for a while and it's not just a fringe minority anymore. We value such un-liberal ideals as personal autonomy, responsibility, and independence from government meddling in our private affairs, working hard, and minding our business . I agree you guys switch it up from time to time haha, but
I'm sure everyone on this forum regardless of where they're from can relate to feeling like voting masses in large urban centres are in fact a threat to the possibility of them just living their lives as they see fit, leaving others alone and being left alone in return. That's the dream right there. I hope not at all to sound irreverent…in "the Golden rule" when Jesus says do unto others as you would have others do unto you - for me a part of that is interpreted as "just leave them be, let them go about their lives, it's their life to live" Because that's certainly what I would have others do unto me.

Did you know that back in the days of confederation it was originally supposed to be that Alberta, Saskatchewan, and Manitoba were supposed to be one large western province called Buffalo? The powers that be in Ottawa nixed that idea in its infancy: too much a threat, too much power. Split it up into smaller easier to control provinces. Otherwise things might not ALWAYS go the way they decided it should. And that has largely been the relationship between "the west" and Ottawa in Canada throughout its history.