Joefrazell
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No way am I paying that for retumbo. I personally think it's an overrated powder.
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That's very true about sportsman's. The one here in Nampa Id had an 8lber of h4831sc about two months back so I grabbed it and didn't even pay attention to the price being I was at sportsman's. It rang up at $420! I still purchased it but was really surprised and disappointed.That is not the new standard price if we stop paying crazy prices. I just bought an 8lb jug of H1000 at a local store that just received it and paid $285. Hodgdon is not charging wholesalers crazy prices it is just stores choosing to put profits over customers. Sportsman's Warehouse has always kept their prices inline with pre-shortage prices going back to the Obama years until about a month or so ago. Sad to see this change as weekly visits to Sportsman's on delivery days is responsible for my current inventory of primers and bullets throughout the years.
Wow that's wild. We've been able to get primers from ours in Helena (hit and miss) but at reasonable prices. I think $49 for 1,000 CCIThat's very true about sportsman's. The one here in Nampa Id had an 8lber of h4831sc about two months back so I grabbed it and didn't even pay attention to the price being I was at sportsman's. It rang up at $420! I still purchased it but was really surprised and disappointed.
I shoot more then that in a year normallyMade in Australia Retumbo is pretty close to $50 per pound powder, these days. The 8pounder usually drops the price to $40 per pound. Sportsman's price is $70 lb out there. If a guy was loading 100gr in a typical 300RUM, 70 rounds loaded, that first pound is used up. Factory loaded, Remington 300 Ultra Mags are $5.90 each at Midway, $117.99 for a box of 20rounds. If your Elk rifle likes Retumbo, that big jug is good for 560 rounds, a lifetime supply of hunting and practice rounds.
Yep,didn't say otherwise. Good rifle, check the sight in from year before and get my elk, not going to use 14 rounds. Forty years at that rate be a lifetime of hunts, for my use, from an 8 pounder. That doesn't mean , be all the powder I'd use in a year, it's was just my way to justify the $560 cost. Think Sportsman's wants to keep the lights on, not let GB grabbers steal all the profits,who knows what's exactly right, long as it's available, it just works, Good Luck !I shoot more then that in a year normally
Made in Australia Retumbo is pretty close to $50 per pound powder, these days. The 8pounder usually drops the price to $40 per pound. Sportsman's price is $70 lb out there. If a guy was loading 100gr in a typical 300RUM, 70 rounds loaded, that first pound is used up. Factory loaded, Remington 300 Ultra Mags are $5.90 each at Midway, $117.99 for a box of 20rounds. If your Elk rifle likes Retumbo, that big jug is good for 560 rounds, a lifetime supply of hunting and practice rounds.
Just think they are overpricing that hard to find stuff at Sportsman's to keep it in the store longer, it's working.I wouldn't buy that jug either at $560 but, if i did, all that would add to my yearly Elk hunting would be $14 bucks a year, if that was my powder. Been getting by with H-1000, anyways for quite awhile. It's not going down in price soon, only harder to find everyday now.Someone will buy it and put it on GB. LMAO
Geez, I'm getting too old, for it doesn't seem that long ago when I walked away from 8# jugs of various powders @ $100. I still have a few varied 1# cans in the shop with $4.95, $6.99 and $7.00 stickers on them. Sad....