Today's Discovery

Howa 9700 · May 16, 2022

Was in local MGS a few weeks back. Was surprised to see they had several powders in then, but they promised they had more coming. Looked in today and this is what I found. I left with a pound each of H4350, IMR4350, H4831sc and one brick of Cheddite 209 primers.

About a dozen commonly sought after mid level powders (Varget was sold out), plus those shotgun primers. Some bullets, a few wads, no shot, no Red or Green Dot or other common shotgun powders. One of those jugs on the middle shelf was an 8 pounder of H4350. Also had HS6, Longshot and maybe Titegroup?

Mixed bag, but still a good sign.

Howa 9700 · May 16, 2022

BTW, powder averaged $40 a pound. Primers $65 per K. limit 1 k.

wcwhitey · May 16, 2022

Howa 9700 said:
BTW, powder averaged $40 a pound. Primers $65 per K. limit 1 k.

That is much better.

Targa · May 16, 2022

Nice!! I haven’t seen an inventory of powder like that in a couple of years now. It appears though that Alliant is still missing in action.

tightgroup tiger · May 16, 2022

Nice!

ballman6711 · May 16, 2022

Curious as to your location? I have seen a bit here in southern WV but nothing like that.

chris

GeoDudeFlorida · May 16, 2022

I haven't seen anything like that within 100 miles of me since 2008. The LBS's just don't want to take the losses of carrying reloading supplies. There's no market.

Howa 9700 · May 16, 2022

That store is located in central MO, about midway between Midway and Graf's. As far as I remember, mostly known for guns and good archery selection. Even have an small indoor archery range. I never thought of them as being a good source for reloading supplies, and about the last place I would have thought of to look for powder, but there it was.

Targa · May 16, 2022

Man I love Missouri…

Nature Boy · May 16, 2022

Definitely a good sign

FROGO207 · May 16, 2022

Nature Boy said:
Definitely a good sign

I agree! Things seem to be looking up a bit as of late around here too, as long as you don't mind paying what they want for stuff. I am waiting a while to see if prices relax a bit first.

Jonesy814 · May 16, 2022

I stopped at a shop last week that had a lot of powder on hand, all 1 pound jugs. I got Titegroup for $30. There was CFE Pistol, CFE Black, H110, Titegroup, H335 ,Win231and a few others. Looked like 8-12 bottles of each. Based on the selection available, I would bet they had just got it within the past few days

BudrowBob · May 17, 2022

I live in South Texas and my LGS is about the same this week.
Lots of powders that I have not seen in a long time and bullets, but still lacking primers.
Prices are still about $50/lb for powder

45Bink · May 17, 2022

Even some Alliant over there!

BudrowBob · May 17, 2022

45Bink said:
Even some Alliant over there!

what surprised me was a few pounds of Varget, that has been really scarce.

WVRJ · May 17, 2022

Here in eastern WV we're seeing some relief.Primers are 120-100 per 1K and powder varies from $30 to $55 a pound.Been an 8 pound jug of Varget in the store for a week or so for $400.I just bought Titegroup pistol powder for $30 a pound and Power Pistol for $32 a pound.They have all the primer bases covered if you want to pay for them.Good quality rifle bullets are where the shortage is for me.

ParallelCode · May 17, 2022

WVRJ said:
Here in eastern WV we're seeing some relief.Primers are 120-100 per 1K and powder varies from $30 to $55 a pound.Been an 8 pound jug of Varget in the store for a week or so for $400.I just bought Titegroup pistol powder for $30 a pound and Power Pistol for $32 a pound.They have all the primer bases covered if you want to pay for them.Good quality rifle bullets are where the shortage is for me.

I could use a four pounder of Power Pistol. Hopefully I run into one before the summer ends.

GeoDudeFlorida · May 17, 2022

It's a dry hole, here. Not really much chance of that changing, either.

AJC1 · May 17, 2022

BudrowBob said:
I live in South Texas and my LGS is about the same this week.
Lots of powders that I have not seen in a long time and bullets, but still lacking primers.
Prices are still about $50/lb for powder
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You have Alliant ***.... was there 15.5

tightgroup tiger · May 18, 2022

ParallelCode said:
I could use a four pounder of Power Pistol. Hopefully I run into one before the summer ends.

Do you live in NC? My LGS has one 4lb of PP and 2lb of Longshot sitting on his shelf now.

GeoDudeFlorida · May 18, 2022

Wow! Powder Valley, just today, CCI #500 Small Pistol Primers $75/1000 ct. + S/H + HazMat... and they're gone in 15 minutes.

Whole-Lee-Cow.

45/30-06OKIE · May 19, 2022

Howa 9700 said:
BTW, powder averaged $40 a pound. Primers $65 per K. limit 1 k.

Where are you located? Cause H&H shooting sports in OKC pricing on primers is $15/100 limit 200 and powder is $60-80 limit 3lbs. They have the audacity to claim their prices went up due to having to order from a distributor instead of the manufacturer but I call BS if your shop is getting normal-ish pricing on stuff...

BudrowBob · May 20, 2022

AJC1 said:
You have Alliant ***.... was there 15.5

All I saw was 15.

GeoDudeFlorida said:
Wow! Powder Valley, just today, CCI #500 Small Pistol Primers $75/1000 ct. + S/H + HazMat... and they're gone in 15 minutes.

Whole-Lee-Cow.

I see the same,
so, after hazmat, shipping and tax, $100/K at my LGS doesn't look horrible after all.

GeoDudeFlorida · May 20, 2022

BudrowBob said:
All I saw was 15.

I see the same,
so, after hazmat, shipping and tax, $100/K at my LGS doesn't look horrible after all.

Last I knew, which was a couple of weeks ago, Pickett Weaponry in the big city, Newberry, still has CCI #41's for $70+tax. So far they've worked just fine in my .38Spl/.357Mag and .32H&R loads but at least two of my .32S&W Long revolvers don't have the springs to set them off reliably - an old Colt Pocket Positive and a 1st gen Rossi small frame (no number) - I haven't tried them in SP/.45ACP or anything with a striker, yet. I may have to go see if theyb still have some if online buying is going to be like this for the foreseeable future.

rdnktrkr · May 20, 2022

I went by a LGS (west of Atlanta) and found they had an end cap full of powder prices ran from $28 and up for shotgun $30 and up for pistol and $35 and up for rifle, they didn't have any but primers are $80 a 1000. I picked up some staball 6.5 I've been wanting to try and it was $40. They had a full rack of rifles and shotguns and their cases appeared full of handguns, plenty of ammo but not at great prices but not gouging either, shelves were full of accessories, "Tannerite", etc. I was pleasantly surprised.

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