Best place to buy your reloading components online?

[xxxleafybugxxx]

All of my loading equipment and components have come from in store, or Cabellas. Is this where you guys order your stuff, or is there an all around cheaper place to buy? I'm about to make a $100+ purchase of brass, and slugs, and if there is special low priced place to by from, I'd like to know about it

 

[ColtPythonElite]

Powder Valley usually for powder and primers. New brass directly from Starline.

 

[oneounceload]

Bullets from the makers, like Berry's, Montana Gold, among a few hundred others
Another distributor is Graf and Son's

 

[huffmanite]

Power Valley is a good place, but then Grafs and Sons is good too both in price and selection.

 

[ColtPythonElite]

Usually the cheapest way to buy from any source is in bulk. Unfortunately $100 isn't much of a budget to make bulk purchases with.

 

[xxxleafybugxxx]

I meant over 100. I'll probably be spending anywhere from 100-250

 

[zxcvbob]

I cast most of my own pistol bullets now, but still buy some from midsouthshooterssupply.com and mastercastbullets.com

I just ordered 1500 rifle bullets today from grafs.com

Primers and powder I usually order from powdervalleyinc.com, unless I can get it cheaper at grafs or wideners.com or natchezss.com or hi-techammo.com

If I just need a pound of powder, or a 100 or 200 primers, I goto the local full service gun shop -- even though it's expensive. Gotta keep them in business too. And sometimes they have bargains.

 

[Snag]

To the people who buy in bulk online how much money do you typically have to spend to offset the hazmat and shipping charges?

 

[zxcvbob]

To the people who buy in bulk online how much money do you typically have to spend to offset the hazmat and shipping charges?

Depending on how good the deal is, could be as little as $85.

Last year I brokered a group buy of primers for a group of guys I shoot with. About $800 worth of CCI primers, most priced at $20/thousand. They paid the all the shipping charges, so I got my stuff shipped for free for the trouble. (and it was a lot of trouble) Everybody was happy and some of 'em are asking me to do it again.

With bullets, you don't have to pay hazmat, and some dealers will ship via USPS Priority Flat Rate. (your mailman will hate you when he has to deliver a small box that weighs 65 pounds)

 

[dickttx]

Couple of months ago I ordered 10K primers and an 8# jug of HP38 from Powder Valley and saved nearly $200 on what they would have cost locally.

 

[LiveLife]

All of my loading equipment and components have come from in store, or Cabellas. Is this where you guys order your stuff, or is there an all around cheaper place to buy?

Although I get some of my reloading components from local gun show vendors, you can do much better ordering from these vendors for bullets/powders/primers/brass etc.:

Powder Valley: Powders, primers, Berry's/Missouri bullets (limited selection of bullets)

Rocky Mountain Reloading: Pistol/Rifle bullets and pulled bullets (jacketed and plated) with free shipping on all orders (if you want to try new bullets, some with quantity down to 250). Inventory changes from time to time with promotions so check the website regularly or sign up for email notification.

TJ Conevera: Pistol/Rifle bullets (jacketed and plated) and brass with free shipping on $50+ orders. Sign up for email notification of sales/promotional items.

Graf & Sons: Powders, primers, full line of Missouri bullets and other reloading components with free shipping + $5.95 insurance.

Wideners: Pistol/Rifle bullets and pulled bullets along with powder (also military powders), primers and other reloading components (some with free shipping).

 

[Jim Watson]

Nothing new, but my last purchase of powder and primers was on a group order from Weidners; the one before from Graf's, before that Powder Valley. Black powder from The Maine Powder House.
Bullets from the makers like Billy Bullets, Berry's, Montana Bullet Works, and JLK Swampworks. Name brands like Sierra and Scenar from Bruno's.

 

[CraigC]

Powder and primers from gun shows, I've never found a better outlet for that stuff, online or otherwise. I also have a few good shops close by that carry it too if I'm in a pinch. I have a local caster I purchase from but also Oregon Trail, Hunters Supply and others from Midway. I've also ordered cast bullets from Beartooth, Leadhead's and a few others.

 

[Clark]

I buy reloading supplies:
http://www.midsouthshooterssupply.com/
http://www.midwayusa.com/category/reloading-supplies
http://www.wideners.com/
http://www.grafs.com/
http://www.wholesalehunter.com/

This place for reloading software:
http://www.neconos.com/

This place makes reloading equipment for half the price of the other brands, but buying direct is a little more costly that getting it from the resellers above. It does ship via the US mail, so buying spare parts is very cheap there.
http://leeprecision.com/

This place [one guy] makes the light weight cast bullets
http://www.westernbullet.com/

 

[ny32182]

With bullets it is easy, no hazmat so all you are looking for is the total price plus any shipping.

With hazmat components, with the flat hazmat charge, it really is a case of "the more you buy, the cheaper it is". Don't look to "break even" vs. what you would pay in the store; if you are doing that, what is the point? Might as well buy it in the store. My last order was 16lb of powder and 25k primers, which came out to 52lb and one hazmat charge. Normally 50lb is supposed to be the amount you can put on one hazmat ticket. This is a great chance to do group buys with your buddies if you don't want to buy 50lb worth of stuff yourself.

 

[cfullgraf]

For powder or primers, a $200 order is about the minimum for me. Usually more.

But, i really do not go through powder or primers very quickly compared to my supplies on hand so mail orders for powder or primers are infrequent.

If I see a deal at a gun show, or they have a powder I want to try, I will buy even though I have adequate supplies on hand.

Bullets and brass, the minimum order depends on the deal including shipping costs. I usually mail order these as gun shows seem to not have any goof deals or the product that I am wanting. Frequently, my mail man complains about the "boxes of rocks" I receive periodically.

 

[oneounceload]

IIRC, the limit for one hazmat cost is 2-8# jugs of powder and 25,000 primers (or is it 50,000?)

Since neither really go bad, buy it while you can and be set for a while

 

[NeuseRvrRat]

i know of at least one place (hi-tech ammo) that will ship (4) 8 lb jugs on one hazmat fee, but they actually waive the hazmat fee if you buy a full case of 4 jugs.

they also waive the fee if you buy 30k primers

 

[Otto]

To the people who buy in bulk online how much money do you typically have to spend to offset the hazmat and shipping charges?

I won't place an order for anything under $300.

On a $300 order, Powder Valley's shipping, insurance and Hazmat totals $42.45

 

[hentown]

I get all my powder and primers from Powder Valley. I usually buy no fewer than 10k primers @ a time, along with a couple of 8# jugs of powder. I now buy just about all my handgun bullets from Precision Delta. Getting my plinker .223 bullets from Montana Gold.

There is no local shop where I can buy reloading components. I don't worry about the hazmat.

 

[snakeman]

natchez shooters supply, midway, midsouth, wideners

 

[xxxleafybugxxx]

I cannot imagine buying 10k primers. I just don't need to stock up that much. I'm only reloading for 1-2 guns right now, so spending that kind of money on one order is just not necessary for me.

 

[NeuseRvrRat]

put together a group order with 3 or 4 friends. everybody gets 2 or 3 thousand and one jug of powder. if you store it properly, it won't go bad in your lifetime.

 

[rajb123]

rim rock bullets...

http://www.rimrockbullets.net

 

[DoubleSawbuck]

I cannot imagine buying 10k primers. I just don't need to stock up that much. I'm only reloading for 1-2 guns right now, so spending that kind of money on one order is just not necessary for me.

I thought that at first too but 10k is that much. I buy my bullets 2k at at time primers 10k and powder 8lbs at a time. Saves on shipping and hazmat.