Cost of smokeless powder

[rocirish]

Not to go off topic too far but,,

Paying farmers to not produce has not been in any farm bills for many years now. I think if you check into where all the money in the farm programs go now days you will find that the majority goes to school lunch programs, wic, food stamps etc.tr

 

[Average Joe]

Still, its cheaper than buying new ammo....

 

[jmorris]

Still, its cheaper than buying new ammo....

Sometimes, for some rounds,my best ammunition actually cost more than the cheapest "factory" ammunition. The flip side is that it also shoots a lot better and/or has better down range performance at the intended target.

 

[LoonWulf]

Agreed in the low cost cals blasting ammos usually cheaper then any of my handloads if you factor time. But my handloads almost always shoot better, And any load that uses premium bullets wi be cheaper than the factory offering.

 

[Decoy80]

The cost of a gun is normally a one time expense. Normal maintenance excluded. As all I own seem to be lazy, they just stand in the corners, lay around, hide, and sleep in the safe. I'm the one who causes the expense of buying the components to load ammunition. Personally I myself like to shoot, the pure pleasure of it started when I was a boy on a hill farm. A brick of 22 shells on sale for $3.99 only a fond memory. Powder is cheap, load shoot and buy more. Enjoy our freedom before it too is a memory.

 

[highlander 5]

The last time I bought powder the average was $20 a lb for 8 lbs that was at lest 2 years ago during the shortage of powders. Got 8 lbs of 231 and Red Dot.

 

[spitballer]

Too many powder companies owned by a few...

...roger that, and relationship of this phenomenon to regulation. Companies producing products that can be abused by knuckleheads would be easier to stay on top of. Pharmaceuticals, same way: I can remember companies like Endo that produced fine, cost-effective pain medications before being swallowed up by Purdue-Frederick about the same time as the prescription drug abuse/pill mills started up. May be my imagination but it seems like there's always the knuckleheads whose actions end up defeating the principles of competition and making life more xpensive for everybody else

 

[evan price]

By my calculations powder is up about 40% over the past 8 years.

 

[Walkalong]

Lots of things are, not just reloading stuff. For various reasons.

 

[ArchAngelCD]

The cost of a gun is normally a one time expense. Normal maintenance excluded. As all I own seem to be lazy, they just stand in the corners, lay around, hide, and sleep in the safe. I'm the one who causes the expense of buying the components to load ammunition. Personally I myself like to shoot, the pure pleasure of it started when I was a boy on a hill farm. A brick of 22 shells on sale for $3.99 only a fond memory. Powder is cheap, load shoot and buy more. Enjoy our freedom before it too is a memory.

I agree, I would be more concerned about the price and availability of ammo than powder, especially.22LR ammo.

Back before 2008 a brick of 22 ammo cost $9.99 regular price, $7.99 on sale and $6.99 during a good sale. Now days you are lucky to see a brick of 22 ammo in the store and when you do it's $29.99 or higher, usually higher. Now the bricks are 222, 225 rounds, 333 rounds and not 500/525 rounds.

We are 8 years into this .22LR shortage and I see no end in sight. Where is all the 22 ammo being stored because it's not in the stores. Gone are the days where a kid could save up his/her pennies to but a 50 round box of 22s to kill those dangerous cans and dirt wads on the weekend.

When you want to enact real change, change the hearts and minds of the children. There is a whole generation of children who have not shot much over the past 8 years.

 

[jmorris]

We are 8 years into this .22LR shortage and I see no end in sight.

I see it all over the place but I am not going to buy it when it costs more than my centerfire reloads.

 

[alexcue]

I see it all over the place but I am not going to buy it when it costs more than my centerfire reloads.

around here... it's pretty scare. That's the hardest part about it, it's more expensive than my 9mm loads! Yes, I can find it online for cheaper but when you add shipping... it's not cost effective most of the time.

Powder around here hasn't gone up that much. The biggest increase was near 10% from my local source for the 1lbers (in one year) , but when I get 8lb of it, it's not as bad my numbers say about 40% over that extended period. I just don't think it's that expensive in comparison to primers for instance. Those have gone up near 300% over the same period.

 

[z7]

I see 22lr on shelves routinely but for 8cents or more per round

Powder runs $32+lb for rifle and $28 for pistol and primers are $40 per thousand. I need to suck it up and order online it would appear

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[konertjm]

Quote; "The current rate of inflation Is 1.1% for the 12 mos ending August 2016..."

But that inflation number does not include things like the cost of gas, natural gas, electricity, food, and other consumer items. The Obama administration dropped them for the computation to create a false inflation percentage.