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GeoDudeFlorida

GeoDudeFlorida

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This arrived a few minutes ago:
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Thanks Powder Valley!

With this in inventory I can stop looking for powder for the next five years, minimum. I have pistol, shotgun and rifle powder and primer to feed my shooting habits until 2030 - if I make it that long - even with a 25% increase in shooting trips. I may pick up some specialty bullets here and there but I am not looking actively for any projectiles.

It’s a good feeling! 😁
 
GeoDudeFlorida said:
This arrived a few minutes ago:
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Thanks Powder Valley!

With this in inventory I can stop looking for powder for the next five years, minimum. I have pistol, shotgun and rifle powder and primer to feed my shooting habits until 2030 - if I make it that long - even with a 25% increase in shooting trips. I may pick up some specialty bullets here and there but I am not looking actively for any projectiles.

It’s a good feeling! 😁
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Three pounds is done... wow. I've loaded several pounds in a day on single stage with rifle.... I guess I'm a powder collector 🤣
 
AJC1 said:
Three pounds is done... wow. I've loaded several pounds in a day on single stage with rifle.... I guess I'm a powder collector 🤣
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My shooting habits are MUCH more conservative. And, those 3 plus the 3 I already have, not including the open pounder, gives me 6 pounds of JUST BE86. I have around 30 powders in my collection and at least 5 pounds of each from as fast as Nitro 100FS to as slow as IMR 4064. Yes there are slower rifle powders - I don’t need them - but I am selling guns, not buying, so I really don’t anticipate the need to add anything super new. W244 is the newest addition and I have plenty to last basically forever.

Which is why I’m done for the foreseeable future. 😁
 
Awesome!!! I can imagine what a good feeling that is. That BE86 is the ticket especially with the sale price. I bought so many fricken primers back when Obama was in the start of his first term i"m still going through them. I sure miss those 20 dollar CCI LR primers and boy when Wolf 223 primers were hitting the scene i stocked up on cases of those. I figured out how much I shoot x 2 terms in office and gave Powder Valley a **** ton of business :)
 
GeoDudeFlorida said:
My shooting habits are MUCH more conservative. And, those 3 plus the 3 I already have, not including the open pounder, gives me 6 pounds of JUST BE86. I have around 30 powders in my collection and at least 5 pounds of each from as fast as Nitro 100FS to as slow as IMR 4064. Yes there are slower rifle powders - I don’t need them - but I am selling guns, not buying, so I really don’t anticipate the need to add anything super new. W244 is the newest addition and I have plenty to last basically forever.

Which is why I’m done for the foreseeable future. 😁
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As long as the bottles provide enough buoyancy when you need a raft from these dam storms 😁
 
Yep many times I have loaded up the powder hopper on my loadmaster & after what felt like an hour or so I look up to see the hopper on the machine almost empty. Three pounds is not much.
 
GeoDudeFlorida said:
My shooting habits are MUCH more conservative than that. I don’t play games, I don’t do mag dumps, and I don’t compete.
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I do compete, but I don't have the time or money to be a serious level competitor. So, at a little over 6K rounds a year, I am very "conservative" compared to the folks that are actually good shooters.

The guys who place top 20 at Nationals in USPSA, or IDPA, are shooting 25K, or more (usually a lot more), each year. A guy who helped me get started in reloading, and is a very high level IDPA shooter, shoots 40K+ each year. That's on top of dry fire 5+ days a week, for at least an hour, usually much more, each session.

I wish I had started competing when I was younger, and didn't have the same financial and time constraints I have now, but at least I'm getting better with my measly 6K rounds a year, and meager 30-40 mins of dry fire 5 days a week.
 
I have my eye on an 8lb jug of Bullseye at an online retailer. If I buy it, together with the 4lbs I have now, I'll be done for 45acp powder for maybe ever. It's all I use, all I want, and 12lbs would pretty much sync up with my stock of LPP.

That'd leave me with 9mm. Don't really like shooting it all that much but it's certainly cheap and reloading is hardly necessary. So maybe I'm done there too.
 
DMF said:
I do compete, but I don't have the time or money to be a serious level competitor. So, at a little over 6K rounds a year, I am very "conservative" compared to the folks that are actually good shooters.

The guys who place top 20 at Nationals in USPSA, or IDPA, are shooting 25K, or more (usually a lot more), each year. A guy who helped me get started in reloading, and is a very high level IDPA shooter, shoots 40K+ each year. That's on top of dry fire 5+ days a week, for at least an hour, usually much more, each session.

I wish I had started competing when I was younger, and didn't have the same financial and time constraints I have now, but at least I'm getting better with my measly 6K rounds a year, and meager 30-40 mins of dry fire 5 days a week.
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😂. Divide that by 3, spread it across five pistol and three rifle calibers, and you will see why I’m good on powder for the next five years. 😎

Some folks don’t read the first post of a thread and end up thinking it’s about something it’s not. I didn’t just buy 3 pounds of BE86 and call it a day; that’s the last of what I needed added to my existing stock.

I really feel bad for folks who just got started in competition and can’t keep up with their shooting jobs but for lower volume shooters like me it’s more than possible to get stocked up, even in today’s markets at today’s prices. It just takes some planning, that’s all.

Three years ago we were upset about availability. Then when things came back available it was price. I’d rather pay more and have some choices but that’s not where we are yet so making plans and changing recipes is the best alternative. IMO
 
GeoDudeFlorida said:
Some folks don’t read the first post of a thread and end up thinking it’s about something it’s not. I didn’t just buy 3 pounds of BE86 and call it a day; that’s the last of what I needed added to my existing stock.
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That's the way I read it, that you've completed your stocking up. Good for you! I'm pretty well there now too. I've stopped buying reloading supplies. Kind of nice to be in a place where I only look at prices out of curiosity rather than need.
 
JEBruns said:
That's the way I read it, that you've completed your stocking up. Good for you! I'm pretty well there now too. I've stopped buying reloading supplies. Kind of nice to be in a place where I only look at prices out of curiosity rather than need.
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Yup! You nailed it! This is also exactly why when my father in law passed I declined accepting the offer of his stocks. I already have enough. Let the locals who knew him have it and pass the hat to help mom defray some of his leftover medical bills.

I’m hoping to pass with empty cupboards and no debt. 👍🙏
 
GeoDudeFlorida said:
With this in inventory I can stop looking for powder for the next five years, minimum.
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THANK YOU!!!!!! More for the rest of us… :)
I know better than to make a statement like that, I just can’t help myself. I read too much here that powders will dry up and that 8# jug of Bullseye at the ridiculous price of 320$ had to come home with me. They had BE86 as well, but I still haven’t cracked the one I have and don’t have loads worked up so I’m hoping to dollar cost average those 8# jugs. Who messes with the one pounders anyway?
 
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