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My favorite local retailer just raised the price of H335 by $10.00 to the sum of $51.99 a lb. That's a jump of over 21%. What the heck?

Not including the price of brass 556 is now costing me $7.80 to load a box of 20. This same store has some 223 on sale for $8.40 a box.

What is the powder price trend in your area?
 
My guess is that your local retailer had a relatively large stock of H335 priced at the old price point, and has only now replaced inventory with powder purchased at the new 2025 price point.

Powder is up everywhere - people are buying it at these prices still, just like people are buying everything else they're still buying at the highly inflated prices. Alliant isn't selling powder to civilians right now, the Russian Invasion is still doing whatever it is that it's doing, Bidenomics are still dragging their feet and sustaining high inflation, the dust hasn't settled for Trump's last ~4 months of gamesmanship on improving domestic economy and EXIM influences, so we're still stuck in a loop of consumer comfort with unsecured debt and buying NOW regardless of prices, inflation, or interest rates... You just happened to have been sheltered for a few months by a local inventory volume which kept old prices on New, Old Stock and now you've caught up to the rest of the country.
 
HEAVY METAL 1 said:
My favorite local retailer just raised the price of H335 by $10.00 to the sum of $51.99 a lb. That's a jump of over 21%. What the heck?

Not including the price of brass 556 is now costing me $7.80 to load a box of 20. This same store has some 223 on sale for $8.40 a box.

What is the powder price trend in your area?
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Start using pull down powder.
 
HEAVY METAL 1 said:
My favorite local retailer just raised the price of H335 by $10.00 to the sum of $51.99 a lb. That's a jump of over 21%. What the heck?

Not including the price of brass 556 is now costing me $7.80 to load a box of 20. This same store has some 223 on sale for $8.40 a box.

What is the powder price trend in your area?
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Bulk .223 is even cheaper online.

My strategy, buy Bulk 9mm, .223 & only load expensive rounds: like .45 ACP, .357, .300blk, 30-30, 35 Rem, 45-70….
 
Mark_Mark said:
Bulk .223 is even cheaper online.

My strategy, buy Bulk 9mm, .223 & only load expensive rounds: like .45 ACP, .357, .300blk, 30-30, 35 Rem, 45-70….
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I can buy ungraded USDA reject beef for a quarter a pound. It’s not considered safe for human consumption but it’s really cheap.

Or, I can buy inspected and approved local beef for $3-$10/ pound depending on the cut and trim.

I’m thinking cheap bulk FMJ .223 is about the same. Maybe it goes boom and the bullet actually leaves the barrel but for just a few pennies more I can assemble components that make me seem like a fairly decent shot - in my guns, anyway.

I’m thinking it’s still worth the cost of powder, primer, and decent hunting bullets to reload. For me. I don’t get a thrill out of mag dumps or just making noise. YMMV.
 
I picked up an order from my LGS today. The Ramshot enforcer was 38.00. Last time i got it was 28.50. I got accu#9 for 32.00. I saw some X-tremator on the shelf. I never used it before. It was at the old ram-shot price of 28.50. I bought the last 2.
 
GeoDudeFlorida said:
I can buy ungraded USDA reject beef for a quarter a pound. It’s not considered safe for human consumption but it’s really cheap.

Or, I can buy inspected and approved local beef for $3-$10/ pound depending on the cut and trim.

I’m thinking cheap bulk FMJ .223 is about the same. Maybe it goes boom and the bullet actually leaves the barrel but for just a few pennies more I can assemble components that make me seem like a fairly decent shot - in my guns, anyway.

I’m thinking it’s still worth the cost of powder, primer, and decent hunting bullets to reload. For me. I don’t get a thrill out of mag dumps or just making noise. YMMV.
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Factory Ammo not that bad! Especially for AR-Glock training.

and we grow up buying/eating ungraded cattle from farmers. My parents and other parents would go together split a cow. They knew how to butcher. We kids would explore the farm and try not to get kicked by the animals… I failed miserably
 
I just read another article on the global shortage of nitrocellulose. I don’t see the prices going down. Fortunately the current trend is to reverse the ill-conceived 1990’s policies of pushing defense production to civilian commercial producers.
 
"My guess is that your local retailer had a relatively large stock of H335 priced at the old price point, and has only now replaced inventory with powder purchased at the new 2025 price point."

I bet that is the situation.

I was going to pick up a bottle last week, but I have enough components to load oodles more rounds already so I held off.
 
GeoDudeFlorida said:
I’m thinking cheap bulk FMJ .223 is about the same. Maybe it goes boom and the bullet actually leaves the barrel but for just a few pennies more I can assemble components that make me seem like a fairly decent shot - in my guns, anyway.

I’m thinking it’s still worth the cost of powder, primer, and decent hunting bullets to reload. For me. I don’t get a thrill out of mag dumps or just making noise. YMMV.
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My mileage does vary.

If you want to make noise, buy some Tannerite. I do, however, find value keeping in practice with my AR's, among other firearms. I'm doing more than mag dumps and making noise.... although the end result is still the same... the mags get emptied, and I did make a lot of noise. Oddly enough, the cheap bulk FMJ 5.56mm is the same ammos (or nearly so...) as I was issued when I was in the Army... so it it was good enough for me then, it'll work pretty well for me now, given it's purpose.
 
Charlie98 said:
My mileage does vary.

If you want to make noise, buy some Tannerite. I do, however, find value keeping in practice with my AR's, among other firearms. I'm doing more than mag dumps and making noise.... although the end result is still the same... the mags get emptied, and I did make a lot of noise. Oddly enough, the cheap bulk FMJ 5.56mm is the same ammos (or nearly so...) as I was issued when I was in the Army... so it it was good enough for me then, it'll work pretty well for me now, given it's purpose.
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Yet another gripe and grumble thread. Things cost what they cost. Complaining about it on a reloading forum doesn’t change anything. Telling people to stop buying because it’s their fault the price is sooooooo hiiiiiiiiiigh is just really misguided.

Peace out and enjoy the gripe fest.
 
In March, my local dealer told me his distribution guy was telegraphing a 15% increase being pushed down by Hodgdon in the near future. I think that ~15% is hitting about now as sellers restock.

I've got a line on some 4320. After that, I'm out unless some crazy deal walks by.
 
LV Gun said:
Where do you find pull down powder if it’s available. I have heard several people at the range discuss it.
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LV Gun said:
Thank you!!!!
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Be aware, some of the powders they offer are, in fact, new powders, not pulldown.... it will say in the product description.

I have some MP-190, which is a 'new' powder, 'similar to WSF.' It may very well be WSF that didn't quite meet the parameters they wanted, or it was just blended to be similar to WSF in burn behavior. The downside to powders like this, new or pulldown, are... usually... once they are gone, they are gone.
 
GeoDudeFlorida said:
Yet another gripe and grumble thread. Things cost what they cost. Complaining about it on a reloading forum doesn’t change anything. Telling people to stop buying because it’s their fault the price is sooooooo hiiiiiiiiiigh is just really misguided.

Peace out and enjoy the gripe fest.
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Does he misbehave, grunt and grumble, rant and rave? Shoot the brute some Burma Shave.

Bonus:
Don't take the curve at 60 per, we don't want to lose a customer. Burma Shave.
 
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GeoDudeFlorida said:
Or the market becomes completely unprofitable and the product disappears. If no one is buying, sellers will stop selling.
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That is where it's nice to have many businesses competing in the marketplace. They then get to pick if they are winners or losers.
 
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