Scored today! :) Hope this isn't hoarding :(

[SSN Vet]

I have been hunting for Fed 100 SPPs locally since November, and both Cabelas and Kittery Trading Post have not had them. I'm also getting way low on small rifle primers and 55 gr. plinkers... but given the recent madness, I've given up any hope of restocking any EBR related supplies.

So when my coworker expressed interest in going in on a Powder Vally order and splitting an 8# keg, I was pretty darn disappointed to find out what most of you guys probably already know.... NOTHING!!

So I made a KTP run today with low expectations, thinking that if I got their early they may have restocked last night.

1,000 Winchester SRPs on the shelf.

No 4 or 8 # jugs, but I was able to get a couple 1# bottles of 2400 & H335.... and since they have to send a runner down to their flammables magazine, I asked if they might have any primers stashed down there..... GOOD QUESTION! Fed 100s that had just come in.... so I snagged 1,000 of those

Came home with most everything I hoped to find. . Except for bullets.

Prices were on the ripe side... but their reloading supplies usually are MSRP.

I felt bad leaving just one sleeve of WSR primers on the shelf. Hope this doesn't make me a hoarder

 

[ArchAngelCD]

Wow, it sounds like you got lucky and found what you were looking for. That's hard to do for the past month or so, good for you...

 

[blarby]

FWIW- H4895 is a great fill in with 55 gr pills.

Glad you found at least some stuff !

 

[Grmlin]

I remember the first time I walked into Kittery Trading Post in the late 70's. My dad and I got lost in the guns. My mom used to send ma a t-shirt every couple years or whenever they got up there, it's long past time to get a new one. Don't know if any of the family go up their anymore.
Your only hording if you don't use it, it piles up, and you don't know what you have, you don't even need it or it doesn't go to anything you do have. Then you could always consider it investing.

 

[leadbury]

My buddies acused me of "hoarding" last spring when Midway ran a limited never before offered to public Winchester 62 gr OTMRP ( open tip match rear penetrating) barrier defeating bullet the FBI uses.Bought more than I could shoot in a lifetime they claimed.Now they a begging for some.They shoot tighter than M855 by far.

 

[45lcshooter]

Lucky find!!!!! Went to Maine about 10yrs ago, with mom and dad has on vacation and went to Lottery Trading Post. Amazing place, bought listen of my reloading stuff there and mom looked at me and said don't they have reloading stuff back home at our gun shops, with out hesitating I said yea, but unknown if I bought a gun I'd want to shoot it on vacation. Lol.

 

[MaterDei]

A couple pounds of powder and 1000 primers? No, brother, that ain't hoarding.

Congrats

 

[Trent]

Buying a brick of primers doesn't make you a hoarder.

Buying 20,000 primers doesn't make you a hoarder if you shoot 2,000 rounds a month, less than a year's supply.

You're gonna shoot them, right?

Hoarding is when you buy a large supply of stuff and SIT on it, not using it, with no plans on when you'll use it.

Also, there's nothing wrong with hoarding, if you can afford it and it doesn't hurt your family's quality of life. I bought 50K primers back in 2006 and set them aside, paid $16/1000. Damn glad I did, not just because they're unavailable now, but because they DOUBLED in price since then.

 

[tbob38]

Used to live on Otis Ave in Kittery when I worked in the SY in the mid 70's. Visited the Trading Post many times. Great place.

 

[7.62 Nato]

Congratulations. Enjoy having some supplies. I had been picking up a little when I'd run across a good deal. Checking my stash I noticed I had many variations of similar projectiles, but hardly any primers, or powder. I bit the bullet and made my first order for both. I was having buyers remorse looking at what I spent (limited income). I'm feeling pretty smart now.

 

[Otto]

Bought a RCBS Pro 2000 last year from Kittery for $380 after rebate shipped free....great place.

 

[hueyville]

No way is that hoarding. I shoot an average of 100 large pistol, 50 small pistol & 50 assorted rifle rounds per week not counting rimfire. Thats almost 10,000 handloads per year. If I get under a five year supply I start getting worried. Back when competing I shot three to four times that. Imagine how many rounds down range it takes to be competitive at the National level in IPSC or any of the action shooting events.

Back in the early days when IPSC was A,B,C, & D class I had to shot a minimum of 500 rounds of .45 acp week to move up to the bottom tier of A class but never was a top 3 match shooter as the guys who were winning every weekend were going through well over 1,000 rounds per week. Add in pistol tech was changing every few months; buying two comp guns a year, loading & time to shoot 50,000 rounds per year was either a full time job or you worked at a range. I figured out quick the difference between 10th place and 1st. A freaking boat load of money, ammo and range time.

 

[Zardaia]

I know retail manufactured ammo will keep for decades properly stored, bit what about powder and primers? Any special storage procedures for shelf life?

 

[Hondo 60]

Well if that's hoarding, then I'm a (what comes after hoarder?)
Last August I bought 10k primers & 8lbs of powder.

Won't be enough to last a year, I wish I had bought more.
Burned thru 300 rounds at the range just today.

 

[SSN Vet]

$16/1,000 ....

You'll never regret that purchase

I'd guess this is about an 18 mo. supply for me. More than I needed to buy, but there's a satisfying feeling knowing I have what I need/want.

With interest rates in the toilet, the stock market dancing to the tune of the big banks & their program traders, the Feds pissing money down the toilet faster than a freshman at a kegger, and prices for everything you really need in life creeping higher and higher, the best investment you can make with your surplus pennies may just be primers, flour and olive oil. If I could afford to store 1,000 gal. of diesel fuel I might just be able to retire early

Eeeeh Gads.... I'm sounding like a prepper!

 

[FROGO207]

Going to make a trip to Portland in a couple weeks. I will be stopping at Howells in Gray and at the Trading Post for sure. Also will stop at Cabellas for a spell to drool. That ain't hording, I shoot that much in two weeks lately. I am just waiting for the bulk .22 ammo to come back in stock everywhere.

 

[SSN Vet]

Almost forgot... FWIW

KTP had a pile of Wolf black box 7.62x39 FMJ in 1,000 round cases on the floor going for $235/ea

Tempting.... But I'm one of the few dopes out there who actually reloads (and casts) x39, so I passed.

 

[FROGO207]

There were some pallets of them at Maine Military for around that price last week also. Bet they still have a bunch left.

 

[hentown]

I currently have about 50# of powder and 50k primers on hand. Hope that's not hoarding!

 

[Trent]

$16/1,000 ....

You'll never regret that purchase

Nope, sure won't.

Although for a period of time it made me really nervous to keep so much powder and primers (and loaded ammo) on hand, until that SAAMI firefighting video was posted up here. Until I watched that, I firmly believed that in the event of a house fire there would be a mushroom cloud and a crater where my house used to be.

Turns out your water heater or gas stove can be more dangerous than all of the ammo you have, combined.

 

[FROGO207]

Or that gas grill/tank that is in the back room/garage for the winter. We have had a couple cause fires in houses around here lately. Even had one caused by a refrigerator a couple weeks ago. Keep your loaded ammo in GI ammo cans and propellant in a thick wood cabinet with venting and there will be few problems with them if there ever is a fire. TV/movie viewing is responsible for thinking it will explode I am afraid. They need the drama to keep your interest.:banghead: