Same here, except at first, could not find BP, bought 777, didn't like it, bought APP, definitely hated that, smells real bad, found Goex, under 13 a can, gone to 14.50 now, still bought 5 more. 40 minutes away.
This is still 5 bucks or so less than the subs.
Goex, I've seen, can be had for about 11 bucks in lots of 25 cans. Most of us would probably like to have at least 2 fellow shooters within say an hour's drive time and split the haul. I think most posters here probably do live within that distance from at least 2 others, we just don't know that unless a poster brings it up, say, posts someplace he goes, someone says, Hey, I go there, where you live, Joe?
Anyone wants to make a group buy would likely have to mention it and say they are from this general area, near this point, could meet with X people to divvy the purchase. That would be 2 or 3 people within 100 miles or so of each other, say 50 from a mutually convenient meeting point.
Could easily be did, BUT, 1 of the buyers would have to spring for the whole shipment and recover cost of the other's shares at the meet. Have to figure that out at the time of making an agreement.
2 guys say, Well, I can't free up 275 bucks, if you can swing it, we'll meet, pay you our 92 bucks apiece, take 8 cans apiece, you take the extra can for financing the deal. I'd think that fair.
I'm not looking for powder myself, just suggesting how some of you, heck, US, could do it, in my case sometime in future when I am running low..
Just have to bring it up, say you are from "here", in my case Pittsburgh, PA, general enough to not have people overrunning the place visiting, but specific enough that you could say, well, I'm just across the PA/Ohio/WVA border, 50, 60 miles, we could do a buy.
Heck, once you meet and talk, you might decide you like each other enough to get together sometime to shoot.
I don't know how many of you have BP shootin' friends. Most every post here is "I went...", as in by myself (except for BP Tess, her son gets to accompany her), or, on a few instances, "Well, I'm thinkin' of coming out that way to see kin folk...", "Well, bring your guns, I'm only half an hour away."
I know only one BP shooter, overheard him talking to my mechanic about shooting his .44, asked him what kind, figuring the same Ruger everbody seems to own. No, he shoots a Rem, happy to bring it in and show me. Got to BS'ing, went to school with his dad and uncles. His dad has his own range back in the woods, asked if I could get permission to shoot there, said he would ask his dad. Be nice, 2 miles away instead of the 15 to my club.
Talked too long, already.
Cheers,
George
Teresa
