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powder valley had 10% off ramshot powder yesterday and
free shipping today....

now if only primers would follow suit

Or retumbo and/or Alliant powders......

Alliant on the shelf of the shop I hit.

I need to grab some RL7 while he has it.

Natchez had a bunch of primers about 10 days ago. Picked up 3k sm pistol w/ no hazmat.

Well yeah for 100/1000

I’m seeing a few more Nosler and Sierra bullets available as well.

I was in Bruno's last week, and the floor was lined with 8lb kegs, most of it VV, no Hodgon H-1000, 4350, or Varget, but that was the most powder that I've seen in awhile.

I looked at 30 cal bullets at Midway yesterday and they had all sorts of every flavor. I was surprised.

Bruno's had Varget when I was in there this morning. I was buying VV though...

One thing very disappointing to me is the price gouging going on with Brownell's and Sinclair, I used to buy quite a bit from them, but they have gotten ridiculously expensive, they have Varget for $54 a pound +haz mat +shipping..........NO!!!!!!!!!!!!

[quote=gene270]powder valley had 10% off ramshot powder yesterday and
free shipping today....

""""now if only primers would follow suit""""

Like the shortage 08 - 16 Obama years, people are trying to stock up on primers, ''now'' . They run across them and buy up as much as they can. A friend in florida [tight-wad] bought 5,000 CCI LR primers a few weeks ago. He never bought 500 in his life, he'd buy them 100 at a time. Being a primer-hog at a time like this kind of screws other shooters.

The primary reason there are not a lot of LR and LP primers available because most primer production is going to SR and SP primers. Don't know when that is going to change.

And yeah, I can't decide if Brownellls/Sinclair's powder prices are breathtaking or plumb insulting......

But I'm seeing a lot more sale priced items on the shooting websites, suggesting demand is decreasing.

Well you sure can’t find Alliant powder in my part of the country. It crazy I must shoot the same bullets and same powder as 80% of the shooting world. My stuff haven’t been available for over a year.

It seems very regional. I've had to do most of my reloading purchasing online for the past few years.

Damn, that is great. I was in town looking at what the LGS had and they have an 8 pounder of Hunter for $260. I've been thinking about buying it. If shipping is free, might as well buy through powder valley though. Midsouth has it listed at $220.00/8 pounds, which is not bad at all. I don't know what the price is at powder valley. Hopefully somewhat comparable to midsouth??? I was at Scheels the other day and they had a bunch of bullets. I bought some of these for my new 30-06:



Their 180gr SST's were priced at $31.99, which seemed like a good deal too. I should have snagged some of those, now that I think about it!!!

Yes. Seeing some powder, but prices are still through the roof.

$89 for a 1000 not much better. But needed them. And it looks like Powder Valley has them for $79 per 1k.

Paid a bit over $40.00 per pound for Varget Just under $30.00 per pound for CFE223 plus hazmat & shipping defiantly more than I have paid for powder in my lifetime.

When I am paying a bit less than 27.5 including shipping & handling for surplus Ramshot Tac in bulk, the price of the cafe 223 does not seem too bad. Then I am old enough to remember Dad complaining about $9.00 per pound for IMR 4895 when I was a kid.

Primers are showing up here. A LGS had small rifle, but 79$/1000. I passed. Sportsmans had small pistol 4.50 per 100 limit 2. I picked up two.

Small primers have been available for a while now. It is the large primers that haven't been available.