I was in a local shop yesterday, they had a decent supply of freshly delivered Hodgdon Powders but the H4350 was $55.95 per pound. Fed large pistol primers $12.95 per 100, CCI BR SR were $14.95 per 100. Only a year ago I bought fresh WIN LR primers for $4.95 per pack (winced when I did, but glad I did now). I bought the one can of H4831sc they had for $35.00 to replenish my stock (which had all been bought at $19.95 per lbs in 1996, I’m down to a few pounds). With bullets and brass pretty decently available again (and at close to old prices) I feel it must be the manufacturers increasing the price so drastically. Now I admit I don’t know what has happened to them on their raw material costs, but I wish they would tell us.


One of the sanest, surest, and most generous joys of life comes from being happy over the good fortune of others.
Archibald Rutledge