Home Forums Reloading Big Game Rifles Varget price

I was just in the Cabela’s in Lonetree, Colorado. They had an 8 pound jug of Varget for $437! I wish I could remember my prices from the past. I’m sure they were no where near that.

I have a 1 pound plastic container with a sticker that says $22.59 might be 10 years old.

Crazy how things have gone up. I know I've purchased for less.

I'm paying $49 per pound at a LGS to restock my supply of Varget, haven't seen an 8 pounder in forever. Best price around without taking a hit with hazmat charges. For sure not what it used to be and I begrudgingly force myself to pay it.

Varget was introduced in 1995, I have an empty one pounder marked $17.95 from the first batch.

I have several unopened one pounders marked at $24.95 but dont know what year I bought them.
Recently I have jumped ship from Varget to Vihta Vuori N140, cost's 10 to 15 bucks a pound cheaper and works better in most applications.
Seems the Australian made Hodgdon powders might be pricing themselves out of the market.........that said I have not found a substitute for H1000 yet.

53.00 plus tax about 57.00 a lb.

I just picked up 2 8# just last week of Varget and 2 more of 4350. They were all $354.99 a jug. Sucks but figured they were available. The steal in my mind was 8# of h335 for $235. I grabbed one of those as well for .223 load for kids.

Around here supply coming back but Alliant is 49-60 per pound, 1# ers of Hodgdon, Winchester and I’m rare 50+ per pound.

I’ve been trying to find tac locally but so far no luck. Really like the tac for what I shoot a lot of anymore. Pistol powder hit or miss, same with primers. Lots of small rifle and small pistol. Havnt seen any large pistol got a while.

In my neck of the woods Reloading powder has gone up 25% or so over the past year with no end in sight....Hb

$46.00 in my neck of the woods and they have all you want

Way more than that on some here. Ramshot powders just last fall were $28 a lb. Now they are $39, that's a 40% increase and I don't believe it's near over.

New stock coming in of IMR powders has gone completely insane. If this trend continues there isn't any of us that are gonna keep shooting on a regular basis if it requires buying more powder.

Yep In my area last Summer i was buying Ramshot TAC for $31.95 per pound and now its $41.95 (if you can find it) ...Hb

Couple of weeks ago, I saw TAC in a local chain store at $32.50 a pound... they had a fair amount of it. Go to look for it the last two days in my travels up I 5 toward Potlandia. Couldn't see any.

Stopped by the Cabelas in Eugene OR. It was gone off the shelf, with them saying that they had some there earlier in the day. Price for it at Cabelas was $59/ a pound.

$58 at Scheels last week, I bought StaBall Match for $49 instead. They had Shooter's World Precision for a buck or two less.

Yep, the best thing to do there, if a guy really needs/wants V is wait until it goes on sale for 15% off.. The Scheels I was at today had a chit load of it. They also had a bunch of H4350 for $56.99..

Scheels had Varget, H4350, and H4831 kegs for $349.99 a few weeks ago. They are now $399.99 when I checked today.

All hogdon powders in my part of the Southeast run around $60 a pound.

14% jump in one go. That's what I'm seeing around here and worse as far as price jumps. I'm afraid it isn't over by a long shot. Inflation, production costs, and trying to supply way more than what us reloaders are asking for ourselves, is all meeting up at a bad time. We are almost an afterthought at this point. If we want it, we're gonna have to pay for it. Hope I'm wrong.

I have three pounds of Varget I bought for $32/lb my LGS has it for $69.99/lb.

Wow! Glad I stocked up when I did.

I should have bought that H4350 a few weeks ago. I didn’t need it but when I do who knows what it will cost or if it even available.

My hope is the prices stabilize a bit. But that will only happen when there is enough stock on hand to where you can just walk in and buy what you need at your favorite supplier. Don’t see that happening unless the hoarding is over which it may be at these prices.

Case in point is primers. Large Rifle when it’s on the shelf is 20-30% higher in price than small pistol primers. They used to be the same price. Only difference is availability and small pistol primers have been sitting on shelves available for a while now.

RL-17 at LGS, 72 bucks a pound. I put it back on the shelf.