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I am getting a little tired of paying $22-$25+ a 1lb. container of powder locally. I haven't bought powder online/mail order because of hazard fee's, which brings prices above my local suppliers offering. Any suggestions?
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I got a fine chain retailer in town named Sportsman's Warehouse. They have just about every powder imaginable available. Prices vary by manufacturer, going from 15-19 dollars/lb. I believe that to be very reasonable.
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Lowest prices for bulk that I know of: Powder Valley For retail, try: Great Guns N Gear 3530 Auburn Blvd Sacramento, CA 916-487-6363 Around $18.00 a lb if I remember correctly. MtnHtr
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kallen, go to Powder Valley and buy a couple of 8 lb. kegs and split them with your friends. Quit messing around with the 1 lb. lots. They screw you on those. You may not think you will ever shoot up a keg, but you will <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/wink.gif" alt="" /> I shoot a couple of kegs a year and always look for more <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/laugh.gif" alt="" /> Flinch
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Graf & Sons. Buy when on sale and try to buy as much as you can at one time to spread the haz fee out over many pounds of powder.
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And, if you buy 32#, Graf's will pay the HazMat fee. Like Flinch says, you'll eventually shoot it up. If you aren't using at least a keg per year, you're not shooting enough <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/smile.gif" alt="" />
BTW - For Norma powder aficionados, Graf's has it for $10.99/lb, except for MRP and MRP2, anyway.
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When IMR powder passed the $16/lb mark, a few of us high volumn shooters got together and proposed to one of the local small volumn dealers a large, case-lot only, order the next time one of his suppliers ran a special. He got a better price with our large order (40-25lb cases) and we got powder at 10 percent above cost, which in 2002 (last time we did that) was less than $13/lb. Steve PS--If you were to start a little 'Friendly Circle Sports Shop" most wholesale suppliers will sell quantity to anyone with a letterhead.
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believe i've been there; just north of I-90 in the valley?
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Nope...you might be talking about the one in Spokane.
I am located in the Tri-Cities.
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appreciate the tip, the only other one i know is in Salem Orygun!
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We have a Sportsman's here in Portland, Or now. I was in Moscow, Idaho at Walmart in November and saw that they sell powder. If I remember the IMR and RL powder was around $17 or $18 per pound.
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