Home Forums Reloading Big Game Rifles Reloading supplies in your area?

I have essentially stoped looking locally since 2020 due to price @ availability.

I know, ain’t that something…..?

I get most of my reloading supplies online, although there is some local availability, and a few months ago bought 2 pounds of Reloder 16 in a local shop. Prices are definitely high though.

I really watch the sales, here and nationwide. While cost is a factor, it comes down to your own determination of how bad you need it. It's not going to get better so you may have to pay more to get what you want. I watch the Nosler Website for blems, here for cases and bullets, powder can be hard but you DO NOT , need 13 different varieties. I went to a gun sale a month ago and LR primers were $150 for a thousand and I passed. Two weeks later I got 1500 for the same price.

I guess if you need them, expensive supplies are better than no supplies. And if you don’t need them, count yourself lucky.

I'm heading out to the gunshow. It's a 75 mile trip each way. Hopefully it will be worth the ride. I give a short price and availability report later.

Just picked up a pound of LeverEvolution at Runnings yesterday.

It was a couple bucks a pound more than the last time I bought it there a few months ago, but I suck down a fair bit of that in my 303 Savage, so I figured I may as well snag it 🤷‍♂️

They did have a few more primers than I'd seen there in a while, but none I am in need of... still very little brass, though.

Went to Cabela's this morning and it was pretty sad, went to Scheels after a 2hr trip to GA Precision for a rifle order and it was night and day as far as inventory of powder and primers. Prices were comparable, just Scheels had stuff in stock.

Friend bought 10lbs of Varget at $59 per lbs and 2000 Fed 205Ms in prep for the rifle he ordered at GAP. They had a pretty good selection of powder and at least SPs, SRs and LPs. Actually had Nosler BTs and ABs in stock.

So I'm back. I counted 15 lbs of powder. Superformance was $59, CFE was $39. And other than some open containers, nothing. One old box of CCI LRP $90 it was the only box there. A few cards of other primers. Ammo was a surprise, most of the common calibers 30-06, 308, 270,30-30 could be had for $30. Lots of 45/70 for some reason. The only score for.me was an open box 250 Nosler 168 grain 30 cal bullets $50.
I don't know if it was worth the drive but good to get out anyway.

In my area? I always find good/great deals. And yes, you are right, it's good to just get out..






Scored on some barnes a few months back:



That's just a little bit of what's been in my area. Not counting all the matchgrade 22lr I've been buying for cheap..

That store has a chidt ton of brass right now too.

Where the hell you find them red box noslers?

I find them occasionally at gunshows, or the shops I visit. Some of the shops I go to, buy estates of ammo and reloading components and resell them. Those solid base bullets have always shot well for me, and also work great on deer, so when I find them like that, I buy them. I found a partial box (20 bullets) of partitions for 95 cents the other day too, but figured I'd just show the pics of unopened stuff that I found at great prices. There's all kinds of stuff out there, you just have to be willing to drive around a little bit. You ask about the old Noslers, but those old Barnes Originals are pretty cool too, and at $15/box, they were hard to say no to. The 30 cal 250gr pills are more of a novelty item, and I have 2 full boxes of them now.

Nice

Prior to that, I can’t recall ever buying powder or primers anywhere except locally. Bullets OTOH and what ammo I purchased instead of loaded, have been almost totally purchased online because local stores seldom have what I want. They’ll have something, but just can’t keep a truly wide selection on hand. About the middle of 2020, when things began to get tight, I looked around online and found powder and primers that filled in the cracks for me and ordered up. Since then, I bought one brick of fairly pricey CCI 41s online, and a pound or two of powder locally. The only ammo I buy local is an occasional flat of shotshells for clays if I happen to be someplace that has them for $100, pretty much what I pay online including delivery.

I’ve bought (and sold) some bullets here, and some .22 Hornet brass from that Barsness character…

On bullets, same in the last 5 yrs. Big purchases have been online when I seen a deal.

Primers I've never ordered online. Was fortunate to be able to stock up locally at good prices before the high prices hit. Powder, made my first online order ever recently for 8 lbs because it is now cheaper than what I could buy anywhere locally.

I try to stay in the mindset that I don't need anything and wait for deals. Recently on the classifieds here for $150 shipped I bought in a lot being sold together, 2 bags of 358 Winchester brass, a RCBS 358 Win die set, a box of .358 Speer 180 FP, and a bag of 200 count 35 cal bulk bullets that I recognized as the impossible to find Remington 200gr RNCL bullets.

At a local flea market the first table I walked up to and the first guy I talked to I sold the brass and die set for $100. So now I have just $50 into 3 more boxes of 35 Rem bullets which was what I was after when I bought it.

Stores around here are pretty well stocked except for primers. Most of them are kept behind the counter so I don't really know about them. The prices on everything are sky high! Hornady was the first brand of bullets that I saw but there are a few others now. The display cases and the racks behind the gun counters are well stocked.