Sticker Shock!!

[AJ]

Just emptied a pound canister of 2400. Went to where I store my powder and pulled out the canister of 2400 that was the farthest in the back. The pound I just finished cost me $30 a year or so ago. This canister has been hiding for a while.....A long while at $17.59 a pound! Guess I ought to rotate my powder more often.

 

[ArchAngelCD]

Just emptied a pound canister of 2400. Went to where I store my powder and pulled out the canister of 2400 that was the farthest in the back. The pound I just finished cost me $30 a year or so ago. This canister has been hiding for a while.....A long while at $17.59 a pound! Guess I ought to rotate my powder more often.

While rotating is a good idea you should feel lucky to even have any on the shelf. I TRY to rotate the stock but it doesn't always happen lol.

 

[AJ]

While rotating is a good idea you should feel lucky to even have any on the shelf. I TRY to rotate the stock but it doesn't always happen lol.

Found some 700X that was priced a $10.00 for an 8 oz. can. Don't use it much. I mainly use Bullseye, Unique and 2400. It is what I started with in 1972 and what I'll keep dancing with.

 

[ArchAngelCD]

Found some 700X that was priced a $10.00 for an 8 oz. can. Don't use it much. I mainly use Bullseye, Unique and 2400. It is what I started with in 1972 and what I'll keep dancing with.

Ah yes, the original powder trinity, Bullseye, Unique and 2400.

My powder trinity is slightly different:
W231/HP-38
W540/HS-6 (of course W540 is discontinued)
W296/H100

 

[AJ]

Ah yes, the original powder trinity, Bullseye, Unique and 2400.

My powder trinity is slightly different:
W231/HP-38
W540/HS-6 (of course W540 is discontinued)
W296/H100

Have W231, HP-38 and W296 on the shelf as back ups. Have you tried W244 Ball Powder yet?

 

[Ivan the Butcher]

I emptied my oldest can of DuPont IMR-4227 about a year and a half ago. It was marked $8.77. I also have two more rectangular IMR cans from the mid 90's at $16.97and one pound plastic Hodgdon/IMR bottles. Newest bottle is marked Cabela's $39.99 circa 2020.

Ivan

 

[AJ]

I emptied my oldest can of DuPont IMR-4227 about a year and a half ago. It was marked $8.77. I also have two more rectangular IMR cans from the mid 90's at $16.97and one pound plastic Hodgdon/IMR bottles. Newest bottle is marked Cabela's $39.99 circa 2020.

Ivan

You mean like these?

 

[Alk8944]

Got you all beat, I still have a couple of IMR cans with the original price sticker on them. One @$1.25 and one @$1.95. I've been doing this awhile! They were bought by me new.

 

[AJ]

Got you all beat, I still have a couple of IMR cans with the original price sticker on them. One @$1.25 and one @$1.95. I've been doing this awhile! They were bought by me new.

Pictures or it did not happen..........LOL! I have been at this since 1973. If I look around can find some of my Fathers stuff, he started in the late 40's or early 50's.

 

[CH4]

fWIW, I just paid about $47 for a pound of Bullseye last month. My last pound was $27 in 2021.

I was just at the Vegas BP and snapped a shot of their stash of primers. Last week I paid $59/1000 for Federal and CCI SPP, LPP and SRP primers at SW in Carson City.

 

[Racer X]

got you all beat. I have an actual horn powder horn full from the 1800's. It is part of the family kit containing an @1820s Penn percussion cap rifle.

 

[AJ]

fWIW, I just paid about $47 for a pound of Bullseye last month. My last pound was $27 in 2021.

That is outrageous!

 

[CH4]

That is outrageous!

I often see powder at $50+

 

[AJ]

I often see powder at $50+

We have a gun show about 4 miles from my house the end of next month. Will have to check out the prices.

 

[glenwolde]

If it has the "Alliant" name on the can it's not really that old. Just sayin'....

 

[glenwolde]

Found some 700X that was priced a $10.00 for an 8 oz. can. Don't use it much. I mainly use Bullseye, Unique and 2400. It is what I started with in 1972 and what I'll keep dancing with.

700-X is an excellent powder, but like its slower sibling (800-X) it does not meter well through most measures. One of the most accurate .38 loads I've ever run into is 700-x with a 125gr LRN.

 

[Nevada Ed]

Having powder is a good thing but my happiest day was when I finally used all of my
800-x powder.

It was used for steel shotgun loads as well as 38 & 357 magnum loads,
but it was a pain in the back side to use in a drop tube, for loading revolvers.

My oldest powder was W571 to be used off with the old M19-5 revolver.

My next victom will be SR4756, that is being used up with my .357 loads
that is now, 7/8 full.

Lots of good powders still out there, for my loading, that will meet my spec's,
although the price tag in not the same.

 

[algaeguy]

Old prices

For what it is worth, $16.97 in 1995 is equivalent to $34 in today's dollars. What were the hourly wages in 1995 to compare to the $16.97 a lb powder?

 

[ArchAngelCD]

Have W231, HP-38 and W296 on the shelf as back ups. Have you tried W244 Ball Powder yet?

Yes, I bought a lb. of W244 and W572 soon after they came out. I find W244 to be very similar to W231 but slightly cleaner with Hi-Tek coated bullets. I never thought I would say this but if for some reason W231 were discontinued I can make due with W244 even though I feel it's slight slower than 231.

 

[Racer X]

For what it is worth, $16.97 in 1995 is equivalent to $34 in today's dollars. What were the hourly wages in 1995 to compare to the $16.97 a lb powder?

there are a few online inflation calculators, and I use them frequently for stuff like this.

My first job in '86 was at 4.35 an hour. Today that would be $12.13, so right now people starting out doing that exact same job (in the same store I did back then) are making 50% more than I was back then. They don't have it as bad as they want us to think. Whiners. And now they get benes.