Author Topic: Cost of Powder (Read 694 times)

Turk · « **on:** February 25, 2007, 08:36:08 AM »

A month ago I decided it was time to clean our my powder cabinet. Over the years I bought a lb. to try a special load and there the powder sits. So last month I started and to cast my bullets and couple weeks ago I started to relaod. Yesterday I was loading 380 with Green Dot and ran out there was a can of Red Dot. I loaded up 6 rounds and test fired and it didn't miss a beat. What blew my mind was a price ticket still on the can. Can you believe $7.30? current price is $14.99. I wonder what year I purchased the Red Dot? It's really a good thing powder lasts like it does.

Have a good day.

Turk

stimpylu32 · « **Reply #1 on:** February 25, 2007, 08:59:34 AM »

Turk

I have a can of IMR4350 that i got in 1981 with a $8 price on it if that gives you a time line , got it for a 270 load and did not work well so it sits till i need it again .

Was at the gun show last month and a guy wanted $24 a pound for his powder ,

i normaly pay about $16 or $17 a pound .

stimpy

Wingman26 · « **Reply #2 on:** February 25, 2007, 06:32:34 PM »

It's really bad when you can remember paying $3-$4 for a one pound can of powder!

GregP42 · « **Reply #3 on:** February 26, 2007, 01:18:12 AM »

Got me to wondering so I looked through some old cans here, I have one can of IMR 4227 that is $12 and one that is $14, IMR4895 that is $14, and the last 8 pound jug of H110 that is marked $39!!

Guess I need to shoot that stuff up, but I got 3 jugs at that price and have shot almost all of it up in .41 mag and .32-20.

Greg

Turk · « **Reply #4 on:** February 27, 2007, 02:52:06 AM »

As I said in my firt post I'm loading up all my old pistol powders Unique, GD,RD, BE, 231, 3N37. 4557, 700X etc and have decided to settle on one powder for my evey day blasting ammo 380 to 45 Colt For you Ohio shooters I see the Fin, that is Fin Feather Fur Outfitters in Ashland have a sale March 11th only and they have Green Dot for $76.99 ($9.62 #).

Turk

Hook686 · « **Reply #5 on:** February 27, 2007, 06:54:39 PM »

Wingman26

Re: Cost of Powder
« Reply #2 on: February 26, 2007, 12:32:34 AM »

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It's really bad when you can remember paying $3-$4 for a one pound can of powder!

Man you got that right. I just finished a can of IMR 4350, with a White Front label at $4.75.

Lloyd Smale · « **Reply #6 on:** February 28, 2007, 01:14:13 AM »

and just in the last couple months powder has take about an 20 percent increase again. Someday youll look at a can that says 20 bucks on it and laugh because your paying 50! I dont have much to worry about as one lb cans dont last but a couple months around here anyway

tuck2 · « **Reply #7 on:** February 28, 2007, 03:05:15 AM »

I was ran short on Re7powder and Fed 205 M primers yesterday. Cost $21 for new powder and $31 for 1,000 ea primers. When I first started to reload H 4831 it cost 25 cents a pound, bullets were less than $ 3 per 100 , primers were about a buck a box of 100 ea. During the 60s I got Norma 308 Norma brass for less than $ 4 per 20 ea. How time has changed cost but my income also improved over the years.

iiranger · « **Reply #8 on:** February 28, 2007, 07:08:25 AM »

It is called inflation. Powder is made from oil and runs with price of other "petros" like gasoline. My first can was Dupont IMR 4227. $2.75 if I recall, but the can was dented.. (ha, ha). Once paid $0.25 a gallon for gas too. Government has tried to remove the "down side" of the business cycle and so the up side grows faster... Better investment than paper money even if you resell it, if you wait long enough. What did I pay for the Hornet bullets (by Sierra) that I was going to load that under.

luck to us all.

Woodtroll · « **Reply #9 on:** February 28, 2007, 03:41:27 PM »

Most of the powder I'm aware of is made of nitrocellulose ("guncotton"; starts as either rolls of cotton paper, or bales). Single-base powder is almost all nitrocellulose; double-based powder contains nitroglycerin in addition to the nitrocellulose base.

I'm not sure that any gunpowder is petroleum based, although I certainly do not claim to know much about most powders. Acetone is used at one point in the powder manufacturing process though; I assume it's petroleum based (?).