victorcharlie: Thanks for the post, I have been wondering what the bullet, primer, case, and powder manufactures were doing to fill the demand.
A week ago I made the trip of the hill to have lunch with my son and visited a major sporting box store. Few handguns, lots of rifles, and shelves in the reloading department were naked. One customer was looking for plain vanilla 180-grain, .308 caliber bullets for bear hunting. There were none.
I was looking for IMR 4064 and there was none, in fact there was little or no IMR, Hodgdon, or Winchester powder. Most of the Accurate powder was gone. They still had some Ramshot powder in stock at a reasonable price. I was foolish and did not buy. I needed to be back down the hill the next day with the wife and I would swing by. The key was to get a powder in the same burning range as IMR4064. In this case Ramshot TAC is in the slot.
The next day we stopped by the store and they had increased the price $6.00 a pound. In fact they had even increased the out of stock powder $6.00 a pound. I left the store without buying anything, because I felt I was witnessing price gouging.
I was fortunate that I received a call from a hunting partner today. He was in a store that had the Hornady 30-30 flex-tip ammunition at $5.00 a box less then the box store, and they had a one pound can of IMR4064 for $6.00 less the the Ramshot TAC had been. I appreciate the efforts of my good friend for making the effort for me.
