Late 2024 Smokeless Powder Cost: Secondary Market Price

[@lens7859]

Been paying around 10 a box for 9mm , delivered. Target Sports. Stopped reloading it, only do the big calibers now.

[@ReLoadersBench]

If you're paying $10 a box (assuming 50 count) delivered, you have a great deal going and should buy bunches. I jumped over the Target Sports a few minutes ago to see what I'd have to pay due to my state's "restrictions" and processes for purchasing ammo online and this is what the numbers look like for the cheapest (Magtech) 9mm 115gr ammo (both in box of 50 and case of 1,000 which is currently unavailable): 1 case of 1,000 rounds product $209.80 tax $29 free shipping LGS delivery fee $10 11% CA tax of $23 total: $272/case or $.27/cpr or $13.6 per box 1 box of 50 rounds product $10.49 shipping $12 tax: $1 shipping insurance $.19 total $23.77/box or $.24/cpr Not sure how you're paying $10 delivered as even by removing my state's LGS delivery requirement fee and extra 11% "tax" on top of sales tax, I'm still coming in at $12/box or 20% above what you are paying. But, good for you and as I said, buy more!

[@lens7859]

@@ReLoadersBench For a fee, $95 year, you are a member of "ammo plus" program which gives you free shipping, on anything, even one box, and a 14% discount on everything purchased. If you shoot a lot and don't reload, it is an amazing program.

[@ronc4146]

​@ReLoadersBench TargetSports gives 8% off for "members". Then they added another 6% off for Blk Fri & Cyber Mon (week), plus a few mfg's have rebates. $8-9/bx, and if you're in a non-tax state, plus free shipping for "members" or case sized orders.

[@chrisfisher3900]

@@lens7859 same here. Cheaper to buy a case than all the components and time. I mostly just reload rifle rounds

[@lens7859]

@@ReLoadersBench you’re in californiastan? Got it. I’m not much better in Ct, but still ok for now

[@PlayingWithFireOutdoors]

H1000 is over 100 a # up in Canada, 9mm is 26+ for 50. I'm reloading at just over 21 for 50. My old pre vid H4227 was 45 plus taxes, now it's over 70. Primers I do runs down to Idaho, to get them.

[@dbrooks750]

Yeah, you just have to keep an eye out and sometimes get lucky. I use Ramshot Silhouette for 9mm and Brownells had a sale recently where I ended up getting it for about 38 a pound after all fees (they had free shipping but had to pay hazmat) and of course I ordered a few pounds. Local shop had a blowout on a special deal he had on SPP (Federal 100's) for 39.90 a brick so I grabbed about 10 bricks of those.

[@ReLoadersBench]

Good grab on the powder but great pick up on the primers!

[@geraldb4201]

a few weeks ago i picked up 2 pounds of h4350 for my 30-06 loads and it was 70 bucks a pound last time i bought it was only 24,99 a pound didnt need any primes right now because i still have a few bricks left that was only 35 a brick when i got them now they are 89,99 a brick at these prices its almost cheaper to just buy factory loads

[@ReLoadersBench]

Crazing pricing! Inflation and greed...but like gas and electricity, we will pay whatever the price if we need the commodity.

[@2pugman]

I found an old primer box that's priced at $16.00.

[@ReLoadersBench]

@@2pugman - I would guess to be from the early/mid 2000's.

[@chrisfisher3900]

Man I went to Academy yesterday and the powder selection was normal 45-50$ a pound. Looked up though and the tag on h4350 was $76 a pound.

[@ReLoadersBench]

$76/lb....ouch! Depends on some powders and their availability. I do SO miss the days of $20/lb powder. Memories long gone.

[@yeayeasautoadventures]

people that dont like sp primer .45acp is odd to me, I will never understand I guess, and 2400 is faster burn? compared to unique?

[@ReLoadersBench]

Oops, looks like I had that backwards...according to the burn chart. See what happens when you get old? If you reload with a progressive press set up for LPP, yeah SPP 45 ACP brass is troublesome. To each their own.

[@percussion44]

I have an old bottle of unique I bought in 1990, it's marked 10.99. Using an inflation calculator, 10.99 in 1990 inflates up to 27.00 dollars today. A fresh bottle today is 75 dollars? So price has outpaced inflation by 300%. I find it interesting that the price of manufactured goods, say colour TV's has dropped wildly. Average DEFLATION on a color TV has averaged -6.53% 1950 to 2024, for example a 1000.00 TV in 1950 would be 6.53 in 2024. But the price of commodity chemicals has skyrocketed. Paint, solvents, POWDER... etc have all increased dramatically faster than inflation. Rifles are probably the least expensive in history (adjusted) but Ammunition is probably most expensive in history. Strange..

[@ReLoadersBench]

What shocks me the most is from 2010 to 2020 (before cough), component pricing rose modestly (albeit consistently) over that time to essentially double over the 10 year period. Over the last 4 years there has been a 2x-5x (depending on component) price increase. Too small of an elapsed time period and TOO much of an increase over that same period IMO. Greed, pure and simple. Pricing for powder/primers should be in the $30-$40 range AT MOST and closer or under $30 IMO. Hope they come down...but I have my doubts.

[@mythicalbeast953]

Just want to point out that having a filtration medium such as active charcoal in your filter is just useless.

[@woodman8261]

It smells kind of sweet to me.