Discouraging

[High Desert Hunter]

Just received an email from Graf's that Alliant powders were in stock. Was excited until I saw Unique for $66/lb, this is more than sticker shock. I have powder, even have a pound or 2 of Unique, but it leaves me cold thinking about the future.

Dave

[Bill in Oregon]

I .. um .. paid $84 plus tax for a pound a couple of months ago ...

[4t5]

I ‘ve been using Winclean 244 and like it, 380 all the way to 44 , might not keep anything else on hand.
On the burn rate chart next to unique.
Can be had in the mid $40 range

[High Desert Hunter]

Haven't tried 244, but I'll keep an eye out!

Dave

[Ysabel Kid]

Haven't tried 244, but I'll keep an eye out!

Dave

+1 - I'll have to try it.

[AJMD429]

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Some of it is like 22 long rifle prices. I remember buying it in the 1970s on sale for $10 a brick. Now I see it as high as $80 a brick and get upset but I also got some the other day for $50 a brick. If you account that for inflation the $50 brick stuff is cheaper that I was paying in 1975.

I don't about you but I had much the same issue with powder. I had bought a bunch of different powders in the 1970s, but then when I went off to college for 13 years living in cities and dormitories and ghetto apartments, I didn't have time to shoot much or do any reloading so the powder got used up very slowly. When I moved back to the country and started shooting more I did reload some but I had enough money then to start buying factory ammo as well so I only started running out of those 1970s powders a few years ago. The same thing happened prices were about five times as high for most of them, but that's actually less than I was paying in the 1970s if you take inflation into account.

Of course there have been a lot of ups and downs in ammunition and powder prices and even availability, depending on the election cycle.

[High Desert Hunter]

Yes sir, they keep printing more dollars making every one in circulation worth a little bit less.

Dave