Alliant Reloader 26 worth???

[mtmuley]

No way I would pay the stupid prices for some of these powders. I can replicate loads with other powders or close enough. I have 2 pounds of RL-26. Same lot. I'll take $400 face to face sale. mtmuley

 

[BAKPAKR]

No way I would pay the stupid prices for some of these powders. I can replicate loads with other powders or close enough. I have 2 pounds of RL-26. Same lot. I'll take $400 face to face sale. mtmuley

That would get a barrel chambered for 300 RUM.

 

[Point Creep]

It’s an opportunity to rape people. Douchebags are salivating..

 

[Point Creep]

No way I would pay the stupid prices for some of these powders. I can replicate loads with other powders or close enough. I have 2 pounds of RL-26. Same lot. I'll take $400 face to face sale. mtmuley

How about we just trade straight across for reloader 25? I’ll supply a beer as well. No way I’m paying $200/lb. Glad I have about 20lbs of RL26.

 

[Elktrack]

You just need to start going a day earlier.

Right!
Kinda like my Barber has a sign that says
“Free Beer Tomorrow “.

 

[brockel]

40 a lb would be fair to not rob someone and not get ripped off. Prices will drop in the future. I remember when alliant rl line of powders were well under $20 lb.

You’re pretty optimistic if you think powder prices will drop.

 

[Wyoming270]

You’re pretty optimistic if you think powder prices will drop.

No, because Im not a Gen Z, I have noticed about every 6-10 years we go through a panic buy price gouge cycle, and when the 90% of gun buyers who never even shoot them realize they need money for something they do and flood the used market at the same time as stopping the new sales, the prices crash. Remember 2017? Remember 2006? Remember when a mosin nagant was $65 new in the cosmoline?

Aside from natural cycles, were with 10 years of most of the non shooting gun hoarders leaving this planet. what happens when estate sales and gun brokers are seeing 800 piece lots of 1960s 410 shotguns and 22 lr lever actions? What happens when they are seeing 9mm and 223 by the 18 pallet lots? A lot of manufacturing companies have died from expanding when there is a panic buy, and starving when the surplus hits the used market a few years later. We have seen this with several manufacturers in the shooting world the last few years. Look at how many new purchases palmetto state armory did not get when I sold off 14,000 rounds of 5.56 in the last 4 years. Its the cycle that drives capitalism. Im not going to assume your young, but in 2012 people where I lived were paying $180 per brick of 22lr, and cheap plain ar 15s were selling for well above $1,400, without many of the features that have been considered standard in the past decade.

 

[brockel]

No, because Im not a Gen Z, I have noticed about every 6-10 years we go through a panic buy price gouge cycle, and when the 90% of gun buyers who never even shoot them realize they need money for something they do and flood the used market at the same time as stopping the new sales, the prices crash. Remember 2017? Remember 2006? Remember when a mosin nagant was $65 new in the cosmoline?

Aside from natural cycles, were with 10 years of most of the non shooting gun hoarders leaving this planet. what happens when estate sales and gun brokers are seeing 800 piece lots of 1960s 410 shotguns and 22 lr lever actions? What happens when they are seeing 9mm and 223 by the 18 pallet lots? A lot of manufacturing companies have died from expanding when there is a panic buy, and starving when the surplus hits the used market a few years later. We have seen this with several manufacturers in the shooting world the last few years. Look at how many new purchases palmetto state armory did not get when I sold off 14,000 rounds of 5.56 in the last 4 years. Its the cycle that drives capitalism. Im not going to assume your young, but in 2012 people where I lived were paying $180 per brick of 22lr, and cheap plain ar 15s were selling for well above $1,400, without many of the features that have been considered standard in the past decade.

I’ve got powder from the early 2000s. I can assure you powder prices have continued to climb every year. These days aren’t coming back

 

[Wyoming270]

I’ve got powder from the early 2000s. I can assure you powder prices have continued to climb every year. These days aren’t coming back
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It cycles. Powders that are $60 now were under $20 in 2017. Im sure they will be closer to $20 than $60 in a couple years. There have already been some sliding prices as production has surpassed panic buying.

I hit a midway sale in 2017 where i bought kegs of ramshot magnum for $5 per lb more than your 2000 picture. Adjusted for inflation, $15 costed me a whole lot less in 2017 than $10 did in 2000.

 

[Wyoming270]

Not everybody is price gouging as bad as the big name stores.

 

[BAKPAKR]

How about we just trade straight across for reloader 25? I’ll supply a beer as well. No way I’m paying $200/lb. Glad I have about 20lbs of RL26.

You wouldn’t happen to also have a stash of Accurate 5744 that you aren’t using, would you? I should have been buying that up when I first started getting serious about finding a Sharps in 45-70.

 

[Caseknife]

It cycles. Powders that are $60 now were under $20 in 2017. Im sure they will be closer to $20 than $60 in a couple years. There have already been some sliding prices as production has surpassed panic buying.

I hit a midway sale in 2017 where i bought kegs of ramshot magnum for $5 per lb more than your 2000 picture. Adjusted for inflation, $15 costed me a whole lot less in 2017 than $10 did in 2000.

I'd love to see $20/# powder again, never going to get close. Just have to pay what you got to pay to do what you got to do, or find an alternative.

 

[Wyoming270]

I'd love to see $20/# powder again, never going to get close. Just have to pay what you got to pay to do what you got to do, or find an alternative.

I heard similar sentiments from 2009-2015. Remember 2017-2019? Remember when manufacturers had sales+rebates at the same time? Remember when hornady would sell you a loading press for $200 and give you $150 worth of bullets to go with it? Remember when midway marked all ramshot powders at $15 a lb and orders of 5+ lbs were free shipping with no hazmat? Remember when primers were $19 per 1,000 at sportsmans warehouse? Millions of people made the same statement you just did, 2 years before the time I just described. If you guys quit impulse buying while the price is high the market will continue to correct.