Anyone else frustrated by powder supply?

Nope! I keep a 5 year supply. I have a dealer that can get me anything I want eventually. So, stockpile and reorder LONG before you actually need it.
 
I was since pistol powders have been so hard to find in my area. Now that I found a small local shop that has tons of powder, I can get what ever I want. Other than this small shop it's a crap shoot around to fine any pistol powder. It does not stay on shelves very long.
 
No problems here on Long Island in NY IF you want to pay premium. For example, I usually use Varget and have a decent supply. I wanted to try a pound of Benchmark. Local well stocked store had the Benchmark at $36/pound. CCI 400 small rifle primers were $39.95/1000.

I don't mind paying a fair portion of the Hazmat fee (if indeed they actually have to pay it) but not THAT much. I would rather order on line from a no chipping charge e-tailer in large (for me) quantities and figure in the $27 fee as a cost of the total order.
 
I still have not seen any Winchester W-231 or Aliant Unique since I bought a bunch of it after the Sandy Hook and last Presidential election. I still have over 8 lbs. of each, but it is beginning to worry me
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In the past few weeks I have seen HP38 in 1lb and 8lb online. W231 in 1lb and 4lbs.

I am good for now on these powders and did not want to fork over the hazmatt fee but these powders are back into the system these days more than I have seen in the last 3 years.
 
There more powder on the store shelves in Portland now than I've seen for at least a few years. BiMart is one of the best places for it. But Fisherman's Marine and Sportsmans Warehouse are good too. As others have said, stock up now in case the outcome of the next election results in a worse shortage than we have ever seen.
 
Alliant powders now available

The Lord has descended on a golden staircase from heaven and delivered to us previously unavailable Alliant powders including Be-86; Bullseye; Clay Dot; Extra-Lite; Green Dot; Power Pistol; Red dot; Unique and others.

Available as of this minute at Powder Valley. Happy foraging.
 
I would say our breadth is a bit short but the depth of what is there is good.

I have not looked much at pistol powders as I reload little of that, small amount goes a long ways and I still have various powders left.

Certainly a lot of the mainline rifle powders are in quantity and 8 lb jugs of select are there as well.

I was sorry as I got 2495 by mistake and it worked good and they have had none sense. Other good 308 powders though and I am only suffering a tad.

Probably more psychological as I shot one great group with it!
 
Anyone else frustrated by powder supply?
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Bertrand Russell injected himself with adrenaline felt fear without object.

Being a grumpy old man, I can feel frustration without Object.

But I don't need to be. From studying my wife, I have determined it is possible to be bothered by anything anyone does, does not do, says, or does not say.

So in a world of infinite triggers, I don't need one.

"The lady doth protest too much, methinks" is a quotation from the 1599/ 1600 play Hamlet by William Shakespeare.

Or as Roger Penrose is convincing me on youtube, Shakespeare did not really write it himself.
 
Primers are not wide nor deep though you can get them.

Winchester is most available, few if any Federal in large rifle, RP enough to be fine, CCI more or less the same but almost never BR2
 
My local gun store has a good supply of Hodgon Titegroup, the only powder I use, in 4lb bottles ($68) or 1lb ($20). They also usually have CCI or Federal primers in stock. Currently it's Federal ($32 for SP)
 
Powder has seemed to be coming back pretty good around my parts. I've almost turned into a horder though. I was in my LGS the other day and seen several jugs of powder and I almost bought more, then I remembered that I still had 5 lb of that particular kind. So I just bought some primers and left.
 
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