I laughed when I saw the price tag at my WallyWorld: $24.99. I don't know who's buying it at this price. There's some serious price gouging going on there. I've found several local sources between $17-20/lb.
Yes, even at these prices 777 is still spendy, but it has a lot of advantages: cleaner burning, easier loading, and less cleaning while shooting, easier post-shooting clean-up, impressive velocity increase w/ equal volume charges (or more shots/lb, your choice), more consistent velocities, very accurate, doesn't stink up you or your house, safer to store than BP. I'm not meaning to poo-poo BP (it has worked fine for a lot of years and is very inexpensive), but 777 sure has a lot going for it in my book.
Jimmy Mac, 5 minutes for a thorough cleaning? I can't even clean my smokeless firearms that fast. Care to share your secrets?
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