Gary Reeder
boy, you are lucky if you haven't had any trouble getting
Thursday, April 07, 2022, 18:15

powder. Every gun shop that I am familiar with and have friends that work there have had no powder at all for months and no primers for longer than that. We deal with the 4 largest distributors in the country and they have had NO powder or primers since last summer at the latest. Gun shops have to deal with distributors so we can't go to places like Powder Valley and others as we would be paying full retail and would have to price it so high nobody would buy it. A young guy was in the store a few days back and was happier that chit. He had found some Varget at a gun show and found a 4 or 5 lb jug and only had to pay $550, $125 a pound, and thought he got a deal. He also paid $85 per brick of small rifle primers.

The powder and primer situation is and has been bad all over. Every Friday and Saturday we have folks come in from southern California and southern Utah plus Phoenix looking for powder and primers due to their local gun shops not having any at all. A lot of our powders come from Australia and due to their bad covid problem they have been shipping nothing for months due to a lot of places that won't let them dock. So if it isn't one thing, it's another. And if you are finding the powder you normally use thank your lucky stars and you are one in a million that has found it.