I know this is about a year old but nothing has changed, has it? Still being raped by the same old scalpers here in mary land. Id love to buy local but my Lord, I jist cant do it. Its bad when saving on shipping and hazmat still doesnt save any $. Its like they look online, average prices, shipping and hazmat and orice their stuff just a little higher. Really stupid.
Just wanted to add that where I am there are actually relatively fee gunstores and even fewer who sale reloading supplies. There is one about 40 minutes away that until recently I had never visited. Walked in and spied 6 boxes of Fed150 LPPs, for $139 apiece. Nope. For Fed150's? I asked if they usually stocked many reloading supplies and she said no and that those were only there because the prior owners had left those along some other inventory. I am supposing they bought the business as opposed to starting it.
I ended up back in there a month or so later and asked here if she could lower the price to match an online sale going on with no hazmat to which she replied that they had paid more than that for them. Remember, they were bought with the store so unless everything was itemized in the purchase price........ well, you get the picture.
Persistence pays off I guess, I ended up getting them for $89 each. Yes, still almost triple what they cost 5 years ago and it just sticks in my crawl but given current greed levels I guess it was about normal.
Ive had to rework a lot of my loads to factor in a different primer but it has worked out. I save all of my CCI,Win and Rem primers for serious ammo and use the Feds mostly for range ammo, although they seem to do just fine as far as I can tell, without my chrono, which I shot.
Please always remember to never forget, No matter where you go, there you are.
