Midway Carries Powders

[Technical Ted]

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[BigAL]

Here are 2 recent e-mails from them.
ETA: Little to no dealer discount for powder and some savings on primers.

MidwayUSA now offers primers, providing you a one-stop source for all your reloading needs! We carry the most popular brands: CCI, Federal, Magtech, Remington, and Winchester.

View All Primers Here:

http://www.midwayusa.com/ebrowse.exe/browse?TabID=1&Categoryid=17587&categorystring=9315***17585***&eblastid=2152006

Primers can be ordered in any mix of brands, types, and weights not to exceed 70 pounds total per order (1000 primer minimum). Each order incurs a Hazardous Material Fee of $20.00. Primers can only be shipped via ground freight to the 1st 48 states and are non-returnable. Certain local restrictions prohibit shipments to some areas. Please check your local laws before ordering.


MidwayUSA now offers powder, providing you a one-stop source for all your reloading needs! We carry the most popular brands: Accurate, Alliant, Hodgdon, IMR, Ramshot, Vihtavouri and Winchester.

View All Powder Here:

http://www.midwayusa.com/ebrowse.exe/browse?TabID=1&Categoryid=17586&categorystring=9315***17585***

Powder can be ordered in any mix of brands, types, and weights not to exceed 48 pounds total per order (4 lb. minimum). Each order incurs a set shipping fee of $9.99 and a Hazardous Material Fee of $20.00. All powder will be shipped via ground freight to the 1st 48 states. Certain local restrictions prohibit shipments to some areas. Please check your local laws before ordering.

[stevie]

Also another source for those 50BMG primers!!!!

[TonyM]

The problem is, you need to order 48 pounds to get the price to average out to be about what Powder Valley charges no matter how many pounds you buy. There's been alot of discussion of this on some of the reloading boards in the last few weeks. Heated battles by people that defend Midway, and people that shop at P.V.

I'm sticking to Powder Valley for powder and primers myself. I'm sure Midway with their buying power could drop the prices, I actually hope realize this, I like shopping at midway for things that are fairly priced, or won't kill me on shipping (bullets).

[dwtt]

If anyone wants to order some primers and powder from Midway, can I join in and split the hazmat and shipping? I'm interested in some H335.
Also, I probably would wait until the issue of CCI .50BMg primers has been sorted out before ordering that brand.

[TonyM]

I got excited because I buy a lot of reloading equipment from Midway and compared to local prices the powder seemed reasonable: If they carry the powder I'm looking for, a pound can run $23 to $28 depending on the store; Plus none carry powders in 8 lb jugs.

Me too. That's exactly what I was thinking, but when I started running numbers I figured I would stick with PV, I found an invoice, so here's a breakdown of the first order I ever placed with them:
QTY ITEM $EA $TOTAL
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(4) 1 lb Titegroup $11.80 $47.20
(1) 4 lbs Win 231 $51.75 $51.75
(1) 1k Win SM Prm $14.75 $14.75
(1) 1k Win LG Prm $14.75 $14.75

Subtotal: $128.45
Insurance: $0.40
Hazmat: $20.00
Shipping: $11.40
Total: $160.25

Same order from Midway would be $25-$30 more depending on how you configured the powder (I wanted 1 lb jars of titegroup, but for a couple bucks less Midway has the 4 pound in stock).

[Pthfndr]

If you're in the Sacramento area, Great Outdoors, on the corner of Auburn and Watt, has powder in 1lb. bottles for almost the same price Midway shows. The only additional charge is the sales tax.

For those of you who belong to the Folsom Shooting Club, aka Sac Valley shooting center, they also carry several different powders for about the same, price + tax. Also, if you are a member, you can leave a note for Tom Lyons (he orders all the powder, bullets, etc) on what and how much powder you want, and you pay for it when it arrives. I usually get my powder there as I go through 5 and 8lb kegs about once a month.

No shipping or hazmat fees added to the price.

Niether place will ship to you. You have to get there.

[phish]

I usually get my powder there as I go through 5 and 8lb kegs about once a month.

I envy you sir!

One 5 lbs. or 8 lbs. jug is usually good enough to last me the year.

I like group buys amongst shooting buds since the hazmat and shipping fees are spread out.

I was really bummed when the local mom 'n pop closed down last year, they were only 5 minutes from my job.