Bakersfield

[chevyguy1]

Anyone know of a good place in Bakersfield to buy powder and primers?

[Tommy Gun]

Order online....it WILL be cheaper that way.

[chevyguy1]

[OpenSightsOnly]

If you only plan to buy 1 lb of powder and a 100 count primers, yeah, locally will do the trick if you don't shoot that much.

Still buying online is the way to go.

[17+1]

Do you have a friend to split shipping with? Can help minimize cost. If you shoot matches, ask the guy running the match if he can get out powder and primers. Some matches will get wholesale bullet pricing, I used to pay $80ish for 500 SMK bullets. Miss having that connect for sure!

[chevyguy1]

I do split the cost with my brother. We were using about 1k per month but we just started shooting steel challenge too so we will be going through a lot more. I will definitely ask the club. Maybe a group buy.

[chevyguy1]

We did have a local guy who had a small reloading business. He had great prices and could pick up all the stuff from his house to keep from paying shipping. I just found out he is shutting down on the 31st.

[Tommy Gun]

Just to put it in perspective...buying 8# of whatever powder will run you 200ish depending. Can order online for 150 maybe less. Tack on primers at 2.5 cents each and you could still pay hazmat and come out less than buying in small batches. Just saying. Save even more if you load more than one cartridge.

But I understand the impulse. That hazmat fee is good for up to 48 lbs (right?).

[Fjold]

There is a $19.95 HazMat fee at Powder Valley.

1 Lbs. of H4831SC is $24.95 online and $30.99 at Second Amendment in Bakersfield.

That $6+ per pound price difference per pound means one 8 Lbs. jug of powder would be $48 less + sales tax of 17.98 = $66

With the $19.95 Hazmat fee that leaves you about $46 for shipping cost to break even. Buy 10 Lbs of powder and 10,000 primers and you'll probably save over $100.

[chevyguy1]

You guys are right! I just priced out powder and primers on brownells and I can lower my cost on 9mm by close to two cents even with hazmat. I for some reason thought the hazmat was on each item...... thanks for the help!

[oddjob]

Steel Challenge at 5 Dogs? Ask around there and I'm sure there is a group buy by someone there!

[Switchbarrel]

Seems like about every 3-4 months Brownells runs their 1 cent hazmat/shipping deal. That’s a good time to stock up.

I think it’s Grafs that runs $10 hazmat & 7.95 per order shipping. Not too bad if you’re ordering a decent amount of stuff. Equivalent to paying sales tax locally if they aren’t collecting it online yet.

[sl0re10]

brownells is always having 10% off and free shipping on a $100 purchase. Hazmat is $20 but the coupon wipes that out. Their prices are good to begin with so it ends up being the cheapest way to go if you can do a medium sized order.

[JackEllis]

You need to add two resources to your internet bookmark list. Ammoseek.com and gunbot.net. They're search engines that scrape vendor sites for prices. I got an outstanding deal on rifle powder last year that was good enough to keep two varmint rifles supplied for a couple of years.

[chevyguy1]

Thank you! Just added both to my favorites