black powder price

[Paul Harm]

Does anyone know of a cheaper price than Grafs $13.99/lb ? Craig, how much is it at Friendship now ? Years ago it was always cheaper - I can remember around $4/lb.

[Craig Smith]

Paul, I haven't been out in a few years, but have been told the price has come up.

Last powder I bought was left-over GOEX cartridge powder @ $8.00 a can. Bought a case for the shotguns.

Also bought Swiss for my double rifles and it was about the same price then as everywhere else.

[Paul Harm]

I talked to Anson Morgon yesterday - he said the MNLRA is a distributer - so they charge the same price as any distributer. Guess I'll shot up some ' Clean Shot " I got for $2/lb - it smokes but doesn't have that smell.

[charlie cleveland]

wish i cold find that clear shot for 2.00 dollars....every thing i find to reload with is like 20 to 24 dollars a pound....charlie.....

[Paul Harm]

got lucky - there was only 2 cases of it - my friend bought the third case.

[King Brown]

Nostalgia note: yesterday I gave my brother a sealed, one-pound bright red can of Curtis's and Harvey's FF Gunpowder which I bought many years ago for $1.25!

[Dean Romig]

How things change....

I remember filling my GTO for less than we pay for a gallon of the "cheap stuff" today.

[charlie cleveland]

in our neck of the woods we would get at least a bucks worth when we pulled up to the pump....that was back in the day when you got 3 dollars a day for chopping cotton... this was about the time dean when you were filling that gto up..... charlie

[Dean Romig]

Didn't you folks work on the same minimum wage the rest of the country used? As I recall it was like $0.75/hr then.

[Mark Ouellette]

Dean,
Those persons who refused to type capitol letters to start sentences (when attempting to communicate with others) got their pay docked by 50%!

[Dean Romig]

And we also got our oil checked, under-hood fluid levels checked, windshield washed, etc. all for the price of the gasoline.... what went wrong with that system?? :bigbye:

....that little green guy waving is "the way things used to be."












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[Paul Harm]

Mark, Charlie must of worked for free. :rotf:

[charlie cleveland]

yep worked almost for free...growing up and working on a farm in mississippiin the early sixties was very interesting.... box of shotgun shells was 2.50 and 22s were49 cents...parkers were cheaper then to.... wish i had bought me one or two..... well them were the good old days.... still had most of my hair on my head.... cant stay in the sun to long now with out a hat....do you still have that gto...ive got our old 56 2 door sedan chev.. but it needs work.... atlas no more cotten to chop how am i going to pay for that new parker ive been wanting..... charlie

[Dean Romig]

I wish I still had that '65 GTO - I could sell it and buy a Parker 28 ga. A1S with the proceeds. I bought it a year old for $2200, did some work to the engine and sold it a little over two years later for $1800.... I don't have any idea what I was thinking to do such a thing.... Anyway, the brainless kid I sold it to smoked a perfectly good 3,800 lb. clutch, both rear tires and wound it around a pole sideways all in twelve weeks. I still have nightmares that I stored that car in an old vine-draped garage somewhere deep in the woods and I can't find it.... it haunts me to this day.

[charlie cleveland]

closetest care i had to a gto was a 66 lemans....326 powder glide.... bought that care for 500.00 fixed and painted it...drove it for a family car for 14 years let it set up for about 10 years and sold it for 2500.00....those old goats were something........ charlie