H4895 and H4198 -- Hodgdon Availability Report

[Kracken McGraw]

I think a pack of chewing tobacco is in the neighborhood of $15 now. Shooting may be cheaper in comparison.

 

[FNSafari]

My State's governor wants to add another $2 per pack to cigarette. I don't smoke, never have. And we shooters think we have an expensive pastime?

 

[Larry Koch]

cigar and cigarettes can be 50 dollars a pack. There is no useful purpose.

 

[hoz53]

Agreed. So when I stated shooting benchrest the cost of one round for powder, primer and powder was .347. Using the US inflation calculator that .37 in 1990 is .81 today...just pure average inflation. I shows that the inflation rate in bullets, powder and primers is quite in excess of that. My current calculated value of those three components is 1.03$. That's about 27% in excess of normal inflation. Just one of those things I guess. I'm not blaming any one or any company, just looking at it as it is.

yeah its definately went up faster than general inflation. when i started i could get surplus
4831 for 3.00/# and primers less than a penny each. 168 7mm SmK for less than 10\100
most was bought at lgs then to. but when i graduated new chevy pickup was 3500.00— the big thing for me is my income hasnt kept up just like many other peoples hasnt either.

 

[SeabeeKen]

Limited Stock: When they’re gone, they’re gone!

They been gone for months and some of us have moved on to more available powders. Hard depend on much these days

 

[WSnyder]

H4198 guy...and have a goodly supply.

I was looking at my powder list and said “nah, I don’t have any of that left”. Rooted around in the flammables cabinets, low and behold there it is. Not as much as you but a good supply

 

[Fire Dog]

cigar and cigarettes can be 50 dollars a pack. There is no useful purpose.

They are in fact about that price in OZstralia….. Saw someone buy a carton and it ran out just a bit over $600…

 

[FNSafari]

yeah its definately went up faster than general inflation. when i started i could get surplus
4831 for 3.00/# and primers less than a penny each. 168 7mm SmK for less than 10\100
most was bought at lgs then to. but when i graduated new chevy pickup was 3500.00— the big thing for me is my income hasnt kept up just like many other peoples hasnt either.

That's the insidiousness of inflation for sure!! My feeling is that if the guberment had just stayed out of Covid stimulus wise we would all have been better off.

 

[D-4297]

Kinda shades of Coke changing its formula years ago, then getting a tsunami of opposition, then changing it back....tons of users never believed they did change back.

As someone who drank Jack Black and Coke , NO ICE , for decades I can tell you straight up , they didn't change it back to the original formula . Todays Coke doesn't have that little "Bite" that the original had . Too soft on the tongue .

 

[FNSafari]

As someone who drank Jack Black and Coke , NO ICE , for decades I can tell you straight up , they didn't change it back to the original formula . Todays Coke doesn't have that little "Bite" that the original had . Too soft on the tongue .

I quit soft drinks years ago due to the massive amount of sugar in each bottle or can and hate the taste of faux sugar substitutes. Seems its difficult to get a 12 oz can or bottle these days as everything is 20 oz or larger. They force you to spend more $ for a quantity you don't want.

 

[bozo699]

I think a pack of chewing tobacco is in the neighborhood of $15 now. Shooting may be cheaper in comparison.

A can of Copenhagen in Communist Washington state is $10
Wayne

 

[DIBBS]

It's hitting the shelves... H4895. I will purchase something cheaper myself.

 

[FNSafari]

I see Hodgdon.com has H4198 and XBR 8208 up again. Why don't they help their retailers and release to them? Oh, ya...they make more $ this way just a guess.

 

[Larry Koch]

Natchez has one can a day limit.

 

[newbieshooter]

I see Hodgdon.com has H4198 and XBR 8208 up again. Why don't they help their retailers and release to them? Oh, ya...they make more $ this way just a guess.

I see other retailers with H4198 and 8208 available:

 

[FNSafari]

I see other retailers with H4198 and 8208 available:

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placing a limit on one 1 lb container a day is ridiculous unless you are buying other instock powders to smooth over the shipping, tax and haz mat fees.

 

[jelenko]

Until supply catches up to demand, they don't care.

 

[Evan]

Until supply catches up to demand, they don't care.

It would seem that they are still priced too low. By any measure, stock lasting only minutes says that things are too cheap. I wonder how high it would need to go to actually sit in stock for a couple days? $200 a pound?

 

[jelenko]

It would seem that they are still priced too low. By any measure, stock lasting only minutes says that things are too cheap. I wonder how high it would need to go to actually sit in stock for a couple days? $200 a pound?

Yeah.

 

[P1ZombieKiller]

It would seem that they are still priced too low. By any measure, stock lasting only minutes says that things are too cheap. I wonder how high it would need to go to actually sit in stock for a couple days? $200 a pound?

or sit on the shelf forever.