Is anyone finding any Varget?

[pdog06]

I have been looking for a bunch of Varget for a while now, but have only found 3lbs worth(month or so ago). My friend went to 2 gunshops today to look for some varget and some bullets and came up pretty much empty handed. He did eventually find the bullets he was looking for, but barely.

I called 2 more local small shops in hopes they would have some lying around, but they also had none.

The one also said that they are limiting the sales of powder to 1lb per person, and primers were 300 per person. That is a pain, but I can understand they are trying to accomodate all of their customers instead of having one guy hoard all of it.

The problem is I need about 4-5 more pounds to load for my August prarie dog trip. I want to load Varget for my 6br,308, and 22-250. They did have 8 pounds or so of H380 and I already have a load for that for the 22-250, so I guess I need to make 4 or 5 trips to the store next week. ::)


This is getting rediculous! Hows everyone else making due?

[dcloco]

No Varget....anywhere.

Primers? None of those either.

check your PM.

[82boy]

I bought 3 lbs of it early today.
The shop-owner said he got in 20 lbs of it yesterday, and that was it, all gone.
They have plenty of reloader 15 on the shelf too, and it is close to varget.

[pdog06]

check your PM.


Crap, I thought you were gonna give me one of your secret spots to buy stuff ::) :D.

[louthedog]

My local shop has an 8# jug and a few 1# jugs on the shelf the last time I was in there (week ago). Thought he was a little pricey on it though. $145 for the 8#. The only primers he had was Remington BR's and he was real pricey on those too. I had to swallow my pride and pick up 400 just to get finished loading for PD's.

[teele1]

We've been paying $140.00 for quite some time for 8lbs of Varget in south Florida. My guy that i usually buy powder from had some 2 months ago at the gun show. Don't know if you want him number in Florida to check to see if he has any to ship to you. Let me know.
teele1

[cooperman223]

Same here in the UK, Varget is getting hard to find,
as for reloader 17 i have not seen any in all the gunshops that stock reloading equipment.
Prices are rocketing for everything,
A box of 100, 105gn Amax is now £24.00
Varget when you can find it is now £33.00 per lb tub
john.

[pdog06]

We've been paying $140.00 for quite some time for 8lbs of Varget in south Florida. My guy that i usually buy powder from had some 2 months ago at the gun show. Don't know if you want him number in Florida to check to see if he has any to ship to you. Let me know.
teele1


Thanks for the offer, but I'm sure some will turn up eventually. I still have 6lbs. on hand, but wanted to try to switch my 22-250 over to varget also. Guess it's just not the right time to do it, so I'll stick with h380 or try some Reloader 15 if I can find some of that.

Everything is getting so hard to find and so expensive I dont wanna be trying a bunch of different stuff, I was just hoping to find more Varget and 3 of my guns would shoot the same stuff.

[Balljoint]

Last time at Cabela's just over a month and half ago purchased last four pound's they had

[johnsopa]

If you are looking to buy in quantity, get on several backorder lists. I backorder four 8 lb kegs of Varget about three weeks ago from a very popular online powder e-tailer and they shipped them last week.

[kleeber]

Powder valley (http://www.powdervalleyinc.com ) shows 8# in stock for $131.
Don't know how faithfully they keep their website in sync with their stock.
By the time you pay hazmat and shipping you're probably looking at $21/#,
but you could easily get that back to $19/# if you went in with a couple buddies
on a couple more jugs of powder. By the time you add tax and gas, that's
probably better than $18/# locally, or $144/jug.

[johnsopa]

That's where I got mine. The hazmat fee is for up to 50 lbs. -- so you could get 6 kegs for one hazmat fee -- plus shipping, of course. They're inventory is accurate.

[Digger0040]

My local gun shop has it in stock every few weeks but they charge $35.00 for a 1lb bottle.

[pbcaster45]

My 8 pound Varget jug is almost gone, went looking for more last week - nothing to be found. I ended up buying 3 lbs of IMR-4064 instead.

$35 for one pound!? GASP! :o

[Samdweezel05]

Just thought I would let you know that I have had better luck with IMR-4895 in everything I own. You also use less of it. My best load to date in my 22-250 is with 4895.

Phil

[ratltrap]

Don't feel bad, prices I've seen here are well under what we are paying here in SE Alaska - there is still some powder (& primers) to be had, but at a premium price.

[82boy]

If anyone is interested in the eastern Ohio area, Bruno's is out at the Kelby's super shoot, and yesterday they had a couple of 1 lbs cans and several 8 lbs can of Varget, and other powders.

[Fjold]

I saw that Natchez and Powder Valley had some yesterday and Bruno's had some this morning.

[btm_54]

Varget is made in Australia. No problems with supply down under. ;D
We have really draconian gun laws to compensate for the excess supply of components :'(

[stevec]

Dong's Gun's has a bunch of varget in, at least they did last weekend!

Steve