Bennies wrote: I priced H 4895, CCI large rifle, and sierra MK. I compared the gun show prices to those listed on Powder Valley Incs. Web site. The prices on the web site are so cheap that out of the three items you make up for the HAZMAT fee. For all three items it was about 98$ total both online and at the show.
Your order just reached breakeven. As volumes go up, the mailorder HazMat premium is a fixed prices so it becomes a progressively smaller portion of the total order. My last two Powder Valley orders were about $350 each, so it was substantially cheaper than gunshow prices. My favorite time was a PVI group buy with a bunch of guys where we ordered over 100,000 primers.
The HazMat charge then was meaningless.