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I took off my big 8lb container of Varget anticipating that I will be trading my AR for a motorcycle. To be sure everyone's payments were still accurate I put together a mock order on the site and recalculated everything. It turns out that everyone now gets to have me mail out anywhere between a quarter and 75 cents back to them, maybe I will just tape it to your items when they show up


8/27/2013
Order is now ready to ship, I will send out PMs when it actually gets here.

Sure, count me in

I will only be getting 1 8lb container this go around. How does January 31 sound as an anticipated order date? I have never done this type of order before; what is the usual procedure?

Edit-Looks like this will be a tough event to manage with most vendors out of stock on many powders.

y'all might want to have at least a couple of "options" for each and every item on your wish list, otherwise at order time either there's gonna be some serious guessing or someone is gonna get left out. been there, done that....recently

Im interested. Where would it be ordered from?

It depends on who gets powder back in stock. I saw some retailers expecting more stock on the 13th of this month. Grafs, perhaps or mid south shooters supply. I would like to find the best overall deal on the powder/vendor shipping cost, but it may come down to whoever has what we all need in stock.

I'm in for the right price and powder availability

Ok, so what is everyone's shopping list? I will be getting 8 pounds of Varget. Post your product and quantity so that I can look for a retailer that has what we need in stock.
***Added-2000 small rifle CCI#400 primers as well

Lonest4r wrote: I have never done this type of order before; what is the usual procedure?

Edit-Looks like this will be a tough event to manage with most vendors out of stock on many powders.

If you have never honchoed a group buy, then you are in for a treat. It can be a royal pain in the neck.

By far and away the most popular place for internet primer/powder sales is Powder Valley Inc. Even MidwayUSA accepts orders on the MidwayUSA website for powder, but it is drop shipped from Powder Valley Inc, who services the MidwayUSA account. That would be my recommendation.

Last big group buy I was in was right after the 2008 election. We ended up buying roughly 150,000 primers and about 120 lbs of powder if I recall correctly.

Here is how it is done.

• Basically, you list a date that you are going to "close" the order and place it.
• Everyone who wants something posts in the thread what their order is and they send the money to you.
• You keep a running count posted here listing everyone's order and payment status.
• On the "order Date", you order for everyone who got the money to you by that time.
• You won't know what the shipping/Hazmat fees are until you order. Everyone will need to reimburse you for those fees after you place the order.
• You place the order. The stuff will be backordered. In 2008, it took almost a year to fill the order.
• Once the order is in, you coordinate some way for people to pick up their stuff. It can get subdivided by area of the city. For example, you'd give all the stuff for Northwest Houston to "Bob", who would meet people in this end of town, give other stuff for Sugarland to "Joe" who would meet people there, someone else would cover Gavleston, etc.

With all that said, I might as well jump on board. I only order Ramshot online since I've never seen it in stores. Here is what I'll take.

RamZIP-04 * Ramshot ZIP - 4 LB. $65.60
RamSIL-04 * Ramshot SILHOUETTE - 4 LB. $65.60
WINWSP * WIN SMALL PISTOL PRIMERS (1000) @ $26.00 x (5), Total 5000 for $130.00

I can tell you that Powder valley is out of anything worthwhile. I have a wholesale account with them, Graf, Natchez and nobody had much of anything. I ended up getting what I could from Natchez (the wholesale side is Chattanooga Shooting Supply). Luckily I got what I needed to load 300 blackout and 45ACP. Right now when I looked all of them are out of everything I ordered.

mrvmax wrote:I can tell you that Powder valley is out of anything worthwhile. I have a wholesale account with them, Graf, Natchez and nobody had much of anything. I ended up getting what I could from Natchez (the wholesale side is Chattanooga Shooting Supply). Luckily I got what I needed to load 300 blackout and 45ACP. Right now when I looked all of them are out of everything I ordered.

Hence my observation that I fully expect any group buy will wait on backorder for about a year.

and my recommendation to have a couple of "options".

some times you just have to make do.

I'm sure glad I got my ammo, powder and, primer orders in before the election.

I will be sending out PM and emails to group buy participants in the next day to arrange payment and finalize everything.

Lonest4r wrote:I will be sending out PM and emails to group buy participants in the next day to arrange payment and finalize everything.

When is the cutoff date? Please PM me with details... I am looking to buy primers...