Just for what it's worth, I took 3 of my kids to the last day of the NMLRA Western National Shoot out in far north Phoenix yesterday. Black powder was (still just barely--they were packing up, as the shoot was winding down) being sold for $12 a pound for GOEX and Scheutzen FFG, and $10 a pound for Alligator/Elephant brand FFFFG from Brazil. The seller was out of Arkansas. By way of comparison, the ONLY regular seller of real black powder in Maricopa County (the Arizona county that includes Phoenix and the other large central-Arizona cities) was selling for $13 a pound, when I last checked a week or so ago.