Goex

[roundball]

Last Goex I bought was 3 years ago and then it was over the counter 25lb bulk bag purchases, with no shipping/haz mat fees so its been a while since I've bought / paid a delivered case price.
Ordered a case today and the delivered price is all the way up to $14.50/can now...

 

[BrownBear]

Jeez..... Last I bought a year ago, the Alaska price was nudging $25/lb. I hear it's even higher today.

 

[flintlock75]

I went to Great Northern Guns in Anchorage last week to buy some powder, The store owner gave a line of BS about Goex being out of business and not selling powder any more. Completey untrue. He did have KIK powder, i bought some it was$22.50 a can, I shot some and it seems to work just fine. We have a local club member who is a powder dealer and has plenty of Goex so i will be getting some from him at rondy, he charges $24 per can. Since i shoot alot i will be getting a case lot this summer.

 

[roundball]

Jeez..... Last I bought a year ago, the Alaska price was nudging $25/lb. I hear it's even higher today.

Yeah, I get the sense that things in Alaska cost a lot more but I suspect the overall wage structure is probably different from the 48 states too.
Here in the 48, the best powder price I ever had was when I stopped at the Goex distributor I use 3 years ago and bought those couple 25lb bulk bags of loose powder over the counter...$9.50/lb out the door. Brought it home, and refilled 2 cases of empty cans I'd been saving, put new LOT# & Date Code stickers on their bottoms...that made for some good low cost shooting.

 

[Mike Brooks]

I have one can of goex here with a price tag of $3.50 on it. :haha:

 

[BrownBear]

I went to Great Northern Guns in Anchorage last week to buy some powder, The store owner gave a line of BS about Goex being out of business and not selling powder any more. Completey untrue. He did have KIK powder, i bought some it was$22.50 a can, I shot some and it seems to work just fine. We have a local club member who is a powder dealer and has plenty of Goex so i will be getting some from him at rondy, he charges $24 per can. Since i shoot alot i will be getting a case lot this summer.

Interesting. Had some funny dealings with them and muzzleloader stuff last year. Like a well-used Austen Halleck capper for $1395 and a heavy sales pitch about how rare it was.

 

[ohio ramrod]

I remember buying Goex for $2.00 a can at Log Cabin in the sixties and listening to my neighbor complain that he used to pay 1/3 that for Dupont. :idunno: :idunno:

 

[Rifleman1776]

I remember buying Goex for $2.00 a can at Log Cabin in the sixties and listening to my neighbor complain that he used to pay 1/3 that for Dupont. :idunno: :idunno:

I forget what I paid for powder in 1970 when I first got into this. I do remember I bought it at E. Christopher Arms in Miamitown, Ohio. It came in a five pound cardboard canister. Brand unknown.
I still have some tins of Navy Arms caps I sold in my store in the 70's. Retail price was .79 cents a tin. Flints were only three to four dollars a dozen.

 

[rabjr]

He did have KIK powder, i bought some it was$22.50 a can, I shot some and it seems to work just fine.

Damn, he wayy over charged you for Kik too. You paid about ten bucks more per can than I did....

 

[Va.Manuf.06]

I have one can of goex here with a price tag of $3.50 on it. :haha:

Hah! I paid $1.25 for my last can of DuPont..... Course, that was a while ago. But RB will never know that. :blah:

 

[roundball]

May be because he bought his in Alaska...

 

[BrownBear]

May be because he bought his in Alaska...

Ah but we get special stuff up here unavailable in America.

I just paid $5.99 a pound for hard pink tomatoes. You can't get pink tomatoes anywhere else this time of year, so you just expect to pay a little extra in Alaska. :rotf:

 

[rabjr]

:haha: Ok, didn't see the Alaska part...but he still fed him BS about Goex so probably got over charged as well...

 

[BrownBear]

:haha: Ok, didn't see the Alaska part...but he still fed him BS about Goex so probably got over charged as well...

They got that info from the same place they got the price for their scarce $1395 A&H.

Nuther Alaskan fruit story:

Went to buy some onions and none in the store. The empty bin was right alongside black dripping lettuce, carrots you could bend tip-to-tip without breaking and potatoes as green as a St. Patricks Day hat and black dripping spots on a lot of them.

I asked the guy about onions, and he said "Sure, come on in the back with me."

In their storeroom they had big bags of onions alongside a whole wall of crates of beautiful fruits and veggies. I asked him when they were going to put all the good stuff out front, and so help St. Hawken, this is what he said:

"Oh, we can't put that out front till all the other stuff sells."

Merchandizing, Alaska style.

 

[rafterob]

Exotic pink tomatoes, the view of Russia from your front porch and shooting Moose in your own backyard. What more could a man ask for?

 

[hanshi]

I can remember it being $.90 a can for Dupont. I bought pounds of it for $1 to $1.10 for a few years. Later it (G. O. too) went up but still dirt cheap by today's standard.

 

[roundball]

Yeah, but your hourly wage back then was probably only $.85 cents and hour...LOL

 

[Rifleman1776]

You can't get pink tomatoes anywhere else this time of year,

Alas, not so......
The Bradley County, Arkansas pink tomato festival is May 31 this year. Arkansas, most especially Bradley County is famous for it's pink tomatoes.
Although, why anyone would want to eat tomatoes of any color is a mystery to me. I hates 'em with a passion. :barf:

 

[wattlebuster]

Cheapest I remember it being was when I first started out in the game an IIRC it was bout 2.39 a pound. But thats been 35 yrs ago

 

[Dphar]

Last Goex I bought was 3 years ago and then it was over the counter 25lb bulk bag purchases, with no shipping/haz mat fees so its been a while since I've bought / paid a delivered case price.
Ordered a case today and the delivered price is all the way up to $14.50/can now...

Look at almost everything else.
Its not just powder.
Significant increases in a great many things I use. Brass, stainless steel, aluminum.
End mills selling for 11 bucks in 2008 are over $16 now.
So stuff made with tools goes up too.

Dan