What powder actually costs

Why landed cost, not shelf price

A pound of powder carries a $17.49 hazmat fee and $13.95 ground shipping whether you buy one container or eight. Spread across a single 1 lb can that is more than thirty dollars a pound of pure overhead; spread across an 8 lb jug it nearly disappears. Set Buying to the number of containers you would actually order and the table re-sorts around your real cost.

Fees are the common published rates and will vary by retailer, destination and order weight. Treat the landed column as a comparison tool, not a quote — the retailer's checkout is the only authority on what you will pay.

Where this comes from

Collected from retailers whose published terms permit automated reading of their public catalogue. Each was checked individually before being added, and the collector identifies itself, honours each site's crawl delay, and never carries a row over from a previous run — if a fetch fails the listing is absent rather than stale.

• Hodgdon (direct) — 76 listings
• Graf & Sons — 363 listings
• American Reloading — 579 listings
• Lohman Arms — 358 listings
• Brownells — 0 listings

What is not in this table

Unlabelled surplus and pull-down powder is excluded — 578 listings of it. It is real powder and people do load it, but it carries no manufacturer designation and therefore no published load data, so putting it in a price comparison beside a canister SKU tells you something false: that the cheap row is the same product as the dear one. It is not, and there is no data to work it up against.

Two of the largest sellers are deliberately absent. MidwayUSA blocks its stock endpoint in robots.txt, and Powder Valley's terms prohibit automated collection by name. Both would need written permission, not a code change, and we would rather be short two retailers than take data we were told not to.

Last collected August 27, 2026 at 1:31 AM.

RCM does not sell powder and earns nothing from these links. They go straight to the retailer, unaffiliated.

Substituting because your powder is out

About a third of the catalogue is unavailable at any moment, so this page will regularly tell you the powder you want is gone. Reaching for the nearest thing on the burn-rate chart is the obvious move and the wrong one — adjacency on that chart says nothing about what charge either powder takes, and the chart's publishers do not even agree with each other on the order.

Every powder in the directory links to its manufacturer's current data. That is the only place a substitution should come from.