Big Z

I'd be closer to buying a smokeless than using BH

charlie brown

Yeah, I like Goex -

$30-40 per can of BH!!!

That stuff can't be THAT good!

Later,

Marcial

MountainDevil54

ooooh but it is that good! So good in fact, im putting 209 mag spark adapters onto my sidelocks.

ronlaughlin

That is how i normally purchase the powder. We don't live in Kansas, so we don't pay their sales tax. Reduce the invoice by the sales tax and add for shipping, and it is a wash. Thus it normally costs me about $28 per jug. Last week, i burned 3 jugs practicing for the up coming hunting season.

Semisane

Let's see, $266 (plus shipping?) for 100 oz. (6.25 lbs.) of Blackhorn comes out to $2.66 an ounce.

Shooting 105 grain loads costs $0.64 per shot.

Don't you guys feel like you're being ripped? Have you ever wondered why BH costs twice as much as other smokless powders?

My last case of GOEX (25 16oz. cans) cost me a total of $295, including Louisiana sales tax. That works out to $0.74 an ounce or $0.14 a shot for my standard 85 grains load. I sometimes shoot 105 grain loads. That costs a whopping $0.17 cents a shot. Plinking with patched balls and 50 grain loads cost me eight cents a shot.

I know, I know - Blackhorn is a great powder. But the three deer I took last season with GOEX at 88 yards, 83 yards, and 65 yards didn't seem to notice the difference.

I know all of Blackhorn's good points, and it has many. But my one canister purchase last year will probably be my last one.

ronlaughlin

Well, you couldn't have known, but the deer up here in Dakota are reel reel smart, an them no's the deferent. Yer rithmetic make me feel dum, cuz i spend to many $ shootin thins.

Last week and some before, i lit maybe 40, 50, or maybe 60 primer and powder in my Triumph. Didn't clean or swab it, till yesterday. I understand you wouldn't do this no matter what powder you used, but it is my style, not yours. I guess some of us are just slobs.

Gm54-120

At my LGS its about $27 and $25 when Cabelas has it on sale.

Considering around here Pyrodex is roughly $20 and T7 or Swiss are $24-27, i will stick with BH209 for the majority of my shooting.

lemoyne

Pay up to a 1,000 for a gun, and I have, I just do not understand why I should shoot cheap powder in it when it is so much more fun to use the good stuff. Some of us just don't worry about a few dollars difference, besides that 777 cost as much bought locally as I pay for BH

sabotloader

Gm54-120

Out here in the Pac-NW... BH is not legal -well BH is legal but 209 ignition is not during ML season. So vendors do not carry much BH and when they do it is right @ $30 per 10oz. bottle.

Fortunately, T7 is $21 for 16oz in the normal good outdoor stores. On occasion it will go on sale for $19 and if you are lucky enough to get the Wal-Mart sale $13.

I just can not afford to shoot BH unless I quit shooting recreationally and just use it for hunting - but I really do like to shoot to much.

Semisane

My problem exactly. By the way, GOEX is "good stuff" too.