These powder prices for the most part sound hideous. But, if you don抰 buy exotic oils from the grocery store, or expensive critter squeezin抯 from the muzzleloading catalogs, you抣l save a little. And if you go to fabric store, or better yet the thrift store, for your patching material, you抣l save a little more. Now if you mold your own balls, instead of ordering swedged ones that cost more to ship than the original cost, you save yet again. With all this saving, the cost per shot is not so bad, even if you抮e paying close to thirty dollars a pound for powder. If you consider that there is 7000 grains of powder in the average one pound can, that抯 a lot of shots in your average muzzleloader. It is infinitely cheaper than shooting any larger caliber modern firearm. So, suck it up, do some of scrounging yourself, and pay the nice man for his powder. After all he抯 the guy that has to jump through all the hoops, to comply with federal, and local, regulations to sell it to you.
Hungry Horse