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I have a 5 Pound unopened Jug of TB.  I plan to sell it at my local SASS Club on Swap Table day.  Can anyone advise on price based on recent knowledge?  I know about the prices asked on Gunbroker which seem silly to me.  I will not ship this to anyone but a local hand-off is possible.

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There are two schools of thought on this.  Replacement cost if you had to buy more later, and cutting a pard a deal because you paid a lot less.

 

In my humble opinion, I would pick a price somewhere between the "Current Gunbroker Price" and what you paid for it but, if the price is closer to the lower number, I would personally try to see that it went to a pard that was going to use it and not someone who was going to flip it and sell it on Gunbroker.

 

Good luck, I am sure someone will buy it.

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1 hour ago, T-Bone Pickins said:

I have a 5 Pound unopened Jug of TB.  I plan to sell it at my local SASS Club on Swap Table day.  Can anyone advise on price based on recent knowledge?  I know about the prices asked on Gunbroker which seem silly to me.  I will not ship this to anyone but a local hand-off is possible.

Unless you hold a BATFE explosive lic. You CAN'T  ship it. Don't even try, BATFE has no sense of humor! 

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The last 9 oz bottle I bought in a store, perhaps five years ago is marked $40. That is about $4.44 per oz. A five pound bottle is 80 ounces so if I were selling it minimum would be 80 x 4.44 =355.2. Maximum would be an even number like $400. Up to you, but prices I have actually seen (don’t know if that is what they sold at) have been considerably higher. 
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There is not likely to be more Trailboss so "replacement cost" is not really a factor.  Remember the "one pound" cans of Trailboss are really only 9 ounces.  So a five pound jug is almost 9 cans.  The stuff will sell easily at $50.00 a can.  So $450.00 for a five pounder would be a more than fair price.

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Funny ... Folks will whine about almost a hundred bucks for primers but pay that amount for a pound of powder that they will need a replacement for as soon as it's gone. And then have to pay less than 50 a pound for whatever they switch too!

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that would be an interesting response , not that any of us bought powder and primers back then looking to profit - i didnt - i bought for my use and that will be the use it gets till im gone , these threads are often creating questions in my head - why did you buy it if you didnt intend to use it ? being the first and why arent you using it ? as a second , 

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If I buy something I don't use it is usually so someone I know that uses it can have it. I sell it for what I paid for it. I had a retiring cowboy give me a bunch of brass and I gave what caliber I didn't use to local cowboys that did. 

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7 hours ago, watab kid said:

that would be an interesting response , not that any of us bought powder and primers back then looking to profit - i didnt - i bought for my use and that will be the use it gets till im gone , these threads are often creating questions in my head - why did you buy it if you didnt intend to use it ? being the first and why arent you using it ? as a second , 


 

i don’t know about the Op, but I bought some Trail Boss a few years ago to try. Didn’t like it. Sat on the shelf for a long time. Finally traded it off for Clays. 
 

Sam Sackett 

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I bought some when Trailboss was newer to try. I tried it a little and ended up not using it. Recently a shooting buddy at a modern match asked me about Trailboss because he knew I'd shot SASS. He wanted to load some 30 30 ammo. I gave him the rundown on what has occurred recently with availability. 

I knew I had a bottle or two. Ended up finding one 9 oz about a quarter full and another full 9 oz. Later found another full one. Price on one was $13.95 or $14.95, can't remember. I just gave it to him. He wanted to pay me something but he and his wife are there early nearly every match helping setup.

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I’ve seen the 9oz bottles go for $75 to $225

I tried to sell 5lb (just about 9 9oz bottles worth) for $675 and I had no takers. No biggie, if it doesn’t sell I’ll use it up. I’m told the 300 black out shooters love it for subsonic loads. 

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4 hours ago, Smokin Gator SASS #29736 said:

I bought some when Trailboss was newer to try. I tried it a little and ended up not using it. Recently a shooting buddy at a modern match asked me about Trailboss because he knew I'd shot SASS. He wanted to load some 30 30 ammo. I gave him the rundown on what has occurred recently with availability. 

I knew I had a bottle or two. Ended up finding one 9 oz about a quarter full and another full 9 oz. Later found another full one. Price on one was $13.95 or $14.95, can't remember. I just gave it to him. He wanted to pay me something but he and his wife are there early nearly every match helping setup.


I load 30-30 rounds with Trail Boss for long range side matches.  My wife and I shot rams at 200 meters this morning at Land Run and did well.  Trail Boss and gas checked Lasercraft bullets just work well in our Marlin 30-30.

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10 hours ago, Sam Sackett said:


 

i don’t know about the Op, but I bought some Trail Boss a few years ago to try. Didn’t like it. Sat on the shelf for a long time. Finally traded it off for Clays. 
 

Sam Sackett 

that would have been the only reason i would be looking to get rid of it , and id trade it for something i really knew i liked , - i did that with some unique i had that someone needed as well as a bit of reloader 7 , neither were bought to resell , i tried them and found i liked something else better so traded to someone that liked those , 

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About 2 years ago I saw two 9 oz containers at a gunshow for $50 each. I paid up, which pretty much goes along with what has been said  so far. 

 

But the real kicker is, if you sell it, and later on you have a need for it, what will you have to pay for it if you could even find it. 

 

I've found subs for most of my calibers, but for some, it's been a tough battle finding something else. I like the safety issue, the pretty hard to double charge one. I also like it's ability to fill a large case like 44-40 to the 70% level without raising the pressure through the sky. 

 

If I had 5 pounds to sell, I'd put it into one pound containers, 9 oz per and sell it for $75 a 9 oz container. Sounds ridiculous, but probably would sell. Also, in a larger lot the expectation is that there should be some savings. These are bad times. 

 

I'll stop there, as I feel myself sinking into a political tirade. 

 

Big Boston

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I was at the swap meet at Land Run and a Cowboy had a 5 lb unopened jug of Trail Boss for $300, I told him I wanted it, I also told him he could get a lot more than that for it. He said he did not want more just wanted to get it to someone that would use it. Needless to say Shirttail was happy.

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