Trying to see what powders members are still looking for, so I can keep on my radar. Guessing 2400 is still on the list, but not sure what else.

Winchester 231 or Hodgdon HP-38. Only have enough on hand to load 10 or 20 light load 38 Specials.

BE 86, never had any and I want to test it.

Win 231, H110, Autocomp, 2400.

Mike

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I'd like to try out Autocomp, or CFE Pistol.

I'm sitting in decent shape for powder, but would like to see some 2400 show up locally so I can try it again after 30 years.

Not looking anymore..... I had been looking for W296 or H110 for a couple of months. I found some at a gun show a few weeks ago but the dealer wanted $32.99 per pound. This last weekend, we drove to another show and the same guy was there. I walked around a little and found another dealer with H110 for $26, so I picked it up. The guy next to me was eyeing the same can and when I picked it up, he turned and walked away with a dejected look on his face. Later, my wife reminded me that I spent an extra $20 for the two of us to get into the show to save $7. Couldn't argue with her other than to tell her, "It's not about the money, it's about the principle!"

I'm sitting pretty good, but I sure would like to get another 8 lb. jug of Bullseye without having to drive 6 hours round trip. I'm thinking another 4 or 8 lb. jug of Red Dot too, maybe. Red Dot was a life saver when no other powder was around to be had, so I think I'll keep it on hand-just in case.

For those looking for 231/HP38, those seem to be popping up here lately. Last gun show I went to, there was a decent amount of pistol powders on tables-a little over priced, but there!

Still looking for Trail Boss.

Alliant Power Pro MP-300
Accurate No. 9
and of course... 2400

Universal. Along with plated bullets It keeps my .357 clean and shiny and shooting straight. I'm down to about a pound and a half and getting nervous.

I love TB. I've got about 20 lbs. of it.

I'm having trouble finding Trail Boss as well.

Forgot about CFE Pistol. Add that one to my list as well.

I have tried it in 9mm and 45 ACP. I was really impressed with it in 9mm, so I would like some more please.

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I guess I'll call myself fortunate then. My LGS gets powder in on a frequent basis. Just a few weeks ago I picked up another case of TB.

2.9gr in a 38mid with a 160gn SNS coated RN out of my 5" 627, shoots like a 22.

Keep an eye on Gunbot.com and Recobs shooting supply. CFE pistol and Autocomp is what I use exclusively. I haven't had any problems building up my stock. I still see it but don't buy any at the moment. I draw the line at 50# of powder and won't start looking for any more until that drops down to about 25#. Recobs had 231 last week in 1,4,&8# sizes. With the limits it was possible for a shooting friend of mine to order 1-8#, 1-4#, and 5-1# for a total of 17#. 231 used to be my "go to" powder but when I started using Autocomp and CFE because of the shortages of 231, I lost interest in that powder. (in fact I sold what I had).

TITEGROUP..... I've had 8lbs on order since early December and it's still being "processed".....

Need 4lbs. of W296/H110.

Have enough of the other powders I use.

8 lb. cans of 2400. Larry

Clays.

Got enough pistol, rifle has been periodically available, but the shotgun stocks are getting low

I'll take anything but Bullseye and Unique are what I really want.

I'll be glad to see AA #5. I won't turn up my nose at 2400, Universal. SR 7625 or 4756. Win 231 would be good, too.

I think I've been seeing less powder lately than I did during the worst part of the shortage. Or is this the worst part of the shortage. Or is it yet to come. I'm stocked up but not nearly as much as I would like to be.

Oh, if I get some magnum primers I could expand into some other powders.

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Trail boss. I recently picked up a 66 no dash and trail boss loads work really well and all the trigger happy women in my life are shooting it all up.

I also found it makes an excellent safe reduced load powder for my rifles so I wish I had picked up more when I found it locally. Saw a bunch two months ago and poof it's gone. Haven't seen it since. Or any other powder locally for that matter.

I also want to nominate Novalty for the good dude of the year award. About half the powder under my bench (About 12 lbs!) is due to his keeping the in stock powder thread alive. I found it very helpful.

Thanks buddy!

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Thanks ageingstudent! Glad to hear you got some powder off of the postings.

Was hoping this post would let me know what is still in high demand, so don't post unneeded powder updates. Rifle powders appear to be readily available. Right now I am expecting big postings from Wideners, Midsouth Shooters, and Grafs. These vendors have not had the W231, HP-38, H110 and other popular powders that some other vendors have posted over the last couple weeks.

I just got my first pound of Universal in years. The Australians must have gotten the drier section of the plant fixed. I. hope the end of the longshoremen's strike will unleash a torrent of Aussie powder. My LGS, a small shop seems to be getting more, but popular pistol powders still clear out quickly. The speculators and hoarders are still a factor. Supply and demand at work, distorted by fear, same as it's always been. Too bad that prices remain stubbornly high.

I haven't seen any Alliant Steel for couple years now.

The Clays family of powders is back. I picked up 8lb jugs of Clays and Universal Clays within the last couple of weeks.

AA-9, which I have come to really like for .357 and .44 loads. In pretty good shape otherwise. My buddy just got us 3 lbs each of 2400 and I just bought 6 lbs of 4227 from bullets.com (also 10k primers just to make the hazmat fee worth it). Plus they had CCI and Federal primers at a really good price if you bought 5k of the same kind.

Steel is one powder that HAS been around here.

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A year ago, I was already stocked up on H110, Blue Dot, and Unique. I was wanting something faster burning to load some wadcutter target ammo, but there was none to be found. Well, in the last year, I've found 700X, Red Dot, and Bullseye.

Just as a side note, I recently tested all three of those powders against each other. All variables were kept the same except the powder, and all fired through a Colt Officer's Model Match. I haven't photographed the results yet, but the IMR 700X beat the other two for group size.

And as far as rifle powders, there's not much of a shortage around here.

In my local gun/pawn shop they had several pounds of HP-38 and AA#2.

I really would like to find some more American Select, I'm running low.

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I'm set for a while with powders I "need", thanks in large part to the ongoing thread in this forum. However, I'd be interested to try Blue Dot and TrailBoss at some point.

2400 or AA #9
AA #7
Win 231 or HP38
Power Pistol

TrailBoss (forgot that)

I have 8# Titegroup on order with MS since early January of 2014. Thats 15 months.

One thing people should take into consideration is that it appears that powders are produced seasonally. So if they are hitting the shelves now you better try and get them, because it might be several months before another batch is made available. I could be wrong in this thinking, but I believe it is why we haven't seen some powders like: 2400, AA#2 or AA#5 or W231 in awhile. Clays situation was related to the plant fire. Hopefully I am wrong in my thinking, but better to be prepared.

2400 and Unique (haven't seen either in a year-plus), Accurate #9, BE86 (would love to try), HP38/W231, VV Tinstar (very promising for .45 Colt but have seen NONE). It seems that availability of rifle powders is getting better, though.

A couple pounds of VV N110 is something I'm looking for.

Accurate Arms #9 would be nice to have on hand too.

Clays is on my list of powder hopeful and I kind of thought that it would be quite a few months before I get a chance to get some. But as luck would have it I just returned from one of my LGS with 2 (14 oz) bottles. It's a start. So, my list of hard to find or impossible to get is HP-38 and clays in kegs sized containers for long term useage. Also AA#2 and AA#5 but I'm in fantastic shape powder wise so no hurry on any of these.

The only powder I've been looking for is Accurate 1680 for 7.62X39 and some Titegroup just to try in 9mm. As folks above mentioned, I was able to snag a lot of powder I needed thanks to this thread by Novalty. Thanked him before and now as well

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The only powder I was running short on was AA5744 and only because I was in the process of testing if I was going to use that in the 45-70 in place of IMR4198 and SR4759. I had less than a pound but was able to find some about a month ago @Cabela's for an almost fair price. (only bought 2lbs)

Everything else I was and still am fine with my supply...

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For about a month I've kept novalty's thread open on my phone and I check it several times during the day. Thanks novalty!

I had been looking for 231 for a while with no luck, and finally got 5 lbs from Cabelas through the thread. Since then (maybe 3 weeks ago?), 231 and HP-38 have been popping up regularly. If I had waited a few days I could have gotten 8# for the price I paid for 5#, but I didn't know it was going to be available.

I passed up Bullseye this week at $37/lb from the thread. It's #2 on my list, but I've got a lot of Power Pistol and I can live without it. 2400 is #1 on my list. I'd also like some Red Dot or Blue Dot. It's mostly the Alliant powders I want and can't find.

I would add that as far as brick and mortar stores go there seems to be a pattern to where specific powders get shipped to certain regions. When I read threads about finding bullseye, unique, w231 ect. It seems to show up more in the upper midwest and north east. Recently hs6 and trailboss seemed to pop up everywhere (including here in the NW) before it disappeared again.

That's completely anecdotal on my part though. I only frequent this forum and it's a limited sample. I haven't gotten out of this area much to look for powder other than online.

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Don't give up. Yesterday at an Atlanta area show I picked up an 8 lb jug of Universal. It was $165 + Tax!


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I wasn't really looking to buy any W 231, but I called a LGS today and was able to score an 8 lb. jug for $145 + tax! Been years since I've used 231, but I remember it doing a good job, so now I have 8 lbs. to work with :-) Still looking for another 8 lbs. of Bullseye though.

I've been well stocked for 6+ years. I learned my lesson on inventory management (as a gun owner and reloader) under Mr Clinton. I might even slide through the next 6 years without a problem. Increasing age causes less (or shorter) range trips.

The current 223 ammo "crisis" has left me well stocked with brand new once fired commercial and crimped primer cases. Why doesn't anyone want that empty brass case. Sure glad I bought an RCBS X-die for sizing.

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I've been looking for Herco and 2230 for 2 years and can't find any. I even wrote the manufacturer and asked them. No results...

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2000MR seems to be a powder that was readily available during the height of the powder scare , now jump to presant day and most all powders are back to available yet 2000MR is nowhere to be found. Sucks for me as I worked up some great loads and still have about 8# of 2000MR

4756 would be awesome, Longshot too. Unfortunately I live in the middle of nowhere, no gunshows close by, and the local hardware store tries to get things in, but there isn't huge demand.

I got REALLY excited when I saw H110 here locally. I almost bought 3 containers and luckily googled it first. Turns out it is not ideal for .38 special.

You need to start looking at online sources, I live in the Seattle metro area and haven't bought powder locally for years. What little I see is rifle powder. I haven't had any problem getting what I need by watching Gunbot and a couple of other suppliers that aren't on Gunbot. I'm at a point where I don't have to settle for other than my preferred powder. I have enough to get through the wait until the powder I like to use shows up.

I have always been told that the shipping costs (hazmat?) make it not worth it. If you are having the same issues in Seattle though I should probably get online and do some research. I've been having fun with Unique, but I'm going to run out eventually and would like to try some other powders.