I can't find any....It must be hiding wherever the primers are!

There's some on gunbroker.com but the price is inflated. Can you find a pound of some other kind of powder for your application till the shortage ends?

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Bullseye is the only powder that the local dealer is out of around here, they still have it in 8 pound cans but no 1 pound cans. Most everything else they are pretty well stocked up on.

Just wish they had some primers, last time I was out there he had a couple of boxes of magnum primers so I bought them to use for .38 loads but I need some small pistol for loading .40 and 9mm.

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Drew

You can find it if you look around. A friend is just getting into reloading. I found him some online last week, Graf's or Natchez, I think.

Buy the 8lb keg if that's what your dealer has and the price is not out of line. You'll eventually use it anyway.

Drew,
Are you refering to Whitaker's over in West Louisville? I would think they would have powder if any one would.
Dan

Bullseye lasts forever. I agree, buy the 8#er and go for it. Remember, a pound only is good for about 2300 wadcutters. Fewer 9mm's.

The last jug I bought cost me a huge amount, just under $110, I think $116 after sales tax. Since I still have the worldly remains of the other one I bought years ago, I should be set for life. The old one is a cardboard drum style. I like the smell.

Educational and medical information. In the distant past, miners with heart trouble discovered when they had angina (no Shugart, A not V) just sitting down and holding a stick of dynamite would ease the pain. So many old miners took to keeping a stick of aging dynamite on hand. Eventually in mining areas it kind of became a custom. When someone had heart trouble, someone would donate a stick.

The danger in old dynamite was the sweat beads that tended to form, often on the outside of the stick. Nitro-glycern, the active ingredient is what nitro pills use. The nitro can be absorbed thru the skin, you don't have to put it in your mouth.

And way, pray tell, has Dick run wild on this tangent? Because Bullseye is a double based powder. Just as dynamite has the nitro droplets separated into much safer tiny drops in the earth (anyone know what kind of dirt?), Bullseye and to a lesser extent some other powders have the nitro absorbed into nitro-cellulouse (gun cotton.)

As I understand the various forumla, commercial dynamite is about 20% nitro and 80% inert stuff. Hi-Po, the tricky stuff, is much stronger at 40%. Bullseye is about 50-50, so its almost all active, except the graphite coating.

So if you want to test the smell, open a can of Bullseye and take a whiff. Yes, you can smell it. Most of us get even more light headed after doing so.

And if you wonder what the old timers up in the mountains were doing sittin' in a rockin' chair with a stick of dyno-mite, they were self medicating!

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Dick Burg

I just ordered 3 pounds from natchezss.com, web site said it was in stock.

http://www.natchezss.com/categ...&brand=HP&catLevel=1
Dale

rburg:

Thanks. Your post was interesting, historical and informative. I like those.
Sonny

A good substitute for Bullseye is American Select. It is a lot cleaner burning, as well. It seems to be available, as most consider it a shotgun powder.

I was running a little low on Bullseye and the local gun store was out. I ended up with Clays to use in my 38 Spl. target/plinking loads. Haven't loaded any yet but from what I've read and the load data I've seen, it should be fine for my application.

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Andy

clays is considered a target load...it will do fine

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KK4EMO

WE CAN'T BUY FROM NATCHEZ IN TN.
NATCHEZ WILL ONLY SELL TO DEALERS HERE DON

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TRY WWW.POWDERVALLEYINC.COM OR 800-227-4299 FOR
POWDER & PRIMERS. YOU CAN GET ON A WAITING LIST.
GOOD LUCK DON

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"Don't worry be happy"

Yep that is where I was referring to, they do have alot of powder and they can keep most of it. They are HIGH by quite a bit on all of their reloading stuff and have been since I started reloading last year, can't say anything for them before that but there about the highest place around to get reloading supplies.

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Drew

I found a 4lb container last week! At 3 grains per throw, it'll last a while~~~~~ Now.....about those primers......