venomballistics
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I second this.
#9 is a little finicky as are most others in this burn rate range.
It's not quite as flexible as 2400, but it is dead on it's heels.
What it gives up in flexibility, it gains in energy. not a bad trade really
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I second this.
#9 is a little finicky as are most others in this burn rate range.
It's not quite as flexible as 2400, but it is dead on it's heels.
What it gives up in flexibility, it gains in energy. not a bad trade really
max503
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It's always a good idea to listen to that little voice that says to put in a prudent reserve.
I strongly suggest using a "good" magnum primer with AA#9.
Even 2400 benefits from a magnum primer & which primer you use makes a difference, as was tested in my thread here:
WLP - Rem 2½ primers, are they magnum primers? The 44 test
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shil
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Just shy of $52.00 for a pound of Unique! Sheesh!
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I wonder if this was the intent when it was purchased by a Czech company
ggibson511960
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My LGS proprietor is pretty honest about the supply chain issues. The latest disruptor is China. They are the overwhelmingly dominant supplier of raw nitrocellulose, the precursor to blended and milled gunpowder. The government is scrambling to restore powder supply from somewhere. They will probably be okay as there are idle arsenal facilities all over, but we marginal recreational consumers will be on the outside looking in. China is motivated to keep its fellow communist brothers in arms (Russia) supplied with munitions. Where do we go from here, just as primers start to reappear? I've taken a few baby steps towards black powder and flintlocks in particular. Air rifles are another cheap alternative to maintain trigger time. I have an old S&W CO2 pistol is things get too tough.
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We often fail to realize that handloaders are an incredibly small faction of gunpowder users. Our needs and wants are likely insignificant to the producers and distributors of powder and primers. Hard to blame them; they are in business to make a profit and our small purchases don't begin to generate large profits.
venomballistics
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Vista outdoors is an anti gun company.
one of the dominant philosophies of the anti gunner is that only the government should have guns.
That's their primary customer ... government contracts.
That's the problem. Those companies don't want the re-loaders business. The cost of packaging and shipping 1,4 and 8 lbs of powder to 100 distributors isn't generating the same profit as shipping 1000 lbs of powder to a defense contractor.
Anyone shop at Costco? Same deal. They buy hundreds of pallets of coffee beans and move them to the regional stores using their own fleet of trucks. People buy more coffee beans than powder. If coffee was as popular as powder, someone would buy it wholesale, like Cabela's, and you could buy it for 20% over wholesale. Unfortunately that isn't the case and Cabela's has no powder. Neither does anyone else.
Re-loaders are the last folks in line for powder and primers. Might as well get used to it because it only gets worse.
once upon a time my powder cabinet had many different powders. Then a long came yet another shortage, while this did not catch me off guard I got a little nervous when my inventory became low.
so when it came to powders for my pistols I made the decision to find one powder for all calibers, 9mm, 40, and 45. I settled on W231/hp38 for them all.
I may have lost some accuracy, but I now have a life time supply of those 2 powders.
so if other powders start to show up again at a good price I will buy them and sell my W231/hp38 to fund the others.
If you get caught with your pants down during another shortage, it on you!
I believe some of the shortage is do to people like me trying to secure a life time of supplies.
of course it is easier to have a life time supply when you getting up there in years.
so when it came to powders for my pistols I made the decision to find one powder for all calibers, 9mm, 40, and 45. I settled on W231/hp38 for them all.
I may have lost some accuracy, but I now have a life time supply of those 2 powders.
so if other powders start to show up again at a good price I will buy them and sell my W231/hp38 to fund the others.
If you get caught with your pants down during another shortage, it on you!
I believe some of the shortage is do to people like me trying to secure a life time of supplies.
of course it is easier to have a life time supply when you getting up there in years.
