Another powder score 4756 24 lbs

[Peter M. Eick]

8 lb jugs are coming easy lately. I picked up 24 more lbs of 4756 so I now have around 40 lbs of the stuff stashed at my neighbors and friends. I think this weekend I may go house to house and check what I have where.

I was not planning on buying more 4756 since it was being discontinued but I could not pass up so much easy powder at a good price. SIGH.

At least I have put off my need of reworking my 38/44 and 38 Super loads for probably 5 years or so.

 

[novalty]

Congrats on the score!

Thought I snagged an 8lber of W231 this morning from MidSouth, until my confirmation said it was backordered.

 

[Peter M. Eick]

I am picking things up locally and supporting my local dealers. They send out emails of what is available so I hop in the truck at lunch and buzz out there and pick it up. Very convenient now.

Pretty much I am now only looking for 2400, 4227 and AA9 in 8 lb jugs. I am just not going to mess with 1 lb ones any more.

 

[novalty]

Right now I'm trying to fing an 8lb jug for my 45acp loads, been looking for W231, HP38, AA#5, or WST. My LGS has only been getting rifle powder and those have been pricey.

 

[canvsbk]

40 pounds.
Does that come out to 40,000 rounds, give or take a few?
You must shoot non stop.....how do you ever find time to reload?

 

[jsfricks]

Good score! Gunbot finally paid off for me last week. Powder Valley had Bullseye and Unique in stock for about 10 minutes so I bought 4 of each.

 

[gm272gs]

40 pounds.
Does that come out to 40,000 rounds, give or take a few?
You must shoot non stop.....how do you ever find time to reload?

More like 55,000.
I wonder if the OP has 100,000 rounds of .22LR socked away, too? You know, just in case?

 

[Bkreutz]

40 pounds.
Does that come out to 40,000 rounds, give or take a few?
You must shoot non stop.....how do you ever find time to reload?

Not hard to do if you shoot competitively. 1000 rounds a week, with a 2 week vacation is 50K rounds a year. If you have the right equipment, handloading doesn't take that much time either.

 

[murph11011680680]

More like 55,000.
I wonder if the OP has 100,000 rounds of .22LR socked away, too? You know, just in case?

I was waiting for the hoarding hint. Is 100,000 rounds ever enough? Just joking.

Nice score though. I do not need to look for Bullseye, Unique, H335, BLC-2, 700X, or Varget for a while, just need to find a couple of 8lb Benchmarks and an 8 of 2400. I may need another 20K or so 22lr's though .

 

[gm272gs]

Benchmark and Bullseye are like Unicorns around here.

I got 4# of Tite Group recently, so my pistol loading happy quotient is high.

Varget is all I use for rifle, and it's easy to get locally as well.

 

[novalty]

Just stopped into my LGS, and they actually had some powder in. However, I only saw 1 that was priced under $30...9oz jugs of Trailboss for $21.09 OTD. They had 4756, 7625, Benchmark, 296, and a few other rifle all either $34.80 or $36.91 OTD.

 

[Peter M. Eick]

ANOTHER BIG SCORE!!!!

Would you believe that I just got another 24 lbs of 4227 that I will pick up tomorrow? This is great. Now I have powder for the 357 Maximum again. Yikes I am going to have to find somewhere to store it though. I have to find another buddy to save it for me.

By the way, 4756 is supposedly going away so I am buying for the future. I kill about 8 lbs of 4756 in my 38/44 and 38 Supers per year. The stuff goes quickly. Same with 4227. If I shoot 500 rounds of 357 Max (light day) at 20 grns per shot, that is 10,000 grns per shooting session so about a pound and a half of powder per trip to the range. That is only about 2.5 to 3 years of powder for my 4 Maxes.

I should comment on the 4756. My standard load is 7 to 7.5 grns for either the 38 Super or 38/44. I normally shoot between 700 and 1000 rounds per session and I try to get out twice to 3 times per month. Obviously not every session is on the 38/44 but most are. So, I burn about 1 lb of powder per month on average for my 38/44's. Since I don't hit my 38/44's or 38 supers every month, that means about 8 to 10 lbs of powder per year just for them.

 

[novalty]

I would have picked up a pound of 4576 and 7625 to try, but at $32.99 and $34.99/lb respectively, it was too rich for my blood. I love Benchmark and wouldn't mind having another round as it shot really well in my 25-35 WCF chambered Winchester 94, but again $34.99/lb was more than I wanted to pay.

 

[KSCowboy]

Hi Peter,

You say:
"My standard load is 7 to 7.5 grns for either the 38 Super or 38/44."

What weight bullet and what velocity do you get with that in the 38 Super?

 

[Ga.BuckBuster]

I must be living in the Twilight Zone. Everywhere I call here in the Atlanta area everyone is out of pretty much out of everything especially, pistol powders. I'm doing Ok for now,(maybe a 1.5-2 yrs.) if I shoot my pistols every other month or less. Rifles a few times a year.
But I did manage to get some Ramshot TAC rifle(.223/.308) powder at a show about 3 weeks ago. Accurate powders are the hardest to come by. AA #2520 and AA#5 are very hard or impossible to find.
Surely this will end sometime in the next 6mos-1yr., this is really tough on us reloaders!

 

[rwsmith]

I haven't seen.....

I haven't seen 24# of powder in a year and a half.

 

[oldman10mm]

I have about 5 lbs of 4756,buy more as I see it. It's my preferred powder for 38/357,9mm,10mm,40S&W,44M. Used to use 2400,but 4756 burns cleaner while maintaining 2400 velocity(chronographed). Powder supplies aren't too bad at the gun shows and FinFurFeather here in northern Ohio.

 

[Peter M. Eick]

158 LSWC in the 38/44
135 LRN in the 38 Super.

This gives me 1350 FPS out of a 5" Les Baer PII.

 

[pappylee]

sr 4756

were I,m at, in, so. ohio, [I,can find sr4756],never used it,can't find bullseye,231, should, I buy 2 to 3 lbs, or more?,i, see the recipie's in my loading data.