TGaryT
Member
H110 and Accurate #9 are two powders I am presently look to procure for reloading (460 S&W).
What powder are you searching for?
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BlueOvalBandit
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I'm pretty good as is, aside from the fact I want to experiment with newer powders like cfe series and be86. Just got 2 8lb kegs of 700x for trap and skeet club members, will mark it up to the local pre panic price we normally pay of $150/8lbs and I get my hazmat and shipping covered for my small 1-2 lb purchases of new powders to experiment with.
AZretired
Member
Bullseye, Unique, red, blue or green dot & SR4756
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MichiganScott
Member
Still looking for Power Pro 2000MR.
I finally found a couple of pounds of Reloder-15 last month. Alliant powders still seem to be in short supply.
I finally found a couple of pounds of Reloder-15 last month. Alliant powders still seem to be in short supply.
Around here all powders are still hard to come by, but not as bad as it has been. I could use some 1680, AA2, 2400, and the slow rifle powders like 100V, H1000, and the various 4350s.
AveragEd
Member
Being an outdoor writer, I have contacts at many of the shooting sports suppliers. Hodgdon's tells me that several powders that can only be manufactured using older methods that require several days more plant time than ones using the newer methodology have been discontinued or will be for 2015.
Among them are all the IMR SR powders, production of which as already ceased. If you want any, find it now for there is no more coming. PB is another casualty as is IMR 4007SSC and Winchester AA Lite.
Since learning that, I have been able to lay my hands on three pounds of 4756 and two of 4007SSC. W231 is coming - in fact, I was told during the third week of July that a shipment was expected during the last week of July that would be repackaged and distributed during the first or second week of August, so keep your local shop owner apprised of your wants. Meanwhile, AutoComp is readily available and a little more of it will do everything 231 will and then some. I've found it to even be cleaner-burning than 231 and more accurate in my .38 Super and .45ACPs.
Truthfully, there aren't many powders that are impossible to find in local shops around here. You just have to seek out those shops as some are well hidden. There might even be a shop right around the corner or down the street that you don't know is there. I mean that and as proof, I recently found one strictly by accident that I'll guarantee has been there since 1950 without even some of its neighbors knowing about it.
About four months ago, I wanted to buy a Smith & Wesson E-series Model 1911Sc. None of the local shops I frequent are S&W stocking dealers and had that model in stock but I was able to find a new one on GunBroker.com that was being sold for a fair price by a dealer in a city about 45 miles from our home. I hit the auction's "Buy Now" button, put the shop's address in my GPS and pointed my vehicle in that direction.
When Mr. Garmin told me I had arrived, I was in front of a small center-city corner store-type pharmacy. After confirming the address, I entered and very tentatively told the older lady behind the counter that I was pretty sure I was supposed to pick up a gun there. "Oh yes," she said and called for "Allie" who appeared from a back room and invited me to follow her there. Now I was in a room where a third lady was filling prescriptions and Allie handed me my gun's box. I looked around, asked if they did a lot of gun business and learned that mine was the 15th gun to leave the shop so far that day, all through Internet sales! I stood right beside the lady putting pills in bottles while I filled out my ATA Form 4473 and Pennsylvania State Police handgun paperwork.
Allie then led me into yet another room absolutely stacked with handgun boxes and asked me what kind of guns I was interested in. When I told her that one of my weaknesses is 25 to 40 year-old Smith & Wesson revolvers, she said it was too bad her father, who owns the business, wasn't home because he has over 5,000 guns in his climate-controlled basement and something on the order of 3,500 of them are S&Ws dating back to the old "Lemon Squeezers."
When I wondered out loud why I had never heard about their shop, she told me that they cannot post any gun-related signs or advertise their gun shop because it is located within a school zone and the city has an ordinance prohibiting anything promoting guns or gun-related signs and advertising in those areas. So just because you think there aren't any gun shops nearby, that in fact may not be the case!
Then the other day, I found myself following an SUV with advertising for a local gun shop I never heard of on its rear window. A call to the number shown confirmed it was in fact in business so you never know where you'll find another shop.
Everybody shops at the "big box" gun shops like Gander Mountain, Bass Pro Shop and Cabela's, so they never seem to have anything. Your small local shop owners should be some of your best friends.
Ed
Among them are all the IMR SR powders, production of which as already ceased. If you want any, find it now for there is no more coming. PB is another casualty as is IMR 4007SSC and Winchester AA Lite.
Since learning that, I have been able to lay my hands on three pounds of 4756 and two of 4007SSC. W231 is coming - in fact, I was told during the third week of July that a shipment was expected during the last week of July that would be repackaged and distributed during the first or second week of August, so keep your local shop owner apprised of your wants. Meanwhile, AutoComp is readily available and a little more of it will do everything 231 will and then some. I've found it to even be cleaner-burning than 231 and more accurate in my .38 Super and .45ACPs.
Truthfully, there aren't many powders that are impossible to find in local shops around here. You just have to seek out those shops as some are well hidden. There might even be a shop right around the corner or down the street that you don't know is there. I mean that and as proof, I recently found one strictly by accident that I'll guarantee has been there since 1950 without even some of its neighbors knowing about it.
About four months ago, I wanted to buy a Smith & Wesson E-series Model 1911Sc. None of the local shops I frequent are S&W stocking dealers and had that model in stock but I was able to find a new one on GunBroker.com that was being sold for a fair price by a dealer in a city about 45 miles from our home. I hit the auction's "Buy Now" button, put the shop's address in my GPS and pointed my vehicle in that direction.
When Mr. Garmin told me I had arrived, I was in front of a small center-city corner store-type pharmacy. After confirming the address, I entered and very tentatively told the older lady behind the counter that I was pretty sure I was supposed to pick up a gun there. "Oh yes," she said and called for "Allie" who appeared from a back room and invited me to follow her there. Now I was in a room where a third lady was filling prescriptions and Allie handed me my gun's box. I looked around, asked if they did a lot of gun business and learned that mine was the 15th gun to leave the shop so far that day, all through Internet sales! I stood right beside the lady putting pills in bottles while I filled out my ATA Form 4473 and Pennsylvania State Police handgun paperwork.
Allie then led me into yet another room absolutely stacked with handgun boxes and asked me what kind of guns I was interested in. When I told her that one of my weaknesses is 25 to 40 year-old Smith & Wesson revolvers, she said it was too bad her father, who owns the business, wasn't home because he has over 5,000 guns in his climate-controlled basement and something on the order of 3,500 of them are S&Ws dating back to the old "Lemon Squeezers."
When I wondered out loud why I had never heard about their shop, she told me that they cannot post any gun-related signs or advertise their gun shop because it is located within a school zone and the city has an ordinance prohibiting anything promoting guns or gun-related signs and advertising in those areas. So just because you think there aren't any gun shops nearby, that in fact may not be the case!
Then the other day, I found myself following an SUV with advertising for a local gun shop I never heard of on its rear window. A call to the number shown confirmed it was in fact in business so you never know where you'll find another shop.
Everybody shops at the "big box" gun shops like Gander Mountain, Bass Pro Shop and Cabela's, so they never seem to have anything. Your small local shop owners should be some of your best friends.
Ed
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novalty
Member
AverageEd, thanks for the insighful post. You must be lucky where you are. I am in Southern Maine, and pretty sure I know every LGS around. Barely any of them have powder, and the ones that do only have limited selection of rifle. The only signs I have seen for powder is online. I've considered buying handgun in bulk and reselling locally as several people I have spoken with are clamouring for it--but I don't think my wife would appreciate the overhead.
RV4driver
US Veteran
WSF, for soft recoil 9mm loads in my PPQ. I got a lot out of the last one pounder, but it's empty now...dangit.
Ben_hutcherson
Member
I like PB for target loads in 38 special and 45 Colt, although I don't use a huge amount of it.
Even so, I've been grabbing a can every time I see it in stock. Speaking of which, I need to stop by the LGS today and pick up another can. I don't want to turn into too much of a hoarder, but at least with this particular powder it's now or never.
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AveragEd
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I used PB for years as a tournament trapshooter in my 12-guage target loads but when it became so scarce and pricy when you could find 8-pound jugs of it, I switched to Green Dot. It's dirtier, not as soft-shooting and doesn't smell as good as PB but it patterns about the same.
Ed
Ed
Looking for H4895
klausinak
US Veteran
I'm always looking for RL-15; of course I drop almost 80 grains @ a time in the .375, luckily I don't shoot a lot of those. That and any Accurate product, haven't seen any AA stuff up here in quite awhile.
-Klaus
-Klaus
Nemo288
Member
In a pinch you can use 4227 and even 4198 (for heavy bullets) in the 460 S&W.
Both seem to be available.
I am using 4227 by default now in the 445, the 460's smaller brother.
You might lose 50 fps, even 100, but 4227 is way more forgiving and has a wider pressure range than the ball powders.
It ignites easier too.
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Nemo
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novalty
Member
Gunbot just posted AA#7 at Butches reloading.
I am trying to mentally remember all the powders people are looking for, and will post on the Daily In-Stock thread. Try to keep my post there to strictly powder notifications, so if you see I've posted something in that thread check it out. I'll try to pm you direct if there was some different you had posted above.
I am trying to mentally remember all the powders people are looking for, and will post on the Daily In-Stock thread. Try to keep my post there to strictly powder notifications, so if you see I've posted something in that thread check it out. I'll try to pm you direct if there was some different you had posted above.
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