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March 31, 2009
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I actually have 26 different powders in my inventory. Not including the 4 types of black. My previous list was just for the old Winchester calibers. I’m low on 4064 but 4895, RL-15, Varget or VV N-150 will work in it’s place.
November 7, 2015
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I don’t know how many powders I have but my current smokeless powder needs could probably be met by Unique, any 4350, Rx7 or 3031, either 4198 and W231. I don’t load any magnum handgun or rifle cartridges so won’t need anything towards the slow end of the spectrum. Since I don’t do artillery or flintlocks my Holy Black granulations are 1 1/2Fg, Cartridge, FFG and FFFg. I could get by just fine with FFg and FFFg.
Mike
January 20, 2023
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I do know what I’m going to do if I’m still around whenever powder and primer prices inevitably dip down to whatever I perceive is the perigee of that market cycle. It won’t ever likely be as low as it last was because there’s a ratchet.
However, we have new American and foreign manufacturers streaming in to build factories and those may come on line at a time when the country is no longer exporting ordnance at the current rate. Who knows but there’s little new under the Sun and it has happened before, more than once.
If it does, I will buy enough of my favorite powders to last until the most optimistic estimate of my personal sell-by date. Anything left over I’ll instruct my executor to distribute among my shooting friends. Here’s hoping the leftovers won’t be enough to get excited about.
- Bill
WACA # 65205; life member, NRA; member, TGCA; member, TSRA; amateur preservationist
"I have seen wicked men and fools, a great many of both, and I believe they both get paid in the end, but the fools first." -- David Balfour, narrator and protagonist of the novel, Kidnapped, by Robert Louis Stevenson.
November 7, 2015
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Zeb-
I haven’t had to buy powder or primers in awhile but from what I have seen it’s unlikely prices will get appreciably better any time soon. Best opportunities seem to be the “free haz-mat” or shipping and other promotions. I think getting a bit carried away restocking my powder and primer magazines awhile back may have been among my best investments of the time.
Mike
April 15, 2005
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Zebulon said
I do know what I’m going to do if I’m still around whenever powder and primer prices inevitably dip down to whatever I perceive is the perigee of that market cycle. It won’t ever likely be as low as it last was because there’s a ratchet.
However, we have new American and foreign manufacturers streaming in to build factories and those may come on line at a time when the country is no longer exporting ordnance at the current rate. Who knows but there’s little new under the Sun and it has happened before, more than once.
If it does, I will buy enough of my favorite powders to last until the most optimistic estimate of my personal sell-by date. Anything left over I’ll instruct my executor to distribute among my shooting friends. Here’s hoping the leftovers won’t be enough to get excited about.
I will take all of the IMR 4064 you can give me… I load 222 Rem Mag, 30-40 Krag, and 30-06 with it.
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January 20, 2023
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I will make a note..
- Bill
WACA # 65205; life member, NRA; member, TGCA; member, TSRA; amateur preservationist
"I have seen wicked men and fools, a great many of both, and I believe they both get paid in the end, but the fools first." -- David Balfour, narrator and protagonist of the novel, Kidnapped, by Robert Louis Stevenson.
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