Where's all the powder

[Unionman]

What is going on with all the powder?????? Why is it the only component that is in shortage?

 

[jcameron996]

There is powder out there to be found, its just not as easy as it should be. When you find it you better be prepared to jump on it and buy all you can afford. I found some on the internet last week and myself and couple of buddies bought enought to last us for at least the rest of the year. Gunbot is a good place to start.

 

[technetium-99m]

Powder is going into loaded ammo, there are quite a few new reloaders trying to buy, and current reloaders are buying every pound of everything they see.

The supply chain isn't flexible enough to accommodate this much of a demand spike and everyone is out. Keep looking and you will probably be able to find something that can work for you.

 

[jtischauser]

I heard there is a nitroglycerin shortage which is a raw material in making gun powder.
Someone should dig into that deeper. Cause I don't know how it's made.

 

[MarkCh]

Jerry at Jerry's Reloading in Tulsa told me the shortage had to do with shipping restrictions coming out of Australia (I believe he said Australia). Something about the government there limiting how many containers holding powder can go on a ship, when before it was unlimited, thereby squeezing down the pipeline of powder to the United States. That sounded as reasonable to me as anything else I had heard, although I didn't know powder came from over there. He gets in a little powder every week or so, but it's seldom the pistol powders I'm looking for.

 

[Zekernst]

That is pretty much spot on. Hodgdon doesn't make powder. It comes from ADI (Australian Defense Industries) and the ST. Marks plant in florida owned by General Dynamics. Most of the ball powders come from florida and most of the stick powders come from australia.

 

[mike cyrwus]

invade austrailia

 

[mike cyrwus]

natchez has varget

 

[Robusto]

invade austrailia

Didn't some one already try that?

 

[mike cyrwus]

yes, and even with help from macArthurs bumblings they couldnt do it, thanks mostly to our patrol bombers at midway

 

[oldglock]

As an amatuer historian of the period i should comment that actually the Japs felt that they needed Port Morseby(SP?)in Southern New Guinea as a staging area and port for the invasion of Northern Australia.
An invasion force of troopships escorted by warships including serveral(4?) aircraft carriers set forth for the invasion. Spotted by coast watchers and US submarines, the invasion force was intercepted by US Navy aircraft flying off the Saratoga and Yorktown. One Jap carrier was sunk or severely damaged. another was damaged to the point of being unable to conduct flight operations and the invasion was cancelled. The Saratoga was lost and the Yorktown damaged to the point the Japs thought she was sunk or at least out of the war. Hastily repaired, she was a factor in Midway 6 weeks later.
This was the first naval engagement in which opposing surface forces were never in contact with each other and became known as the Battle of the Coral Sea.
Dugout Doug was not a factor and was likely entertaining media and politicians in Australia. Likewise, the area is so far from Midway that I doubt that any patrol aircraft form there could have provided any information as to Jap formations or movement.
And How could the Japs, their forces obviously stretched to their limit possibly have hoped to occupy such a huge continent with population centers or resources thousands of mile apart?

 

[OUshooter]

I still say they shouldn't have stopped Patton till he hit the 45th parallel, then turned him loose on the southern hemisphere. Provide he lived long enough.

Hijack complete.

Btw don't take anything I post too seriously unless told otherwise.

 

[mike cyrwus]

As an amatuer historian of the period i should comment that actually the Japs felt that they needed Port Morseby(SP?)in Southern New Guinea as a staging area and port for the invasion of Northern Australia.
An invasion force of troopships escorted by warships including serveral(4?) aircraft carriers set forth for the invasion. Spotted by coast watchers and US submarines, the invasion force was intercepted by US Navy aircraft flying off the Saratoga and Yorktown. One Jap carrier was sunk or severely damaged. another was damaged to the point of being unable to conduct flight operations and the invasion was cancelled. The Saratoga was lost and the Yorktown damaged to the point the Japs thought she was sunk or at least out of the war. Hastily repaired, she was a factor in Midway 6 weeks later.
This was the first naval engagement in which opposing surface forces were never in contact with each other and became known as the Battle of the Coral Sea.
Dugout Doug was not a factor and was likely entertaining media and politicians in Australia. Likewise, the area is so far from Midway that I doubt that any patrol aircraft form there could have provided any information as to Jap formations or movement.
And How could the Japs, their forces obviously stretched to their limit possibly have hoped to occupy such a huge continent with population centers or resources thousands of mile apart?

The Douglass comment was only in regards to the "Invade Australia" comment; and was more expeditious and less obscure for the audience than cursing Scanlan for Rabaul. I can only assume that your "amateur" status prevented you from realizing that.

 

[dennishoddy]

I still say they shouldn't have stopped Patton till he hit the 45th parallel, then turned him loose on the southern hemisphere. Provide he lived long enough.

Hijack complete.

Btw don't take anything I post too seriously unless told otherwise.

Then the bastard had to go get himself killed in a vehicle accident. If he had his way the war would have ended up quicker. Eisenhower and Montgomery were fighting politics toward the end. He was the fighting mans General.

One his most famous quotes" No bastard ever won a war by dying for his country. You won it by making the other poor dumb bastard die for his country."

 

[45recoil]

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[dennishoddy]

Whoa Dude! is that your stash?

 

[45recoil]

Yea thats all...would love to get ahold of some 8# 335

 

[Scott Hearn]

Amateurs... :devil:

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[45recoil]

Its a powder thread Scott, geez!!!!!

 

[Scott Hearn]

I saw that Powder Valley got in a shipment of VV a day or so ago. From reading the replies on Facebook it seems ours are a mere pittance. Several dudes were like... "Got 32lbs of N320 and 16lbs of 3N3x!" From the way it looks the shipment didn't even last an hour. Must be nice to be able to drop a grand or two on powder.