Alliant powder shortage

Lrreloader · Monday at 6:37 PM

I do not know what I will be loading for in future, so asking for advice.

I was the weird one that stocked up on primers a $20 a brick when they said that was a crazy price!!

And Here we are!!!

MAGA

Bob Wright · Monday at 6:44 PM

RE23 was my favorite on 280AI and 7RM. Easy to load, low ES and the easy button for speed.

Lrreloader · Monday at 6:46 PM

Bob Wright said:
RE23 was my favorite on 280AI and 7RM. Easy to load, low ES and the easy button for speed.

Thank you, these are the opinions I'm looking for!

FireFlyFishing · Monday at 7:44 PM

I hoping after today shortages are thing of the past.

FEENIX · Monday at 7:46 PM

Lrreloader said:
Basically a hail marry powder grab, with some educated people to let me know what's a flop and what works

I suggest not limiting yourself to Alliant.

Lrreloader said:
I do not know what I will be loading for in future, so asking for advice.

Start with the chamberings you currently have.

Lrreloader said:
Thank you, these are the opinions I'm looking for!

Then, as noted in #10, you need to be more specific about chambering and bullets. I have been using RL-17 and 215 Berger in my 300 WSM for over 10 years.

Lrreloader · Monday at 7:53 PM

FEENIX said:
I suggest not limiting yourself to Alliant.

Start with the chamberings you currently have.

Then, as noted in #10, you need to be more specific about chambering and bullets. I have been using RL-17 and 215 Berger in my 300 WSM for over 10 years.

I'm not asking for what I have, but what I might have

FEENIX · Monday at 8:18 PM

Lrreloader said:
I'm not asking for what I have, but what I might have

You complicate it unnecessarily. When you know to load in the future, let us know. In the meantime, I have extended what I can for now.

Scorpion · Monday at 8:34 PM

Reloder 15 and 17 were my go to powders for 308 based cases and WSM's with mid weight bullets. 22 and 23 for short mags and heavier bullets.

Saw 17 at a local shop for $90 a pound last week.

DLJ6 · Tuesday at 8:32 AM

I hate to do it because I've used them since 7 was one of the first available but I find myself transitioning to less expensive options. Specifically Ramshot.

Greatgrandad · Tuesday at 8:51 AM

Lrreloader said:
I'm sure everyone is aware of alliant only fulfilling military orders, Im sure this will make finding alliant powders harder and harder to find.

What are the top used powders?

Not sure about "the top used powders", but I use a lot of Alliant/Hercules powders - past, present and future.
Bullseye, Red Dot, Green Dot, Unique, Herco, Blue Dot, 2400, Power Pistol, and then many of their rifle powders. Fortunately, I have a fairly large supply, so at my age, I am set for the rest of my life.

Greatgrandad · Tuesday at 8:57 AM

Lrreloader said:
I do not know what I will be loading for in future, so asking for advice.

I was the weird one that stocked up on primers a $20 a brick when they said that was a crazy price!!

And Here we are!!!

MAGA

I actually still have a few thousand primers I purchased at 69.95 per 5k sleeve back in the 90's. and a couple of thousand I purchased for under $10 per 1k. In those days, we were buying primers by the tens of thousands per order, so some older ones stayed on the back of the shelves.

I think the last primers I purchased were $119 per 5k, and I purchased 50k then. (Correction - I paid $139/5k. Old age an all )

memtb · Tuesday at 8:57 AM

Greatgrandad said:
Not sure about "the top used powders", but I use a lot of Alliant/Hercules powders - past, present and future.
Bullseye, Red Dot, Green Dot, Unique, Herco, Blue Dot, 2400, Power Pistol, and then many of their rifle powders. Fortunately, I have a fairly large supply, so at my age, I am set for the rest of my life.

Pretty similar for me…..though if I start doing a lot of rifle shooting, I may come up short on a couple of powders!

Handguns…..I'm good for 2 or 3 lifetimes!

Primers - I wish that I had more. Wish that I'd bought more! memtb

JAYgs8163 · Tuesday at 9:15 AM

I keep seeing RL show up in small quantities. Saw 3 Kegs of RL19 the other day that just came in to one of my LGS.

Greatgrandad · Tuesday at 9:16 AM

memtb said:
Pretty similar for me…..though if I start doing a lot of rifle shooting, I may come up short on a couple of powders!

Handguns…..I'm good for 2 or 3 lifetimes!

Primers - I wish that I had more. Wish that I'd bought more! memtb

Many moons ago, I always thought if any disaster, war, etc ever happened primers would be the weak link in reloading, shooting and hunting, so even though we already used a lot for various shooting purposes, I began to keep more and more on the shelves. Similar with powders.

Being a military mindset of the old Cold War days, it just carried on in me afterwards, so I kept adding. Something always told me, one day prices would be higher and product scarcer, but then, I have that same mindset with several things. It seemed a bit compulsive then and a little paranoid to my wife, but today, she looks at me a little different.

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