Your numbers include ammo made abroad for the US market.
Alliant Powder Future Distribution Question
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L.Sherm
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Read again, manufactured in the U.S.
The LC plant in Missouri produces 1.6 billion a year by itself
i believe n560 sir
Not according to this article.
Data: US has 434 Million Guns, 20M ARs, 150M Mags :: Guns.com
The trade association for the U.S. firearm industry crunched the numbers and came up with one solid fact: Americans really like guns.
www.guns.com
As to LC, most of that ammo is for the military not civilian sales. Biden now wants to cancel all commercial contracts:
Reports: Army's Lake City Ammunition Plant Cancels Commercial Ammunition Contracts - The Truth About Guns
Last year we reported that Susan Rice the Biden administration, as part of its unrelenting war on guns and those who own them, was moving to cut off civilian sales of ammunition produced at the Army’s Lake City ammunition plant in Independence, Missouri. Lake City cranks out as much as 30% of...
www.thetruthaboutguns.com
Like I said, be prepared.
RL-26 falls in-between N-165 and N-170.
https://www.vihtavuori.com/powder/n165-rifle-powder/ = N-165
https://www.vihtavuori.com/powder/n170-rifle-powder/ = N-170
divingin
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What is the propellant charge for 155mm artillery?
The M4A2 (white bag) Propelling Charge is a separate loading charge used in 155mm howitzers for firing in Zones 3, 4, 5, 6, and 7. The full M4A2 Propelling Charge consists of 13.4 lbs (6 kg), of M1 propellant and is divided between a base charge and four unequal increments loaded in white cloth bags.
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L.Sherm
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So were do you come up with 1.8 billion,Not according to this article.
Data: US has 434 Million Guns, 20M ARs, 150M Mags :: Guns.com
The trade association for the U.S. firearm industry crunched the numbers and came up with one solid fact: Americans really like guns.
As to LC, most of that ammo is for the military not civilian sales. Biden now wants to cancel all commercial contracts:
Reports: Army's Lake City Ammunition Plant Cancels Commercial Ammunition Contracts - The Truth About Guns
Last year we reported that Susan Rice the Biden administration, as part of its unrelenting war on guns and those who own them, was moving to cut off civilian sales of ammunition produced at the Army’s Lake City ammunition plant in Independence, Missouri. Lake City cranks out as much as 30% of...
Like I said, be prepared.
Seems the articles contradict themselves.
By your numbers if LC makes 1.6 billion then only 200 million is made by others in the U.S.
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That's approximately 3,900 5.56 rounds!
but wouldnt one of the n500 series be a better comparison due to the double base/high energy qualities like n560/n565
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What the heck it works for me !!
So "Winchester" is St Marks Powder Company in Florida ?
Yes. St Marks Powder Co. makes all Winchester powders; all Hodgdon brand 'sphericals' and 'hybrids'; some Accurate brand ball-types; Alliant ball-types such as Power Pro. It also makes 95% of the propellants used in Lake City in 5.56, 7.62, 50BMG as well as lots of other military propellants and applications.)
Long ago, when Winchester was part of the Olin Corporation it developed ball powder manufacturing, which is a quicker, safer process than for conventional tubular/extruded types. Back then (the 1930s) Winchester was located at East Alton, Illinois but a new factory on the St. Marks River replaced it in 1970. Olin was broken up and the bits sold off and St. Marks ended up as part of General Dynamics in its Ordnance & Tactical Systems Division.
What differentiates Winchester powders from the others is that Olin trademarked 'Ball powder' back in the 1930s, and even today, only its successors can describe their products thus even when manufactured in St. Marks. That is why Hodgdon describes its Hodgdon-brand St. Marks Powders as 'Spherical' grades; also more recently 'Hybrid', Superformance, Leverevolution, StabALL etc, all Hodgdon trademarked products.
Winchester is now part of Hodgdon Powder Co. alongside IMR, and the former Western Powder group (Accurate and Ramshot grades) as well as its own Hodgdon products family of course.
The only 'ball type' powders on sale in the US not made in St. Marks are AFAIK Ramshot (Eurenco PB Clermont in Belgium) and Shooters World (Explosia a.s. in the Czech Republic).
Ive seen a bunch of Alliant RL16 and ARComp show up at some online retailers in the past 2 days...
Just be really careful shopping the internet. During the pandemic, there was one site that always “had” H-1000 in large jugs. As far as I could discern, the company consisted of one guy and his cell phone, not supported by credit card payment, but instead by modern no-recourse electronic transfers, and I’d be willing to bet, no powder, nor probably even a shipper’s label template.
Watch for familiar logos with spelling off by one letter. I think Lapua, Hodgdon and Powder Valley have imposter sites lurking on the internet. Even the major banks are susceptible. You may try to set up online access to your credit card only to find that a nuisance value charge got immediately made to your credit card.
good points.
I was referencing what was showing up the past 2 days at Brunos and Precision Reloading...
Reloading Components in Stock -- Running Topic
https://alphamunitions.com/product/6-5-edkh/
forum.accurateshooter.com
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At this moment Vihtavuori and Nammo Lapua are hiring people so much as possible.
Nammo Lapua and Vihtavuori have announced that they have enough work to do for next ten years. So all can guess where that capacity is going, for military. And for me, living in Finland, it is a good sign. It is good that our military is prepared against russia.
Nammo Lapua and Vihtavuori have announced that they have enough work to do for next ten years. So all can guess where that capacity is going, for military. And for me, living in Finland, it is a good sign. It is good that our military is prepared against russia.
6.5 forever
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Thank you for update from Finland. Prayers for your country. I have a granddaughter there doing missionary work. She loves the country and Finnish people.
"HIGHER PRIORITES!!!!" Europeans not being able to conduct themselves like grownups has been the death of many innocents over the last couple of centuries. We kind of expected that this kind of thing would be a thing of the past. I am in total agreement that something needs to be done to help the Ukraine and Israel. Just astonished that after all this we have been drug into another conflict that Europe has allowed to get this out of control. Life without cheap and plentiful primers and powder I can live with. The national debt we will all have to pay due to another of many European rule-the-world hopefuls is just getting to be too much.
https://www.opendemocracy.net/en/ou...side-there-something-fishy-about-great-reset/ Here is the next European disaster waiting to happen
N-500 powders are SINGLE BASE POWDERS with a Nitroglycerine coating to give them higher energy
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