The supply chain crimp from the pandemic showed us in the US our tenuous fragility in powder. War is the follow on, and a second new one has just begun.
I think almost all the powders we use are from those facilities Laurie identifies, as well as from Australia, Hodgdon’s source.
We are the world’s dependent desert isle when it comes to civilian powder. There’s a business model lurking somewhere in this angst.
I have been a diehard user of RE 25 in particular. But when Alliant goes dark, if it did, unlike Lapua’s pause, we just have to figure it out. I phased in H-1000 2+ years ago. Retailer price hikes, probably of sputtering supply existing in the pipeline are a clue.
Our only consolation in the US is we that can literally purchase all the powder we can afford, or can find, which I understand is not allowed in other countries. It is not cheap anymore, but we can stock up, and/or we can load ammo in quantity.
—- I’ll join the group that criticizes hoarders, when that group talks down this country throwing treasure, material, and troops into every timezone while it frets over government shutdown from insurmountable debt.
How big regional fights become I sense is becoming a function of how much aid the US is perceived as willing throw in. Who’s standing behind me in the schoolyard. This country can always make more, right?
To other countries in the category shall we say of new found friends, there are some basic choices we all learned in school, - you can hit the gym yourself, or you can study up on diplomacy. When it’s YOUR next door neighbor that’s the issue, and always will be, factor that in as things escalate, maybe? —-
