Alliant powder prices
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Jim Ziegler
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It got way too expensive and hard to find for me. I've found better powders at way more reasonable prices.
I’ve used R17 in my 260 for years. Can’t get it now, and if I could find it, the price is just too much. When I run out of what remains, I’ll switch to A4350.
Jud96
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The sad thing is, I have an 8lb keg of RL23 and an 8lb of RL23. I bought both of these in 2020. The RL26 was $156 and the 23 was $179. Now they’re more than double that. I use to shoot mainly Alliant powders, but once I burn them up, I’m moving to VihtaVuori and maybe some Hodgdon stuff.
If you make it up to VA, I have 10 pounds and I'll cut you a good deal on it.
Sure wish I wasn’t so far from you. I’m in central Texas, near Waco.
Where in Va are you ?
I just sold 20 lbs of RL15 to an Illinois HP shooter for way less than I know I could have sold it for. It went to a good home and will be put to good use and not posted on Gunbroker. Alliant's prices are just nuts these days. I have a jug of RL17 I bought for only $100 that I think I'll hang on to for awhile.
I'll have to find a replacement for RL 22, 25, 15 & 19 when I run out. They're just to expensive, and I know there are powders out there that will work just as well for less money.
If you are using R17 A4350 will not make you happy.
FNSafari
Gold $$ Contributor
Try Vit in the 140, 150 to 160 range.
okie
Gold $$ Contributor
You will like the VV powders. Hodgdon is great too---cant beat varget and 4350 in the .260
Alliant grades come from three sources:
1) Most Re grades from Eurenco Bofors in Sweden (which also produces all Norma marque powders)
2) A minority of Re grades (i/c Re17) from Nitrochemie Wimmins in Switzerland
3) All ball-technology powders from the General Dynamics' St. Marks Powder Co. plant in Florida
Only St Marks isn't directly affected by the ammunition components crisis caused by Russia's invasion of Ukraine. Finland (which has just joined NATO and will shortly switch cartridges to 5.56/7.62 requiring a complete reinventory and replacement of its ammunition stocks) and Sweden are tooling up like nobody's business and sucking up vast quantities of powder for loading military smallarms ammo. (if you lived just across the Baltic Sea from Russia, you'd tool up too!)
Nitrochemie is half owned by RUAG, the large European engineering and ammo producer which uses large quantities of Nitrochemie propellants. I don't know what they're doing right now, but it's a pretty safe bet that as the primary supplier of ammunition to European governments, it has seen a huge increase in orders.
AFAIK Eurenco Bofors handloading products (Norma, Bofors, and Alliant) have all dried up entirely. Over here in the UK, we saw no Reload Swiss (Nitrochemie) handloading powders for over a year, but limited supplies have recently restarted rather sporadically.
No product = no supply; nothing in the shops.
Limited supply = higher prices, the usual 'law' of supply vs demand.
Nammo Vihtavuori Oy has doubled its output over the last 18 months and despite seeing a large increase in European military demand, has so far managed to keep supplies going to the handloading market.
1) Most Re grades from Eurenco Bofors in Sweden (which also produces all Norma marque powders)
2) A minority of Re grades (i/c Re17) from Nitrochemie Wimmins in Switzerland
3) All ball-technology powders from the General Dynamics' St. Marks Powder Co. plant in Florida
Only St Marks isn't directly affected by the ammunition components crisis caused by Russia's invasion of Ukraine. Finland (which has just joined NATO and will shortly switch cartridges to 5.56/7.62 requiring a complete reinventory and replacement of its ammunition stocks) and Sweden are tooling up like nobody's business and sucking up vast quantities of powder for loading military smallarms ammo. (if you lived just across the Baltic Sea from Russia, you'd tool up too!)
Nitrochemie is half owned by RUAG, the large European engineering and ammo producer which uses large quantities of Nitrochemie propellants. I don't know what they're doing right now, but it's a pretty safe bet that as the primary supplier of ammunition to European governments, it has seen a huge increase in orders.
AFAIK Eurenco Bofors handloading products (Norma, Bofors, and Alliant) have all dried up entirely. Over here in the UK, we saw no Reload Swiss (Nitrochemie) handloading powders for over a year, but limited supplies have recently restarted rather sporadically.
No product = no supply; nothing in the shops.
Limited supply = higher prices, the usual 'law' of supply vs demand.
Nammo Vihtavuori Oy has doubled its output over the last 18 months and despite seeing a large increase in European military demand, has so far managed to keep supplies going to the handloading market.
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