Gunpowder (Hodgdon)

[dantiff2]

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Sounds like we need to bring powder production into the US!

 

[markm87]

Honestly I feel like America's commitment to quality production and manufacturing has reached a pathetic level of mediocrity. Quality has become the exception.

 

[Murray Brook]

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Sounds like we need to bring powder production into the US!

The only way powder production will come back in North America will be because of a war. Aside from that there are just to many "snowflakes" on both sides of the border against this. JMO

 

[LCazador]

We have powder production here but it's all spherical and flake powder. So there must be an issue with manufacturing the extruded powders?

 

[Gb300wm]

I’m pretty sure that EPA regulations would make extruded tube powders too expensive to manufacture here. That’s why only spherical and flake powders are made here…

 

[Kracken McGraw]

I’m pretty sure that EPA regulations would make extruded tube powders too expensive to manufacture here. That’s why only spherical and flake powders are made here…

And think of all the rural places in America that would love to have this economic boom, and the land it would be setting on is just only good for holding the world together anyway.

 

[Fuj]

A little Trivia......During WW2, Dupont companies produced one million
pounds of powder "per day" for the war effort. After the war, 1.6 million
tons of powder were dumped at sea for disposal.....

 

[CJ6]

Homel used 40mm ammo machines to fill Spam cans and gunpowder mixers for making bulk luncheon meats. All from WWII.

 

[Larry Koch]

A little Trivia......During WW2, Dupont companies produced one million
pounds of powder "per day" for the war effort. After the war, 1.6 million
tons of powder were dumped at sea for disposal.....

Some was used as fertilizer.

 

[6.5 forever]

Honestly I feel like America's commitment to quality production and manufacturing has reached a pathetic level of mediocrity. Quality has become the exception.

I have a friend who has a company dealing with shooting products. He has some very nice CNC machines he uses for product development. They source their products from China because they can't find a source in the US who can hold the tolerances the Chinese can.....
That is sad and alarming.

 

[Larry Koch]

Profits before quality.

 

[boltfluter]

I have a friend who has a company dealing with shooting products. He has some very nice CNC machines he uses for product development. They source their products from China because they can't find a source in the US who can hold the tolerances the Chinese can.....
That is sad and alarming.

Not buying that! The U.S. has some of the best machinist in the world. This is all about profit. Period.
Paul

 

[Eagle Six]

A little Trivia......During WW2, Dupont companies produced one million
pounds of powder "per day" for the war effort. After the war, 1.6 million
tons of powder were dumped at sea for disposal.....

And a lot of that was canon powder.

EDIT: @762willdo "cannon"

 

[762willdo]

Not buying that! The U.S. has some of the best machinist in the world. This is all about profit. Period.
Paul

americans can hold tolerances as good or better than the Chinese they just can’t do it for 20 cents an hour…….

 

[762willdo]

And a lot of that was canon powder.

Cannon

 

[6.5 forever]

Not buying that! The U.S. has some of the best machinist in the world. This is all about profit. Period.
Paul

Well you don't have to buy that.
And you sure don't need to take it personal. I'm sure your work is the best

 

[boltfluter]

Well you don't have to buy that.
And you sure don't need to take it personal. I'm sure your work is the best

6.5,
Nothing personal, just my take on it is all. It's all good. Sorry if I came on a little strong.
Paul

 

[divingin]

A little Trivia......During WW2, Dupont companies produced one million
pounds of powder "per day" for the war effort. After the war, 1.6 million
tons of powder were dumped at sea for disposal.....

Look up the history of the town of Hercules, CA. I shot a lot of Hercules Bullseye in the 80's and never realized the town was named after the company.

 

[muleystalker]

Look up the history of the town of Hercules, CA. I shot a lot of Hercules Bullseye in the 80's and never realized the town was named after the company.

Yup, I live about 30 miles from there. when they were tearing the old plant down me and my dad went out there a salvaged a bunch of the bricks from the original plant. I talked to the guy in charge and I was able to get some pieces of the huge Redwood timbers from the roof, clear redwood and way over 100 years old. The plant was built in 1881. If I remember correctly they were 12"x 36" and some of them were over 30' long. I ripped them down for different projects. I still have some and always wanted to send it to Terry Leonard to make me a stock out of it but unfortunately I wanted to long. I thought that would have been kinda cool to have a stock made from timbers from the Original Hercules Powder Plant in Ca.

 

[DiRTY DOG]

It's a regional park now, I walked 5 miles of trails there last week. There's not much left of the plant besides empty pits from the bunkers, railway tracks, and the towering rows of eucalyptus trees that were planted to act as blast barriers.