Hellow Australia

[Mikem]

Congrats to our good friends down under (and there gitting hard to find for us, around the world). Did you know you have a Hodgdon powder plant down there? Yesterday I was looking for a powder lot# on an 8# Varget jug, and noticed it said, Made in Australia and packaged in USA.
At least you guys make the best, keep it up, make more. Love that Varget.
M.

 

[cliffy]

"G'day mate" is how one properly addresses an Aussie. I learned by being corrected by an Aussie, so don't feel badly. Cliffy

 

[aubrey]

No worries mate!

 

[cliffy]

"Made in Australia" is a good thing, as opposed to "Made in China." AMERICA-AUSTRALIA is HIGHLY preferable to AMERICA-CHINESE. The Communists can suck hind teat, as far as I'm concerned. AUSTRALIA is aces up, while China is tits down. YET! Most of our incoming produce comes from CHINA, a Communist country. What Gives? Cliffy

 

[PeterB]

Gday from Oz,
yeah we do make some powders at ADI, which is now called Thales, dunno if there aussies or not though ???. Some of the favourites down here are ADI- AR2206H which is H4895, AR2208- Varget and AR2209 - H4350. You can find them on the www.thalesgroup.com.au site if you wish. they are great powders and consistant in a wide heat range. Just a pitty we can only burn it up at a slow rate now, as we have no semi auto match rifles, bolt guns is it down here thanks to our gumment.
cheers Pete

 

[Laurie]

What might suprise a lot of American forum members is that there are no extruded (stick) powders made at all in the USA these days. I'm told that health and safety requirements make it impossible to produced the little darlings economically. So Hodgdon extruded numbers come from Australia, IMR from Canada, Alliant from Sweden and Switzerland (Re17), Accurate Arms mostly from the Czech Republic.

Ball powders are still made in the USA at the former Olin Industries plant in St. Marks Florida, now the St Marks Powder Co, supplying Hodgdon and Winchester brands, as well as the powders used in US milspec 5.56 and 7.62mm ammo. (It's safer making ball powders as the process involves a non-inflammable, non-explosive slurry until the final stages when the powder balls are precipitated out in a still then dried.)

Still, you're better off than us in the UK as we don't have any powder manufacturers here, and haven't for many years.

Laurie,
York, England

 

[cliffy]

Aussies cannot, by law, own semi-auto loading weapons, which is crazy. Still they are ALLOWED to own pumpers, such as Remington 7600s. So long as my Australian buddies can hunt Buffalos and Big Roos, I remain jealous. America is a crazier place to date, with inane laws that protect no honest citizen, and in many cases protect only criminals. Soon only criminals will be able to use semi and fully-auto weapons to hunt down Gray Wolves. We'll pay big bounties to rid ourselves of thousands of people-eating wolves. America is so politically screwed-up, even the DNR cannot cope. Cliffy