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This always amazes me. We're really just buying from marketers - not manufacturers.Hodgdon or the others doesnt make any powder as far as i know. A few places in the world makes it all for all the brands
This always amazes me. We're really just buying from marketers - not manufacturers.Hodgdon or the others doesnt make any powder as far as i know. A few places in the world makes it all for all the brands
Very well put. It gives Hodgdon a very strong arm over it's competitors, Capstone and Alliant. Touche!Some Accurate Arms grades were made in Israel at one time, but that was a really long time ago. Accurate Arms then sourced its powders from a Czech outfit (still around - it supplies Shooters World these days) until Western Powders Inc bought it. Western terminated the Czech contract and uses three sources - P B Clermont in Belgium for the Ramshot ball powders and possibly some of the Accurate grades; General Dynamics St. Marks Powder Co. in Florida for some Accurate label ball types; General Dynamics Valleyfield in Quebec Province Canada for its extruded products. (Valleyfield also makes most IMR powders for Hodgdon.)
The buy-out gives Hodgdon a strong position as the bottling / distribution and marketing outfit for Hodgdon / IMR / Winchester and now Ramshot / Accurate marques. However, it's the only family owned US concern in the business and the other two big players Alliant ATK and Nammo (Lapua-Vihtavuori-Berger) are multinational combines, especially Alliant. I suppose it also provides Hodgdon with product in the literal sense as its big problem in recent years has been getting enough Australian ADI produced extruded powder to meet demand. (You'd never guess that from threads on this forum of course!)
I don't think so. I think all they do is bottle, and label.Do they actually produce some powder there?
Who already took over distribution of Alliant? I'm slow. Having trouble keeping up.
Thats what i was getting at- we dont produce powder here. The same guys make it all and companies buy it and package it. I wonder how bad the pucker factor is on a ship from australia full of gunpowder? @pirate ammoI don't think so. I think all they do is bottle, and label.
A lot less than pushing a 50,000 barrel gasoline barge across Long Island Sound, even worse, a loaded hot asphalt barge.Thats what i was getting at- we dont produce powder here. The same guys make it all and companies buy it and package it. I wonder how bad the pucker factor is on a ship from australia full of gunpowder? @pirate ammo
That is new news to me. I thought Vista Outdoor owned Alliant Powder.Hodgdon
vista does own alliant-That is new news to me. I thought Vista Outdoor owned Alliant Powder.
Right you are. The press release below is worded such that they appear to be “a” distributor and not the “sole” distributor?? It’s also strange that the relationship is noted as specifically relating to 2019. They also state that they distributed for Alliant in the past. Maybe you have further insight?I said distribution. Not ownership.
Hodgdon is the distributor for Alliant.
Right you are. The press release below is worded such that they appear to be “a” distributor and not the “sole” distributor?? It’s also strange that the relationship is noted as specifically relating to 2019. They also state that they distributed for Alliant in the past. Maybe you have further insight?
https://www.theoutdoorwire.com/releases/e00f12e1-f6c2-4425-8253-a4a85ca87918
Damned Autocorrect...."Redford Army Ammunition Plant in Redford Virginia. "
RADFORD not Redford. Also produces solid rocket fuel and I think they still make gun cotton and nitroglycerine.