Did I miss something? I just received my order of pistol powder and Accurate #2 now bears the Hodgdon logo on it.
Hodgdon bought out Western powders?
- Thread starter Lefty Trigger
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Might as well buy them out. they have NO powder anywho. Tommy Mc
Actually Accurate and Ramshot powder have been the only powders I have been able to buy all along. Some of them are not so easy but most I shoot have been accessible.
Lefty i wish they would show up here in South Texas. WE GOT Nothing. Tommy Mc
You must have been sleeping a long time. They bought Western, IMR, and have exclusive dist right to ADI (extreme line) and Winchester brand
Now that they own all those powder "names", maybe they'll build a big powder manufacturing plant!
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FNSafari
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Their recent powder update said not a chance to building a powder production facility.
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Hodgdon Powder Update — Why Are There Shortages? « Daily Bulletin
As any handloader knows, popular reloading powders have become difficult to find. And when you do locate the powder you want, the price might be twice what you paid a year ago (or even more on auction sites).
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jelenko
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My understanding is they make none of their own powders - they simply buy from manufacturers, brand, package and sell.
jelenko
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Same here. Although I've been able to get a bunch of BlC2 and I've noticed V133 being available multiple times.
Correct, so far as making the stuff goes. All Hodgdon brand powders are made by offshoots of multinationals (which in itself tells you something about the size and resources needed to be in the 'energetics' business these days, not a role for relatively small outfits like Hodgdon). Extruded 'Extremes' plus a couple of IMRs by Thales / ADI (Australia); Winchester, Accurate, and Hodgdon ball/spherical and Hybrids from General Dynamics Corporation / St. marks Florida; most IMR and Accurate extrudeds from General Dynamics Corporation Ordnance and Tactical Systems, Valleyfield Canada; Ramshot from Eurenco / P.B. Clermont, Belgium.
The only canister rifle powders for handloaders made in the USA are the ball types from GD in Florida. All extruded (tubular) grades are imported from around the western world. Chris Hodgdon told me many, many years ago that US EPA health & safety requirements make manufacture of the latter type impossible in the US - not physically impossible, rather the constraints and requirements would make the product so expensive, nobody would buy it. The same situation applies to other marques - the Power-Pro grades are the only Alliant rifle powders made in the US, other coming from Sweden and Switzerland. Vihtavuori is of course Finnish from the town of the same name; Shooters World powders are made by Explosia a.s. in the Czech Republic.
Hodgdon, Alliant, Shooters World etc do more than package / distribute as they also do the vital product testing to ensure lots don't vary too much, pressure-testing and loads development and the publication of user data and so on. Vital jobs and not small ones either.
I think that the Accurate/Ramshot powders are not real popular around here and the "out of the way" shops that stock powders could not get rid of them. Just recently a large chain store (Vance outdoors) had a pretty decent stock of several brands and probably had at least 20 pounds of TAC, Titegroup, Accurate #5 and a few others on hand.
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