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<blockquote data-quote="westcliffe01" data-source="post: 1075298" data-attributes="member: 35183"><p>In the post Sandyhook world, you will find that you have a lot less options in the way of reloading supplies than you might think. It can be a real bear finding the right powder, even 3 years later.</p><p></p><p>My suggestion is for you to determine which brands of powder are actually stocked by some local suppliers ? Do some price comparisons to Grafs.com to see if your local store is totally ripping you off or in the ballpark. Remember that you pay at least $25 hazmat shipping on powder and primers if bought online, so take that into account when buying locally.</p><p></p><p>My suggestion is to stick to a single brand and then for rifles buy several different burn rates. I work with Hodgdon almost exclusively and they have a line of "extreme" powders which are less temperature sensitive than most, but they are typically "stick" powders and hence do not meter well in regular powder measures. So you have to take the good with the bad. I do not shoot a lot of volume, so I do not need to load hundreds of cartridges at every sitting. So I trickle the stick powders to final weight and weigh each and every charge. That would not be acceptable for a competition shooter, but that's not me.</p><p></p><p>The problem with my choice is that a lot of other shooters have the same strategy, so it can be very difficult to find some of these powders in stock. Sometimes I might have to wait 6 months or more before something pops up in stock. Buy 1lb for load development and once you have a good load worked out, try to get 8lb so that you are working with a single lot of powder as long as possible. Else you may have to tweak the load with every lot change of powder which can be a pain...</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="westcliffe01, post: 1075298, member: 35183"] In the post Sandyhook world, you will find that you have a lot less options in the way of reloading supplies than you might think. It can be a real bear finding the right powder, even 3 years later. My suggestion is for you to determine which brands of powder are actually stocked by some local suppliers ? Do some price comparisons to Grafs.com to see if your local store is totally ripping you off or in the ballpark. Remember that you pay at least $25 hazmat shipping on powder and primers if bought online, so take that into account when buying locally. My suggestion is to stick to a single brand and then for rifles buy several different burn rates. I work with Hodgdon almost exclusively and they have a line of "extreme" powders which are less temperature sensitive than most, but they are typically "stick" powders and hence do not meter well in regular powder measures. So you have to take the good with the bad. I do not shoot a lot of volume, so I do not need to load hundreds of cartridges at every sitting. So I trickle the stick powders to final weight and weigh each and every charge. That would not be acceptable for a competition shooter, but that's not me. The problem with my choice is that a lot of other shooters have the same strategy, so it can be very difficult to find some of these powders in stock. Sometimes I might have to wait 6 months or more before something pops up in stock. Buy 1lb for load development and once you have a good load worked out, try to get 8lb so that you are working with a single lot of powder as long as possible. Else you may have to tweak the load with every lot change of powder which can be a pain... [/QUOTE]
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