Pistol powder= Not Available

snooker said:
You guys need to think outside the box.
If your desperate for something to shoot in your pistols----talk to some old shotgunners. You'd be surprised that a good deal of shotgun powder is extremely versatile. Stuff like 700x can be used in almost all pistol calibers--can't find a recipe? Look in OLDer manuals, lots of shotgun powders used. Talk to OLDer guys, they've been thru either nonavailability; or just can't afford more than one type of powder. Shotgun powders do double duty with pistol calibers. Its kept me shooting when more modern powder isn't available.
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I've always considered pistol and shotgun powders equivalent. So much so that I never used the term shotgun powder before because Ive always felt they were the he same. Challenge is, there isnt muh shotgun power either.
 
I really don't want to try running some flakey shotgun powder thru my lee auto disk measures. I can't see it going terribly well...

I've a few pounds of unique that I use in 44-40, but I don't load that on the progressive.

Ditto on the old manuals, though. Great for if you run into some Alcan at a gun show. Lol

The last show I was at I scored a pound each of bullseye and 2400 in the old cardboard cans. He was asking pretty much modern retail for them and would not budge. Couldn't blame him - I'd do the same.
 
I looked into buying some pistol powder from Cabellas since they had some in..... but the shipping is delusional. $158.00 just for handling/shipping... bollucks!!
 
Mark-II said:
I really don't want to try running some flakey shotgun powder thru my lee auto disk measures. I can't see it going terribly well...

I've a few pounds of unique that I use in 44-40, but I don't load that on the progressive.

Ditto on the old manuals, though. Great for if you run into some Alcan at a gun show. Lol

The last show I was at I scored a pound each of bullseye and 2400 in the old cardboard cans. He was asking pretty much modern retail for them and would not budge. Couldn't blame him - I'd do the same.
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I just scored 3 lbs of AL 5 and a pound each of AL 7&8 in addition to some equally obsolete, faster pistol powders. I was already in pretty good shape due to my willingness to buy obsolete powders and work up my own loads, but a windfall like that could not be passed up.
5 grains of AL 5 has my Blackhawk shooting 38 special 150 grain cast at 830 fps. Nice and clean to.
I won't say how much I gave for almost 10 lbs of powder, but the money would not have bought a pound at today's prices.
 
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