ALERT Federal Primers

General Dynamics in Valleyfield, Quebec is the extruded powder manufacturer in North America.
General Dynamics in St. Mark's, Florida produces ball powders by a totally different process. Ball powder is manufactured under water, in a substantially safer process.

So I don't believe that the one Canadian powder manufacturer will be in any danger of moving to the US, since the US has shut down the kind of process that's used in Valleyfield.
 
B said:
They could follow suit with our powder manufacturers and just ship most of it South.
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This why the world, the democratic countries, are in a fn mess. We've let businesses shut down and buy from totalitarian countries who can force cheap labour. Now they have us by the nutz. Time to tariff the hell out of these goods and reinvent national manufacture.
 
It would seem that General Dynamics either makes the metal components of primers OR makes complete primers depending where you read on their site.
I have bought Dominion primers from Canada Ammo in the past, did GD produce those or a foreign supplier?
 
Dominion primers were made by the Murom plant. On top of shipping issues I think Ukraine will have that source off the list of suppliers for a while.
 
saskdude99 said:
Talked to a clerk at Cabelas today and apparently Federal has stopped all civilian sales of primers for 2 years. What's out there now is it. I'm assuming replacing US ammo sent to Ukraine is a priority.
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I call this BS..counter small talk. There is no way Joe counter will get infos nobody has in the US, not even Federal.
Federal website still list them. No comments by the Company to this effect. Us guns websites have no mention of this. Web search ..nothing.
Local dealer got a palet of Federal primer delivered about 3 week ago.( no I will not tell you who !!)
Supply still get delivered.
 
adamg said:
Top shooters disagree:

https://precisionrifleblog.com/2019/09/22/6xc-load-data/
https://precisionrifleblog.com/2019/09/02/6mm-dasher-load-data/
https://precisionrifleblog.com/2019/09/14/6bra-6brx-6br-load-data/
https://precisionrifleblog.com/2019/09/18/6x47-6-5x47-lapua-load-data/
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That's just one type of shooting. Alot of top benchrest shooters as well as flash use Federal match primers.

Not saying CCI primers are bad but they aren't the only good primer either.
 
Like most serious reloaders you use the recipe that finds that harmonic node on a consistent basis. For heavens above I have a load where a Rem 9 1/2m gives me a consistent .44 out of my 300 wsm with 180gr Accubonds and Retumbo . I can't do the same with cci or fed std or match and get the high velocity node.
So to generalize and say one is better than the other is pure subjective and personal, on the rifle , components, weather etc. With Superformance and a 165 Accubond my ticket calls for Federal 210m for a .48 result.
Sadly, the market has dried up so a lot of shooters who didn't stockpile are SOL and may need to buy factory ammo as that market will likely be fulfilled first.
 
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