E-mailed The Brass at Hodgdon

I placed an order with higginson, and I did get a keg of Varget. However, I"m using that for target shooting only. I ahve found that WC735 kills ground squirrels and gophers just as dead. And it's a lot cheaper. Under the same bullet, it seems to shoot almost the same as varget with just a slight increase in the spread of the group. There doesn't seem to be a shortage of that.
It seems to work in the .223 and the 7.62x39 cases best though. It worked ok in the 45-70. I have to do some more testing there though. It seems to work best in small capacity cases... Just a thought.
 
I don't believe this went on for 11 pages.

Maybe I just like to solve problems myself instead of complaining, but there are plenty of powders out there that accomplish the pretty much the same thing. H4895 is rare it seems, but IMR4895 and Varget are able to be found. Part of being a reloader is to be self sufficient I thought.
 
hometownhero said:
One thing I don't understand is that imr powder is made in Canada but its just as hard to come by as H powder. At least here it is anyway.
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It has nothing to do with where it is made. ;)

Its supply and demand, more people buying guns, more people buying ammunition, and even more people reloading.

Read the September issue of Guns and Ammo page 14
"The Great Ammo Drought"

This week I drove to a larger sporting goods store further in the country and away from the capital city of Pennsylvania. The place had more powder and bullets than I have seen in a year. I'm not sure if supply is catching up with demand or less people are willing to drive further. The only thing that stopped me from buying the store out was my boss and finance minister. :(
 
Kelly Timoffee said:
Maybe with the vast knowledge and the financial resources of members here someone can start a Canadian made/manufactured/distributed powder company!!!
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With modern environmental and health and safety laws it is very costly to setup new production plants and now the older plants are being overworked. You would be better off contracting the Chinese to make your powder, you could trade your lumber so the Chinese could make chop sticks and give you cheap powder in return. :rolleyes:

We could have several new TV series with the Chinese importing the powder over the North Pole..............

Ice Road Powder Truckers. (we get a bang out of what we do) :cheers:

And the unemployed American "Deadliest Catch" fishermen could start a new series "Nitro Pirates".

But this would start a new posting about Americans stealing all the powder and a Canadian writing a letter to our American President and the moderator would have to come out of retirement "again". :evil:
 
Glad you guys out East are still getting Hogdon powders. It has dried out here in the West. Drove an hour to WhosaleSporting Goods in Langley today as I was told over the phone they have 11 lbs of H335, showed up there and they couldn't find the powders. =o(
 
Well, isn't this interesting, I go on a week long fishing trip and CGN goes nuts!! I thought I was the cause until I read this, lol.


Yeah, I wish I could easily find more H-1000, IMR4350, W760 or H414 and some H322!!! But I'll have to live with and use what I have, thankfully I have several firearms in many different calibers!
 
WOW, you guys sure got into it when I wasn't looking.............Living where I have for the last 35 years, shortages are the norm, at least locally and we have become accustomed to buying in bulk in order to feed our bad habits. When ever a guy drives south we usually try to get as much powder, primers, bullets and brass as he will carry back for us, or we can afford at the time.
Bitumen........if you live in an "out of the way" area, as I do, you have to adopt a different attitude towards buying components. When the opportunity arises to buy a lot you have to be prepared to jump on it, or suffer the pains you are going through now. The Yukon is very geographically challenged and freight is ridiculous, probably 10X worse than where you are and there is 1 (ONE) shop within 1000 miles of me, literally, so I've had to adapt to this challenge, as you must or live your life in a state of constant disappointment.
Your whining is humorous actually, when our one and only highway washed out a couple years ago for 2 weeks we had a serious FOOD shortage.........and you're whining about powder....HHHMMMMMM.
You can call me a hoarder, glutton, pig, if you like but I have accumulated all my components during" times of plenty" and no one was left short at that time, and everyone had the same opportunities that I did, to lay in supplies. This is not gluttony or pigishness, it's called preparedness, a couple of 8 lbers here and a couple of 8 lbers there and a few hundred bullets and a few thousand primers, and pretty soon you have a reasonable supply. If, as you say, you cannot afford to do this, then may I suggest you either move to a better supplied area or possibly take up another sport.
I also find your thinly veiled threat, to rat out another CGNer very offensive, and makes me wonder if I should continue on this forum, lest I become the next focus of your ire and have to fear THAT knock on my door, for offences either real or imaginary. Propriety does not allow me to express my true feelings towards you, for that comment, but suffice it to say that you have gained the dubious notoriety of becoming the first to make my ignore list !!!
 
Personally, I think turning someone in to the "authorities" for a ridiculous paper crime should result in deportation to some random 3rd world country that is currently at war with itself. Threatening to do so should at least result in a 3 month visit to Wendy Cukier's house.
 
Cleftwynd said:
Personally, I think turning someone in to the "authorities" for a ridiculous paper crime should result in deportation to some random 3rd world country that is currently at war with itself. Threatening to do so should at least result in a 3 month visit to Wendy Cukier's house.
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Syria........comes immediately to mind !!!
 
Even more so was the fact that he threatened to do this without actually knowing what the law says. NRCAN says 75kg of powder, but no more than 10kg in a suitable receptacle, meaning the container the powder is sold in. Because of his ignorance of the law, he felt I was somehow breaking a law and implied a threat.

I don't know about you guys but from what I know and have read on here it's quite obvious that for several weeks before he sent his email it was obvious that powder shipments were already arriving in Canada. He probably spent more time writing his retarded email and posting on here about doing so than it would have taken to realize that powder was pouring into Canada already. The fact that he tried to represent all of Canada just compounded the stupidity to me as well.

Glad to see most people side with me on grabbing enough powder to get me through another year.
 
Cleftwynd said:
Personally, I think turning someone in to the "authorities" for a ridiculous paper crime should result in deportation to some random 3rd world country that is currently at war with itself. Threatening to do so should at least result in a 3 month visit to Wendy Cukier's house.
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It's not even a paper crime. He felt that more than 10kg was not only hoarding but a crime as well. Apparently he believes other peoples interpretation of the law instead of reading the actual law for himself. I even quoted the law straight from NRCAN that clearly says 75kg in a personal residence. He'll apparently believe anything he reads on the internet. Well, maybe not this because he is banned. :)
 
Just the mind-set that produces a comment like that, I find abhorable and absolutely untolerable...."poor me I got no powder and you got lots, so I'm going to turn you in for some imagined infraction. Then you'll have none like me, na na na na na na"
This is certainly not the type of mentality that I wish to discuss firearms with, or what I do and do not have!!
 
It's the liberal mindset. "I don't have any, so no one else is allowed to either." They don't care if it is a necessity, need, want, or right.
 
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