What's up with the supply of pistol powders?

[neoconfection]

Hi Henry,

It looks as though the drought of reloading supplies seems to be lifting, and I see you have tons of primers, bullets, and rifle powder around.

That being said, pistol powder is pretty hard to come by these days- I have a single pound of W 231 in my powder keg and that's it.

Do you have any idea why the pistol powder supply is taking so long to catch up? Any word from your suppliers?

 

[Henry Nierychlo]

Lots of reloaders are still buying more than they normally did in the past.
If every reloader bought 2 lbs of powder instead of only one like they used to, then that is a 100% increase in demand. Manufacturers cannot keep up to that kind of demand.

Regards, Henry