where is the powder

Tell me you are joking. There is no new conflict, there is no ramp up in 5.56 or 7.62x51 production. That number is produced all the time therefore it wont affect the powder situation.
 
Total des ventes ($CAN) : 50 000 000 $ +
Total des exportations ($CAN) : 25 000 000 $ à 49 999 999 $
this is the sale number of one of our powder manufacture
 
oh... ok... so we are just supposed to take your word for it?

So you know what the US military orders, you know what Lake City's production volume is and you know how much one plant in Canada makes and sells but you can't produce any sources?

I can see you looked up rudimentary data about a powder plant in Canada which I am sure any of us could find, I can see finding some outdated production volume from Lake City, but I think people would be far more interested in your source for the volume of powder the US military has ordered.
 
Here in New Brunswick, there is no pistol powder, nor can we find any. If and when it does hit the shelves, it will disappear instantly!
 
Figure 11 said:
Things to add to my shopping list: tinfoil.

I've walked away from more powder than I've bought this year.
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Interesting you say that? I cannot find a pound of powder anywhere in NB. Everyone has it on back, back, back order. I assume when it does come in, who ever is at the counter will buy it all. My guess is it will be best to give up shooting/reloading for a year until it stabilizes or goes out of business....Neither of which will happen. Ammo prices are through the roof...looks like golf for the summer, snowblowing for the winter and shooting for the USA.
 
Hirsch Precision is in NS and still has a fair bit of powder types I believe, perhaps worth checking the shipping cost to NB eh.

There's still a fair bit of powders around compared to last year, all depends on what exactly you're looking for and if you're willing to try other brands, but if looking for $20/lb powder, well that's a bit harder...
 
Powder at $20 /lb is like finding rocking horse poop! Lots of pistol powders at the Red Deer AB gunshow yesterday and likely today.IMR powders as well...........Harold
 
ed.griffin123 said:
Interesting you say that? I cannot find a pound of powder anywhere in NB. Everyone has it on back, back, back order. I assume when it does come in, who ever is at the counter will buy it all. My guess is it will be best to give up shooting/reloading for a year until it stabilizes or goes out of business....Neither of which will happen. Ammo prices are through the roof...looks like golf for the summer, snowblowing for the winter and shooting for the USA.
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You're not looking in the right places or are being too fussy in your choices. What powders are you looking for?
 
Let's see, the US civilian gun and ammo market doubled or more, in 2012/13. So, for arguments sake it went from 30,000,000 to 60,000,000 people buying new guns, ammo. That is a far larger market than the US military. And the ammo mfgrs went to 24/7 production, all of them, and a few new ones. The military/LEO, have multi year contracts, standard fare contracts, and the military are not deployed in any big numbers, anywhere. There is only one major component plant for powder in the US (it is not a powder plant), one in Europe, one in Australia, there were two in the US til 2008, the military have their own ammo plants, and ATK runs or owns a large interest in most of the plants in the US , Canada, Australia and Europe. The ammo plants have contracts that get filled, first.
One Euro plant had an accident, went down, another was going to be shut down, but, may have been sold, most of the commercial US powder is imported from Europe, Canada or Australia.
They are catching up, slowly, but the mfgrs were not prepared for what happened, and it takes time to ramp up production, and the sales have eased up a bit, it is recovering, but, it'll take til sometime next year, things will improve thru this year, barring something spiking it all, again.
 
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