I spoke with Hodgdon today and was told that the reason there is a shortage is....one for obvious reasons hoarding..two.... mainly the large increase in gun ownership and the large influx of re loaders. The fourth reason is vendor/dealers must fill a truck load quantity regardless of the order for it to ship. I thought this was odd but kinda makes sense. So while they may have available quantities of most powders the vendor wont order it as they do not have available the powders that they need. In short the maker has the powder but wont ship it until the vendor buys a lot of powder they do not need. So this is extending the unavailability of available powders. Can we start a call-a-thon to get this changed? In short there may be powder available that we need and is sitting that we can not buy because the "truck" is not full. Kinda sucks IMHO.