Surplus powder all use up or what?

[Little Joe]

I looking to buy surplus powder but most is not around anymore.Is most gone now?

I still am a big fan of brown alox.

Little Joe

[Little Joe]

So no one knows about surplus powder.Looking for eight pounds of surplus maybe more if price is right.Good all around powder is hard to find as stated above so where else to look?

Little Joe

[Maven]

LJ, go to the first Sticky above your post for sources of milsurp powder.

[jimkim]

Pats reloading seems to have plenty.

[Little Joe]

Thankyou for showing where power is sold.I was not finding any.

What I want is good all around powder for use in big bore pistol shooting,444 Marlin and 45-70,may want to use in other straight wall case caliber round.I have Encore and I shoot it as pistol.

What would you suggest in powder?

Thankyou again
Littlle Joe

[MT Gianni]

Go to the bottom of the page, click in Cast-pics and look up data for each cartridge. With haz-mat costs surplus powder is best bought in full case lots, IMO. Gianni

[jimkim]

I like the Russian shotgun powder for anything Unique is used for. Here is a thread with different types of surplus powder and what load data to use.
http://www.castbulletassoc.org/forum...50&forum_id=23
I hope it is all right to post the link.
Here are two more places to get surplus powder.
http://www.gibrass.com/gunpowder.html
http://www.hi-techammo.com/

[Shiloh]

Surplus powder is drying up.

What was left from previous manufacturers and surplus dealers has been sold/shot up. The availability of new supplies, from what info I can glean, is that future availability is questionable at best. The gov't prefers it destroyed. What is available is a lot more expensive than it used to be, closer to canister grade. Some discounted powder is available, but the variety and 60% discounts are gone. I'm afraid the glory days of inexhaustible supplies of surplus powder are gone.

Shiloh

[sundog]

If there is an INDIVIDUAL who is responsible for the destruction of all surplus powder, maybe we should find out who that is. Our government is not only PAYING for its destruction, it could be making money by selling it. If that is what is happening, it's WRONG. If somebody gave that order, it UNAMERICAN. Anybody know?

[Ricochet]

According to what I saw posted years ago on Bartlett's site, it was an order that went out during the Clinton administration. We've been buying up powder that was surplused out years ago.

[Lee]

'Spelled Klinton, I heard the same thing, and it doesn't surprise me one bit.
The Hilldabeast wants to outlaw air so as to dry up sales of Airsoft guns............

[Ricochet]

It's worth noting that Bush hasn't done a whole lot to help out with these "gifts" Clinton left us.

[GrizzLeeBear]

Thank you for noting that Ricochet. I get tired of hearing the "It's all Clinton's fault for issuing that Executive Order" talk. Georgy boy has had 8 years to recind that order, but has not. Where's the NRA? Unless it changes, surplus powder will soon be a fond memory.

[Ricochet]

Could it have something to do with the powder & ammunition companies having large government ordnance contracts, lobbyists on staff, and wanting neither competition with their current commercial components nor possible liability for someone (mis)using stuff they manufactured for the government decades ago? They have a lot more pull than we or the milsurp vendors do.

[TAWILDCATT]

what better gun control than to dry up the powder supply.the gov has been distroying all kinds of arms that could go to civilians under the second.dont blame the NRA they are the association not the controler.

[Major stuph]

A few of us bought a bunch of 4895 & 846 from Pat's Reloading a few years back for $6.00 @ lb. I'm still shooing it! One word of caution, with each different lot use your Chronograph to adjust you charge. It will vary by about 100 fps in some cases.

[JeffinNZ]

I would have thought surplus powder was a God given right. After all YOU paid for it to begin with through your taxes!!

I sooooooooooo wish I could get it out of the US and down to my neck of the woods. Would make my shooting a lot cheaper.

[dromia]

Welcome to Cast Boolits Major Stuph.