Where/how did you buy bulk rifle powder 96# keg?

[coleman]

I know this is a long shot for now, but I was wondering who did you contact to buy a large container of powder 96# keg or equal size. I was wanting to do this before the big powder crash, but I had enough 8# jugs of rifle powder to hold me over. My brother and I would like to split a keg of powder and save on shipping and hazmat and a cheaper price. I know it is NOT going to happen for awhile, but I would like to be ready when it does come available. I have been doing some 3-gun with my son so we would shoot over 3-5 k of 223 per year, and load 308 & 30-06 I wouldn't take long to burn up that powder. Will this option be available in the future?
Thanks for your input
Coleman

[Artful]

I have not seen the 96 lb cardboard kegs for a long time
- most all of those I saw were surplus powder sales (Gun Club group buy and redistributed).
They were ordered from Hodgdon powders directly back then.

Now a days it would have to come to a powder/explosive licensed person/company who has a
bunker. The fire laws for in state transfer limit you to I think 50 lbs per vehicle in Arizona.

[John Boy]

The closest you will get to bulk powder is FTF sales of 25# bags of black powder from a distributor

[runfiverun]

I haven't seen a 12 pound keg of powder in so long I doubt they even make them anymore.
I think the 35# drum of AA-4100 I got from Dick Casull he got under his commercial loaders license.

[KYCaster]

According to a good friend of mine, this is the way to get the big drums of powder......


Get a manufacturer's FFL.

Go to the SHOT show with a couple of your buddies.....get there a couple of days early so you can party before the show starts.

Wake up Tuesday morning with The-Mother-of-All-Hangovers and find that your buddies have already left for the show and took the rental car with them, leaving you to fend for yourself.

Go to the hotel restaurant for breakfast, strike up a conversation with the group at the adjacent table, make such a positive impression on them that they pay for your meal and offer you a ride to the show.

Finally hook up with your buddies at the show and late that afternoon make your way to the Hodgdon booth to ask about ordering powder and find that the guy who paid for your breakfast is Chris Hodgdon.

Have a good laugh and get pretty much anything you're willing to pay for.


Seems like it worked OK for him.
Jerry

[Iowa Fox]

I haven't seen a 50 or hundred pounder since the early 1960s. Those were the days, pretty girls, fast cars, plenty of jobs. Oooops wait a minute two years in the Army. The country changed a lot while I was gone.

[coleman]

Thanks for the info. Coleman

[David Caldwell]

Not exactly what you seek, but there's this:

http://www.gibrass.com/gunpowder.html

[376Steyr]

I believe current DOT regulations discourage smokeless powder containers of more than 8 lb. I suspect the additional shipping costs for a 96 lb. container would wipe out the savings compared to buying three 32 lb. shipments of 8 lb. jugs.

[sdcitizen]

Talked to a ClassIII fellow about that not too long ago. While the cardboard kegs do show up from time to time, he has even resorted to buying canister grade #8 kegs for most of his loading.

[358 Win]

I've never seen a keg of powder that weighs 96 pounds, but if I did I'd run up to it as fast as old legs could carry me, give it great big hug. It would take 2 men and a small boy to get me off that keg!!!!:-P

358 Win

[Houndog]

I've never seen a 96# keg of powder, but I have hauled, and bought some 44# kegs from VitaVouri. They claim that's what fits new commercial loading machines. I don't know if that's true or not.

[DLCTEX]

I have about 15 lbs of H4831 in a 50 lb cardboard keg that was bought from a dealer in Witichata Falks , Tx. in early 1960's. It came from Hogdons. I bought it fom the original purchases's widow when it contained 27 lbs. Still good powder. Probably as stated above, you'd need a commercial loader's license to get larger than 8 lbs.

[xringshutr]

Something like this???? This one is actually a 150lb'er. Or at least that's how much was in written on the top. I wouldn't know how much it would weigh full.......... [smilie=1: :popcorn:
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[RogerDat]

I would like one of those even empty just to give my insurance agent a heart attack. Home and auto bundled and auto keeps going up, be fun to pay her back by asking her out for a free "home safety assessment" and having her see a keg of "gun powder" might have to set an ashtray on it for added grins. Seriously insurance, state or local laws on storage amounts and storage facilities would be the biggest problem with large quantity.

[Messy bear]

Saw many of the gov surplus copper lined wood kegs over the years. Used to be available from pats reloading and maybe Bartlett. Most of those were 150 lbs.
wc 820, 846, 844, 852 (3 very different lots) and 860 were the most common.
they were available in the 90's and maybe even into the 2000's iir.

[Garyshome]

I didn't need it back then. But I do now!

[andre3k]

Type 06 or 07 FFL, an account with St. Marks powder and a lot of money.

[Travisbishop]

Coming in late on this one... I bought all my powder, primers, bullets from Pats back in the 90's when it was cheap by the case. God, I miss those days. I still have most of it stacked up in my shop. My best buys were 50 cal ammo cans full of 50 BMG incendiary bullets, and cases of 50 BMG primers. Back then, Pats was selling 32 LB cases of WC 846 and 860 for a few bucks a jug. CCI primers were cheap by the 10,000 case. Those are nonexistent these days. I jumped through the hoops and used a machete to cut through the red tape and bought USGI brass by the barrel at scrap auctions. 5.56, 7.62x51, 50 BMG. I guess I just knew these days were coming.