a little fun.

[runfiverun]

okay we have all been scrambling for powder for the last little while.
here is a fun exercise to get everybody thinking just a bit.
you can order powder and get whatever you want.
but the catch is you have to order 100 pounds [or get none at all] what would your order look like?

[Handloader109]

I couldn't afford the order, I'd have to have ten friends.......
But probably would be similar to what I've been ordering, some of everything that you can use in 9mm......

[gpidaho]

TiteGroup, Unique, RL 7, H335 and IMR 4350 GP

[runfiverun]

assume you can afford it..
think about exactly what you would get.
40 pounds of red-dot and a bunch of one pounders?

[retread]

IMR3031 - 16 Pounds
IMR4895 - 16 Pounds
IMR4064 - 8 Pounds
IMR4831 - 8 Pounds
Unique - 16 Pounds
Titegroup - 16 Pounds
Bullseye - 16 Pounds.
FFFG - 4 Pounds

[35 shooter]

OK
unique-16 lb.
red dot-16lb.
imr4350-16lb
h4895-8lb.
wc872-40lb.
4759 -4lb.

[tazman]

Bullseye 32lb
Longshot 8lb
WSH 32lb
WST 16 lb
Titewad 4lb
CFE pistol 8lb

[skeettx]

Red Dot 32 lb +Green Dot 32 lb + Unique 32 lb +AA Lite 4 lb = 100 lb

Mike

[Vann]

16 pounds of red dot
5 pounds of blue dot
5 pounds of unique
8 pounds of h335
8 pounds of varget
8 pounds imr 4064
4 pounds each imr 3031,4194,4895 4350
8 pounds of retumbo

[dlbarr]

40 lbs Unique
10 lbs 2400
10 lbs 3031
10 lbs 4198
10 lbs 5744
10 lbs Red Dot
10 lbs Trail Boss

[tonyjones]

SR 4759 32 lbs, Bullseye 20 lbs, Red Dot 16 lbs and 8 lbs each of Long Shot, H110, Universal Clays and 2400.

[mac60]

25 lbs. b'eye, 25 lbs. unique, 50 lbs. 2400. That would hold me till I'm gone, then give my grandson some powder to work with.

[Bzcraig]

10 lb Trailboss
8 lb 2400
16 lb 3031
16 lb 5744
10 lb Acc #2
8 lb 231
16 BLC 2
16 4227

[9w1911]

25 TightGroup
25 H110
25 4759
12 4350
12 4831

?

[GoodOlBoy]

50lbs (legal limit) of FFg Black Powder
15lbs of Unique
35lbs of Trail Boss

there ya go

GoodOlBoy

[Jupiter7]

Complicated list:
25lbs varget
25lbs aa1680
25lbs Bullseye
8lbs Unique
8lbs 2400
4lbs power pistol
5lbs RL 15

bare minimum list:
50lbs Bullseye
50lbs h4895

[Yodogsandman]

5 LB Bullseye
16 LB Unique
16 LB SR4759
5 LB 2400
10 LB Reloader 7
8 LB IMR4895
16 LB IMR4064
8 LB IMR4350
16 LB IMR4831

[Love Life]

100 lbs of bullseye, sit on it for years, and then sell it for triple what I paid on the next scare. Muahahahahahaha!!!!

[DrCaveman]

16 lb h110
16 lb 2400
16 lb varget
16 lb unique
16 lb rx7
16 lb 4350 any type
16 lb red dot

Whoops i guess that is too much

Do you have a source, run?

[ejcrist]

10 lbs 2400
6 lbs AA #9
8 lbs AA #7
8 lbs AA #5
6 lbs Longshot
9 lbs VV 3N37
4 lbs WW 231
30 lbs Schutzen FFG
29 lbs Schutzen FFFG

Does black powder count?

[runfiverun]

this is kind of an informal poll, and an educational thread.
it was partly to see what we all use [really use] and would buckle down and stock up on if we had the chance.

100 pounds of powder is a LOT, but is it really all that much?
in a 9mm or 44 mag the difference can be up to 20grs of powder per round.
the difference between a 38 special using 3grs of bulls-eye and a load using 47grs of 4895 or 50sum grs of 4831 in a 30-06 makes a big difference in the amount of powder needed to shoot 100 rounds. [like 1 pound of bulls-eye versus 16 pounds of the other 2 for the same 1,000 round count]
of course shooting shot-shells will skew our answers [and 100 pounds of red-dot would be a drop in the bucket]

soo which powders do we really need 100 pounds of?

[Ken in Iowa]

Hmmm, this list would have looked a lot different 20 years ago....

Bullseye 8
American Select 8
Unique 10
2400 8
700x 8
Clays 8
Trailboss 10
748 8
CFE223 8
IMR4166 8
Varget 8
R19 8

20 years ago,
IMR 4064 24
WW 748 16
H322 16
IMR 4895 24
Reloader 19 16
Unique 4

[SSGOldfart]

100 bullseye and/or Unique and 100 pounds of 2400 I've been thinking about trying to get a large lot order together.Just need to improve my storage before ordering that much

[Elkins45]

25 pounds 2400
25 pounds Promo (or Red Dot)
25 pounds IMR4831
15 pounds Reloder 22
10 pounds Trail Boss

How are we going to store all this bounty? Is 100 pounds OK under the fire code?

[dragon813gt]

32# HP-38
40# H110
24# W748
4# TAC

I used only those first three powders for a long time and they served me very well. Probably should have H335 for the ARs in there but oh well :)



How are we going to store all this bounty? Is 100 pounds OK under the fire code?
You need two separate buildings on your property :beer:

[telebasher]

25 lbs. b'eye, 25 lbs. unique, 50 lbs. 2400. That would hold me till I'm gone, then give my grandson some powder to work with.
Bingo we have a winner, my thoughts exactly,

[kens]

Interesting that everybody seems to want some of the SAME stuff,,,,,,,,,,
B'eye, Unique, 2400, 4895,

[RogerDat]

I going to bookmark this thread because it says what powders really matter to folks. Also because while not as easy or as cheap as it once was it should be possible eventually to reach the quantities of the powders in many of the lists. Might take awhile but so does a good stash of lead, or a large collection of dies, molds or powder measures.

Maybe I'm an optimist but I think we might be getting past the "any powder that will work" and moving toward being able to sometimes get what we really want for a powder, with persistence and a little luck. At least things seem to be heading that way. Hope so because there are several powders I want to try a pound of before I decide how much of it I really want. W231 & H110 & BE come to mind. Seems that lots of folks had those on their lists too.