July 2024 Update on Gunpowder
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A few things: there are roughly three powder mills in north america: St Marks in Florida, NRE in Virginia, and Explosia in Qebec. Alliant powders only come from NRE, Hodgdon sells powders from St Marks and Explosia (st marks makes ball powders, and explosia makes IMR type powders, NRE makes flake powders), Hodgdon also sells powder from ADI in australia (hodgdon extreme powders), Eurenco (some Accurate/Ramshot powders). The list goes on...
Ukraine is a double whammy, as it used to be a supplier of Nitrates (acids, fertilizers) and since it's involvement in the war this has been greatly curtailed, it's now also one of the largest consumers of nitrates (explosives, propellants). China has embargoed the export of Nitro Cellulose grades over about 12% to the west (lower grade is less useful for propellant production).
Without getting much deeper into the weeds, we are currently facing a constellation of problems that are the results of bad economic, environmental, and foreign policy directives destroying the value of the dollar, reducing supply of critical resources, and policies that have forced manufacturing out of our borders. It won't be getting any better any time soon.
All of our politicians are owned by foreign powers...
Each 155mm shell takes something like four or five kilograms of powder. Ukraine is burning through artillery rounds as fast as they can get them. Forget small arms, a single artillery share takes enough powder for several cases of small arms ammo.
Powder isn’t more expensive, the value of the US dollar is free falling…
It is the great reset. Devalue middle class and devastate retirees on fixed income - pushing all middle class to lower-middle or lower class making all us normies the same. Of course our “betters” are exempt.
We’ve been headed here for a long time but for now #FJB is the face of the problem. Given how much he’s done to accelerate problems, it is appropriate to blame him even if it is not entirely his fault.
It's still the best fiat currency in a pile of crap.
I know primers are another subject but that’s a problem too!🇺🇸🤠
It’s funny how here anyway small primer in rifle and pistol are available and mostly large pistol primers but no large rifle primers anywhere to be found
Yes
We are at the most critical junction in American history since 1861.
And most Americans don't know or understand anything that's happened since then...
It feels like my new sport is finding what I need at a reasonable price.
Very well explained. Many of the same conclusions I had come to. I just hope we could get Unique Powder again someday. I have now developed alternatives but I miss the old stuff.
Gun powder has gone up about 20% in the past year. Last week I bought a container of H 4350 @ $65. Primers were $100.00. I buy from a large firearms store and avoid the shipping and HAZMAT charges.
Haz is the cost !
There is no shortage, its market manipulation
Great video I totally agree with you. However it makes me glad that I’m a reloader because it gives me that flexibility to change my loads and hopefully keeps me in ammo. I’m also glad that I have several rifles in common but good cartridges like 308 because I really think if you have any odd ones you will be very hard pressed to find any factory ammo for it. Probably for the next 5 years. Good luck all and God bless!
We have outsourced everything since Regan and now we’re paying for it.
NAFTA should have never been allowed. Written by Bush, passed by Clinton...
Donald Regan was only Treasury Secretary
We have sent so much of our chemical manufacturing industry overseas in the past 40 years . We have screwed our selves and weakened our national security greatly.
It's called a monopoly Hodgdon owns, IAccurate Powder, Ramshot, Western Powders, Blackhorn 209 black powder substitute,
Accurate Powder, IMR, Winchester, So they can charge whatever they want, and the consumer pays ..................................
This would be a great time, to open a nitrocellulose / gunpowder / primer factory. it would have to have at least 5 separate buildings. to keep a decent safety margin. but you could make MANY MILLIONS, possibly billions of $ over the next 10+ years. of dollars just supplying the sporting industry. There are several problems though. 1) would be start up capitol. 2) would be getting and keeping a steady supply of raw resources. 3) would be if push came to shove, the government would FORCE you into selling them every grain of product if they could not get enough of it.
Factories in some countries can be planned, built, up & running, and shipping product, while in the US. dozens of alphabet bureaucracies each set up their hoops and hurdles (and agendas) that slow the process and cost a potential entrepreneur more to process than the brick and mortar to build a facility. All part of the 'big picture'.
This situation was predicted and debated by Congress in the 1980's as they closed the second plant that could produce guncotton, to make mitrocelluose, to make powder & explosives with. Thay closed a few other ammo production facilities similar to Lake City as well. Radford cannot expand any more, it's maxed out.
A very good video on very important topics. All the guns will become bricks without any freedom seeds to feed them. Stockpiling sucks but what else is there to do?
Stockpiling while components are cheap & available is smart. Hoarding when prices & availability are a problem, sucks.
I am so glad that a few years ago I became a powder hoarder. I dont have multiples of any spacific powder but I have a good veriaty of many types. It is a shame that everything we , as reloaders have too put up with. I found small pistol primers at a retailers store for $9.00 a hundred and that is 3 times what they used too cost just 4 years ago, so I guess if we want too reload small pistol bullets we have too pay the price.
I found a brick of large rifle primers the other day and I do have to admit. I did piddle myself a little bit.
Yeah! Been there-done THAT!😂
I bought an 8lb jug on N133 for $36 a lb two months ago. Watch the sales closely
No I don’t know, where I live gunpowder prices are down across the board and ammo prices are in free fall. M118LR $469.00 for 500 rounds, that the cheapest I’ve ever seen it for.
Pre covid I was a small commercial reloader. Primers $25/1000 powder cheap and plentiful, I had a very good business. I now just reload small batches of custom ammo for my long time customers, I can't compete with the current pricing on factory ball ammo due to the high cost of components.
The biggest cause of the high cost of powder is the lack of nitrocellulose. They can't get it.
Bullshit.
Highly selective non-availability
@@jasonshults368 Obviously you didn't see where Aliant canceled all sales of reloading powder due to lack of nitrocellulose in May. Besides the diversion of ammo to Ukraine and Isreal, a boatload of nitrocellulose has been diverted into the making of covid kits.
They buy this from China.
Why the heck are we dependent upon China for something so central to national security? Either we need to find and use some powder not based on nitrocellulose - or we build factories to make it here.
These gun powder companies are going to price themselves out of business.
I haven't sent much in the way of powder shortages here in So FL..I've been buying powder over the past few months..an lb or two at a time..wnd for the calibers I currently load ..or may plan on loading..and sometimes 2 lbs of a certain powder at a time..think Unique and Bullseye...most of my powders are universal..used fir multiple calibers
..gotta remember that we've been giving/selling all if our 'surplus' ammo to the Ukraine and Israel and now need to manufacture NEW inventory
Wish i could find some 7828ssc , of course the fake websites have it for$35
I miss IMR 4320 .
Great explanation. Excellent education. Thanks ❤🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉
Thanks
Solution : ride your motorcycle ,fish or whatever, save your money till the market stabilizes
Powder availability has actually improved in my area over the last six months, but prices have skyrocketed. Also, it used to be that most powders were priced about the same, but now there is wide variation. Today Varget was available on the shelf at $70/# and $400/8#.
Still no LRP of any description.
Republic Ammunition has Fiochi LRP pretty regularly, it's not my normal CCIs but theyre better than those oversized Ginex primer
Powder valley has lrp in standard and magnum
Thanks all, but I put a premium on local shelves. Keep those supply lines open. Same reason I don't shop at WalMart.
I may be wrong, I haven't reloaded in 7 years, but my experience is that online bulk ammo prices are very close to reloaded prices at least on NATO calibers.
Thanks for the update on powder! And thanks for the good video! Keep them coming and may God YAHWEH bless you very well!
Thank you! Will do!
You look to be around my age. I remember when powder and primers went up and had little availability problems in the 90’s and the two terms under Obama. Clinton directly went after the scary black rifles. The gun control crowd learned that what they really could do to harm gun owners and shooters was to make the ammunition more expensive and harder to get. We have had ever increasing shortages and massive price hikes for ammunition and components available to reloders. Defense policy and supply spending can greatly affect our ammunition supply as civilians. Tweaking trade policies on raw materials shuttering lead mines and such are tactics used by the government to drive up prices and reduce supply and production. The radical leftist gun control movement has gotten sneaky and learned to exploit every conflict around the world to make American gun owners and shooters have to spend three to four times more just to shoot their guns. I agree with what you said in this video, I just think it’s a bit more sinister than many realize. .
You know we have had multiple periods of shortages over the years and if you have experienced even one of these shortages and find yourself short today it is your fault. I learned in my first shortage that if I did not want to experience shortages again I would have to prepare for future shortages.
What has happened to the Large Rifle Primer supply?
I think I’ll be buying a lot of Pyrodex in the coming months…
Pyrrodex does not work well in flintlocks.
If the manufacturers are not making powder then who is making it. Who and where are these companies? I know that some of this powder is made in Australia. is any made in t he USA anymore.
Didn't that factory burn down a few years ago. So is it back up and running?
Bidenomics
people with zero intelligence will say that.
The law of supply and demand.
Funny you didn't mention that Hodgen bought IMR, Accurate Arms, Winchester & Western, Ramshot powder companies.
Talk about control, They run the show. Hercules has not sold to Hodgen yet, but ya wonder. Shooters World is a big company from across the pond & they are selling here & always have something to pick from. $35.00LB, so far.
Whats going on is we are being screwed
No shortage of greed
Guess that hoarding over 40 yrs wasn't such a bad idea.
While you’re at it why don’t you clue everyone in on the sale of Winchester and Remington ammunition to an offshore entity. I believe Federal was in that sale too. That sale was worth $1.8 billion to someone.
Winchester was not in that deal. Its vista outdoors brands of federal, CCI, speer, blazer and maybe a few others. But it hasn't gone through yet. The government allowed it (crazy stupid) but the shareholders have not voted on it yet. There are counter offers from another company too.
Olin Corp owns both the Winchester and Browning brands. They have been contracted by the US government to run the government owned Lake City ammunitions plant since 2020. Olin Corp has not been sold and there are no offers. If there was an offer by a Czech group like there is for Vista Outdoors then I think the US government would object to sale while Olin Corp still operated the US government plant under the current contract.
@@raykettel1837 Olin does not own Remington Ammo. Vista outdoors does.
@@raykettel1837 Hodgen owns Winchester powder company. Olin owns the ammo company.
@@paladin556 Sorry, I know that. Vista Outdoors bought Remington brand name. I meant Browning. I corrected it. I assume Hodgen licenses the Winchester name and nothing more. It creates confusion when Winchester firearms, Winchester ammo, and Winchester powder come from different companies.
Local gun shop has large rifle primers. $150/1000. Nope for me
So name the manufacturers!
Price gouging
I know the economy is bad ,but
Companies exploiting the situation
The people that work at and run Hodgdon are shooters and hunters also. It's the lack of raw materials, high demand, and uncontrolled inflation causing the problem. Don't forget to add government interference into the mix. Do you really think the biden administration has clean hands in this?
Yes
Yes, Win 296 is manufactured by Clermont.
JFC JUST GET TO THE POINT
Whatever !
Question--If Biden doesn't get re-elected and Trump does will this change ?
Doubtful. The president doesn’t have near the control over the economy as people think.
I don't think so.
It started under trump, so why would it be different this time around?
@@paladin556 because were fighting two wars under Biden and none under Trump
@@chase3760 -Well, I do as under Biden we're fighting 2 wars and we weren't under Trump so a huge protion of whats ceing made is goingto the Government and not to us.
I got bored by 3:30 of double talk....good bye
Have to agree with this also,
Greedy corporations and bad government eight years ago