Thread: Powder supply

Yes, have a chat with your nearest shop and put yourself down for whatever bits you require. Be prepared to wait or settle for for alternatives. Prices are going up. Now's not a bad time to own a 270 or a 25-06, since they're among the least popular calibres these days.

What's happened is: US election came up -> Democratic candidate won -> People panicked and ran out and bought all the guns -> All the new gun owners (vast majority of whom do not reload) bought up all the ammo -> Existing reloaders chuckled to themselves for about 5 minutes -> Gun owners started buying presses and started reloading -> Supplies dried up quicker than the existing reloaders could say "oh shit" -> Supply and demand causing prices to skyrocketing, aided by fkn scalpers -> Manufacturers aim to satisfy increased local demand first and exports slow -> Our supplies dried up -> Here we are.

This happens every election in the states but the pandemic has compounded the idiocy and made things 5x worse. Things are only VERY slowly calming down.

We're an afterthought for ADI who makes most of our powder too. Most of that's still heading to the US or for military contracts.