how much longer until powder is readily available?

[russt]

just want to hear some guesses. it seems to be that all components can be found online pretty easily except powder.

[gemoose23]

Soon™

or

Two Weeks™

[XDRoX]

If it stays perfectly sunny then a few months. But even chances of a shower or a slight drizzle could push that off many more months. A sudden storm could push the date years.

Best advice is to stock up as soon as you have the chance.
I haven't bought or even looked for powder in over 2 years. The only reason I even know about there being a powder shortage is because of this forum.

[Bigtls1]

[barrage]

The King of America's state of the union decree is tonight.

I'd expect the availability of ammo and reloading components to become non-existent as a result. Every time that SOB or any of his royal guard open their ****ing mouths, I swear to god...

[Whiterabbit]

If powder is not readily available, it is up to YOU to be readily available. Couple hundred you sit on for primers or powder or whatever. Bullets, those sell out quick too, for good deals or common types. You have two choices.

Spend your money now and watch the dollar not go very far,

Or be patient, sit, and hope you have enough inventory now to last you to when you find the deal.

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Because one day you'll be in a shop randomly, or a gun show randomly, or you'll get a call from a buddy, and the product will be there. You'll have 5 minutes to decide. And it will be nice to have that bucket of money set aside so you can move on it. Or pass and wait for the next. It's not about readily available. it's about the deal. Who calls primers readily available right now, when every gun store has 10-50,000 of them, all for $55 per 1000? That is not my definition of readily available!

[klewan]

Hogdon makes most of the powder in the US. They don't seem too interested in increasing the supply. I haven't read that they are expanding or running additional shifts. Like I have with the ammo makers. Or the ammo makers are getting first dibs on the powder and reloaders get what's left.

I would guess about a year from now, reloaders have been squirreling it away and that eats up what's produced. It's gonna take a while to get away from the communist model of shortages and buy everything you see; you might never see it again.

[Kevin.st]

On January 28th, Barry comes out of his castle on 1600 Gobbler's Knob, in front of millions of faithful (or dead) followers from all over the world, to predict the powder availability for the rest of the winter.

According to legend, if Punxsutawney Barry sees his shadow, there will be six more months of price gouging from LGS and online retailers. If he does not see his shadow, there will be an early spring and many sleepless nights at the press.

[Quinc]

3 months everyone will be fully stocked. Or not.

[edfardos]

All stock restored in 2016... Rand Paul will see to it personally.

[meaty-btz]

The process of creating the bases for all gunpowders takes about a year. So the finished product is last years "brew". So it would take at a minimum one year to increase the base supply of material to manufacture smokeless powders.

99% of powder is manufactured overseas. Hodgdon and IMI are mostly made in.. Australia then shipped here in bulk, then reprocessed into the cans we see.

So regardless of any special shenanigans you have a one year lag. Now there are shenanigans going on at the ports that is slowing the processing through of powder (likely intentionally). In an extremely tight market due to demand any delays will have a strong ripple effect.

So magic 8 ball says, at least a year from when the companies ramped up production to a maximum time of.. never.

[edgerly779]

Since you don't live in So cal powder might be tough. Down here you can get most powders for $25-$40 per pound. What do you need ? That would help to find for you. 50 bmg, varget, tac, 700x, 231 ????

[FresnoRob]

All stock restored in 2016... Rand Paul will see to it personally.

Close to my guess, but 1 year after the next Pro 2A president.
When ever the American people decide to do that again.

[reckoner]

Since you don't live in So cal powder might be tough. Down here you can get most powders for $25-$40 per pound. What do you need ? That would help to find for you. 50 bmg, varget, tac, 700x, 231 ????

Is there powder available anywhere in SoCal right now? I'm looking for Unique, Power Pistol, Titegroup... Angeles and Phillips Wholesale are out.

[klewan]

The process of creating the bases for all gunpowders takes about a year. So the finished product is last years "brew". So it would take at a minimum one year to increase the base supply of material to manufacture smokeless powders.

Where did you see it takes a year? Nitrocellulose is cotton lint that is soaked in concentrated sulphuric and nitric acids for a short period of time, then rinsed to remove the acid. From all the articles I've seen, it might take 24 hours to make a batch. Then they do the process of making into whatever shape they need.