Powder production and control of it.

ironpony · Mar 11, 2015

Found an interesting article on this subject but nothing comes up searching here. Any comments on this? Could this be another topic soon?

Loss of Smokeless Powder

Makes some sense, short article on Montana introducing State incentives for powder production, job creation, pro 2A.

K31 · Mar 11, 2015

I think we should all go rape the shelves of local powder dealers followed by buying all the fixed ammo we can carry away when that runs out!

Traveler · Mar 11, 2015

K31 said:
I think we should all go rape the shelves of local powder dealers followed by buying all the fixed ammo we can carry away when that runs out!

I'm in. I am off to sell blood so I can buy more. :lol2:

chale127 · Mar 11, 2015

Making powder is a pricey and dangerous business....you would be hard pressed to find someone willing to front that kind of money....great idea, but, not really practical with all of the regs regarding manufacture of explosives and all of the safeties required

My dad worked on the Gov't side of this for a while, ATK/Hercules was one of his main contacts, pretty much the only reason we have two left is because Gov't contracts keep them open, the consumer end is pennies in the big scheme of things and that income would hardly support a business by itself

St. Marks, Fl (mentioned in article) is where a lot of the Hogdon/Win Ball powders come from

Radford may sill produce some small arms powder for Gov't use (Run now by BAE)

Here is a good article i saw on this a while back, that addresses a lot of issues

http://www.marlinowners.com/forum/reloading/92319-list-who-actually-makes-smokeless-gunpowders.html

ironpony · Mar 11, 2015

Is it that the civilian market gets powders that are part of Military production, and nothing is made purely for civilian market? I didn't know the military could use so many different types.

bpm32 · Mar 11, 2015

ATK (Alliant) operates at Radford. I believe they are the only ones who make double base in the US. It isn't a large operation. Most of the old arsenal is contracted out or abandoned.

Pinecone · Mar 12, 2015

ironpony said:
Is it that the civilian market gets powders that are part of Military production, and nothing is made purely for civilian market? I didn't know the military could use so many different types.

No, they produce specific products for specific markets.

And consumer powders are more difficult, as they have to end up with the exact same characteristics batch to batch.

Military powders they test each batch and load for that batch. But BIG batches.

Powder production and control of it.

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