Smokey Joe
New member
I don't reload shotgun ammo much at all, like years between batches. (I'm mostly a rifle and pistol shooter.) But recently the urge came on me, and therefore I began assembling ingredients. Which brings me to the question:
WHERE THE DEVIL IS ALL THE SHOTGUN POWDER?????
No local source I've checked has ANY, let alone the specific one I was after. Midway is oh-you-tee OUT of shotgun powder. I can get most kinds of rifle powder, and some pistol powder, locally, but nobody has any shotgun powder.
Some sources have wads, but what are you going to do with powderless wads?
209 primers seem in very short supply, but there are some, if you're not fussy about brands. And all types of primers seem to be in short supply. Shot seems to be available, somewhat, but of course, not the 8 1/2's that I was after, and gee whillikers is the shot expensive. But that's OK, because w/o powder I can't use any shot nor primers anyhow.
I really didn't want to mail-order powder and primers--All I want is a couple pounds and a few hundred, so not enough to justify the Haz-Mat fee, but that seems to be a moot point.
I feel a little like Rip Van Winkle.
WHERE THE DEVIL IS ALL THE SHOTGUN POWDER?????
No local source I've checked has ANY, let alone the specific one I was after. Midway is oh-you-tee OUT of shotgun powder. I can get most kinds of rifle powder, and some pistol powder, locally, but nobody has any shotgun powder.
Some sources have wads, but what are you going to do with powderless wads?
209 primers seem in very short supply, but there are some, if you're not fussy about brands. And all types of primers seem to be in short supply. Shot seems to be available, somewhat, but of course, not the 8 1/2's that I was after, and gee whillikers is the shot expensive. But that's OK, because w/o powder I can't use any shot nor primers anyhow.
I really didn't want to mail-order powder and primers--All I want is a couple pounds and a few hundred, so not enough to justify the Haz-Mat fee, but that seems to be a moot point.
I feel a little like Rip Van Winkle.