ob1 wrote:"..... we’ve had to make the incredibly difficult decision to pause active development projects and cease production of commercial reloading products under the Australian Pistol & Shotgun (APS) range for the foreseeable future" sounds like abandonment to me.
The complete statement - "As many would be only too aware, we’ve continued to face challenges with regards to our commercial pistol and shotgun propellants. Having spent 1,000’s of man hours over the past 4+ years trying to deliver these commercial pistol and shotgun propellants for reloaders, which have been designed specifically for Australian shooters (we don’t export these at all), we are still not in a position where the propellants being produced are of the high standard we should expect of an ADI World Class product, or that you as a user of our propellants would demand.
We are now in a position where any continued effort to progress manufacturing or development of commercial pistol and shotgun propellants would, at this time, comes at the expense of delivering our commercial rifle propellants. Because of this, we’ve had to make the incredibly difficult decision to pause active development projects and cease production of commercial reloading products under the Australian Pistol & Shotgun (APS) range for the foreseeable future.
We understand that this will be an unpopular decision, and we’re very much aware of the ramifications of this decision to dealers/retailers, shooters etc., but unfortunately the reality is that we simply cannot make these products at the performance-level demanded by the sporting shooter end user at the current time."
They could continue to try to produce these pistol powders, but it would require a decrease in rifle powder production to do so. In other words, they would have to "abandon" all the rifle shooters to be able to produce powder for the handful of pistol and shotgun users. A perfectly sensible and reasonable decision. We still have access to these powders from other manufacturers, just not from ADI.