JohnV wrote:bladeracer wrote:JohnV wrote:ADI said there would be no shortages of their powders in Australia as a result of overseas sales .
ADI is failing the Australian consumer .
Do you know if there are shortages because of overseas sales?
The problems all seemed to start when the US started ordering large shipments . Also they changed propellant styles to suite the US and still doing it . Shutting down what we have traditionally used to concentrate on what the US wants to use .
They told me there would be no shortages and there is . I got a friend in El Paso Texas and I asked him to check the availability of Hodgon powders that are made here by ADI and he said there was plenty in his local gunshops . This was at a time when I could not get what I needed locally . I don't care what ADI says they misinform .
Unless you have factual information you are just spreading hearsay, in my opinion.
ADI stated that they want to convert their double-base powders (pistol/shotshell powders essentially, which I don't think the military uses to an enormous degree) over to single-base (so they don't need to use nitrocellulose) because of military contracts. Since it failed I guess they didn't complete those contract requirements.
Hodgdon powders are also made by GD in Canada, which is the more likely source of supply to the US. Ask your mate if the bottles are marked made in Oz or in Canada.
I've seen some relatively minor (compared to pistol/shotshell powders) disruption in supply of the common rifle powders in the second half of this year. It may be coincidental that ADI have also started telling us that they are finally back testing their new APS powders in the last half of this year. Perhaps they have diverted some production potential toward getting the pistol powders up and running again? Which might explain why they haven't done it since the start if it eats up such a large amount of resources. I can imagine that the resources tied up in churning out powders you've been making for decades are a whole lot less than those involved in developing and testing entirely new technology.
I don't mind people wanting to whine about stuff, but please support your view with factual evidence if you're going to claim your comments to be fact rather than your opinion.
I think the last powder I bought was in 2019. I had decent stock of primers before then but I was still grabbing primers up until about November last year, simply because they were all my dealer was able to supply me with and I like to buy something whenever I visit the shop, so primers it was. He has never been able to supply ADI powders, CCI ammo, Remington primers, Eley ammo, Ruger firearms/parts, or any of the stuff I want as he doesn't have accounts with those distributors. I don't need any primers or powders (though some more FFFg would be handy), so I'm not in the market for these things. But I consider supply of them important enough that I try to follow the situation very closely.
On a personal note, my dealer has been battling cancer this year and got through his surgery very well just before Christmas. I'll see his wife again on Wednesday morning for news on how he's doing, hopefully he was able to come home for Christmas.
Now, loading for the Hornet. If I were so unhappy with the powders I can get, I would be considering simply getting a cheap .223Rem and loading it down to Hornet levels until pistol powders become available again. You have enough case volume to make the velocities you're used to with the slower rifle powders that are still available. I run the .223 lower than Hornet velocities (52gn at 1750fps), but I run the .204 at Hornet levels (32gn at 2500fps) and enjoy both.