Reloder 16

[thomas15]

Guys,
I can report that the Reloder 16 is packed and will begin shipping to our distributors this week. Sorry for the delays, but our plant had a maintenance shutdown for a week, and all the other priorities getting powders packed for this shoot or that customer made it difficult to squeeze this new product into the pack schedule. But that is history and you should begin seeing it at retail within the next couple of weeks.

As an individual that works in the military/aerospace supplier chain I'm jealous of the business model of our friends that supply smokeless gunpowder. My customers really don't want to hear about our problems, all they want to hear is the product has shipped. You really haven't live life to the fullest until you have to explain to a large well known company why it is that they cannot make a 40 million dollar shipment because they are lacking your $400.00 component regardless of the issues or who is at fault for keeping that product from shipping.

We handloaders are unique consumers. We get in line to purchase a newly introduced item before that item is even in the supply chain and before we have any assurance that the product will do what they suppliers say it will do. We literally throw money at those suppliers and then find a way to make the product work for us. Imagine if Ford was 6 months late shipping to you your new car and once they finally shipped it was up to the buyer to get the engine to run properly.

 

[Newtosavage]

But I thought Ford already did that. LOL

 

[SARuger]

I've never seen this powder on the shelf...... anywhere!

 

[Newtosavage]

I've never seen this powder on the shelf...... anywhere!

We have it in our small town LGS and I've been eyeballing it pretty hard. But I'm getting great groups from H4831sc, so I'm not sure it's worth $30 just to try it.

Why don't powder manufacturers sell 1/4 lb. samples so we can try stuff without committing to $30 worth of powder?

 

[Hokie_PhD]

Why don't powder manufacturers sell 1/4 lb. samples so we can try stuff without committing to $30 worth of powder?

Because they don't have to.
Because it would raise their costs and lower their profits.
Because it means they'd have to buy additional containers, manage the logistics of them, take space away from existing products in stores as stores have finite space.

And finally because there isn't enough demand. In other words we don't demand it and are willing to buy 1 lb packages.

I'm sure there may be many other reasons but as a business owner these were the first ones I could think of.

 

[hdwhit]

Midsouth Shooters Supply has it for mail-order:
https://www.midsouthshooterssupply.com/dept/reloading/smokeless-powder/alliant-1-lb

 

[bric2000]

We have it in our small town LGS and I've been eyeballing it pretty hard. But I'm getting great groups from H4831sc, so I'm not sure it's worth $30 just to try it.

Why don't powder manufacturers sell 1/4 lb. samples so we can try stuff without committing to $30 worth of powder?

Hodgdon used to. Xperimental packs. 4 4oz containers. Funny, I just mentioned this to a friend today.

 

[Newtosavage]

Pretty sure a 3rd party sells the "sample paks" of bullets that I see a lot of places. 12 bullets - for a lot more than 12 if you bought them by the 50/100 pack, but a lot less than 50. So, if a lb. sells for $30, I'd be happy to pay $10-12 for 1/4 lb. for instance.