NO LEAD, NO POWDER AVAILABLE

[Kensal Rise]

A prescient observation. I called a major midwest distributor this week. They have NO shotgun powders at all. None. And this guy supplies many of the ATA shooters.

Primers? No problem.
Wads? No problem.

For what it's worth, I simply can't understand why some offshore manufacturer doesn't send about 100 containers of powder to the US. They'd make a killing. No pun intended.

Hmmm. Maybe illegal aliens will start smuggling it in.

[Pa SxS]

Maybe we could get Eric Holder to investigate, he doesn't have much to do lately

[Harold Pickens]

Maybe you should keep that powder locked in your gun safe, Rich, it will be as valuable as gold in the future.
I picked up 2 1 lb (ok, 14 oz) bottles of PB yesterday that had not been marked up in price. I have never loaded PB, but heck, at least I can use it for my 12's and 16's until I run out. Also, the store had all primers 10% off, but they only had 500 shotgun primers and they were Fed 209A at $2.69/100.
I have not used those primers but have seen plenty of low pressure loads with them, so I took them. Anymore, we have to use what we can find, not what we want.
I still have 8 lbs of 20/28 and can get more. The store also had 2 8 lb jugs of 700X.
Shot was $44/bag--I wanted #8, but they had 7 1/2 and 8 1/2--so I figured if I mix them and divide by 2, I will have 8 shot, right?