Ive just called Alliant to see whats up?? Ive been using their powder for reloading my skeet loads now for a couple of years...Great product.. as good as Hodgdon and American made...They are now owned by a conglomerate out of Idaho....Representative on phone had not heard of them being sold....but promises to follow up...Will let you know... B

lead at my club has gone to 46.00 a bag, and we only have 7 1/2 and 8s ,no 9s ,is there a lead shortage also?

Hoarding is a natural act. People want what they can't have either through perception or reality. Does the Gvt really need billions of rounds of .22 ammo? They are the original hoarders but it's an end run to prevent the use of the guns they can't ban.

Let me introduce you to the subject of logistics. It boils down to "plan for the worst, hope for the best".

My name is Mark and I am a hoarder... That stated, I never let a friend go without powder regardless of their lack of planning!

I think you and others are the issue.. I think you are paranoid......No offense intended but...yes that is the issue...the government buys billions of rounds of ammunition per year..for the Armed Forces....whats your point??

We are hoarders, but there are still plenty of Parkers out there. I don't know how to calculate the amount of shotgun ammo I'll need to keep me happy until I'm gone. I have friends that lived well into the nineties and they were still shooting. I plan to start shooting NSSA skeet again in a couple of years when I attain Veteran status. That is a neat concurrent group to shoot in. You don't have to run 100s in every gun, every shoot, to get a little recognition and win a dollar or two. The same situation exists in NSCA.

Alliant just called back...rep said ...they haven't been bought by anyone........He may not know the skinny.. but..........

I am curious to know when has the supply chain of ammunition and reloading components, especially powder was this disrupted? I wasn't alive then but I am guessing you would have to go back to WWII. We have been through a lot as a nation since then; the threat of nuclear war with the Soviet Union in the Cuban Missile Crisis, the assassination of a President, the country torn apart with riots and fires in the '60's, the gun control act of 1968, college students shot and killed and by National Guard, the Arab Oil Embargo of the early 1970's, the meltdown of nuclear power plants, the Gulf War and the torching of many of the worlds oil wells, 9/11 and two wars following, the financial meltdown of 2008 and so on. Only now we become so scared as a group we buy so much ammo and powder to disrupt the supply chain. We are that afraid of a politician and politics now? One store has told me ammunition sales are up by a factor of 10, so maybe we are but I too think there are other factors exacerbating the situation.

I think its imperative that every American use their OWN judgment and intelligence....Don't be swayed by the naysayers........"The Only Thing We Have to Fear... Is Fear Itself"......This is a critical time in American History......Remember the past....And learn from it...... Those aligned against the average American are mighty....and they have huge sums of money to spend to convince you that all is going to "hell in a hand basket"...Don't believe it

and of course the boogieman

Pat Paulson