No, you need to start raising chickens Victor

WOW!! Who do you believe? On the internet, which we all know is the truth, a google search brings up questions. Why is there a powder shortage? The powder manufacturers say that the "shooters" are hoarding all the powder. The dealers are saying all the components are going to the shell manufacturers. And around and around we go.

Ask the "fact checkers" and believe the opposite of what they say.

My wife and I were traveling today and we made a short detour to a large reloading place. I have a good supply of components on hand but wanted to balance out with another brick of Cheddite 209's I have coming. The place didn't have any familiar shotgun powders in stock except for some oddballs in 1 pound bottles and very few of those. I did however get another case (5000) of 12 gauge Claybuster 7/8 ounce wads, and ten bags of Spartan high antimony 7-1/2 shot. Spartan is made in Spain and RST has started to use it of late. Spartan was priced at $38.95 and some limited West Coast Magnum was in stock at $48.95. Five bag limit/person on either. Then on the way home we stopped at a friend's shop and scored 8 pounds of Alliant E3 - one of my favorite powders - and a 1 pounder of Clay Dot. Both were in the "back room" so to speak, nothing but some random pistol powders on the shelf. A good day! JFI, no 209 primers at either place.

Lack of people to process the chickens has led to increased cost and less availability.

Well one things for sure , many folks myself included started laying in supplies when that Obamite was you guys so called president (he was never mine) , and I never stopped plain and simple .

Construction Co's are hurting also, maybe we will see some coming back since free money has some what stopped, we are paying people to not work under the guise of a Pandemic, Gary

I was at my local sporting clays course yesterday . I wanted to get 10-12 bags of 7 1/2’s from him even though he’s about $5 a bag higher than Mikey was . Anyway my friend has NO shot , NO primers and NO powder . He does however have a few CB wads of which I’m pretty well stocked up . Primers I’m good , wads I’m good , powder I’m good although a couple 8’s of Unique and a couple 8’s of GD would be nice . Shot I’m okay but another twenty bags of 7 1/2’s would make me all warm and fuzzy again :rotf::rotf::rotf:

So I just bought at retail prices two 4's (from a national distributor) and two 14oz bottles of clays from a friend locally.. Lead has not been an issue locally. Clay Buster seems to have a reliable supply. Another 5K of Cheddites arrive tomorrow from BP. I've spent $5300 on pistol and shotgun reloading components so far in 2021. Should be good for a year or so. I do need a 4 of Unique which still seems very scarce. PM me if you see any unique for sale at retail price.

You too...:crying:
I plan to hoard Unique when it finally becomes available again.
It seems I picked a *very* bad time to get back into clays... or anything else for that matter. Last time around was in 1986, and I am completely stunned at how different things are today... and not in a good way.

BTW Craig, greetings from NF/Buffalo!