Hodgdon is discontinuing PB

[Cold Spring]

Wild Skies, yes I've bought many 4 pound bottles of PB; the only sizes I've seen over the past 7 years since I started shotshell loading were 14 oz, 4 and 8 pounds in plastic containers. Hodgdon bought IMR Powder of Plattsburgh NY in 2003 and they transitioned to plastic (versus metal) containers afterwards but I don't have a date on that. Yours looks like a metal containers and now I'm curious if it's labeled IMR Powder Co in Plattsburgh NY or IMR Powder Co in Shawnee Mission KS. Sorry I don't have a 4 pounder to get a pic right now, all I have is in 8 pound bottles.

For those interested IMR was originally an E I duPont brand which they retained when the government forced it to split off the double-base powder business to the Hercules Powder Co (now Alliant). The IMR line was later sold to the firm in Plattsburgh NY when duPont got out of the gunpowder business. IMR powders were and are single-base nitrocellulose and have no NG added, as in double-base powders.

[Wild Skies]

On the back of the metal can it says:
"MANUFACTURED IN CANADA FOR
IMR POWDER COMPANY
PLATTSBURGH, N.Y.12901, U.S.A."

Another 8lb. plastic jug of PB I have says Shawnee Mission, KS on the back.

Now you've got me wondering if the 5 pounder that I've recently bought is NOS powder.

[Bruce P.]

Originally Posted by Frank Srebro

...IMR powders were and are single-base nitrocellulose and have no NG added, as in double-base powders.

Really? From Recob's IMR page:

"Hi-Skor" 700-X Double-base shotgun powder developed for 12-ga. target loads but also has applications in handgun rounds such as the .38 Special, 9mm Luger, and .45 ACP.

Does IMR make 700-X or is it another companies product relabeled?

BP