Talking with my reloading component supplier today he told me he was dropping all Alliant Powder products. He is done putting up with them. Last major shipment was over a year ago. Was told his order(s) were not going to be filled anytime within the next year. Being a businessman he has decided to no longer carry any Alliant products. There are a few very slow moving numbers he can still get, but their sales are nothing but a drop in the bucket. As he put it, a thousand pounds of the best sellers, every 18 months, is worthless to him when he needs ten times that much. His last shipment was gone in less than a week.
He has picked up another line of powders, European as it happens and increased his other powder lines inventory to give him more depth. I find it funny he can buy all the European made powders he wants and not US made powders. We have been told for years the powder shortage is due to government orders for Ukraine. At the same time the European powder makers have enough excess capacity to increase exporting to the US. Seems the local European makers are not supplying enough artillery shells to make their powders impossible to export.
I have enough Alliant Powders on hand to run me for a couple years so I wont care for sometime. I doubt the seller will refuse to carry Alliant Powders in the future, when they become available. He is a good businessman and wants to make money but he says he is fed up with their BS for now.
