Need to start reloading and shooting for my trip in 2015. Found bullets, have primers, found brass, but can't find any RL15. Anyone know when it will become available?
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Posts: 485 | Location: San Antonio, Texas | Registered: 09 November 2010
We are starting to see some RL15 show up here in North Carolina. I just bought 4lbs for a friend of mine and I could have bought 10-12lbs.I also picked up 2lbs of Varget. RL22 is what I'm having a hard time finding.
Posts: 889 | Location: Central North Carolina | Registered: 04 October 2007
Originally posted by Ed Scarboro: We are starting to see some RL15 show up here in North Carolina. I just bought 4lbs for a friend of mine and I could have bought 10-12lbs.I also picked up 2lbs of Varget. RL22 is what I'm having a hard time finding.
I live within walking distance of the National Shooting Complex. At the current time their pro shop consists of selling ammo and stuff like caps, tshirts, etc. They do not sell guns or reloading supplies.
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Posts: 485 | Location: San Antonio, Texas | Registered: 09 November 2010
IF you cannot find any b/4 April, I will be there the first weekend of April. Fri evening in SA, Sat in Pleasnton. Depending on how much you need, I might be able to help.
No. The GF and I are going to the McCombs fundraiser to get some live TX music. She's from Pleasanton. Lex has a good rep, but I 'think' I'm done buying Stainless/Synthetic.
Please use Norma 203B. RL-15 is just another batch of Norma 203B that Norma sold to Alliant and they repackaged it and sold it as RL-15.
I doubt that you will see RL-15 being sold by Alliant, unless they come up with their own powder. Norma now uses Western Powders as their distributor in the US. I don't think they sell to Alliant, now.
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Posts: 9797 | Location: Missouri City, Texas | Registered: 21 June 2000
In the last year or so I have seen exactly one pound of R-15. It was at the Bass Pro in Nashville tucked behind several 1# jugs of R-17. I bought it quick.
Posts: 2 | Location: Arkansas | Registered: 22 January 2013
Originally posted by Rusty: Please use Norma 203B. RL-15 is just another batch of Norma 203B that Norma sold to Alliant and they repackaged it and sold it as RL-15.
I doubt that you will see RL-15 being sold by Alliant, unless they come up with their own powder. Norma now uses Western Powders as their distributor in the US. I don't think they sell to Alliant, now.
Darn good to know. Thank you Rusty .
Posts: 1440 | Location: Houston, Texas USA | Registered: 16 January 2005
Varget and Unique seem to be the "holy grail" of powders at the moment. Very, very few online places have it. Best guess is to visit small out of the way gun shops often.
My biggest fear is when I die my wife will sell my guns for what I told her they cost.
Posts: 6637 | Location: Moving back to Alaska | Registered: 22 February 2005
I just got off the phone with a very nice lady at Western Powders. They are shipping powders. She said that demand is still outstripping the manufacturers. Norma and the rest can't make it fast enough. She said to keep checking Grafs and Powder Valley. She was very kind and polite.
A whole lot nicer than the powder curmudgeon at Alliant. He seemed very pissed off to have to vaguely answer any question!
At any rate, just passing what I found out along to y'all!
Rusty We Band of Brothers! DRSS, NRA & SCI Life Member "I am rejoiced at my fate. Do not be uneasy about me, for I am with my friends." ----- David Crockett in his last letter (to his children), January 9th, 1836 "I will never forsake Texas and her cause. I am her son." ----- Jose Antonio Navarro, from Mexican Prison in 1841 "for I have sworn upon the altar of god eternal hostility against every form of tyranny over the mind of man." Thomas Jefferson Declaration of Arbroath April 6, 1320-“. . .It is not for glory, nor riches, nor honours that we are fighting, but for freedom - for that alone, which no honest man gives up but with life itself.”
Posts: 9797 | Location: Missouri City, Texas | Registered: 21 June 2000
I like Western . I like the AA. I like Montan Extreme. I mentioned to a rep that I had problems with some of the plastic bottles and they not only replaced some of it but sent some goodies too. Their cleaning rods are nice too. I think I am staying with them and Norma here. Thanks again Rusty .
Posts: 1440 | Location: Houston, Texas USA | Registered: 16 January 2005
