All: following the information provided by Londonhunter regarding the possible instability of Vihtavouri I was prompted to investigate the demise in supply of Norma powders. In short, nobody imports them and no major importer is inclined at present to commence doing so for a variety of reasons.

My question is did anyone use Norma when they were available and would anyone use them now if they were available?

If the powders are anything like the rest of the Norma products they ought to be high quality and would provide hand loaders with another option, more felxibility and perhaps a degree of resilience if we lose Viht.

Thoughts please ladies and gents.

Regards

G

I've used it in the past, quite liked it & would consider using it again.

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following the information provided by Londonhunter regarding the possible instability of Vihtavouri

Musta been asleep at helm; not ususal for me ..... powder instability ..... logistical, or financial instability? Help me understand, please.

Norma makes good stuff, ammo is commonplace here in The Fatherland. Components; well, bullets & cases seem to be available but powders are often quite difficult to locate/obtain though.

In Norway most people use Vihtavouri or Norma powder. I use both, but tend to favour the first, since it's half the price of Norma powder. I think most people feel the quality is the same.

But the availability of Vihtavouri has been unstable here at times. I think this got to do with demand from the "military industry".. (?)

I use norma and vihta powders only because of availibility and qvality. US powders are in limited supply here and to expensive for their qvality.

Powders made by Bofors: norma, Alliant reloader ,rws, rhino

Must been asleep at helm; not ususal for me ..... powder instability ..... logistical, or financial instability? Help me understand, please.

Gerry

I Was alerted to this in June 2012 by a stock broker / analyst

There is no fire without sparks

http://yle.fi/uutiset/governme...wder_factory/6462398

Ben,

Thank You - now I'm infomrmed.