Dave in AZ

Great pics!

Figured you're talking about Sportsman's Warehouse? Must have been something different Alliant, I called them and they said no Steel for years there Guy took phone over and really checked for me too. Not too many waterfowl reloaders in AZ probably so it's difficult to find that Alliant Steel. Guy in Prescott told me he had a 4lb jug on his shelf for 5 years no one bought until the powder shortage, so he didn't reorder any.

Hey thanks much for the kind words CouesPursuit! Yotebuster, I'm trying to find some Alliant Steel powder purely for the "extracurricular boost" of the hunt, not economically smart at all likely. I'm working on making some reloads for duck season, so I can have my sons build them... it will help make their first real season with a gun more meaningful I hope, and will be fun for us. My older son, 12, got his first duck in Jan with me on the special youth season hunt at Cibola--his first ever hunt. Since then I've been loading up 3/4oz light 20ga loads for him to practice skeet with, and they really love seeing those shells pop out of the reloader. Adding the whole steel reloading thing to my season will help keep me going despite not seeing many ducks. And I figure time in the garage with the kids teaching stuff is one of the best ways a man can spend his time. 10turkeys, thanks for the BPI mention-- I do use BPI for various reloading stuff. The real problem is availability of Alliant Steel powder, no one has it except like 1 lb, then you pay twice the price for hazmat and shipping fees... always works best to find powder locally if you're buying in less than 48lbs to distribute the hazmat/shipping costs across a bunch of powder. I figure anyone who has Steel might also have steel shot, since Alliant Steel is pretty much 100% used to load waterfowl steel loads. You said you haven't used steel shot for a long time--makes me wonder if you're doing ITX or HW13 or TSS or bismuth maybe as a non-tox? I'm reading a lot of threads on that, just love studying it, and I can already tell it'll suck me in before too long. However, I don't think my sons nor myself for that matter are really good enough shots yet to go beyond reasonably-ranged steel shooting yet; so we'll give the steel reloading a go. Yotebuster, it turns out that Alliant Steel is so much better for producing high velocity with low pressure than anything else out there, that you really just can't approach commercial loads for speed without using it. And since I want to give my boys another aspect of the hunt to be excited about, but DON'T want to handicap them with inferior loads, I pretty much have to find some Alliant Steel I read around a bit on some of the other sub forums already, and saw several threads of great interest to me, and I'll be posting in there I think-- I handload for 284 Win for my deer hunting, used to do some bench rest shooting with that also. This will also be my older son's first deer season, planned for up in Michigan with 3 generations of family on family farm. I've got some 120gr Nosler BT that I need to work up some good loads for him (I use 140gr usually, trying for low recoil for his first season). I've settled on IMR 4350 mostly for 1/2" groups with 140gr bullets, but have also used Reloader 19, and have acquired Reloader 17 after reading all the great results it's turning in for 1000yd shooting with 284Win in competitions. So I'll need to find a good starting point for 120gr Nosler BT. And once I start working THAT load up, I guess I also bought a bunch of 150gr and 170 gr Nosler Accubond Long Range I have to work up, and I'm pretty sure I bought some Barnes 140ish triple shock.... you get the picture I post on Nosler's forums, and read a couple long range shooting forums, This looks like a good forum with lots to read of interest, probably just the place to be as my kids begin hunting locally too Well, I didn't plan on making my intro on the Classified Ads, but there it is

Hi, looking for powder/shot/wads to load steel duck loads. Used the search function, only one post from 2013 and it's sold Please PM me if you are in AZ and are looking to sell the above--really looking for local Alliant Steel powder mostly. Thanks, Dave