Powders are ran in batches on the same production machinery as other powders. What they likely mean is IMR has been ran and they have moved on to other varieties. It has most likely ran it's production run and is now on the bottom of the list waiting for others to run before coming up again on the production schedule. Hodgdon has multiple brands and powders to make. Unless they increase capacity things run in rotation.
This is 100% true.
Maybe they should start making 4756, 7625 and PB while theyre at it.
Yep, flood the market.
Put my vote right alongside yours. It is an excellent powder. I think Hodgdon just needed to give it another year for it to garner a greater following. Shotgunners are slow to adapt to "new", and my take is that they were just beginning to capture more of an audience.
I tried all of them and they were all good as advertised. Believe they were to make a "unique" powder also but never saw it. Didn't see enough difference in the ones i tried against the ones they replaced to warrant changing from the old. (eg. red for red dot)
Me too, I only load the 16 anymore and for 7/8 oz. loads with DR16 wads prefer IMR Green over Green Dot. But after Alliant won the lawsuit from Hodgdon for Clay Dot name infringement ~15 years ago I will use Hodgdon powders over Alliant anytime I can based on principal alone. Don't need a judge or lawyers to me right from wrong.
They did, and won. Just not with the IMR powders. Hodgdon had a commanding market lead over Alliant with Clays and International. Problem was, the plant where they were produced, in Australia, burned down. It caused a massive shortage when half the cannister powder supply got cut off and everyone started chasing what was left. Hodgdon is still trying to get back to where it was with Clays before the fire. They had some initial hiccups with quality control (density variation) from their new supplier (General Dynamics). I have not heard/seen any complaints about Clays in some time.
