And to think I was well stocked with all my beloved favorites. Now it appears I gotta start hoarding 3031, for it is the darling of the small pile of .30-30-class rifles I have, for both jacketed and cast hunting loads.

My last scare was with SR-4759, probably the all time greatest powder for cast bullets. Through diligent (and sometimes hardnosed) effort I countered Hodgdon's discontinuance of it, and am sitting on what should be enough for the rest of my days.

I'm the odd man out, re: 4320. I don't recall ever buying/using any. Not purposefully, just the way it panned out. Weird.

Some days I wonder if I were better off selling the whole darned lot of my smokeless rifles and replace them with all black powder cartridge guns, and buy a keg of powder and be done with it.


"You can lead a man to logic, but you cannot make him think." Joe Harz
"Always certain, often right." Keith McCafferty