Home Forums Hunting & Shooting Cowboy Action Shooting Will Trail Boss powder ever be available ?

As the title says, will Trail Boss ever be put back into production ?

Id like to find some, got a couple cans left, good for suppressed loads!

I have it from a pretty reliable source that it will start showing up this summer.

I'd love to try some for subsonic loads, but it's been unobtainium since I got the urge. Been using Unique and AA5744

I'm not sure how much demand there is for it...Cowboy Action is dying or on life support around here. As far as cast bullet loads for the 'old ones', I can't think of a single application where it is listed as 'most accurate powder tested'. You can look at the Cast Boolit archives, pages and years of serious shooters posting their experiences...Trail Boss is never mentioned. IMO it was a powder marketed for dummies that can't seem to develop a reloading technique that eliminates an accidental double charge.

you aren't missing anything.....

You can find it on Gone Broker but they will take your britches down for it .

KB64, where are you located?

Perhaps not. Expect something even better may come, sooner or later. I am not holding my breath mind you.

Seen some trail boss on the shelf last weekend

SW Alabama

Too bad, if you were close, I could help you out.

Never got the excellent accuracy some report with TB rifle loads, but it’s worked well in handguns, easily accurate enough for my skill level. It’s a PITA in a measure, but dispenses easily from my Chargemaster Lite. Next time around I’m going to try it with Lee dippers, which should work well, in theory anyway. I have about a jug and a half left.

I was wanting to try it in light weight suppressed loads for a 300 BO. Was going to try it with 90 grain XTP pistol bullets. Most of the data I could find used TB.

Yes.

Later this year.

There will not be much, and it won’t last long.

I have a little mainly use it 38 /40 vintage Low Wall very accurate , My other vintage rifles Im shooting metallic black powder . I would like a jug of it but really isn't a game changer not having it .

And it will be expensive!!

You are making up stories
There is no plan to reintroduce TB

No. Trail Boss was a solution looking for a problem.

I never really understood the apparent hostility towards TB. What it was originally designed to do: fill large BP-era cases, eliminating hangfires that can occur with light charges of some powders in those cases, and prevent double charges by virtue if its bulk, it does perfectly. Later on it was found to work well for reduced loads in a whole slew of cartridges, excepting only .50BMG. Mule Deer has published a good bit of data for it, and Mike Venturino was a heavy user in handgun loads, nearly exclusively when he wasn’t shooting BP. Charlie Petty did a piece on it some years back and got really fine results in a variety of CF rifle loads. It is/was a bit expensive; I recall spending about $19 for 9oz, but that 9oz will provide over 900 top-end .38 or .357 loads, and 600+ .44 mag or .45 Colt loads at useful velocities.

The price bothers some like my skinflint buddy gnoahhh, but there’s also been a fair number of negative comments about how it prevents double charges, like real men never have a whoopsie when charging cases with powder. That’s pretty funny to me.