Joe_Schm: What you and others need to know is that powder and bullet manufactures are out there to make money. They are not your buddy. If a powder gets hard to find, they have most likely stopped making it and have come up with a new powder (cheaper to make) that is near?? to the old powder. Also the powder that they have brought out to replace the old will will have a higher price so they get a higher profit. If you are locked into using Re22 you had better buy all you can at any price or be ready to uses the "New and improved powder" that they are selling.
Good grief.
Quite doubtful Alliant has ceased production of RL22. Regardless if RL has been discontinued, you may be interested to know powders are made in production runs, and it may be a while before the next production run is manufactured while other types of powder are being made. Many powders are manufactured overseas, and when the manufacturers have enough powder of different types made, they ship it in one big shipment. You may not have noticed but a fair number of Alliant powders are out of stock on various websites. Alliant is obviously in-between shipments of various powders currently, although the boat could be crossing the pond as I type.
Smaller websites that charge more for items like smokeless powder (like the ones M1Garand listed), or out-of-the-way gunshops usually are among the last to sell out.
Popular powders are usually out of stock sooner than less popular powders (makes sense, right?). Give it some time and even RL26 will be readily available..........