Good grief! they send it in a huge jug; one that occupies a lot of square footage and would easily hold 25# of powder. It'll be cold day in a hot place before I try others of the series even though it looks quite promising.
And Federal primers? For years a favored brand: now look at the ridiculous package they create. Again, it will be a cold day before I get more Federal primers. Especially as my good primer storage space is much more limited than my powder storage space.
Took a few pictures (with old vs new packaging where I had it) to show illustrate what I am talking about -- Primers: Powders: So: I now have a strong bias against Federal primers and Alliant powders, based on their stooopid packaging. And then yesterday while the wife was doing a little clothes shopping I was killing time in Sportsman's Warehouse, which is a decent place to buy powder in the bigger jugs that are my preference. And as in a horrible nightmare I spy Hodgdon and IMR powder the 8# container. The same grossly obese jug that Alliant has been using!
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What I will do from now on is keep my old powder containers and just transfer the replacement from the horrible new container into the reasonably svelte old container. And may not try any of the new powders -- not that I badly needed anything new. I don't shoot anything but old guns: might as well use the old stand-by powders.
But dang -- I had been looking forward to trying "Power Pistol" once the new right shoulder heals up enough to get back to shooting pistols. And if Accurate and Ramline (and Norma and Vihtavouri) can resist the disease they may get more business.
OK -- Rant Off. But that was a shock to my system yesterday. For years Hodgdon had such neat containers -- those gallon jugs that held 8# perfectly and poured so nicely. And I threw them away when empty
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