I just bought a lb of Swiss 2F at Dixon's and it cost me with tax $40.28. I may have to see what Pryodex P goes for if the prices go higher?Supplies are tough to find as it is.
I can see the cost of Swiss and Schuetzen skyrocketing, putting the price tag beyond the reach of many of us, myself included.
The military thinks otherwise and hopefully those contracts are enough to make the GOEX plant a worthwhile purchase for someone with a few free dollars from the FED.Without a domestic source of black powder, I fear the end is just around the corner for muzzleloading as I grew up with, and love with my heart & soul. All it will take is a bill proposed in Congress, could be a bill piggybacked onto another innocuous bill, and the foreign imports of black powder could be banned just like a snap of the fingers.
While necessity has forced me to own a highly modified CVA Optima V2 pistol, in lieu of a shoulder fired flintlock longrifle, my heart will always be 100% on the flintlock bandwagon.
And, without affordable real black powder, such as Graf & Sons, Goex, Schuetzen, or Olde Eynsford, shooting flintlocks will rapidly become a thing of the past. You cannot shoot substitutes in a flintlock without a 10 grain squib load of real black powder under the black powder substitute. And, of course, real black powder is a necessity for priming the pan of the lock.
For me, I lump Swiss black powder in with the substitutes, especially BH209. They all cost far more than basic black powder. And, if the shutdown of the domestic Goex black powder plant in Louisiana becomes a permanent reality, then the cost of the remaining propellants will skyrocket. Especially, if their availability is restricted due to political, or economic, factors having nothing to do with the ability to staff, operate, and obtain the raw materials necessary to run a manufacturing plant.
Which my sources tell me is the current reason for the lack of many of the items we have taken for granted in the muzzleloading community.
Most Americans would not be opposed to such a ban, as they only think of black powder as a dangerous explosive, useful only for fireworks, & pipe bombs.
Keep thinking along that track…Between this forum and our sister(?) forum surely we can come up with a group of investors to buy GOEX from Hodgdon and keep making it.
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