deadibob
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So those of you who have recently bought blackhorn 209 did you read the label closely? Apparently Hodgdon has not been immune to our great and wonderful economy and has taken the path which many other companies recently have or plan to take....SHRINKFLATION!!!
Yes you remember that last bottle of Blackhorn 209 which was so full that you wondered how they could fit it all inside? Well wonder no more because that ten ounce bottle has now been reduced to a measly eight ounces. Yes you heard right, Blackhorn 209 is now available in handy lightweight eight ounce bottles. What's two ounces you say? Well 20% less is what that is and twenty dollars more than last year.
I've been shooting Blackhorn 209 since it came out, I even put it to the test when they said it wasn't corrosive and left two dirty rifles in my steamy bathroom for over a month after hunting season just to see. Guess what? It's not as non-corrosive as they said it was, it destroyed both barrels. Ramshot even admitted it to me on the phone saying it wasn't as non-corrosive as they were originally told by the manufacturer. They felt so bad that they sent me three eight pound jugs of powder as compensation for my rusty barrels(2230, MAGPRO and TAC), yet I still continued to shoot the stuff despite the cost increase each year. Yes I thought it was that good.
This last spring I paid $70 a bottle and felt lucky enough to find it. Seriously I don't think I'm the only one here who has felt like a meth-head recently in trying to make a score at all costs but when you start trying to pinch my baggie I'm done with ya.?
I'm kicking the habit once and for all, when my current stash is gone I'm done with it. It seems that the current street price is $60+ a bottle and I've heard of more than one person paying at least $100 for a single 10 ounce jug. So it's $120+ a pound now when we're buying it eight ounces at a time.
I'm going back to the old stuff, 777. Yeah I might lose 100fps and I'll have to go back to running a spit patch through my barrel but I can still get an entire pound for $30-$35. Before Blackhorn 209 came out I was tickled at the velocity jump I got when I switched from Pyrodex Select to 777. So now I'm just going to tell myself that Blackhorn never existed in the first place and that 777 is still the best thing going. ?
I can hear it now "the cost of powder is the cheapest part of the hunt" or "I only need to take 10-20 shots and I'm good for another year" blah blah blah. I also heard recently that gasoline is the cheapest part of the hunt, $5.20 today and rising. Food was one of the cheapest things too but have you bought eggs lately? Lots of cheap crap has sure been adding up this year. I shoot a lot more than 10-20 shots so I go through a lot of powder. Between my kids and I we have five muzzy tags this year so that's a lot of friggin' powder.
Kicking the Blackhorn habit might get me gas to camp and food to eat when I get there.?
P.S.,
I go on my best rants at 2:00am
Yes you remember that last bottle of Blackhorn 209 which was so full that you wondered how they could fit it all inside? Well wonder no more because that ten ounce bottle has now been reduced to a measly eight ounces. Yes you heard right, Blackhorn 209 is now available in handy lightweight eight ounce bottles. What's two ounces you say? Well 20% less is what that is and twenty dollars more than last year.
I've been shooting Blackhorn 209 since it came out, I even put it to the test when they said it wasn't corrosive and left two dirty rifles in my steamy bathroom for over a month after hunting season just to see. Guess what? It's not as non-corrosive as they said it was, it destroyed both barrels. Ramshot even admitted it to me on the phone saying it wasn't as non-corrosive as they were originally told by the manufacturer. They felt so bad that they sent me three eight pound jugs of powder as compensation for my rusty barrels(2230, MAGPRO and TAC), yet I still continued to shoot the stuff despite the cost increase each year. Yes I thought it was that good.
This last spring I paid $70 a bottle and felt lucky enough to find it. Seriously I don't think I'm the only one here who has felt like a meth-head recently in trying to make a score at all costs but when you start trying to pinch my baggie I'm done with ya.?
I'm kicking the habit once and for all, when my current stash is gone I'm done with it. It seems that the current street price is $60+ a bottle and I've heard of more than one person paying at least $100 for a single 10 ounce jug. So it's $120+ a pound now when we're buying it eight ounces at a time.
I'm going back to the old stuff, 777. Yeah I might lose 100fps and I'll have to go back to running a spit patch through my barrel but I can still get an entire pound for $30-$35. Before Blackhorn 209 came out I was tickled at the velocity jump I got when I switched from Pyrodex Select to 777. So now I'm just going to tell myself that Blackhorn never existed in the first place and that 777 is still the best thing going. ?
I can hear it now "the cost of powder is the cheapest part of the hunt" or "I only need to take 10-20 shots and I'm good for another year" blah blah blah. I also heard recently that gasoline is the cheapest part of the hunt, $5.20 today and rising. Food was one of the cheapest things too but have you bought eggs lately? Lots of cheap crap has sure been adding up this year. I shoot a lot more than 10-20 shots so I go through a lot of powder. Between my kids and I we have five muzzy tags this year so that's a lot of friggin' powder.
Kicking the Blackhorn habit might get me gas to camp and food to eat when I get there.?
P.S.,
I go on my best rants at 2:00am