From: SADW, [EMAIL PROTECTED] I assume Royal Ordnance will simply have to find an offshore supplier of NC paste to feed Muiden's smokeless powder line after Bishopton bites the dust. Muiden essentially performs the role for RO that Nobels filled before.....Nobels used to operate a powder plant on an agency basis solely for Royal Ordnance. Since parting was not, as I recall, very amicable, I very much doubt if that relationship would ever be rekindled in quite the same way. It was the dumping of the agency agreement that finally persuaded Nobels to get out of the smokeless powder business altogether........it simply wasn't worth their while anymore without the underpinning RO work. Separately, the cessation, after HSE intervention, of the old distribution system whereby Nobel powders & Eley ammunition used to be transported on the same vehicles also contributed to making Nobel's products uneconomic to make. In any event, the UK handloading market is tiny by comparison with that in the USA, where Nobels also used to sell, in the old days under the Herters name and more recently as Scot Powders. I believe Semtin (Czech) and Chinese reloading powders have now filled the gap in America. Nick Steadman Cybershooters website: http://www.cybershooters.org List admin: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___________________________________________________________ T O P I C A The Email You Want. http://www.topica.com/t/16 Newsletters, Tips and Discussions on Your Favorite Topics
