RCBS Sold

[GWS]

Have a little faith........this passage quoted from the Hodgdon Web Site sounds pretty upbeat......

“This acquisition of RCBS, the leading brand in metallic reloading tools, is a perfect complement to our portfolio of smokeless powder brands for our handloading customers,” said Steve Kehrwald, president and CEO of Hodgdon Powder Company. With our world-class ballistics labs, we look forward to providing even more load data to our new RCBS customers.”

Hodgdon is thrilled to add the RCBS facility in Oroville, CA to our company-owned facilities in Shawnee, KS, Herington, KS and Miles City, MT. The addition of the RCBS team will more than double the headcount at the Hodgdon Powder Company and greatly expands the company’s manufacturing capabilities.

“For years, our friends have referred to the Hodgdon family and company as ‘The Gunpowder People’ and this acquisition further demonstrates our dedication to the handloader,” said J.B. Hodgdon, co-owner with his late brother Bob, of the Hodgdon Powder Company. “Our dad Bruce partnered with Fred Huntington from RCBS to conduct Reloading Roadshow events in the 1950s and 1960s. I believe they both are looking down today, proud to have our two great brands together in 2024.”

That European Conglomerate didn't get them......thank goodness for that.

[country gent]

H380 was named that because it was the load in Bruce Hodgdons wildcat 22-250 The hodgdon family are shooters.

[NObamain2012]

You really think that the company that has more than doubled the price of gunpowder in the past 2 years and seldom has any in stock, now has control of the most popular reloading tool company in the world is a good thing? All of the primer, gunpowder, and component problems are being caused by American corporations, the same corporations that have caused the demise of Remington, Marlin, DPMS and Dakota arms, the same corporations that have created one corporation that owns 75% of a primer production in America. The America that you and I love and believe in is gone. American citizens are marching and occupying colleges to protect terrorist. These companies were owned and founded by shooters, they are now run by thieves.

Unfortunately, I predict Ebb is right, instant replay of IMR.