TB Back in Australia

[Major Crimes]

On 1/25/2025 at 5:59 AM, Cold Lake Kid, SASS # 51474 said:

Major Crimes, Orient Express!

There was talk about changes having to be made to the formulae used in the manufacture of Trail Boss.

Have you noticed any changes???? 

I haven't used the new one yet and won't be until I finish my half bottle I still have.

 

I haven't heard of any changes and there are no changes to any load data. There were a lot of rumors as to why the gap in production, but I guess we will soon find out if it is any different.

[Painted Mohawk SASS 77785]

Pretty sure TB has remained the same formula....some others have changed & gone from double based to single based, they don't burn as well & need upping the grainage to get a better performance.... Your Clays  [  our AS30  ]used to be double based & here   down-under the name changes went from AS30  [DB  ] to  SB  powders AS350 &  450 then AS650 & presently is known as AS950.    I may have got the numbers mixed up but it was something like that....the price hikes were significant.!!

[watab kid]

i appreciate it too , ive never used trail boss or a lot of others yall use , ive always used fast burning shotgun powders for my loading - clays , red dot , 700x , etc and these first three are my go to powders as i can load all of my rifle /revolver and shotgun in one powder , never used these bulky powders , but nice to see so i know 

[Tall John]

@Cholla Three Pages!     I saw a FB post by Hodgdon over this past weekend (1/25-26/2025) about trying different powders and a lot of folks asked about Trail Boss.  The Page Moderator kept repeating over and over that we should see it in the US this summer.

[Orient Express]

Remember, being Australian it comes bottled in International Units of weight, not freedom units. 😋

Edited February 17 by Orient Express

[H. K. Uriah, SASS #74619]

On 1/30/2025 at 3:26 PM, Tall John said:

@Cholla Three Pages!     I saw a FB post by Hodgdon over this past weekend (1/25-26/2025) about trying different powders and a lot of folks asked about Trail Boss.  The Page Moderator kept repeating over and over that we should see it in the US this summer.

 
Got a link to the post?

[Tall John]

Posted on Facebook

 

https://www.facebook.com/share/v/1ECtRVxisf/?mibextid=wwXIfro

[Tall John]

 

26 minutes ago, H. K. Uriah, SASS #74619 said:

 
Got a link to the post?

https://www.facebook.com/share/v/1ECtRVxisf/?mibextid=wwXIfr

[H. K. Uriah, SASS #74619]

2 hours ago, Tall John said:

 

https://www.facebook.com/share/v/1ECtRVxisf/?mibextid=wwXIfr

Hopeful to have some doesn't sound promising.    Hopeful means maybe, maybe not, no promises, we aren't sure.   Some, means not a lot.  

If it comes out, there will be a run, and then it'll be gone again for another 5 years,

[Tall John]

Deleted info no longer relevant to this thread.

Edited February 20 by Tall John

[H. K. Uriah, SASS #74619]

49 minutes ago, Tall John said:

I’ve got a sealed 2lb jug of Trail Boss that I’m contemplating selling as I’ve had good luck loading TiteGroup and High Gun but the buyer would have to come to Connecticut and bring three Benjamins to get it. 

Where in Connecticut?

I'm in Massachusetts...

[Tall John]

5 hours ago, H. K. Uriah, SASS #74619 said:

Where in Connecticut?

I'm in Massachusetts...

 

Edited February 18 by Tall John

[Tall John]

4 hours ago, H. K. Uriah, SASS #74619 said:

Where in Connecticut?

I'm in Massachusetts...

sent you PM

[Major Crimes]

On 2/17/2025 at 11:28 PM, Orient Express said:

Remember, being Australian it comes bottled in International Units of weight, not freedom units. 😋

You are in good company guys.

 

[H. K. Uriah, SASS #74619]

We goofed.

After the War, the US, UK, the Commonwealth (And maybe a few others) still used real measurements.   When we won, we should told the rest of the world to follow suit.   They would have.

[H. K. Uriah, SASS #74619]

14 hours ago, Major Crimes said:

You are in good company guys.

 

 

I've been to the UK.   Speedometers in cars and road signs are all in miles (And yards!)  for example.   In conversations with the locals, they would switch back and forth seamlessly, and most claimed they preferred Imperial.   The weather was in Celscius, but I was told ovens are in Farenheit.  (I can't spell either one!)   Weights are expressed in units of stone, which is oh so many pounds.

In other words, the UK is officially metric, but the common people prefer the normal system.  (Based on observation.)

[Hoss]

On 12/9/2024 at 10:47 AM, Colorado Coffinmaker said:

 

I've heard some folks are Brushing Their Teeth with the stuff. 

Unique is better suited for that. 

[Colorado Coffinmaker]

Dunno 'bout dat H.K.   When I was stationed in the UK (that's England) the Road Signs, Speed Limit signs, et all were in Kilometers.  Same same speedometers in cars.  Although it is noted, they mostly drive on the wrong side of the road the steering wheel and controls are all on the passenger side.  Strange, that.

 

Now lemme think on that a minute.  The Trains were all in MPH.  SPEEDO and Speed Limits may have been too.  Long time ago.  But, they did drive on the wrong side and the steering wheel and controls were on the Passinger side.  Really entertaining when we (US Service People) left and intersection and forgot which side of the road . . . . . .

Edited February 20 by Colorado Coffinmaker
Re-Thinking It

[Gateway Kid SASS# 70038 Life]

13 hours ago, Colorado Coffinmaker said:

Dunno 'bout dat H.K.   When I was stationed in the UK (that's England) the Road Signs, Speed Limit signs, et all were in Kilometers.  Same same speedometers in cars.  Although it is noted, they mostly drive on the wrong side of the road the steering wheel and controls are all on the passenger side.  Strange, that.

 

Now lemme think on that a minute.  The Trains were all in MPH.  SPEEDO and Speed Limits may have been too.  Long time ago.  But, they did drive on the wrong side and the steering wheel and controls were on the Passinger side.  Really entertaining when we (US Service People) left and intersection and forgot which side of the road . . . . . .

Sounds like things haven’t changed much!!  Two years ago went to Ireland for a couple weeks. Same problem, steering wheel on passenger side, drive on wrong side of road. Throw in a manual 5 speed to be shifted with left hand and the first couple days were “challenging”. Manuals were about 20% cheaper to rent than automatics. Guessing that is one way to keep out the riff raff! Finally got the hang of things about day 2 or so (fortunately nothing bad happened) and started driving like a local!! That is, 100 km +++ on a skinny two lane country road, just barely wide enough for two cars, dodging these massive tractors that they use instead of semi’s, staying observant for hidden driveways, knowing that there weren’t any lane markers for center or shoulder. One thing we observed is many cars were lacking mirrors from being driven into the roughly three inches (excuse me, 7 1/2 cm) of room between vehicles moving at high speeds. The return lady at the rental place was impressed when I told her this trip was full of “firsts”. She told me I was the “first” to bring a car back undamaged of the roughly twenty she had checked in that day. Great trip, highly recommend!

Regards

    

Gateway Kid

[H. K. Uriah, SASS #74619]

I can drive a standard.   Er...  A stick...   But when I got a rental car over there, I purposely requested, and paid extra for, an automatic.   Driving on the left side of the road was fairly simple to master, but I didn't want to mess with left handed stickshift at the same time!

[Rip Snorter]

In the UK decades back, discovered that though I drove a shift car at home, my left hand hadn't got the trick of shifting.  Managed without harm, but one extra thing to worry about.