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Yes, it's good stuff. I'm hearing now that Winchester/Olin has licensed their powder sales to Hodgdon Inc.

So now Hodgdon sells their own brand, IMR and now Winchester powders.

They have sold Surplus and newly manufactured IMR (Dupont) type powders for years and ball powder equivalents of the Winchester powders so it's basically a lot of the same powders under different names now.

Interesting move from a marketing standpoint.

BTW- I see IthacaGun is back in business also.

Really seeing a lot of musical chairs in this industry as of late.

I like Hodgdon Varget in my .308's. Very accurate. And their H4427 in my .41 mag with a 225 grain cast bullet. And in my suppressed .44 Ruger bolt action with a 300 grain bullet. 15.2 grains, 920 FPS MV. Have to keep them subsonic or it sounds like a HV .22 with the sonic crack.

But they've discontinued H4227 as they now took over the IMR series of powders and said they don't need two brands of 4227. Unfortunate.

And U.S. Repeating Arms is also going out of, or has gone out of business. Factory is for sale, with the "Winchester" trade name being sold separately.

Lots and lots of stuff going on in the firearms and firearm accessory business, like you said.