Guns, Dogs and Blades QnA

Sublime one said

Side bar PSA for all you reloaders out there. While I totally understand the recent changes in our Govt impact our industry. Make no mistake powder is still going to be pricey and sketchy on availability for civilian market. We purchase our training ammo by the pallet and supply has been hit and miss. To put it in perspective each *155mm round that gets lobbed at an enemy on the battlefield is equal to approximately 15 cases of 9mm. Ukraine alone is consuming aprox 8,000 rounds of 155 per day. Do the math reloaders. Powder is gonna be tight for the foreseeable future.
*data courtesy of Recoil Editor “Downrange” issue 77 page 14

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https://www.globalsecurity.org/military/systems/munitions/155-prop.htm
Probably so…much big gun stuff is triple base propellants with grains being pellets the size of a hay pellet or little finger with hole channels through it to increase surface area to burn. Triple base burns slower than the double base most of use for rifles and contains two or three ingredients that double base doesn’t have. But their base ingredients are what we use in small arms. Single plus something makes double base. DB plus more makes triple base.

I only know (that small amount) because of the difficulty getting military TB powders for training detection dogs and the associated ATF chemist provided training in safe handling, and tracking the odors the dogs were certified to locate.