Hodgdon Powder Co. Inc buys RCBS
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Exspiravit
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Pretty soon all gun related manufacturing will be owned by three or four entities. This is not a good thing.
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Not all just wholesale brands.
Factories own brands and change color, stickers, molds etc as "new" products at the wholesale level.
Few non-factory owned brands can sell at wholesale 50% below MSRP.
Once these brands have enough sell-through then the production level cost efficiencies kick in.
RCBS was owned by Vista, so it's like a big 3 sold to the little guy
Sounds fine to me. I like them both.
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Sounds more like good thing to me, being owned by a gun-centric company rather than an investment company. Is Hodgdon still family owned?
Yes, still family owned.
I heard that question asked on a podcast, they said primer production is more dangerous than black powder production.
Have you ever seen videos of primers being filled? It’s all done by hand, machines don’t have the touch to do it.That's what robotics is for.
Took me a while to wonder if this will affect the quality of the RCBS warranty and customer service. Have a couple projects that I’m going to move to the front of the bench just in case.