4831 was the powder that put Bruce Hodgdon in business. He bought tons of the military surplus powder after WWII ended. It was going to be destroyed, but he managed to buy rail-cars full of it for pennies a pound. In the very beginning of his fledgling business, he had his wife and kids filling cans to sell to reloaders.
When that original stock ran out, he began producing H4831, and DuPont started making the nearly identical IMR 4831. Even though it is still produced, it is a great powder that will be easy to sell locally.
