Is Woodleigh back in full production?

[Shootist43]

Previous threads indicated Woodleigh would tentatively be back in production towards the end of the year (2023.) Has anyone gotten an email or spoken to the owner about their current status? I'm looking for some 500 Gr. PP (s) in 458. Now that Huntington Die Specialties has gone out of business will there be any vendors other than the larger supply houses stocking them?

 

[sgt_zim]

their last update on the web page about this was 21 August, so I doubt they're back yet.

 

[Hunter4752001]

Geoff is back in production, his first major production run was to fulfil a contractual obligation with a major ammo company. Not all the dies could be restored so the there will be some styles that won't re-appear in the immediate future. He's currently doing a run of 458 cal projectiles. I believe the 400gr PPSN are among the current batch, don't now about the 500gr PPSN. I'm expecting some to arrive next week, fingers crossed.

 

[SWS1]

I just bought 950 of the .474 500gn RNSN. Which apparently were new production. There are a few showing up in some of the Australian shops now…
Hanging out for the 300gn .375 in HD to be produced again

 

[baxterb]

Previous threads indicated Woodleigh would tentatively be back in production towards the end of the year (2023.) Has anyone gotten an email or spoken to the owner about their current status? I'm looking for some 500 Gr. PP (s) in 458. Now that Huntington Die Specialties has gone out of business will there be any vendors other than the larger supply houses stocking them?

Yes. And I know a guy who is trying to help find a replacement for Huntington’s.

I would also like some 480 gr 458s with the cannelure set for the win mag.

 

[Bob Nelson 35Whelen]

Previous threads indicated Woodleigh would tentatively be back in production towards the end of the year (2023.) Has anyone gotten an email or spoken to the owner about their current status? I'm looking for some 500 Gr. PP (s) in 458. Now that Huntington Die Specialties has gone out of business will there be any vendors other than the larger supply houses stocking them?

@Shootist43
Art I was talking to Geoff's wife a few weeks back and they are up and running in a limited capacity hoping to be in full production soon.
Bob

 

[sgt_zim]

Latest email from Geoff a couple days ago is that they hope to have a US distributor by February or March '24

 

[rifletuner]

Yes, as mentioned, we are starting to see limited projectiles coming out of Woodleigh through Australian resellers. But "full production" is still a long way off. Its great to see bullets being produced again, but its really only phase one of a long process.

Its not like Woodleigh could ever produce all the bullets in their line up simultaneously. They are batching them through in production runs and will probably take years to build up their inventory again. Given having to replace some of their dies and fulfil the backlog of orders, they are going to be reactive for some time to come unfortunately.

The first thing Geoff did after the fire was clean up all saleable inventory that had survived and liquidate it to fulfil some of the demand and pull in cash to help rebuild. So not only have they had to rebuild the plant, they now have to rebuild stock levels, and that is in an environment that has been starved for product for a couple of years.

 

[rifletuner]

Well, its good to see new stock of Woodleigh becoming available in Australia again. I just ran out of 286gn RNSN for my sons 9.3x74, and I am getting low on 320gn RNSN for my 9.3x64. I was great being able to order some online and have them arrive a few days later

 

[V.Veritas]

Well, its good to see new stock of Woodleigh becoming available in Australia again. I just ran out of 286gn RNSN for my sons 9.3x74, and I am getting low on 320gn RNSN for my 9.3x64. I was great being able to order some online and have them arrive a few days later

@rifletuner - do you know if a Canadian can order Woodleigh bullets from Australia? Are the reloading bullets controlled items in Australia?
My 9.3x64 is hungry for 320gr as well.

Cheers.