Varget contaminated with win748 powder

dfraser

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Hi all,

I don't know how i did it, but I mixed some win748 into one of my varget bottles, Wondering what I should do with this bottle.

I can see some win748 grains with every varget powder throw. I am currently reloading 308win for one of my bolt action savages. I have stop reloading and threw all the powder back into this varget bottle.

They look to be really close on my burn charts, win748 might be just a tad slower.

Can I continue to use it on my 308Win? Or use it on my 30-30Win? or just dispose of it?

Regards
 
I did the same thing once. Blc2 and 4895. Loaded up some 110gr vmax starting loads and used them for coyote and porcupine. I'm not recommending it of course but it worked well for me.
 
Flower Beds? I have some plants around here that could use some sprucing up. Wife is going to kill me when she gets from Montreal to she the plants looking pretty bad. Especially I was telling her everyday on the phone that I was watering them.........

Either wife killing me because of these plants, or my gun blows up and kills me. Don't know which is worse..............

Gun powder good for plants?
 
Realistically, it's probably fine if you dropped your load down to be safe. But what's the point? Maybe if you were loading for a semi auto where accuracy wasn't as important. For the sake of accurate, developed loads. Turf it.
 
How much 748 went into how much varget? A wee bit of 748 into a lot of varget isn't going to change things much, considering how close they are in burn rate, provided they are well mixed. You would of course want to start low and work up.
 
Shake the bottle well, and use it. I mark contaminated powders with a ? mark after the name. VARGET?

Treat it like a new can/lot number. Use the Varget START load and work up.

Or just use it for your 30-30 & 308 at a plinker level load.

I once used about 500 pounds of contaminated ball rifle powder that had been contaminated with ball pistol. Your mix is quite benign.

I used to do some consulting work with Expro (they made the IMR powders). One day I asked about using the powder as fertiliser. The R & D boss (Ph.D. in Chemistry) said that it would take the powder 20 years to break down.

I once shipped a 4 pound sample of powder to a fellow and hid the contents by labelling it Slow Release Rose Food. (Very slow...)
 
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dfraser said:
Flower Beds? I have some plants around here that could use some sprucing up. Wife is going to kill me when she gets from Montreal to she the plants looking pretty bad. Especially I was telling her everyday on the phone that I was watering them.........

Either wife killing me because of these plants, or my gun blows up and kills me. Don't know which is worse..............

Gun powder good for plants?
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The only way that powder will break down into fertilizer is if it's already broken down. The other method I use is to boil it in water until it breaks up. Even then I don't know how much it separates into its various components. There's a very good reason why some of the 4831 (H4831) I have had for close to 50 years that was 25 years old when I bought it still works as well as it did when it was new.
 
Ganderite said:
Shake the bottle well, and use it. I mark contaminated powders with a ? mark after the name. VARGET?

Treat it like a new can/lot number. Use the Varget START load and work up.

Or just use it for your 30-30 & 308 at a plinker level load.

I once used about 500 pounds of contaminated ball rifle powder that had been contaminated with ball pistol. Your mix is quite benign.

I used to do some consulting work with Expro (they made the IMR powders). One day I asked about using the powder as fertiliser. The R & D boss (Ph.D. in Chemistry) said that it would take the powder 20 years to break down.

I once shipped a 4 pound sample of powder to a fellow and hid the contents by labelling it Slow Release Rose Food. (Very slow...)
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Thank you for confirming this,

This is exactly what I starting to plan with this bottle for, plinking 30-30 with reduced loads.

Regards
 
Putting powder back in wrong can happens all the time. That is how guns get blown up. A powder thrower of pistol powder gets dumped into a can of rifle powder.

Keep only one can of powder on the bench. Don't leave powder in the thrower, on the assumption you will remember what it is, next time.
 
If you thumble the powder in say, a salad spinner, you should be able to get it seprated. Varget kernels are much bigger than W748 pellets...
 
I dumped a powder measure worth of H1000 into a full keg of H414 once, a couple of powder shortages ago. Eventually it occurred to me to run it through my wife's kitchen strainer. The stick powder stayed in the strainer, the ball powder flowed through like water. The few stray kernels didn't seem to bother my .375 much. Biggest danger was the risk of my wife catching me at it. :)
 
Ganderite said:
Putting powder back in wrong can happens all the time. That is how guns get blown up. A powder thrower of pistol powder gets dumped into a can of rifle powder.

Keep only one can of powder on the bench. Don't leave powder in the thrower, on the assumption you will remember what it is, next time.
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I have two powder dispensers on my bench, a digital scale Lyman and then the Dillon measure on the press, both have powder in them for months on end...but I have one rule that I never break, the powder that is in a measure has the jar it came from right beside it until I drain it for some reason...no exceptions.
 
I am surprised at all the "toss it" comments; it's not like he mixed in blue dot with the Varget....
Ganderite has the right answer, treat it as a new powder/lot.
 
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