Varget contaminated with win748 powder

Alpheus said:
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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X2!! This can be safely used as is. Just apply common sense. These two powders are not far apart on the burn rate scale.
Paranoia seems to be alive and well on here. D.
 
If it's just a little bit of w748 then I wouldn't be too worried, your accuracy may suffer, but if you dumped allot in then I would stop using it.
 
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fingers284 said:
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.
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A piece of masking tape with a note of the powder will cure any anxiety you might have when the time comes to decant the powder. I am terrified of Murphy.
 
fingers284 said:
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.
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I mark my Dillon dispensers with a Dymo label; e.g. VV N340 6.2 GR. When I change calibre/powder I peel off the label and make a new one.
 
mark222 said:
I'd throw it out. If you keep it and use it, you might find the most accurate load you've ever worked up and you'll never be able to duplicate it! :)
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Ha!

I have about 25 pounds left of powder marked "Dirty BL". It is 80% BLC2 and 20% 4895 and a trace of a ball pistol powder. I used to have about 150 pounds of it.

I use this powder for all my rifle plinker loads. By "plinker" I mean anything except serious accuracy ammo (where I would use Varget or N140). This powder has worked well for medium power loads and I use if for my 223 CQB ammo.

This powder came for the recall of the CBC surplus 7.62x51 ammo sold by Century in Montreal and USA.

I bought it for $25 a case and pulled the bullets. Some lots were 100% IMR type powder. Some were 100% BLC2 type powder, and some cases had a mix.

This "Dirty" powder is from the mix lot ammo. I used to have a couple garbage cans full of it, but this is all that is left. Lots of good shooting.

It c
 
Ganderite said:
Ha!

I have about 25 pounds left of powder marked "Dirty BL". It is 80% BLC2 and 20% 4895 and a trace of a ball pistol powder. I used to have about 150 pounds of it.

I use this powder for all my rifle plinker loads. By "plinker" I mean anything except serious accuracy ammo (where I would use Varget or N140). This powder has worked well for medium power loads and I use if for my 223 CQB ammo.

This powder came for the recall of the CBC surplus 7.62x51 ammo sold by Century in Montreal and USA.

I bought it for $25 a case and pulled the bullets. Some lots were 100% IMR type powder. Some were 100% BLC2 type powder, and some cases had a mix.

This "Dirty" powder is from the mix lot ammo. I used to have a couple garbage cans full of it, but this is all that is left. Lots of good shooting.

It c
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I'd say,you got more powder kicking around,than the whole of China:)
 
Ganderite said:
Ha!

I have about 25 pounds left of powder marked "Dirty BL". It is 80% BLC2 and 20% 4895 and a trace of a ball pistol powder. I used to have about 150 pounds of it.

I use this powder for all my rifle plinker loads. By "plinker" I mean anything except serious accuracy ammo (where I would use Varget or N140). This powder has worked well for medium power loads and I use if for my 223 CQB ammo.

This powder came for the recall of the CBC surplus 7.62x51 ammo sold by Century in Montreal and USA.

I bought it for $25 a case and pulled the bullets. Some lots were 100% IMR type powder. Some were 100% BLC2 type powder, and some cases had a mix.

This "Dirty" powder is from the mix lot ammo. I used to have a couple garbage cans full of it, but this is all that is left. Lots of good shooting.

It c
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Nice! Musta wore out a couple of barrels going through that!
 
Ganderite said:
Ha!

I have about 25 pounds left of powder marked "Dirty BL". It is 80% BLC2 and 20% 4895 and a trace of a ball pistol powder. I used to have about 150 pounds of it.

I use this powder for all my rifle plinker loads. By "plinker" I mean anything except serious accuracy ammo (where I would use Varget or N140). This powder has worked well for medium power loads and I use if for my 223 CQB ammo.

This powder came for the recall of the CBC surplus 7.62x51 ammo sold by Century in Montreal and USA.

I bought it for $25 a case and pulled the bullets. Some lots were 100% IMR type powder. Some were 100% BLC2 type powder, and some cases had a mix.

This "Dirty" powder is from the mix lot ammo. I used to have a couple garbage cans full of it, but this is all that is left. Lots of good shooting.

It c
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I ended up with a batch of that CBC ammo, too. My partsman and I measured out several rounds, then pulled the bullets of the whole works, dumped all the powder in a container, then reloaded the whole works with a measure equaling what came out. I am still shooting that stuff, every now and again.
 
kjohn said:
I ended up with a batch of that CBC ammo, too. My partsman and I measured out several rounds, then pulled the bullets of the whole works, dumped all the powder in a container, then reloaded the whole works with a measure equaling what came out. I am still shooting that stuff, every now and again.
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That is the perfect solution in case you had the lot that had some pistol powder mixed in.
 
mark222 said:
Wait, you pulled enough bullets from ammo to get 150 lbs of powder?
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No. Pulled enough to get 150 pounds of the mixed powder. Most of it was either pure IMR or pure ball.

Pulled over 500,000 rounds. Got about 2 tons of powder.

Used one of these tools. Actually, used several of them.

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Down stroke pulls the bullet. Next up stroke pops the pulled bullet out of the tool.
 
Dogleg said:
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. :)
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This!!!!!!
 
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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Wife killing you makes an open casket easier. Plus then you could will the undamaged rifle to me.

Just saying.
 
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