Possible contaminated powder

RUPZUK said:
I surprised at the amount of posters encouraging this guy to use it...
Honestly, a little disapointing.
I haven't personally inspected the situation so I can only encourage one thing.
Like week old left overs in the fridge; when in doubt through it out.
Higher concentrations may be lurking in it plus many powders look similar; how can you be 100% sure a third powder isn't in the mix?
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What is disappointing to me, is the amount of people who do everything by what the book tells them to do and they just can't use common sense.
 
H4831 said:
What is disappointing to me, is the amount of people who do everything by what the book tells them to do and they just can't use common sense.
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I'd like to think I am using common sense.
I use common sense by erring on the side of caution.
I use common sense by buying several reloading manuals and learning what is contained in their pages.
I used common sense to realize following a proven method is the quickest and safest way to get the desired results with the fewest detours.
I also use common sense when I buy powder; it comes in sealed containers from the manufacturer.
Another use of common sense is I don't spend dollars trying to save nickels.

Cheers:)
 
RUPZUK said:
I'd like to think I am using common sense.
I use common sense by erring on the side of caution.
I use common sense by buying several reloading manuals and learning what is contained in their pages.
I used common sense to realize following a proven method is the quickest and safest way to get the desired results with the fewest detours.
I also use common sense when I buy powder; it comes in sealed containers from the manufacturer.
Another use of common sense is I don't spend dollars trying to save nickels.

Cheers:)
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You strike me as a quivering soul who is reluctant to get out of bed in the AM without consulting a manual on how to do so safely. ;)
For crying out loud! I've only been loading since the 50's and have yet to blow anything up. Seems safe enough to me.
If I actually mixed any quantity of more than one powder, of course I would not use it, but this is a negligible amount.
I'm with H4831 on this one.
"Common sense" dictates a few flakes of powder are going to make exactly ZIP difference.
Regards, Eagleye.
 
Put the lid on the bottle, shake the hell out of it, reduce load 10%, and load the whole lot. Plink away. Don't bother working up as you'll never do it again :)
 
Longshot said:
I would hazard a guess to say that there could be two or three times that amount in a pound and you still wouldn't notice a difference.
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So instead of one flake every 2 or 3 shells loaded, you'd get...what one flake every shell...:rolleyes:

I'm sure the OP looked thru the whole container to estimate the amount.
It's not like under the top 1/16 of an inch of 322 there's 2 inches of solid flake!
 
Perhaps we could find something less important to argue about, but I doubt it. I have been working up my own loads with surplus powders and my chrony for 20 years. While I do not blend powders, this small contamination would not concern me. Load up a usual load, and fire one over a chronograph, I bet lunch money that there will be no difference in the velocity. If the faster powder is mixed well with the slower powder, the one flake of powder burning faster/hotter in what is already the fires of hell would have no effect. There is no epidemic of rifles failing, and the only one that I have heard of failing because of a reloading mistake was a case full of pistol powder instead of slow rifle powder in a belted magnum.
 
"Put the lid on the bottle, shake the hell out of it, reduce load 10%, and load the whole lot. Plink away. Don't bother working up as you'll never do it again."

Like he said.

I have had large quantities of contaminated powder. I poured it into gargage cans, rolled it around to mix, shot it over the Chrony to clalbrate it, and carried on. Worked just fine.
 
I'm using the last can of my Herters 100 powder, which has been around for quite some time.
I have loaded full power loads in the 30-06, the 243 and 308 and I have never had any loading information, whatsoever, on Herters 100 powder.
It's a very accurate powder and I hate to see it go. It's potential accuracy showed up early on the chronograph, where there is very little variation, shot to shot.
 
H4831 said:
I'm using the last can of my Herters 100 powder, which has been around for quite some time.
I have loaded full power loads in the 30-06, the 243 and 308 and I have never had any loading information, whatsoever, on Herters 100 powder.
It's a very accurate powder and I hate to see it go. It's potential accuracy showed up early on the chronograph, where there is very little variation, shot to shot.
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:)Good point and I've had similar experiences with Norma 204 and 205, especially in the 308NM. Knowing that, a short while ago a buddy gave me an unopened tin of N205. Haven't used it yet;) but I will:D.
 
If it's as described, I'd use it. I suppose that duplex loads should be banned?

There are dozens of things I would have never learned and quite a few guns I would have never shot if I'd obeyed the "it's your eyes" guys.
 
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