Let's See Pics of Old and/or Obsolete Powder You're Still Using

Andy

Andy

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Some of these are still made, but it shows the old packaging, others are sadly gone forever.

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Left to Right: H5010 (never a favourite of mine); Ammo Mart repackaged Retumbo (#1 in the 338 Lapua); IMR4198 (cast bullets and big bore rifle); two versions of H870 (oh how I miss you!); H570 (which was essentially an extruded "version" of H870); and Unique (to me the best general purpose powder extant).

Not shown: SR-4759 (cast bullets and I stocked up); and pulled Swedish 8X63 that's from WWII.
 
I'm not at home right at the moment. I have lots of "old" powder that I use. My greatest score lately was a nice old cardboard can with 10 lbs of "Unique". I use it for loading light loads in my military cartridges. One example is around 10.3 gr. under a 155 gr Lee in 7.62 NATO. My gunner buddy and I recently scored a whole raft of neat old cardboard cans of shotgun powder of various kinds. If anyone is interested, I can take some pics when I get back home.

I came across a can of really old Unique back a few years. I checked it and it smelled big time like oranges. I did keep the can!
 
No old powder, but how about some old primers? I picked these up at gun shows in Orangeville and Bracebridge a few years back. I havn't tried the Winchester primers yet, but the CIL primers have been working just fine in 45ACP and 44-40.

 
You have quite an eye. But to answer yer question it would take at least a half ton of lead for one of those bad boys. I have 4 of them.

Gimmie 10 lbs of lead and I'll give ya all that powder ha ha ha.
 
This is the oldest powder I currently have on hand, still sealed but I've been mighty tempted to open it up on a couple of occasions. I picked it up at one of our local gunshows a couple years ago or so.
Up until a short while ago I also had on hand 6-7 pounds of unknown vintage C-300 shotgun powder I got off of a fella over in Mt.Elgin,ON but it was in an old large glass medicine bottle. The stuff went sour and I ended up burning it off, talk about one hot flame up.
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Lots of Winchester powders being shown. I can't think of a powder manufacturer that has more "churn" in its offerings. It's come to the point that when they introduce a new powder, I bet against myself how long it will last.

Keep the pictures coming.
 
r204: I am the same. I still have the 3031 can from when I first started reloading on the kitchen table with a Lee Loader for my 30-30. :)
 
This Folgers coffee container is about one third full and is the very last of my good old H4831, the original war surplus powder that was once called, "4350 DATA POWDER."
 
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