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What is the can of powder worth? What is your gun worth? You could use it at HALLOWEEN , an open bucket full of powder and a long fuse, just like the pyrotechnics at a rock concerts.
 
You could probably get away with it. That said, when the consequence of anything could result in you wearing your ass as a hat - perhaps you should just shy away.

I agree with bearmans suggestion. Or just fertilize the lawn.
 
It is a pound of powder :eek:

Set a match to it and continue on with new powder. Different powders burn at different rates, as I am sure you know. You have no clue how much was added to the other, ditch it and move on.

If you would like to chat about burning rates and different chemical compositions and how they might react together, PM me and we can chat.

Send it to the flames and be done with it, period.
 
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ColdOne said:
See if you can find some loads for both powders in the cartridge you want to use...

Maybe if they are both similar you can start at the average of the lower one and work your way up!
This chart doesn't show actual burn rates, but those two powders are listed quick close together...
http://www.varminthunter.org/reloadburn.html
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Powders with a similar burn rate may/can react differently in an enclose enviroment (cartridge case).

The best advice is to suck it up and get rid of it.
 
Hank Hunter said:
I screwed up and poured a small amont of rl22 into an almost full pound of imr 7828ssc. Can I still use this powder?
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Whats your definition of "small amount" If its the same as mine I'd shake the hell outta it to mix and use.....If its like an ounce+ small amount,nice bonfire. I wouldnt worry from a safety point of view cause you can change the load to accomodate,but do you really wanta change for one pound then change again.?
 
Inadvertently mixing powders can be avoided by NEVER having two or more cans of different powders on the reloading bench at the same time. Quite early on, I accidentally dumped a few .45ACP case fulls of W231 powder into a can of WSF that I had on the bench while building up a few different loads.
Remove all different powders except the ONE you are using from the bench when starting to manufacture your reloads.
Oh, btw....dump the mixed powder; don't take a chance. Flower beds like it, apparently....lots of nitrogen.
 
If you were in the process of working up a load for a particular caliber, why would you want to change that load to accommodate a contaminated canister of powder, and then change your load back again once you have finished using it?

Dump the can - lesson learned - move on :p
 
blindside said:
Whats your definition of "small amount" If its the same as mine I'd shake the hell outta it to mix and use.....If its like an ounce+ small amount,nice bonfire. I wouldnt worry from a safety point of view cause you can change the load to accomodate,but do you really wanta change for one pound then change again.?
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Yep. If it's a few kernels - less than one charge - that were clinging to the inside of your dispenser for example, or one charge pan worth accidentally dumped into the wrong cannister, I'd probably still use it. Any more, and I'd find alternative entertaining uses for it.

Back when I first started reloading I did the same thing - poured a pound of powder A into a pound of powder B (I don't even remember what the powders were now). I still have the cannister and powder, it's my 'scrap' bottle. Milsurp powders from pulled bullets go in there - I pulled a hundred .223 tracers apart so I could load the bullets into a 22-250 for example. So now I'm left with a few pounds of powder earmarked for 'entertainment' purposes. One of these days I'll get creative with it...
 
oh goody

a sacrifice to the fire gods :)


as above, don't take a chance, even thought both are fairly slow powders you don't know how they will react together.

90% chance you'll be fine but 10% that your going ot cause a problem

just my opinion

but they make pretty flames.
 
Many years ago, in a moment of stupidity, I dumped some W785BR into a can of H570. Luckily, one was a fairly fine ball powder, the other a very coarse extruded, so a sieve solved my problem. RL22 & IMR 7828 are VERY close in burning rates, but one is single base, the other is double base. Unless the amount added was less than 1%, I would definitely dump or othewise dipose of the mix. Regards, Eagleye.
 
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