varget powder

[banko32]

Please help. i just bought a pound of varget at a show saskatoon. I opened it up and was surprised to see the color of the powder a light gray not the usual black and it had a strong powder smell. Kind of a citrius smell. Is this normal or is this powder turning.

 

[RockChucker]

The color is normal. The odor should be close to a acetone smell. Sounds like its good to go.

 

[tiriaq]

Checked some of my cache - silver grey coloured, aromatic smell.

 

[Quiet]

Mine is mostly silver-grey with a bunch of yellow ones mixed in.

Varget is great stuff if you can find a way to fit it into a casing!

 

[banko32]

Thanks for the info. I will give it a try in my .22-250

 

[todbartell]

greenish grey through my eye

great powder, I love it (223,260)
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[Boer seun]

All I use for 30/06 and 7mm-08

 

[blindside]

Thanks for the info. I will give it a try in my .22-250

If thats the cartridge your using it in it ignites well in the cold,but in my experience those same ignition properties make a lot of barrel heat mirage in the cold..Accuracy was better with 380 in my gun to. just my .02$

 

[Swifty]

Varget works great in my Swift.

 

[Levi Garrett]

Don't go sniffen that s&^%, it ain't good for ya.
Frank

 

[303carbine]

varget

Frank is right about not sniffin' that (####), stuff ,it can cause low blood pressure........very low.

 

[joe-nwt]

I have tried Varget in .223 and .308. Not with a whole bunch of different bullets, but just enough that it didn't impress me. Lot of people here swear by it however.

 

[agit-prop]

Mine is mostly silver-grey with a bunch of yellow ones mixed in.

Varget is great stuff if you can find a way to fit it into a casing!

Yellow doesn't sound right to me. All of mine has been uniformly grey.

 

[joe-nwt]

Yellow doesn't sound right to me. All of mine has been uniformly grey.

That sounds like IMR 700X! Better get a second opinion!

 

[River Rat]

Mine has a greenish grey color to it,nice powder I use it in my 223,9.3x62 and 45-70