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<blockquote data-quote="Pdvdh" data-source="post: 283501" data-attributes="member: 4191"><p>Only gun powder I've ever had go bad was stored in my garage in Alaska which was exposed to some pretty significant seasonal temperature swings. These were two 1 lb cans of IMR 4831 that had never been opened. After about 10 years of storage, when I opened one of the cans I noticed what appeared to be a reddish-brown colored dust/stain coming off the powder and on the interior of the tin container. Couldn't really smell anything different. I used the powder for fire-forming shells rather than hunting loads, as a precaution. Later I read that the reddish dust was a tell-tale sign of powder gone bad. </p><p></p><p>Since I never had any other obvious gun powder degradation problems over the past 35 years, I always suspected this powder deteriorated due to the multitude of temperature swings from summer to winter and back. In the winter, my garage was only kept a little above freezing. In the summer it would probably get up to perhaps 80F.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Pdvdh, post: 283501, member: 4191"] Only gun powder I've ever had go bad was stored in my garage in Alaska which was exposed to some pretty significant seasonal temperature swings. These were two 1 lb cans of IMR 4831 that had never been opened. After about 10 years of storage, when I opened one of the cans I noticed what appeared to be a reddish-brown colored dust/stain coming off the powder and on the interior of the tin container. Couldn't really smell anything different. I used the powder for fire-forming shells rather than hunting loads, as a precaution. Later I read that the reddish dust was a tell-tale sign of powder gone bad. Since I never had any other obvious gun powder degradation problems over the past 35 years, I always suspected this powder deteriorated due to the multitude of temperature swings from summer to winter and back. In the winter, my garage was only kept a little above freezing. In the summer it would probably get up to perhaps 80F. [/QUOTE]
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