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Mixing small lots of powder?
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<blockquote data-quote="Don Garlow" data-source="post: 1946516" data-attributes="member: 49189"><p>I've done this for over 40 years with all sorts of powder and have had absolutely NO negatives. Mix and shake the up to get a more homogeneous mix overall. In fact, recently I was developing a load for my 28 Nosler using Retumbo. It was scarce and found that I could only buy 1 lb here and there. I bought 6 pound from 4 different lots and mixed them all together in an old 8# canister. I repeatedly shook up that can several times each day for about three days. My load development went smoothly and my ES came out low and the SD runs around 3. I see no reason to doubt mixing powders of the same name/number as long as the manufacture of all the powder is the same. I do always check the velocities of the first five rounds fired after mixing just to confirm my known ballistics down range. GOOD LUCK!</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Don Garlow, post: 1946516, member: 49189"] I've done this for over 40 years with all sorts of powder and have had absolutely NO negatives. Mix and shake the up to get a more homogeneous mix overall. In fact, recently I was developing a load for my 28 Nosler using Retumbo. It was scarce and found that I could only buy 1 lb here and there. I bought 6 pound from 4 different lots and mixed them all together in an old 8# canister. I repeatedly shook up that can several times each day for about three days. My load development went smoothly and my ES came out low and the SD runs around 3. I see no reason to doubt mixing powders of the same name/number as long as the manufacture of all the powder is the same. I do always check the velocities of the first five rounds fired after mixing just to confirm my known ballistics down range. GOOD LUCK! [/QUOTE]
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