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Reloading
Old powder ok??
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<blockquote data-quote="Teri Anne" data-source="post: 2321235" data-attributes="member: 118816"><p>I have a lot of cans of powder that were purchased for a specific load, then set on the shelf for, OK lets say for longer than a lot of you have been around. I recently opened a can of IMR 3031, notice I said can not bottle. The price on the sticker on the can said $12.99 and was from a gun shop that closed down some 30 years ago. It has been sitting on my reloading bench almost forever but kept in a cool dry place. Opened it up, no rust came out of the can, put it into the RCBS powder measure and trickler and proceeded to load up a bunch of .308 target rounds for just shooting for fun. All rounds fired flawlessly and grouped less than 1 MOA at 100 yards. Even better I won a grudge match with a guy that kept pestering me and saying that no old lady could shoot better than he could. He lost...badly. Not that I'm all that good, but he was just simply that bad with a big ego. (Having a Winchester Model 70 that grouped way less than 1 MOA throughout it's life didn't hurt either) So my response is, It doesn't matter how old it is, if it's still dry and goes through the powder measure accurately then go with it.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Teri Anne, post: 2321235, member: 118816"] I have a lot of cans of powder that were purchased for a specific load, then set on the shelf for, OK lets say for longer than a lot of you have been around. I recently opened a can of IMR 3031, notice I said can not bottle. The price on the sticker on the can said $12.99 and was from a gun shop that closed down some 30 years ago. It has been sitting on my reloading bench almost forever but kept in a cool dry place. Opened it up, no rust came out of the can, put it into the RCBS powder measure and trickler and proceeded to load up a bunch of .308 target rounds for just shooting for fun. All rounds fired flawlessly and grouped less than 1 MOA at 100 yards. Even better I won a grudge match with a guy that kept pestering me and saying that no old lady could shoot better than he could. He lost...badly. Not that I'm all that good, but he was just simply that bad with a big ego. (Having a Winchester Model 70 that grouped way less than 1 MOA throughout it's life didn't hurt either) So my response is, It doesn't matter how old it is, if it's still dry and goes through the powder measure accurately then go with it. [/QUOTE]
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