Was given this over the weekend.

The oldest can is 1/2 full, the 3031. The rest are full with a $10.50 price tag on them. They all smell good/no acid smell. Looks like I got some powder to burn up in the 308w/cast bullets.

The price was right!

Sweet deal there. Also, hang onto those cans, collectors may be knocking at your door.

If they smell good and don't have any red rust / dust in the powder then you are good to go, Nice Score !
Gary

Be very careful! That powder must be thoroughly tested so send it to me and I'll get back to you by Christmas, 2019...

Holly, Molly..........

did you kiss the Blarney Stone, or something ??

Very nice.

With today's prices, you did very well, young man.
Enjoy.

Your lucky day heh!If I'd be you,I'd go buy a lottery ticket right away and try to stretch my luck.
Glad for you!

How are you sure the powder matches the can label? Sealed cans, blast away, and DuPont cans did have a seal under the cap. On the other hand, partially empty cans, ??????????????

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SWCA 2515

The only open can is the 3031, the rest are sealed.

I have all of those powders that were given to me. Not only did I do a visual inspection comparing my powders to the powders that were given to me. I did a volume weight test on every can testing my known powders vs the free powders.

All the powders smelled good, looked good, were what the labels said they were. The 7 1/2# of powder will get burned up in a 308w shooting cast bullets. My goal is to find cast bullet/powder combo's that will do +/- 1" (moa) @ 100yds in the +/- 2600fps range (10-shot groups).

2000+fps is child's play. moa/2000fps with cast bullets 10-shot group @100yds. 18.7gr of 2400 pushing the lee 312-160tl bullet.


That 2679fps group was 1 1/2" @ 100yds/10-shot group.


Cutting that last 1/2" out of those loads will burn up a bunch of powder.

The 4227 will get burned up finding a load for the "ness" bullet. Looking for a +/- 2200fps moa load.

Sweet ! I still have some of those (4227 & 3031 & 4064) with prices in the under $4.00 range , still works as good as it did when I bought it .

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Long live 'gallery' loads. I love tapping into the extreme versatility of the 30-06 with the variety of powders and bullets. And I can shoot lead bullets all day without going broke. Another economical choice are the half jacketed 'plinker' bullets like Speer makes IF you can find them.

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By chance do you G/C those low vel loads or just use a bullet lube?

In my 30-06, I load the 100gr SJRN from either Speer #1805 or Hornady #3005 for
light target loads, with SR4759 or IMR 4227 for 50 yard, kids ammo.

I have used BLC, 4895, Bullseye and Unique with the copper base bullets.

Have fun.

It depends on what I'm doing with the cast bullets. I will gc them when I traditionally lube them simply because the lube gets all over the gc base of the bullet with the lyman 450 sizer when a gc is not installed. With coated bullets I can always coat them and then gc them afterwards if needed for hot loads.

Very nice. That 4227 makes good cast bullet 44 mag loads.

Congratulations.

The price indicates the powder comes from somewhere between 1985 and 1994. Others may be able to refine those dates into a narrower range.

I have had no problem with 1985-vintage IMR powders even in 2017 (haven't shot in 2018). I am NOT suggesting that powders are immoral - anything but - rather suggesting that IMR powders from the 1970's and 1980's CAN (not necessarily HAVE) survived 30-40 years sealed in their original containers.

My suggestion is that you treat it like any new powder and work up loads accordingly.

Because of a neurological condition, I ended up away from my reloading bench for 20+ years. Most of the powders suffered little, if any, degradation. Hercules Green Dot was an exception, delivering 40% of the velocity obtained prior to storage. Again, I am not saying that everyone else will have the same experience. What I am saying (for a second time) is that you should treat "old" powder as "new to you" and develop a load around it using normal load development procedures.

Nice gift!!

I'm still trying to use up this can of 3031 I bought over three (almost four) decades ago. Not doing to good.

(Yeap, there was one J.C.Penney store in town that actually sold reloading supplies.)

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I tend not to have that problem with rifle powders, they don't collect a lot of dust.

Powders like the imr3031 & imr4227 (improved military rifle) have been around a long time (1935). The end result is tons of testing/uses in different cartridges are there.