Never Have More Than One Powder on the Bench

[Clark]

I was at someone's house a couple weeks ago, and he not only has a lot of containers of powder, they are very big containers.

 

[GW Staar]

One should never reload or order supplies with such distractions around.

That's what my wife said! She wouldn't allow the stuff Jim Kirk has on the wall! But she did say I could keep this one:



The only calender I couldn't throw away!! The girl looks pretty good too! But it's a shame they posed her right smack in the way.

My cans of old powder? Oh, hell, we've all seen cans of powder!

 

[JimKirk]

Ed if that is your FIL and it's also Jim H's former wife ... then does that make you two blood brothers or what???

Mal H ... umbrellas ... need moving..thrown away really... other wise except for the covers up to code, I think, maybe, I hope so... code inspector here does not have electrcity at his house, yet... so maybe he won't notice

Nice Plane GW!!

Jimmy K

 

[GW Staar]

Jimmy, I won't be able to sleep tonight unless I show you my old powder...pales big-time compared to the last picture, but her, I mean, here it is:



They're mostly full as I wandered to different powders...except for the IMR 4350, and the Unique. In their cases, what you see is almost empties ,and the end of a big ole stash of yesteryear. The H110 is my last full one of a similar stash but I don't reload much for my 357 anymore....I prefer my pistols. I never liked bullseye. I loaded for a M1 Carbine with the 2400...sold that many years ago. Oh! I forgot the Win 760. That was the first powder I ever bought. Check out the price.

Notice the brown box on the shelf? That's a Target Lee Loader in 243 caliber. The 760 was for that. The combination with a Speer 107 grain bullet shot a .25" group at 100 yards. I was impressed but not enough to keep from shelving it and moving up to a Rock Chucker Press.

 

[Dynamite Rabbit]

Hope you don't mind my sharing my old stash, too. The 4064 may be my first can of powder -- if not, it's close. The 452AA can is more like a paint can (the lid pries off instead of unscrewing). The 473AA is priced at $2.73 (it's 8 ounces instead of a pound).

The cans all have at least a little left (some are full). These date to the mid- to late-70s.

 

[JimKirk]

Looking like some good stashes guys....

Now some of you "Really Older" guys post some yours...

No need to hold back now...How about some those paper bags that some of you bought powder in??

The guy that taught me how to reload had paper bags of H4831 he had purchased sitting in his powder cabinet, helped him load a bunch of 270 Win with some of it.

Jimmy K

 

[Maj Dad]

I am almost out of Winchester powder in metal containers.

There are new containers?? My 630 was kind of new, I thought... Well, maybe in '83...

Still have the first can of BE I ever bought, New Orleans in the 60's: still has the $1.00 price tag on it, but of course, they weren't full pound cans, you know...

 

[Ed Gallop]

I remember buying cans of black powder in a dime store for less than your Hercules RelOder ($6.50). That was in the late 50s. Now it is as rare as hen's teeth and cost an arm and a leg. Two of my local shops stopped selling it so I have to drive hours to get it.

Jim H.... If you never had children with her (it) then maybe you and I are somehow related. My X-proxi-mother-in-law? Ed.

 

[Clark]

This old Hodgdon load book consists of two covers and (5) sheets of paper.
Inside the back cover is the price list.

 

[THe Dove]

Wall Art!!! I Love It!!!

The Dove

 

[zombie44]

Why are powders packaged mostly in black, dreary looking jugs now, back then the packaging really had some style to them.

 

[GW Staar]

Why are powders packaged mostly in black, dreary looking jugs now, back then the packaging really had some style to them.

Probably because plastic of any other color wouldn't ban the light good enough.