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The answer; Lawn fertilizer is what you have.
My first 700X came from an old timer and it was in a paper sack. Worked great in .38 Spl and .44 Spl with cast lead.years ago you could buy propellant by the paper sack out of a keg
My grandfather passed away several years ago and my grandmother recently gave me a box with all of his reloading supplies that she found while cleaning the attic. The box contained the following: Chilled lead shot, 12ga wads, 20ga wads, .410 wads, 30-06 brass, 44mag brass, and a LARGE glass jar full of an unlabeled powder that I suspect he bought in the late 70s or 80s.
I see no green markers in the picture of powder that is not actually the powder we need to see. The one green looking kernel is cromatic dispersion of the light.
Green dot powder flakes do not have holes.
That is not green dot. (See LiveLife's example.)
And I am sure the OP appreciates a verifying picture of what old Green Dot should look like.The photo of the old Green Dot I provided is from a can more than 50 years old, and the powder has almost certainly dehydrated and deteriorated over that time, but is definitely Green Dot
But the next question is HOW VIABLE is the old powder that was found in the hot attic (Is the powder unstable)? Perhaps YOUR Green Dot was stored properly in a cool place so decomposition of powder was slowed. But in the hot attic, chances are decomposition of powder would have been accelerated and we have no idea what the condition of the OP's powder is now. Since grandfather passed away several years ago, the powder in glass jar could have been stored in the hot attic for several years. We just don't know.My grandfather passed away several years ago and my grandmother recently gave me a box with all of his reloading supplies that she found while cleaning the attic.
DuPont 700x and Hercules Red Dot, but these powders sound a bit obscure to me. Maybe they were really popular "back in the day".
maybe we should all just get signs that say NO!......we could hit people with them!After "Don't!" we needed something to kick around.
As far as the argument about gunpowder being good fertilizer, I believe it started out as a tongue in cheek comment because nitrogen is a good fertilizer and gunpowder contains a lot of "nitrogen", and like a lot of things on the web, it grew into "Internet Wisdom". The one pound I spread on the bushes beside my shop didn't make them grow, shrink, or turn yellar...
Here is some 1970's green dot I am still using.