Thanks, I was afraid of that. A friend, who probably didn't store it properly, gave me a pound and it defiantly had a brownish hue to it but, no red dust as of yet. A little more fertilizer.
Shew me thy ways, O LORD: teach me thy paths. "there are few better cartridges on Earth than the 7 x 57mm Mauser" "the .30 Springfield is light, accurate, penetrating, and has surprising stopping power"