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Today my neighbor gave me three one pound metal cans of IMR 4064, 4320 and 4895. I have no idea of when they were manufactured but the price tag on each tin is $3.99 if that is any reference to age. If unopened are these still safe to use?
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If you open it & red dust floats out or you smell it & it burns your nostrils with a bad vinegar smell sprinkle it on the lawn. Otherwise it should be fine.
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If it smells good, and there's not red rust color you are good to go.
I have powder from the 70's and loaded ammo from the 30's that's still good.
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Agree. As long as it looks good, smells ok with no noxious red dust, should be good to go.
My vintage 4064 powder doesn’t have quite the solvent smell of a newer can, but I still can detect it. It looks good.
I have H-4831 that was surplus in the ‘60’s. It looks good, smells good, shoots good. It seems a bit slower burning then new 4831. I’ve shot some really good groups with it.
I have old H-110 that works well. You just need to watch for deterioration and dump those. Stored in climate controlled environment helps.
With powder being scarce, old powder in good condition looks better and better.
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I just finished up some powder that was priced like that and one that was lower.
They still work.
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the price tag on each tin is $3.99 if that is any reference to age. Poobs may have sold that late in his retail career. (grin)
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I’ve been hand loading since the late ‘60’s, and just last week observed my first can of bad powder. I had an opened can of powder my uncle gave to me in the late ‘70’s early ‘80’s. I had never had a use for it, but thought I’d experiment with a new load for my handgun. I opened it and “sniffed”, it didn’t smell bad. But, when I poured it into my powder measure.....lots of red dust! Bummer......I really wanted to try it! memtb
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~Molɔ̀ːn Labé Skýla~ As Bob Hagel would say"You should not use a rifle that will kill an animal when everything goes right; you should use one that will do the job when everything goes wrong."Good words of wisdom...............
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