Memory lane - powders from the past

[Elric]

Sordid through the powders downstairs. Two full and a part pound of SR-4759 [woo-hoo!]. About the same of the newer Red Dot. About the same of Unique [plus the unopened jug]. Two pounds of BLC-2. A metal can of 700x [plus the 1/4 of the black metal drum]. H380. H322. PB. A few Lil'Gun. A few pounds of H4831 [one H4831sc]. Some 1680. A full and part 5744 [get me some .414 lovin']. 4227, IMR and Hogdon. Two 296, a 110. The usual collection of metal one pound cans of IMR.

I think the 4064 went bad [acid smell]. When I get to it, I'll czech it and dump it.

 

[fiver]

I went through the this and that the last shortage and tried burning all the partial cans up.
all I found was I needed more 4227 because I forgot I was loading it in a couple of things, and that you can't quite ever empty a can of 630 or 680 no matter how hard you try.
there's also a pound of 570sumthin back there I don't remember buying, about 7 lbs. of H-450, and 5 or so lbs of Data-9, I should probably burn up before the next generation has to sit there and try to figure out what it is.
I'm gonna leave a note in the C-1380 drum with explicit load details written on it, just so they don't toss the last 20 lbs of it.
i'll try my best to use all that old stuff up, but [shrug] how much can you burn at 10-11 or even at 18-19grs a pop.

 

[Bret4207]

I've got some Winchester powder I've never been able to find any data on! I'll have to look as see which one it is.

 

[Missionary]

Nobel #60 . I opened it 3 years ago and it works real good.
But the oldest powder I have ever seen came out of a Flintlock Muzzleloader that can out of an attic in New England. The ball had been pulled or just a pathed had been pushed down on the powder The patch had rotted and was stuck into the BP that we scraped out in near solid chunks. Must have gotten damp as it layed up there.

 

[Rally]

Fiver,
What was Data9 used in and who made it? Never heard of it.

 

[Brad]

A quick search says it is very close to AA9. I treat my WC 820 the same way

 

[462]

Gave most of a pound of BL-C(2) to my son-in-law . . . it wandered down memory lane and back to me.

 

[fiver]

I can't recall at the moment if it come from Canada or from Israel, I just go easy with it and use AA-9 data, so far so good.
it's main use has been in the 300 BO to fling the rcbs silhouette bullet to about 1500 fps. from my 1-7 twist rifle.
which reminds me I need to size-check that partial bucket of those I have stuck under the bench in the garage.