I have of lately been buying a lot of bullets, primers and powder from a fellar who frequents flea markets,estate auction and such.
I bought a nice lot of FFFg Goex, several cans of IMR and Hogdon powders, Unique and Bullseye. I checked most of the powders that were already open and found some that looked bad, they had rust inside of the cans and left a lot of yellow or redish dust on typing paper when I tested them.
But when I got these powders home the ones that were unopened, two IMR4895s were noticeably bad and one of the H4895 in a plastic bottle appeared to be bad also.
The H4895 apparently is not bad after all, though it does appear in color to be more of a brownish color or not as dark as the IMR4895. From what searching I did on the internet I found that some of the Hogdon powders don't have as much graphite in them as IMR powders do. So I'm hopeful that I only had 2 bad cans of powder instead of 3. All three of the powders smelled good but two of them were noticably rusty.
So the guy I bought them from gave me a 1000 box of 7 1/2 primers for the two bad cans.
If anyone knows anything different on the color of H4895 versus IMR4895 please let me know.
thanks
I bought a nice lot of FFFg Goex, several cans of IMR and Hogdon powders, Unique and Bullseye. I checked most of the powders that were already open and found some that looked bad, they had rust inside of the cans and left a lot of yellow or redish dust on typing paper when I tested them.
But when I got these powders home the ones that were unopened, two IMR4895s were noticeably bad and one of the H4895 in a plastic bottle appeared to be bad also.
The H4895 apparently is not bad after all, though it does appear in color to be more of a brownish color or not as dark as the IMR4895. From what searching I did on the internet I found that some of the Hogdon powders don't have as much graphite in them as IMR powders do. So I'm hopeful that I only had 2 bad cans of powder instead of 3. All three of the powders smelled good but two of them were noticably rusty.
So the guy I bought them from gave me a 1000 box of 7 1/2 primers for the two bad cans.
If anyone knows anything different on the color of H4895 versus IMR4895 please let me know.
thanks