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Freightman
01-24-2007, 03:46 PM
Found this in some trade stuff: hope you can read the price tag $3.05 + .15 tax

Beau Cassidy
01-24-2007, 03:57 PM
Its in remarkably good shape for its age. I have several metal cans that aren't quite as well kept. Several still have useable powder.

UweJ
01-24-2007, 06:03 PM
great looking can,havenīt seen one of those before.Could well become a collectors item.
Uwe

TDB9901
01-24-2007, 06:15 PM
I have one nearly like it, except for a different top. It has a somewhat larger screw on cap over a sheetmetal insert with a pull out spout just like a table salt container.

Mine is cardboard with tin tops, and can be traced to about 1949 or 50. Still has a bit of powder inside. I just looked, no price markings. But then gas was $.19 or so a gallon back then too............

Freightman
01-24-2007, 06:51 PM
you push the center of the top the tabbs spring out and to seal you push the outside and it seals with a pop.

Char-Gar
01-24-2007, 07:12 PM
Oh Lord... "Old Timer".."I haven't seen one like that before".. That is what the cans looked like when I started buying BE and for quite a few years thereafter.
creak..creak..groan!

Ben
01-24-2007, 07:13 PM
Here is an old one also.......Unopened Factory container.
I'd really like to know when this was made ? ? ?
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twotoescharlie
01-24-2007, 07:18 PM
I have some dupont 3fg black that I am still using. price on it --$2.50 have four 1 pound cans left.


TTC

imashooter2
01-24-2007, 07:44 PM
LOL! My Dad had a can like that. Very poor design. Long about the time his sons found out about copper pipe and cannon fuse, the powder started to evaporate between reloading sessions.

kodiak1
01-24-2007, 07:46 PM
Ben My can is Black and is a 12 pound container. Got it just after we unloaded the ARK.
Ken.

NVcurmudgeon
01-24-2007, 08:01 PM
Freightman, looks like my first ever can of bulllseye, c. 1960.

Bass Ackward
01-24-2007, 08:47 PM
I am on my last two cans like that. Just opened a can of Bullseye and a can of 2400. I do have some 5066 that is probably a little older, but that was for 45ACP.

9.3X62AL
01-24-2007, 09:14 PM
I have a can of Red Dot about the vintage of that Bullseye can, and it works just fine. I don't load shotshells with that fuel any more, having gone to 1-1/4 oz shotloads for 12 gauge. During my trap/skeet years in my late teens, that can of powder and many others like it had a life duration of about 2 weeks. I couldn't quite get two weeks' worth of shells (400 rounds) out of a pound.

hydraulic
01-24-2007, 10:45 PM
Dang it! I sure wish I could learn how to post pictures. I have a wooden container, metal lined, about 2'x3'x3' that originally held hodgen 4831 and it carrys a date of 1943. This is the surplus stuff that got hodgen into the powder business.

floodgate
01-24-2007, 10:47 PM
LOL! My Dad had a can like that. Very poor design. Long about the time his sons found out about copper pipe and cannon fuse, the powder started to evaporate between reloading sessions.

imashooter:

So THAT's what happened to that keg of Bullseye I kept in my reloading closet back in the '60's! It sure seemed to go down a lot faster than my reloading activities could account for, and my boy ended up with no eyebrows for a couple of weeks. Hafta ask him about it sometime, now we're both grown-ups and he has boys of his own.

floodgate

w30wcf
01-25-2007, 01:18 AM
Ben,
Several years ago a friend gave me the same can you have. Since then, I have just about shot up most of the powder. I traded the can to a collector who estimated it to have been produced in the 1950's to early 1960's.

w30wcf

Buckshot
01-25-2007, 01:55 AM
...............One of the guys I shoot with was given 3 unopened 5lb cans of Lightening gunpowder. Made in 1939 :-). Uses it in his 30-06 with cast and loads about like 4198. Meters for crap as he says it's REAL big chunky stuff.

................Buckshot

georgeld
01-25-2007, 02:48 AM
It's been 40yrs since I've seen a tin drum like that.

They went to a cardboard drum for many yrs. Know an old guy that has
several of them. His age and mental condition are both beyond ever using from
them again.

We used to get 4895 and 4831 in 10,15, 25 and 50# cans like that for.

Fifty cents a pound when I got started in 1958 @ 14 y/o.

Brings back some memories trying to load in Herters dies and junk scales, measure.

Tools, and supplies have come a long ways in those days.

LAH
01-25-2007, 10:19 AM
Geezzzzzzzz Ben, I'd almost drive to Alabama to hold that can.....Creeker

quack1
01-25-2007, 10:49 AM
Ben- My dad and I used to get Red Dot in cans like that when we were shooting a lot of trap and skeet in the early to mid 60's. Think they weighed 8 lbs. We went through quite a few of them. Don't remember what they cost.
Bass- I just used up a couple cans of 5066 a couple years ago. Never found a good load for any gun I had with it until I tried it with cast in my Makarov. Best shooting load in that gun so far, too bad it is gone. Sold the empty cans to a collector, probably for more than they originally cost with powder.

felix
01-25-2007, 11:08 AM
I remember those cans and cardboard drums. Still have them in the basement at my brother's house in NewMadridMO. Yep, 50 cents per pound for the military, and I think it was around 2.50 for the commercial at the time. My dad's income was 12K per year, with 9 kids in the 50's; house was bought for 12K and had 4000 sqft. So, we are talking apples and oranges here. ... felix

sundog
01-25-2007, 11:55 AM
Yup, I have one of those BE cans, too, unopened, and no telling how old. I give it a turn once in awhile, and put it back on the shelf. I'll really need some BE one of these days, and there it'll be. Also have a part used cardboard drum of RD and one of the Win ball powders out in the barn. Seems like the stuff lasts forever if it doesn't get wet. I suppose I should just go ahead and use up all that stuff. sundog

JDL
01-25-2007, 12:30 PM
Ben, I have a keg exactly like the one you show except, it is 4# of Unique and has a sticker price of, get this..........$9.99. I bought it in 1963 IIRC, for loading 12 ga. shotshells (made from paper, no less) and have loaded pistol and rifle loads also. I don't load shotshells anymore but, am using up the last 1/2 pound in my rifles. It still fires as well as some new I compaired it to. -JDL