What was your first powder buy?

[Cactus Farmer]

I had an aunt give me some $$$ for Christmas and had my Dad take me to Harveys Pawn. Bought a Lee loader in 30/06, a box of primers (100 seemed like a lot then),a box of 150 grn Sierra bullets and a # of IMR4064. This all occured in
1960-61. I still have the empty can. Plus the first can of 2400,Unique and Green Dot. I get warm fuzzys just holding the first ones.......Who would have thought I'd still be doing the same things 50+ years later.

BTW,An M-1 carbine and a press with dies came next year. Casting boolits to feed the hungry beast came that same year.......I got checked by the sheriff soon after as I had found a "flash hider" and a couple 30 round mags. It looked "evil" to someone as I rode my bicycle the 2-3 miles thru town to go shoot.........try that today!

[JonB_in_Glencoe]

Blue Dot for 44 mag.
I don't remember all the details.
Jon

[bobthenailer]

Green Dot powder , about 1969

[Alan in Vermont]

4064 to feed the .243 I had then. Loaded them with a Lee Loader which cost something like $12 mail order, in 1968.

[R.M.]

AL5 and a Lee loader for 12 gauge. Still have part of a can on the shelf, one of those square cardboard cans.

[RayinNH]

My first was 3031 to feed a .270 with 110 grain bullets. My second and third powders where Red Dot and 700x to fill 12 gauge shotshells. Herco followed soon after. I then used the latter three powders to feed my father's .45 ACP...Ray

[swheeler]

surplus 4831, ball c and bb ball

[imashooter2]

-sigh- I remember carrying my rifle across the handlebars as I rode through town to go shooting down behind the Westinghouse plant. No one raised an eyebrow. It was what boys did. Simpler times...

[olaf455]

1988
Bullseye
Lee press and dies
230 gr commercial cast 45 auto

Seems like a
lifetime ago

[boltons75]

IMR 4350, 12 pounds from a guy that was getting out of shooting bench rest. 80 bucks.

[Hip's Ax]

IMR 4895, 4064 and 4350. 1 pound each to feed my 30-06's and 30/40 Krag. Still have the empty metal cans.

[dragon813gt]

9#s of W231 and 9#s of W748. I was reloading with my grandfather since I was a child but didn't get my own setup until recently. Otherwise I wouldn't have ordered 18#s right away. I miss not having to buy components and powder

[felix]

20 lbs H380 in cardboard keg, 50 pounds H5010 in paper bags, shipped via REA, for a grand total of 50 bucks delivered. Arrived as a loner box on a boxcar was very surprising. They must have thought that stuff was nitroglycerin. ... felix

[357Mag]

Cactus -

Howdy !


IMR3030... for use in my .35Rem M-336.

For me, its still the go-to powder for 200gr bullets ("J"-word ) in .35 Rem.


With regards,
357Mag

[357Mag]

Correction to previous post response:
" IMR3031 ".


Regards,
357Mag

[bradh]

1973 - 1/2 pound of 700X plus Lee Loader for 45ACP. All for about $11.

[sundog]

Had to have been Bullseye, to load 38 Spl with cast boolits. Early 70s, learned to cast and load all at one time.

[PS Paul]

Same as Bolton, it was IMR4350 in the one pound metal can to feed my old '95 Mauser Chileno in 7X57. Still got the rifle and I still have a metal can or two left. For pistol it was IMR4227 to feed my .45 Colt BH and it is STILL one of my top three in that caliber.

[CWME]

700X and H110 to feed my Taurus 357 in 1995. 700X for the 158gr cast SWC I used to get at the local gun shop and the H110 for the 125gr XTPs. Used to treat myself to a cylinder of the full power 357s every now and then. Tight budget for a 15 year old so the cast is what I shot the most of. Funny how I have come full circle to shooting basically cast only again out of choice.

[Aunegl]

In 1980, my first purchase of powder was a pound of 2400 along with a 44 mag Lee Loader, brass, primers, store bought cast swc boolits and a TC Contender 44. That's when the madness..I mean education began and continues...