What was your first powder buy?

[kweidner]

h335 and feeding a .308. 8# keg still have part if it as well.

[kweidner]

25yrs old and still use that powder btw.

[cattleskinner]

One pound of Longshot powder and a Lee Loader for a 44 mag handgun. It is funny, but even with presses and dies and other more rapid ways of loading today, I still prefer to use a Lee Loader if I can. There is something addictive about smacking your rounds together with a hammer.

[Iowa Fox]

Mom & Dad gave me a 12 ga Lee loader for Christmas in 63. First can of powder was AL5. Next up was a Lee Loader for my 222.
The fellow at the gun store told me to use 19.5 grns of IMR4198 witha 50 grn bullet. Still shooting that load today but have jumped up to a Rem 700. Still have the Lee Loaders and a lot of empty powder cans.

[Starvnhuntr]

Herco in 1968. looaded for my new remington 870 in 12 ga. I was 13 and that gun seemed like it made ducks fall like magic.

[scb]

IMR 4895 for my Krag. 1970

[brstevns]

1966 Lee Loader in 7x57, 154 gr Hornady bullets and a pound of IMR 4895. Still have the loader but no 95 mauser.

[smokemjoe]

1959-60, Ball-C, 4895, 4831, $.50 a pound, Primers, $.040, Lyman kit, 310 tong tool for 30-06 with a mold- 311291, Kit was $20.00, Springfield 03A3 from DCM $14.50, Lived out in the country, a pound of powder and 100 primers lasted me 3 days, See why we hourd so much today.

[lylejb]

700x to feed my 12th birthday present, a Browning BPS 12ga, and a new found interest in trap. Still have the gun, and the flea market used 600jr press.

[RugerFan]

IMR 4064 for my Rem 788 .308 Win. 2nd pound was Unique for my Ruger BH .41 mag.

[TCLouis]

Somewhere around 66,

Bullseye, 429215, lyman scale, Lyman tong tool with boolit sizing die.

Homemade powder dipper to get close and Herter's trickler to bring em up to weight.

Ruger flat top 13076 by number.

I was in hog heaven.

[StratsMan]

First powder I bought was a keg of WW 452AA for loading 12 gauge, around 1976... My buddies' dad "donated" some Black Powder for our "chemistry experiments" in the late 60's... heh heh... that was fun too....

[Ballpowder]

2004 I bought IMR 7828 to start loading for 270 WBY mag and a 25-06

[HighHook]

1979 it was unique.

[atr]

In the 1960's it was a 20 LB keg of H4831.....I only had two rifles then; a 30-06 and a .303 British and that powder was all I used.

[Screwbolts]

1969 or 70, it was a 1 pound coffee sack of surplus H4831 to feed a 243.

[fishnbob]

Back around 1964 I bought H380 for my 22-250 at $1.25 a pound. Ordered it from a catalog and I can't remember the dealer. But it came through the mail. Then we started traveling up to a gunsmith in Bedford county. His name was Frank Harvey Miles and he built some of the finest target & varmint rifles known to mankind. We bought powder from him and brought it home in brown paper bags to pour into containers we saved. Of course we put 4320 into a can marked 4320. Still have some of those cans today and some are marked $1.75 or so. The good ole days!BTW, those 1 hole rifles still exist and still shoot 1 hole groups.

[slide]

bullseye for 38 special

[abqcaster]

My first Powder purchase was HP38, in 1996. I had reloaded before but my big brother just let me use his Hercules powder. My first non-rifle was a very "inexpensive" .38 spl snubby. I was just out of college and dirt poor so I made a bulk purchase of some 158gn hard cast boolits, and loaded them with the minimum charge of powder to save as much money as I could. It shot well until the barrel came loose.

[digger44]

Red Dot for shotgun and 3031 for rifle