Lakehouse2012I bought 3 lbs of H110 off a guy a month ago. Bought it cheap, knowing that this was older powder, and I'll only use for target rounds. But then I got thinking, is there any way to check the volatility of this powder before I start charging cases?
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I bought 3 lbs of H110 off a guy a month ago. Bought it cheap, knowing that this was older powder, and I'll only use for target rounds. But then I got thinking, is there any way to check the volatility of this powder before I start charging cases?
If it smells fine, is not chunky, doesn't have any red rust looking stuff in it I wouldn't worry about it. I'm still have some from the 70's/80's in the metal cans that I'm using.
Should smell like solvent. Not acrid/acidic. Your nose will know the difference immediately. Red dust is a sure sign it's gone bad. And if it's in a metal can and there are holes eaten through the can......well you see where that ones going :laugh:
Ah yes, the smell testI've completed this inspection and it looks like I'm ready to go... While I may not trust the powder for competition shooting, it should be just fine for plinking boolits.
Thanks guys for the feedback
After it passes that test, load a ladder and get some chrony results, if it performs as expected, then its all good. I have used some real old powder that was not very well stored, it worked just fine with no degradation that I could tell. I had to do some research on it because it was in packaging I had not seen, but because it was sealed I felt it was safe enough to work up a load.
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You'll know immediately if it has gone bad. Smell and red dust. A few years ago I burned about 10 ponds of powder. I kept he containers and gave a few away.
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You mentioned using the H110 for plinking and target rounds. Are you aware that H110 is mainly a powder for use in magnum pistol cartridges at full throttle loads? It does not play well in reduced target level loads. I just thought I would mention that.
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