A can of blast from the past

[Maineboy]

I purchased this can of Goex black powder in early 1979. While I hunt almost every year with one, I don't shoot muzzle loaders very much except to sight one in before our ML deer season and I use black powder substitutes, not holy black. Anyway, the can still contains about 1/4 pound. Note what I paid for it 43 years ago.

[pworley1]

I have some cans like that from about that time. I don't recall what the price was.

[lancem]

I have several pounds of 2, 3, 4F that I bought when I was a member of a ML club. I remember club price was $5 a pound. I haven't shot black powder in years but if I ever want to I can!

[bedbugbilly]

I have several that I purchased around 1963 or 1964 - sriii have the price of 75 cents written on the top in grease pencil. Don't ask me why, but every time I would buy powder, those cans never got moved to the front of the shelf. If I never use it, it will still be good for somebody down the road.

I still have a 1 pound can of 2F "Old Elephant" that a dealer gave me to try when I was down to the N-SSA Nationals - I think early 80s? That one I set back +just in case" I couldn't;t get any DuPont/Goex. So, I never did find out how it worked. I suppose i should crack the can sometime to see how good or bad it is.

[lancem]

I have several that I purchased around 1963 or 1964 - sriii have the price of 75 cents written on the top in grease pencil. Don't ask me why, but every time I would buy powder, those cans never got moved to the front of the shelf. If I never use it, it will still be good for somebody down the road.

I still have a 1 pound can of 2F "Old Elephant" that a dealer gave me to try when I was down to the N-SSA Nationals - I think early 80s? That one I set back +just in case" I couldn't;t get any DuPont/Goex. So, I never did find out how it worked. I suppose i should crack the can sometime to see how good or bad it is.

I remember shooting some of the old elephant, it was all the club could get at the time. Remember it being a lot dirtier.

[MarkP]

From the same time period $3.99; my dad ended up buying a 16 lb keg of SR7625 after yrs of buying the small cans. We would pour powder from the large steel keg into the smaller 8 oz cans for easier handling into the powder hopper.

[stubshaft]

I've still got cans of IMR 3031 marked $3.75 each.

[beemer]

The older cans were marked Gearhart-Owens, when they changed to Goex I kept the last one I had. I also have a can of DuPont and really old small oval can, can't recall the brand. I had a flask shaped can that dated back to 1869, traded it for something or other. Whatever the other was was I still wish I had the can back.

[Underclocked]

I can remember buying surplus H4831 for $0.79 per pound at a drugstore in Idaho Falls. You scooped out whatever you wanted and put it in a brown paper bag. Worked great for scoop loading '06 cases. That was about 1971.

[Geezer in NH]

I thew out at least 50 of those cans empty. Who needs empty cans kicking around. late 80's early 90's.

I had to buy cans in this century to put powder in that came packed in a plastic bag.

[John Taylor]

A little over 45 years ago I made a trip to Idaho and bought a bunch of black powder. It was in a plastic bag and was under $2 a pound. Can't remember who made it but most of it got traded off. The rest shot as good as any other powder I could find at the time.

[KCSO]

My first powder came from the hardware store and was Dupont in the old oval can with the screw on lid. I wish I would have saved them. I have cans from Goex, Meteor, Elephant, Swiss, Schutzen and an old keg from Dupont blasting.

[LAGS]

I still have 6 one lb cans of Goex I bought in California back in the '80's.
I just keep it for back up if I can't make the powder I make .
And I sometimes use it just to compare to my homemade powder.

[1Hawkeye]

I still have my first goex can from 1981 it was 5.99 then

[sledgehammer001]

Got a matched pair of Goex just like that, don't remember the price on them though. Have 2 cardboard pyrodex P and a cardboard RS, unopened. Pyro: $8.49ea
Ah, simpler days gone by....