Powder from 22 Duds

[Martin Luber]

Is there any use for it?

Is it faster or slower than Bullseye?

I break duds from our club, scrap the brass and use the lead just avoid throwing them in the trash.

Thoughts?

Thanks

[Outpost75]

Using it would come under the category of "adventurous experimentation" which is not recommended.

However, in hard times people have done it to assemble very light "cat sneeze" loads without blowing themselves up, although when starting light you should be prepared to remove a bullet stuck in the barrel.

[fc60]

Greetings,

Save up some and demonstrate how smokeless powder burns to your next Hunter Safety class.

Cheers,

Dave

[Wilderness]

Caution: This stuff probably has primer compound in it as well. Evidence is twofold. I have broken down Federal misfires then checked the "primed" cases by putting them on a hotplate, turning it on, and getting out of range - NOTHING. Did the cartridge not have primer compound in it to begin with, or did the priming break loose and join the powder when struck? A friend claims to have found the priming compound in the powder in such cases. I have not looked so closely.

[Bent Ramrod]

I try the range pickups in my 1906 Winchester with the scabby bore. If it doesn’t set them off, I take them apart and recycle the lead. It’s also handy having a few inert unfired “dummy” shells when a dry-snap is needed.

In any batch of ten rounds, generally fewer than 7 will have even what looks like the same powder in them. Even if you blended them together, further manipulation would have the ball-type powders separating more or less from the flakes. Getting the same pressure/velocity/dispersion on target would be very difficult.

I’ve never gathered more than a teaspoon of the powder mixture at one time. I guess if you faithfully saved it for years, you might have enough for a stab at load development. But the next shell you empty into the mixture could change the characteristics.

So it would be possible (theoretically) to get a boolit out of a barrel with such a mixture. I’d have to be pretty desperate to exert the effort, myself. So I put it on a piece of paper and light it in the fireplace. I like the “whoooshhh!”

[Martin Luber]

It DOES frequently have green priming compound mixed in. It's fragile Remington ammo and breaks out of the rim when cycled in an autoloader. In single shots, it's pretty reliable.