Having been reloading for a few decades, one accumulates a goodly amount of powders, primers, brass, dies, molds, and other doodads needed to wallow in matters of the gun. Today whilst trying to determine what, if any, of my older stock could be used in the 35 Remington cartridges, I managed to get into stock I have had on hand for over 40 years. I finally used up the last of the Gander Mountain IMR-4895 I purchased in 1994 for $15, the last of AA-2520 I bought in Virginia in 1990 for $14.95, the last of the Remington LR primers I bought who knows when for $9.50 PER THOUSAND, and some other component powders and primers that I purchased when Elmer Keith was a baby.
It never ceases to amaze me how well these components keep over time if stored properly. The joy at seeing them in their now antique boxes, tubes, and metal cans is splendid and brings back memories of gun stores no longer there, friends who have gone to the open range with unlimited ammo, and believe it or not, memories of music that used to be played in some of those stores around a pot-bellied stove. Wood smoke and Hoppe's smells dominated the atmosphere in those old stores in Virginia. New modern stores are too clean!
Well I have finally made some room to move other cans of powder into the storage boxes. Same problem just newer stock!
Shoot Safe!