I don't have much to add i think I only have an old red dot and unique.
I guess I could post pictures of brown and white paper bags. The two places I used before internet days dipped it out of a keg and weighed it in front of you.
jim147:
Funny you should mention dipping out of kegs and in to paper bags...................I am just NOW finishing off a pound of Green Dot from 1975 that was in a brown paper bag, dipped out of an 8 pound keg. I have decided to start using up my oldest stuff first, and pulled this out, the paper sack was falling apart, and it was all in a ziploc bag. I had to strain all the paper fragments out, strange what we can find in these times of scarcity.................shoots just fine with Winchester primers with a 70 cent price tag!
Steve here... Here are latest two vintage purchases. The Herco was unopened from 1994, bought it at a gun show last month. The PB is a 4 pounder dated 7/73. It is new unopened. Picked that up this morning in a deal with some other items.
Steve here...Picked these up last weekend w a bunch of other stuff. Each can is about half full.
The old kegs were really cool, I wish I had kept them.
The plastic jugs just aren't the same.
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Was given to me ... the Dupont can is full.
Still have to learn how to use blackpowder.
It is much easier to fool people ,
than to convince them they have been fooled !
If you can read this , thank a teacher ...
If you can read this in English , .. thank a Vet !
I am going on to 78, and many, many of these powder cans I have never heard of. and if one wanted to use them where would you ever find reloading data for them? keep them comming. a fascinating subject.
A lot of the powders like the entire Hercules line are the same or very close to the same recipe made today. Discontinued powders can be much harder to locate data for. Powders like HiVel #2 sometimes posted load data on the back of cans but most paper labels get damaged and data gets lost. Luckily many of the good people here go through a lot of work to save this info. Old reloading manuals and pamphlets are always a start but one of the best places to look for data would be here from experienced loaders. I'll post some more tins when I get back in. I'm on the east coast right now.
Nice additions
Wow, nice collection additions. What are the containers in the first picture?
Slim
JUST GOTTA LOVE THIS JOINT.
Both are Hercules black powder fffg from as early as 1917 or 1914 can't remember at the moment. I think they are now my favorites in my collection. 2nd pic is also Hercules fffg dated 4/47 and over half full. Pyrodex isn't nearly that old but 7 full cans so I'm not complaining.
I just picked this one up from a garage sale the other day.
It’s got 7 1/2 lead shot in it.
BP | Bronze Point | IMR | Improved Military Rifle | PTD | Pointed |
BR | Bench Rest | M | Magnum | RN | Round Nose |
BT | Boat Tail | PL | Power-Lokt | SP | Soft Point |
C | Compressed Charge | PR | Primer | SPCL | Soft Point "Core-Lokt" |
HP | Hollow Point | PSPCL | Pointed Soft Point "Core Lokt" | C.O.L. | Cartridge Overall Length |
PSP | Pointed Soft Point | Spz | Spitzer Point | SBT | Spitzer Boat Tail |
LRN | Lead Round Nose | LWC | Lead Wad Cutter | LSWC | Lead Semi Wad Cutter |
GC | Gas Check |