Accidentally dumped 1/8 lb of Varget into 7.5 lb can of H4895

[Flouncer]

The point was well taken. I have pretty thick skin and know when I've been stupid. No harm done.

Tippin a cold one for you !!

Saturday PM, no bench in sight

 

[Steve Ladino]

So one day I'm sorting my powders and happened to have an almost empty 1 lb. can of Varget and decided to blend it in with an 8 lb. jug that I had. I pulled the 8 lb. jug off the shelf and poured in the Varget only to realize that I actually poured it into the 8 lb. jug of H4895! As stated in the title, I probably poured about 1/8 lb. of Varget into 7.5 lbs. of H4895. I did this months ago and have just sat on it as I didn't know what to do with it. The recent post on blending powders prompted me to revisit the situation. I don't know, perhaps I could use it for AR plinking loads? Are the burn rates close enough to make this safe?

Lou

so you added two ounces to 120 ounces, I would mix it up real good and go with it

 

[Nature Boy]

Soon to be marketed as “H-4arget”

Or

“Fugget”,

as in, “I accidentally mixed some powder, fugget, I’m shooting it anyway”

 

[Bulletbob]

I figured the worst that would become of this brain flatulence would be a target at 600 yards next to a can of tannerite.

Here is the south we call "Brain Farts " or " Brain Flatulence" Cerebral Gastritis

 

[Ned Ludd]

Look on the bright side - you just decreased the temperature sensitivity of your H4895 by a very tiny amount.

 

[ben lurkin]

As someone else stated; 1.56% dilution. Note that most powder companies consider +/- 6% variation in burn rate to be an acceptable tolerance between different lots. I wouldn't worry at all as long as you mix it up well.

 

[Frankm]

On Hodgdons own burn rate chart they have Varget as the next slowest powder of theirs after H4895. I agree with others posts to shoot it as H4895 and carry on.

I personally would reduce load a few and work back up to your normal H4895 charge. Since granular size and weight so similar a good mixing makes sense prior to testing.

I ve been loading for 50 years and would love to tell U I ve never had a boo boo but that'd be lying !

 

[odie]

Back in the day, folks thought VV-133 was too slow, so they mixed it with 130 to "speed it up" a little.....

We called it 131 1/2 . Shot good.

 

[stifffingers]

Soon to be marketed as “H-4arget”

Or

“Fugget”,

as in, “I accidentally mixed some powder, fugget, I’m shooting it anyway”

You must be Old Navy. When I was on the Enterprise back in '62 we had a saying that went around the ship, " I shot an arrow into the air, it fell to earth I know not where, fugget I got more arrows."

 

[savagedasher]

It was that You never taught safety in reloading
One powder on the bench at a time
Myself I would shake them and shoot
Their burning rate is close and they take about the amount of powder

 

[CaptnC]

In almost 50 years of reloading I just did this at the beginning of deer season.

I was loading 6.5 Creedmoor and 6.5 Grendel for the up coming season. The H335 was in my dispenser and I was dipping scoops of H4350. I was planning to load more 6.5 Grendel so I didn't want to change the setting, but it got late so I dumped the remaining bowl back into the one lb canister, the grabbed the reservoir off the dispenser and dumped all those little flakes of H335 into the nearly new one lb canister!

We to Walmart and bought a set of stainless sifters. Just so happens the H335 fell through with no problem. I sifted the pound can 3 times and could not find another flake on the last sift!

 

[JohnKielly]

We to Walmart and bought a set of stainless sifters. Just so happens the H335 fell through with no problem. I sifted the pound can 3 times and could not find another flake on the last sift!

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