With just a pound of the two I have, and no chance of getting more, it is not worth fooling with. Tried to peddle it with no takers. It needs to go away. Have several other partial cans to join it.
Anybody ever had a Powder Explosion?
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I hate to think about what the replacement cost would be on powder now. But what the heck, I’m just setting at that PA household limit of 10lbs anyway.
I cannot imagine your pain. My heart felt condolences and prayers to you and you family.
ok just spent an hour digging to the very rear of the storage shed getting the powder out. theres parts from 3 cars in there, just about everything but the body. One jug was bought in 1993, and the other in 1996. both IMR in the old square metal cans. It went bad about 2000 when i opened it, rusty brown color and smells bad. I put it in the shed thinking bad powder is better than no powder if the SHTF. enough stories her to worry me. its been in the shed for over 20 years, and the shed sits in the sun, buttttt,,,,,, still is rusty brown and smells different just like it was years ago.
drop_point
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I am so sorry. I cannot imagine how you're feeling. It makes our troubles seem miniscule.
Not a powder explosion. But my uncle lost his house to a fire. He is obsessed with cleaning his guns and they stacked a few different rags with gun cleaning chemicals and woke up to their house half engulfed in fire.
He lost a good 20+ guns including a custom hall rifle and a remington 40x700 factory gun with a 1.25" barrell. Step son was last one in gun room cleaning. Uncle was flewn out to hospital with nasty burns saving his step son. Ended up having to have cadaver skin grafted to both feet form melted plastic carpet burns. Long a bunch of leupold lr scopes. Was never able to get insurance to cover the fire. Never recovered from his loss.
He lost a good 20+ guns including a custom hall rifle and a remington 40x700 factory gun with a 1.25" barrell. Step son was last one in gun room cleaning. Uncle was flewn out to hospital with nasty burns saving his step son. Ended up having to have cadaver skin grafted to both feet form melted plastic carpet burns. Long a bunch of leupold lr scopes. Was never able to get insurance to cover the fire. Never recovered from his loss.
ben-o
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My experience was the powder was stored in good conditions, and suddenly went bad at about 4 years old, with no good explanation. There was no exposure to excess heat. I disposed the remnants immediately when I realized that the powder was bad.
DLT
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No. Mine was Temp controlled until powder went bad READ
Same as DLT.
I have a climate controlled room I built in the corner of my steel building.
Always a pleasant 75 -76° at 45% humidity.
Edit: and I have a backup generator.
Just checked my 1# 4166 from 2020 in response to this thread. It looked normal, but smelled terrible. First time I've had powder turn bad. I can still taste that smell 20 minutes later.
So the video was faked? Pretty good, even had the guy ducking for cover. Maybe he was edited in as well....
Thanks for the heads up, @DLT I'm checking all of mine today. Glad it wasn't worse.
DLT
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Im the star or the star idiot of this show. Wasn’t any editing going other than when they sent it to me from work that evening it was slow motion. When played full speed you could hardly see the fire ball is what I was told. I’m going to get the full speed video when I get a chance. Here is another one I took once I gathered my marbles and figured out what exactly had happened
I have to wonder....
Some guys here mention powders they've had for many years without issue and here we're talking about "new and improved" powders with copper fouling reducers and various other changes, supposedly to make it better.
The old adage: if it ain't broke, don't screw with it just may apply here.
Some guys here mention powders they've had for many years without issue and here we're talking about "new and improved" powders with copper fouling reducers and various other changes, supposedly to make it better.
The old adage: if it ain't broke, don't screw with it just may apply here.
Trying to learn something here. Do you think the smell of the powder you checked today changed a lot from when it was new?
DLT, l went back and reread your first post. When you first found the bottle with the sticky lid that was stored normally, do you think it had excessive heat?
Just curious because someone else had mentioned one of the temperature detectors, and I think they can be purchased fairly cheap at someplace like harbor freight.
This post strikes a chord with me. In the old days when life was simple, about half dozen of IMR powders left nothing to be desired. I still remember those metal cans and the feel of them.
There was always an ample supply at local shops. You didn't need to stock powders because they always had them. Of course, a lot of us were not affluent and couldn't afford to do that anyway. I would keep two cans of the ones I used. When one can was exhausted, I just go to the local shop and buy another. No shipping - no hazmat - no wait - no panic buying.
Today we have made reloading, cleaning, and shooting into a complex mystical process. The sellers of commodities that support this complexity mindset must love it.
I hope you guys that have had this happen are giving Hodgdon a earful of complaints.
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