I was helping my mother at my late grandmothers cottage. Did find couple of old powder cans, thought that some of you might be interested to see.
On the left is Vihtavuori shotgun powder from year 1960 and on the right is Vihtavuori powder for "Hunting rifles" it dates back to 1948. Vihtavuori powder was a brand which was owned by company Rikkihappo Oy. Name Vihtavuori comes from a place where the the plant is located. They did also manufacture primers and shotgun ammo.
Both cans were opened but almost full, did pour some powder plate and was surprised that it did still look ok visually. And it did burn like any new powder. And not going to try these, both cans has been in cold storage for decades.
And here is Gyttorp Shotgun powder, swedish made. This was paper package, never opened.
Also did find really nice solution for priming
just two blocks of wood and hinge in between, on other block there was drilled hole for shell. So when you press these blocks together you press primer to pocket. There were also some shotgun shells for caliber 32 and few Sako 25-20 brass.
After WW2 hunting was really important way to get meat, specially poor people like my grandmother and her husband. And reloading equipment was just too expensive to get so people did make own solutions.
These cans and tools will stay on my reloading room, it is nice to see how my grandmothers husband did reload decades ago.
On the left is Vihtavuori shotgun powder from year 1960 and on the right is Vihtavuori powder for "Hunting rifles" it dates back to 1948. Vihtavuori powder was a brand which was owned by company Rikkihappo Oy. Name Vihtavuori comes from a place where the the plant is located. They did also manufacture primers and shotgun ammo.
Both cans were opened but almost full, did pour some powder plate and was surprised that it did still look ok visually. And it did burn like any new powder. And not going to try these, both cans has been in cold storage for decades.
And here is Gyttorp Shotgun powder, swedish made. This was paper package, never opened.
Also did find really nice solution for priming
just two blocks of wood and hinge in between, on other block there was drilled hole for shell. So when you press these blocks together you press primer to pocket. There were also some shotgun shells for caliber 32 and few Sako 25-20 brass.After WW2 hunting was really important way to get meat, specially poor people like my grandmother and her husband. And reloading equipment was just too expensive to get so people did make own solutions.
These cans and tools will stay on my reloading room, it is nice to see how my grandmothers husband did reload decades ago.
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