Vintage H4198 and Old Powder Prices

[mikecockcroft]

I started loading 6br and 6 brdx today for the Dukes Freezer Shoot. While digging around in my powder collection I find this. Hand written price of $12.80. Still sealed. To bad there wasn’t 10 more.

 

[X-Caveman]

I’ll give you $13 for it. Thanks

 

[X-Caveman]

Or I’ll trade you some h4895 I found at my dad’s.

 

[mikecockcroft]

Oldest one I’ve got. Metal top you pry up with a screw driver. 1974 if I’m reading it right. $4.45
I was 16 when I bought this

 

[mikecockcroft]

My mother drove me to Carter’s Country in north Houston when I was 14 so I could buy this RCBS JR. reloading kit. Still have every piece that came with it. Still use it all the time. I was so proud I could reload 44 mag for my marlin 1894. Probably not many widowed mothers would let their 14 year old reload in their bedroom closet these days. She would drop me off at Bailey’s House of Guns on Saturdays so I could shoot it while she went and had her hair done.

 

[JoeDuke]

Ah! The good old days. Burned up a many a $1 a pound old surplus 4831 powder. Used to go to Glenn Slades shop on the gulf freeway. They ladled it out of a big keg and sent u home with it in s paper bag.

 

[swd]

Ah! The good old days. Burned up a many a $1 a pound old surplus 4831 powder. Used to go to Glenn Slades shop on the gulf freeway. They ladled it out of a big keg and sent u home with it in s paper bag.

A good friend told me he used to get 4831 delivered in the mail in a paper sack back in the early 60’s.

 

[6MMsteve]

about 1 Month ago I bought a can of H4198 at a gun show and they had a can of H322 wish I would have bought the 322, all old stuff same writing as the post

 

[JB10]

My mother drove me to Carter’s Country in north Houston when I was 14 so I could buy this RCBS JR. reloading kit. Still have every piece that came with it. Still use it all the time. I was so proud I could reload 44 mag for my marlin 1894. Probably not many widowed mothers would let their 14 year old reload in their bedroom closet these days. She would drop me off at Bailey’s House of Guns on Saturdays so I could shoot it while she went and had her hair done.

I still use the same press to this day. Got it from my father in law when i started reloading. I never upgraded just keep using what works.

 

[JEFFPPC]

Ah! The good old days. Burned up a many a $1 a pound old surplus 4831 powder. Used to go to Glenn Slades shop on the gulf freeway. They ladled it out of a big keg and sent u home with it in s paper bag.

1.00, you were robbed. I bought for .50 a lb. Weighed out into a brown paper bag. That was in Lancaster Pa when I was 20, so that was 1967. The good ole days.

 

[jackieschmidt]

Ah! The good old days. Burned up a many a $1 a pound old surplus 4831 powder. Used to go to Glenn Slades shop on the gulf freeway. They ladled it out of a big keg and sent u home with it in s paper bag.

I remember that well.
Also KenLees over in South Houston. They had those big cardboard canisters of 4895 and 4831.

I can never forget that huge mounted standing Polar Bear in Glenn Slade’s. That thing must have been eight foot tall.

 

[AlNyhus]

Not powder...but reminded me of my Dad. We would go to our local hardware store where they had wooden crates full of surplus Mauser 98's. He'd rummage for the 'best' ones. But none of them had bolts. The bolts were in big wooden kegs and we'd just dig them out and he'd try each one in a rifle until he found one that would close. That was it. He'd take them to work and shorten the barrels and sporterize the stock.

My brother Kevin got the worst end of the deal. Being a leftie, he always ended up with a bunch of soot on his left cheek from the gas leaking.

 

[JoeDuke]

I have a .270 win built on a surplus 98 action. A gunsmith built it for me when i was 14yo. 66 years ago. It burned up a whole bunch of that old powder. Killed a lot of deer.

 

[bob936]

This thread reminds me of the prices for powder when my dad and I first started handloading. I still have about 4 lbs. of surplus H 4831 in a can the size of a gallon paint can. That powder today looks just as good as it 62 years ago, which was the early 1960's. I still have several 1 lb. cans marked $2.50.

 

[CaptainMal]

This thread reminds me of the prices for powder when my dad and I first started handloading. I still have about 4 lbs. of surplus H 4831 in a can the size of a gallon paint can. That powder today looks just as good as it 62 years ago, which was the early 1960's. I still have several 1 lb. cans marked $2.50.

$2.50 ??? I can beat that.



What else is interesting is that I still use Bullseye from other, opened can of the same era. 4 grains with a cast 125 gr. bullet in 38 Special has the powder lasting a long time.

 

[BlueWater]

I remember that well.
Also KenLees over in South Houston. They had those big cardboard canisters of 4895 and 4831.

I can never forget that huge mounted standing Polar Bear in Glenn Slade’s. That thing must have been eight foot tall.

There's a big grizzly (Kodiak?) mounted at a nearby BassPro, in my area. Makes me pause a think, every time I walk by the thing. Dang, but it's a big animal.

 

[shb]

A good friend told me he used to get 4831 delivered in the mail in a paper sack back in the early 60’s.

I bet the paper bags back then were stout enough to handle it.

 

[FNSafari]

Yep, not that many years ago an 8 lb of H4198 was $135

 

[alintx]

I've bought many eight pounders of 322 for $34.95! Bruce put the price on the label!

 

[JimPag]

Yep, not that many years ago an 8 lb of H4198 was $135

Back when I started at the end of 2012 going into 2013 Greg the price at PV was $127.99. I remember that because I had a few pounds of it because that's when Dean sold me my first BR rifle in 30BR and that's when I started buying the stuff. I bought a bunch of N130 that first year in fact that's all I ever used for about a year and a half then switched over to H4198. It just seemed a bit more consistent and my scores also started to improve. As good as N130 is IMO H4198 is a tad better. Smokin Joe Entrekin said the exact same thing in that 30BR article that's on this site.