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This weekend my wife and I went to Blackfoot to see our kids and we had a great time with our family. It was busy and fast moving and fun and at one point we went through a ouple of antique shops which my wife and I always do when we travel.
I found this open can of Hercules HERCO Smokeless Shotgun Powder. The inventory date from the antique shop is dated 10-11-06. It is about 1/3 full and has not had a lid on it for the entire duration that they had it. I bought the can as a collectable item only however I am going to load a round with it and see how it performs. I tried burning a scale pan full of it and it flashed as fast as fresh powder with no problem. It no longer has it's original nitro smell and in fact instead of having an ammonia smell it smalls like a burnt building. The reason it smells like a burn building is the antique store had an extensive fire and the gun powder smells like an ash tray because of the fire. Fortunatly the gun powder was a good distance from the fire so it was spared along with the surrounding antiques. Because of the fire most everything in the antique store was 60% off so I paid .80 cents for the HERCO.
A question for the reloaders. I am trying to find out if I the burn rate change will cause a danger if using it in a cartridge? Also, does anybody know what years this can was produced?
Thanks guys.
I found this open can of Hercules HERCO Smokeless Shotgun Powder. The inventory date from the antique shop is dated 10-11-06. It is about 1/3 full and has not had a lid on it for the entire duration that they had it. I bought the can as a collectable item only however I am going to load a round with it and see how it performs. I tried burning a scale pan full of it and it flashed as fast as fresh powder with no problem. It no longer has it's original nitro smell and in fact instead of having an ammonia smell it smalls like a burnt building. The reason it smells like a burn building is the antique store had an extensive fire and the gun powder smells like an ash tray because of the fire. Fortunatly the gun powder was a good distance from the fire so it was spared along with the surrounding antiques. Because of the fire most everything in the antique store was 60% off so I paid .80 cents for the HERCO.
A question for the reloaders. I am trying to find out if I the burn rate change will cause a danger if using it in a cartridge? Also, does anybody know what years this can was produced?
Thanks guys.
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