Goex Canister Info

[Fisher 2021]

I have always kept a large stockpile of black powder, even though I don’t shoot alot compared to many on here.
I am using up my last stock of the old steel cans and beginning to use the newer stuff which is in plastic containers.
I had both the old steel and new plastic sitting on my table and started to read the difference in info on the cans.
Notice the slogan on how long it’s been American made.
Steel says since 1912. Plastic says since 1802.
Somehow going to plastic caused them to gain 110 years of being in business!

 

[Bassdog1]

I think the GOEX brand was bought out and the difference is in the age of the new parent company

 

[Sidney Smith]

I held onto two of those metal cans simply because they don't make them anymore. I always liked those cans. Just empty cans, but they have a nicer look to them than the newer plastic ones.

 

[excess650]

1802 is when the powder mills were constructed on the Brandywine, but the first BP wasn't made there until 1803. Gearhart Owen bought the BP business from DuPont in 1972. Those cans were red and white and marked GO or GOI until sometime in the '80s when the label changed to read Goex.

 

[Whitworth]

I reuse all my old cans because I dislike the plastic ones, they feel the same as a quart of Quaker State.