GOEX Powder Lot Question??

[jtmattison]

I made a trade with a guy today and got two cans of GOEX FFFg. I am wondering if anyone can help me figure out when it was made. I shot some of it out of my .54 Trade rifle with PRB and it shot great.
The bottom of the can has this on it:
03-2g
94JU08B
Any help would be great. Thanks.

Huntin

 

[roundball]

I made a trade with a guy today and got two cans of GOEX FFFg. I am wondering if anyone can help me figure out when it was made. I shot some of it out of my .54 Trade rifle with PRB and it shot great.
The bottom of the can has this on it:
03-2g
94JU08B
Any help would be great. Thanks.

Huntin

03-2G is the LOT#
94JU08B is the DATE CODE
94-1994
JU=June
08=the 8th of June
B=it was processed & packed on the "B Shift" at the plant

 

[jtmattison]

Thanks for the info roundball.
For being ten years old it shot like a charm.
I have never used real black powder until today and so far I like it.

Huntin

 

[Stumpkiller]

I have never used real black powder until today and so far I like it.

Today, you bacame a MAN.

 

[roundball]

From everything I've come to learn about gunpowder in general, if it's stored properly it'll last a god awful long time

 

[jtmattison]

stumpkiller,
Now I feel like I truly belong. Thanks.

Huntin

 

[Myra lou]

u-bet.......I bought a can 15 yrs ago that was made in the 1920's (red oval shape can) and it was full of 3F......It looked like the new Goex cartridge powder.......shinny and such.....Shot great.....still have a 1/2 can left......john....

 

[musketman]

From everything I've come to learn about gunpowder in general, if it's stored properly it'll last a god awful long time

There are Civil War cannon balls & shells that (after 140+ years) still have active black powder in them...

Today's powders will remain fresh for decades on end, if proper storing techniques are employed...

 

[roundball]

And like your recent safety related question, particularly if buying a used muzzleloader, assume it's loaded

 

[Ohio Joe]

Always glad to hear when someone has switched over to real black powder. As muzzleloader shooter's all of us have a responsibility to the manufacturer's of real black powder to purchase their product, and keep it in demand... When the day comes (and hopefully it never will) when we can not buy real black powder we will have no one to blame but ourselves, especially if we supported the "fake" black powder industry... Real black powder is as old as the sport of muzzle loading itself. This should tell us something... Good job, "huntin"! :applause:

 

[Deadeye]

Well said, O.J., let's all buy and shoot the real stuff.