New Oldstock Goex pistol powder

[Shad Banta]

I went to the gun store and bought some of the Goex FFFG powder they had and it’s an old can from 71. I’m a new shooter and I think I got very lucky with the gunstore we got here in town because they’ve got a lot of cool old stuff (Just today I was looking at a mosin nagant and a krag Jorgensen) I plan on keeping the can but I don’t know whether or not I want to use the powder from the 70’s (not due to safety, due to antiquity)

 

[TreeMan]

The can is cool but they are a dime a dozen. The powder is as good as the day it was made. Save the can and shoot the powder. Nothing worthwhile in saving the powder. Heck I take new BP and pour mine into one of those old cans with a pour spot on it for the range.

 

[64Springer]

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[Campbell]

Nice find! Hope the price was right!?
BTW, that’s a lot # of some kind, not the date.

 

[64Springer]

03-71 sure looks like a date.

 

[SDSmlf]

I went to the gun store and bought some of the Goex FFFG powder they had and it’s an old can from 71. I’m a new shooter and I think I got very lucky with the gunstore we got here in town because they’ve got a lot of cool old stuff (Just today I was looking at a mosin nagant and a krag Jorgensen) I plan on keeping the can but I don’t know whether or not I want to use the powder from the 70’s (not due to safety, due to antiquity)

03-71 means 3F, lot 71. Date code is line below that is not readable in your photograph. Also, if made in 71, it would a DuPont can.

 

[Mulebrain]

It's safe! Have a blast

Black powder from the Civil War still goes boom!

Oh, and buy it all if it's 20.00 or less per can, do a package buy on the entire lot

 

[earlwb]

Black powder kept dry is good for pretty much forever or longer. That is one reason you have to always double check old antique guns to make sure that the guns are unloaded. Yes people have accidentally fired off 150 year old guns that were still loaded long ago.

 

[Collie]

The can is cool but they are a dime a dozen. The powder is as good as the day it was made. Save the can and shoot the powder. Nothing worthwhile in saving the powder. Heck I take new BP and pour mine into one of those old cans with a pour spot on it for the range.

I do the same thing with an old tin can of Goex. It makes it easier to pour into a horn than from the newer plastic cans.

 

[Uncle Miltie]

Your powder appears to have been made in 1999. It was made after GOEX figured out how to make good powder after botching it big time in 1997 when they moved to Minden.

 

[Shad Banta]

Nice find! Hope the price was right!?
BTW, that’s a lot # of some kind, not the date.

The price was 28 bucks for a pound which I don't think is too bad

 

[SDSmlf]

Your powder appears to have been made in 1999. It was made after GOEX figured out how to make good powder after botching it big time in 1997 when they moved to Minden.

Could be 99, but need clear picture. The date code at the time I believe was YYMMDDS. Year, month (two letters), day of month, shift (A, B or C).

 

[Campbell]

The price was 28 bucks for a pound which I don't think is too bad

For a single can, that’s not bad these days!

 

[Hawk54]

Looks like 99 MN 03C on the bottom. Use the powder. It isn't worth anymore than you paid for it as far as a collectable. Keep the can and refill it.

 

[ord sgt]

This is what Goex cans looked like when I started in 1983. This can is dated '82

 

[Hawk54]

Here is a 1993 on left and 1980 on right.

 

[le125verne]

I went to the gun store and bought some of the Goex FFFG powder they had and it’s an old can from 71. I’m a new shooter and I think I got very lucky with the gunstore we got here in town because they’ve got a lot of cool old stuff (Just today I was looking at a mosin nagant and a krag Jorgensen) I plan on keeping the can but I don’t know whether or not I want to use the powder from the 70’s (not due to safety, due to antiquity)

Don't fret about using the BP. As long as it was stored properly, there should be no problem. I am still using some DuPont BP which was bought about 65 - 70. It still launches the bullet well.

 

[Eric Krewson]

I just checked my cans, I had one can of 3F from 1980, and one can of 2F from 2002, the rest is in plastic bottles.

 

[SgtMaj65]

Same FF Goex cans we used to get free when I first started CW reenacting back in the 1980s. At some events, particularly in Missouri, Oklahoma and Arkansas. if you signed up fairly early to an event, you got a free lb. can. I think I collected about 10 lbs. before the practice ended. It was mostly from smaller re-enactments, not the big ones like Wilson’s Creek, Franklin, Murfreesboro or Chickamauga.

 

[barracudadave67]

I have about 18 empty cans like that. I gave away more.

Dave