Old Powder

[Brik847]

I have some Goex 2f that I've been in to, but not in 3 and a half years. Is it still good?

 

[shortstring]

If it was closed up proper, it is. I've won matches in the last few years with powder from the 1960s.

Paul

 

[boar]

If dry I say it is good. I have shot it over 5yrs old. I mark the cans when I buy them, date&price. Was 5.00 in 82-last can 2007 was 15.50. Dilly

 

[Bob Gular]

If it's been dry, it's good. I was given an opened can of Goex 4f from 1976 and it works just fine.

 

[sundog]

I am shooting Dupont powder that I bought back in the 1970s. Works just fine.

 

[J.D.]

If it's been dry, it's good. I was given an opened can of Goex 4f from 1976 and it works just fine.

It's still good even if its a little damp. As long as it isn't soaking wet.

I have dried damp powder in the kitchen oven by speading the damp powder on a aluminum foil formed over a large cookie sheet. Preheat the oven at the lowest setting, spread the powder thinnly on the foil, TURN THE OVEN OFF and place the cookie sheet in the oven for as long as it takes to cool.

Leave the oven door cracked an inch or less to allow the moisture to escape.

 

[Brik847]

Thanks guys, good to know.

 

[john12865]

I take it your single. :grin:
My wife lets me get away with a lot of things. I clean guns in the bath tub, blue and brown barrels on the dining room table, have guns standing in corners all over the house to the point that it looks like the a muzzle loading Waco, have many cans of BP in her book cabinet lined up like books from 1f through 4f.
I've dried powder out but not in the oven.
I just picture me and the beagle out in the woods and her coming home and preheating an oven with BP in it. :shocked2:
Just imagine the flash and the smoke! :rotf:
I think I'm going to play it safe and stick to drying it out in the shed under some heat lamps.

 

[J.D.]

I've dried powder out but not in the oven.
I just picture me and the beagle out in the woods and her coming home and preheating an oven with BP in it. :shocked2:
Just imagine the flash and the smoke! :rotf:
I think I'm going to play it safe and stick to drying it out in the shed under some heat lamps.

Your wife cooks?? I'm married...for 36....wonderful, yeah, yeah wonderful years. but I don't have to worry about her firing up the oven unexpectedly. :hmm:

 

[john12865]

Your wife cooks?? I'm married...for 36....wonderful, yeah, yeah wonderful years. but I don't have to worry about her firing up the oven unexpectedly.

I guess I'm lucky. I couldn't afford all the muzzle loaders if we ate out. I always knew deep down inside that I really loved her for some reason.

Thanks for helping find myself! :thumbsup:

 

[gacitizen]

I thought I had been married all my life. Surely you didn't get married when you were eight years old. :shocked2:

 

[Johnny Tremain]

Brik,
Whats in my horn right now is form the late 70's.

When its gone, Ill start on a can from the 90s.

Hope I live long enough to get to the stuff I bought last year

It all works flawlessly

 

[rancher]

I bet it's still good if kept dry. My grandpa has powder that's much older than 3 years. Not sure exact age, but it's OLD....it still works fine for me...

 

[flaming canvas]

Black powder is a mixture of 3 different stable components, unlike smokeless that will break down in 30 to 50 years depending on variations in temperature and humidity in storage. It doesn't matter if it gets wet, it is wet when it is manufactured. It can be dried out. It's shelf life is beyond the lifetime of any of us.

 

[Scota4570]

I shot some old original Dupont that was made before 1900, in about 1980. It worked fine.