OLD Powder

[kevshell]

I saw this post this morning. Hopefully you guys will be able to open it. Whenever you wondered about whether powder is too old, you probably don't come close to this can. That would be a great can to have on display in your loading room.

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[Lee Martin]

Really neat piece of shooting history you have there. I also collect old powder cans. Here is part of my collection:





-Lee
www.singelactions.com
"Chasing perfection five shots at a time"

[kevshell]

That's not my can. But I would proudly display it if it was.

I have a few older cans but not even as old as the ones you have. Mine are a few metal imr cans and a few alliant cardboard drums.

[Fowler]

I was given a footlocker full of old powder cans like these, most of them still sealed and full! I wish I could buy them for the prices on the stickers today...

[kevshell]

Actually I had forgot a story my grandfather told me when I was probably 14 years old. He lived in the Western part of Virginia where he had a 400 acre farm and used a bulldozer to build roads and ponds for people. He said he was cutting a pond in for someone and in the process of moving dirt they uncovered a cash of civil war era powder tins. I don't know whatever became of them but I know he didn't have them. And it's possible if you did have them they may have been burnt up in their house fire where they also had a lot of civil war era items such as medicine bottles, etc. The home my mother grew up in was used as a civil war hospital. And there's lots of breast works, abandoned fort sites, etc in that region of the country. It wouldn't surprise me at all if there's lots of stashes like that still sitting around waiting for people to find them.

[x101airborne]

Very cool can collections and very cool story! I have a couple of old cans from maybe around 1940 or so. When I move into my new house in the summer I am going to dig them out and find them a new home. When I finally empty this 12 pound steel keg of IMR 700-X, that needs a new home as well.

[jeffh]

Somehow, I just cannot imagine the plastic jars we get today will ever induce such feelings of nostalgia.

Another of those things that really gets me is paper shotshells.

[bigbore5]

Just remember all the stuff that was around when we were kids that was thought about as "garbage".