Jackaroo wrote:How long do you feel comfortable leaving the cap of the powder bottle when you're reloading?
How hygroscopic is it and is it losing any volatiles?
bladeracer wrote:Jackaroo wrote:How long do you feel comfortable leaving the cap of the powder bottle when you're reloading?
How hygroscopic is it and is it losing any volatiles?
I put the cap straight back on unless I'm actually scooping from the bottle, but I leave it open as little as possible. I prefer to dump some into a wide-mouth vitamin bottle for easier access for scooping and then dump it back into the bottle when I'm done.
I left a small amount (hopefully enough to load a dozen .303 rounds) in a spare powder hopper for almost three years, not sealed (it just has a gravity cap). It wasn't really enough to dump back into a fresh bottle so I put it aside. In Central Gippsland it's pretty moist which must have effected it to some degree, and the temp ranges from just below zero in the winter to over 40C in the summer. I left it standing on the back of my loading bench with a piece of paper with the date on top, but over time I've lost the paper. Pretty sure it was late November, early December 2019 though. It didn't occur to me to leave some out in the open though, it would just attract dust, mouse and rat poo, and dead insects and I can't imagine anybody actually storing their powders that way
It's gone just a little brown, and Rose can't make out any difference in smell. The plan is to load it in some .303 next week alongside some fresh stuff and see if there's any difference. I suspect there'll be no noticeable difference, but over a chronograph there might be a measurable difference perhaps.
Oldbloke wrote:I reckon blade will be right. SFA difference. People use powder 30 yrs old. No problems.
More worried about spilling it.
Blr243 wrote:I took a phone call once while reloading , and spoke for longer than expected, returned to realise I had left he top off my bottle ... ptsd , counseling sessions , abuse of prescription painkillers Recurring nightmares ,nothin seems to b working I doubt I will ever be the same again
Jackaroo wrote:Blr243 wrote:I took a phone call once while reloading , and spoke for longer than expected, returned to realise I had left he top off my bottle ... ptsd , counseling sessions , abuse of prescription painkillers Recurring nightmares ,nothin seems to b working I doubt I will ever be the same again
That's a careless thing for a gun owner to write on a public forum.
bladeracer wrote:Jackaroo wrote:Blr243 wrote:I took a phone call once while reloading , and spoke for longer than expected, returned to realise I had left he top off my bottle ... ptsd , counseling sessions , abuse of prescription painkillers Recurring nightmares ,nothin seems to b working I doubt I will ever be the same again
That's a careless thing for a gun owner to write on a public forum.
He was joking
All forums are public, anything you put online anywhere pretty much belongs to anybody that wants to look for it.
Jackaroo wrote:Still a very careless thing for a firearms owner to write publicly.
bladeracer wrote:Jackaroo wrote:Still a very careless thing for a firearms owner to write publicly.
You can certainly choose to believe that if you prefer.
Oldbloke wrote:I understand where jackaroo is coming from but it's pretty obvious blr243 was being facetious.
deye243 wrote:Just bloody relax I am sick and tired of this Lefty look over your shoulder or don't you dare say what you think biggest problem we have today is we self-regulate that is definitely wrong.
we should be outward tell everybody what we do don't like it get f***** when I seen the first draught of the 1996 firearms act (vic) I was horrified where one line said you can't carry a firearm in a manner as to alarm the public we fought very hard to have this taken out obviously it didn't work because 10 to 20 years later we have a s**t load of people who think the only people who should carry a firearm is a cop.
if you have ever been to a range when they are practising it's a horrifying site to know that these clowns carry Firearms in public.
I miss the good old days when I was 10 yes 10 years old riding a pushbike up the road with a Ruger 10/22 over my shoulder local copper couldn't give a crap because he knew who I was were I was going you really think I would do anything wrong don't think so.