the rust dust off it. brush it with a cleaning brush to get as much rust off it as you can. When you have done this, hold the can up near your nose and pop open the top. If it is good it won't have any odor at all or very little. if it has a rotten egg smell it is bad and put it on your wife's garden as fertilizer.
We get quite a bit of old gunpowder in here in the estates we buy. Some ok and some bad.
A while back I got a 12 pound cannister of PB powder. I looked up in some old reloading manuals and found it listed for 45 ACP. That was a couple of years ago and I am still using it.
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Misfit Paul Haaksma was gifted a sealed (!) container
- WB, 2024-03-26, 14:31
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- Thanks Scotty for posting that! - Paul, 2024-03-26, 17:58
- I had several cans of powder, still unopened that - Gary Reeder, 2024-03-26, 16:12
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Red Dawn moment
- Winnturner48, 2024-03-26, 15:42
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If you decide to open it, first try to blow all
- Gary Reeder, 2024-03-26, 16:18
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I had some PB powder once, in little tins
- WB, 2024-03-27, 05:05
- In another estate i found a big black container - Gary Reeder, 2024-03-27, 13:21
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I had some PB powder once, in little tins
- WB, 2024-03-27, 05:05
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If you decide to open it, first try to blow all
- Gary Reeder, 2024-03-26, 16:18