Thread: Old powder wrecked reloading gear.

Originally Posted by Gamehunter

but not in a cartridge.

Not so fast, as @shooternz has said below your post, it can happen in loaded ammo too. I was interested to find out it was N160 that did this to you, years back, I had a couple of plastic 2 litre containers of N140 & N160 I'd bought from Reloaders Supplies. Loaded up a stack of .303 with the n140, shot a fair bit off but stowed the rest in my reloading cabinet. couple of years later, went in there looking for some .303 ammo & found my N140 loaded stuff was developing neck cracks & sweating Verdigris, the bullets were the steel jacketed Norma stuff but I never had an issue with those on top of anything other than N140. The 3/4 full container of it fairly ponged & got consigned to lawn fertiliser. A little later I inherited a few cans of powder from an old mate that passed away, one was a mixed lot, what looked like N140 with 2208. (don't ask. I stowed it meaning to dump it when I got around to it, a few months later, the 2208 tin it was in had rusted through, some steel bits in my cabinet had a film of rust & some nearby tins of powder did too though nothing internal. It got dumped toot sweet after that. I'd be interested to know how many others had issues with VT powders, we'd be talking back in the 1990s & I'm guessing that RL filled their containers from a bulk lot. At last check my N160 was fine. I got to here from this thread