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Black Powder Question

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Grunt:
The powder looks good, the cans were stored in a military ammo can and the powder doesn't seem to be clumped up.My horns and bags have been kept warm and dry. I've got 2f,3f,and priming powder. I'm going to unlimber the .50 tomorrow. Honestly the last time I can remember firing it was when I killed a nice buck in the Penn mountains and that was a long time ago. I've also got a .25 that will be a bit more crucial as far as good 3f is concerned.  I'm going to touch a few off tomorrow. Thanks for the input guys, I'll let you know how it goes.

Grunt:
The powder doesn't seem to have lost it's punch. Real nice to get back into the shooting mode after all this time. Went over my horn and bag for the 50 cal, shot it, and I'm still getting nice tight groups. . I've got my .25 cal squirrel gun cleaned, a new short starter made and the hunting bag and horn for it gone over. I'll sight it in tomorrow. I can shoot about 25 yards by stepping out of the front door of my studio and nobody comes over to see who I'm killin.

Eric Krewson:
Looks like you found your answer.

I was going to add, I have some black powder a friend gave me that is around 30 years old and is just fine.

Black powder doesn't degrade with time. A rifle left loaded for 200 years and stored in a dry place will go off like it was loaded yesterday.

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