"Bucketing" or mixing powder from different lots. What say yee?

[TRexF16]

I try it once with alliant reloder 22 with Disastrous results .I guess it depends on brand but I won't do it with alliant reloder powder

Thanks for responding, but what was the disastrous result? I'm just trying to understand. I don't question in the least that a bad thing happened to you, just want to know what it was, as I have never heard of that occurring before.
Thanks in advance,
Rex

 

[esshup]

I don't blend just for the specific reason of the companies issuing powder recalls years after the powder hit the shelves. Then what do you do? Toss out the whole mixed batch?? I just buy in the biggest container possible, or if buying one pound containers, I look at the lot numbers on them and sort by lot there at the store. If I have to re-work a load, so be it.

 

[brian b]

I try it once with alliant reloder 22 with Disastrous results .I guess it depends on brand but I won't do it with alliant reloder powder

I have probably blended RL22 more than any other powder, always with great results

 

[GREATSCOTT!]

I put commercially available oxygen absorbers in my cans as well as moisture absorbers packets to keep my open powder fresh.

I don't mix, but instead dehydrate my powder for an hour before loading, that solved any lot-to-lot velocity variation.

 

[azsugarbear]

A wise word to the married guys: Do not use your wife's plastic mixing bowls to blend lots. The fine powder gets down into the scratched and will not come out. I paid for this mistake every time my wife got it out to make a salad. I finally hid it away in my reloading room and went and got her a new one.

Happy wife - Happy life.

 

[javman]

My only concern would be if what if there would be a recall on one of the lots? Just saying. I've don't it but only with the same lot number.

 

[javman]

Just tell her put a little nitro into her LOL. JK, I've done the samething with only "that" !

 

[swilk14]

Thanks for the great info! I have 8lbs Varget, 3 diff lots. Mixing now.

 

[swilk14]

Thanks for the great info! I have 8lbs Varget, 3 diff lots. Mixing now. It filled 5, 1lb containers to the top.

 

[Blacktail63]

I make sure I use nonferrous mixing implements; wood, glass or plastic. Been mixing lots for years. When I refill 1lbers I fill them to the top and work from the partial. Saves a lot of room on the powder shelves.

 

[Greta06]

When the wife helps you mix them...

 

[GLTaylor]

Now, work up your load with that new "lot* and you're good for a While!
Be sure to label and date the containers!

 

[Mike Matteson]

For most rifles it would only take about 16lbs of powder to out last the barrel. I have hardly had any problem with powder and changes from one lot to another. With shotguns I have never worry about it,nor had any problem. Now I generally use H4350, H4831SC, and MRP powders for rifles The only others I use is W760. Going to run some test this year on temperature variance. With me having a new rifle being built, I am adding H1000, and 1 other powder to my list. I stay away for Reloads and IMR powder for rifles do to heat extremes. The only problem now is getting 16lbs at one time.

 

[Eagleye242]

I have been mixing different lot numbers of the same powder for decades. It is the way to get consistency for a longer period of time without having to re-work your load when you get a new lot #
Never ran into the recall issue yet, but if it happens, it happens. Life is too short to fill my "worry box" with possible
occurrences. Regards, Dave.