New powder cans

[David R. Pennington]

 A little off subject but one of the guys at the range brought an "empty" powder can that he had set up for a target. He had shaken out all the powder he could get out and screwed the lid on. He said when he shot it it exploded with a little mushroom cloud and landed several feet away. The can had swelled from the rectangular cross section to almost round with the ends blown off.

[trentOH]

if you hit a metal can right on the seam, wonderful and weird things can happen to them.

Since I volunteer at the NMLRA's powder magazine at the national shoots, I decided I would call Goex and ask them about the new containers. I know there will be questions about the new containers. I was told that they do not have a certain supply of the steel cans anymore. The plastic containers (they call them fiber ) are guaranteed to be available, and cost less than steel cans. The new containers have anti-static properties built into them, but I suspect that is as much to keep granules from sticking to the container than for preventing loud painful incidents.
There was concern that they would have to shift to the round powder containers which Hodgdon's smokeless powders come in. That would have been a real problem because they couldn't put 25 into the same size case, and powder magazines would have been a mess. When they run out of steel cans, they will have transitioned to the plastic container, but they still have a bunch of some labeled cans to fill.

[Southron]

For me-No sweat with the new plastic powder cans Goex is shipping their product in. I shoot Schutzen because it is a better powder and at about the same price as Goex. My only gripe with Schutzen is that I have to buy in in a 25 pound case in 1 pound cans. I would much prefer to purchase a 25 pound keg!!!