Powder arrived un-sealed, is it a problem?

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So I paid the whopping $25 hazmat fee and ordered a 4 lbs container of Unique. It arrived unsealed. I ordered it from midway, but it shipped directly from either the manufacturer or a distributor. Should I be concerned?
 
The seal might be stuck in the cap. I would not be concerned, if powder looks like Unique. Its not returnable i dont think. I am sure you can trust Midwayusa. A call to customer service would not hurt.
 
Sometimes the seal comes off with the lid.
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Mine does. From the post, the jug cap was secure but the seal came off when you unscrewed it? it that's the case , I wouldn't worry.
 
Yep, that was the case. I figured it wasn't a big deal, but I am fairly new to reloading so I thought I ought to seek advice before I assumed.
 
Seal?? When I first started reloading, you bought powder in paper bags that were repackaged from WW II surplus, which is how Hodgdon got started in the powder business. Some places even had 100 pound kegs of powder and if you took your own container (coffee can) they would weigh out the amount you wanted to buy.

By the way, I still have one of those paper coffee bean bags full of IMR 4831.

Hope this helps.

Fred
 
Jefferson Herb,

No, the powder in bags was purchased from a gun shop in West Covina, CA, when I first started reloading in 1963. It was .35 cents a pound for all you could afford, which wasn't much on wages of $1.25 an hour.

You could buy powder from the barrel at Alexander's Reloading in La Puente, CA. You could also rent his reloading equipment by the hour. He had several presses set up at benches around his shop and you paid according to how long you spent at the bench. He had a discount rate if you bought your supplies from him.

Those days are long gone now.

I used to fish for salmon out of Eureka years ago, but then I discovered that Safeway sells fish much cheaper.............

Fred
 
Bought a coupla pounds of Unique in paper bags last winter. Due to the infamous Obamma scare when powder and other components were hard to find, much of the powder my LGS had left was in 8# cans. Don't know if it was legal, but it worked for me.
 
No, the powder in bags was purchased from a gun shop in West Covina, CA, when I first started reloading in 1963. It was .35 cents a pound for all you could afford, which wasn't much on wages of $1.25 an hour.

You could buy powder from the barrel at Alexander's Reloading in La Puente, CA. You could also rent his reloading equipment by the hour. He had several presses set up at benches around his shop and you paid according to how long you spent at the bench. He had a discount rate if you bought your supplies from him.

Those days are long gone now.
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I have a Golden States Arms catalog. You could have gone to Golden States Arms. You could have played with the guns, knives, and swords they had. The catalog had renaissance matchlocks and rapiers. Civil War arms were late model.

Wish I could have been there.

Listening to the Beach Boys .
 
SlamFire1,

I bought my first M1 Garand at Golden State Arms in 1963, which was the reason I started reloading. You would have loved the store! The handrail along their walk had Mauser barrelled actions for posts, with a chain through the actions. There were Mauser Machine Pistols imbedded in the walkway up to the door.

That Garand was $89.95 and I had to put it on layaway, and it took me about 4 months to pay it off. I was 19 years old and the wait was about to kill me, but making minimum wage at a part time job didn't leave much money while going to college. I later sold that Garand for the grand total of $115.00, and thought I had made a killing on it. Young and dumb, but somehow survived.

Fred

armoredman,

I don't even want to talk to you about your young age..........

Fred
 
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