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A squad mate passed and I bought his reloading supplies. I think I saw a very valueable powder but I don't know how to sell it. It is a new 8 pound plastic can of 4831. If my memory is right this is the out of production powder that makes low pressure loads. Not sure if I can ship it? In the same vein are 4 bags of #4, a bag of 5 and a bag of #6. I would like to sell this shot cheap!
Thanks for any help
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bill: 4831 is the old school, fairly slow burning rifle powder. don't think it has any utility for other purposes. best regards, tom
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Bill, I suggest you sell the 4831 locally, within driving range of where you live. If you have the buyer pick it up, you will save the trouble, and he will save the shipping/hazmat cost. If I lived close enough, we could come to a deal that would benefit both of us. That being said, there is no doubt that several people living close to you will want it. The cheapest way to ship the shot is is USPS "If It Fits, It Ships" boxes. The shipping cost would the same as the same box full of Tee shirts. Mike
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Possibly, you were thinking of the powder SR4759, that was/is popular with people loading cast bullets. If I am not mistaken, the variations of 4831 are still readily available. Can you hang a for sale note at your club/local range? If you can discount your time and the shipping cost, you may be able to unload the items quickly and easily when you do a normal range visit? Good luck with it.
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4831 is indeed a slow rifle powder for large capacity cases like Weatherbys.
Check the number again.
Unless he also had some heavy rifles, he wouldn't need 4831.
8 pounds will load over 1,000 magnum rifle cartridges.
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4831 is still made https://shop.hodgdon.com/imr/imr-48314831 is great in the new 1 in 8 twist guns in 6mm and 243 with heavy bullets I also use it for cast in my 375 H&H PM sent
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powder is IMR 4831, turns out the shot could add to 15-20 bags I believe my 80 year old memory was thinking 4759. If someone takes all the shot 20/bag, 1 or 2 bags 25. bill
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Bill,
I'll bet the powder you're thinking about, for low pressure smokeless shotgun loads, is IMR 7625. It's extremely hard to get your hands on, now.
If some of it happened to be in the supplies you bought I would love to take it off your hands.
SRH
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4831 was the powder that put Bruce Hodgdon in business. He bought tons of the military surplus powder after WWII ended. It was going to be destroyed, but he managed to buy rail-cars full of it for pennies a pound. In the very beginning of his fledgling business, he had his wife and kids filling cans to sell to reloaders.
When that original stock ran out, he began producing H4831, and DuPont started making the nearly identical IMR 4831. Even though it is still produced, it is a great powder that will be easy to sell locally.
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There was a Hodgdon H-4381 (Which Jack O'Connor used in his 270 Winchester) and an IMR 4831 which I still use in a .300 and .270 with very good velocities and results at the range and in the field. It's great powder for rifles.
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