Just wondering if you would have any idea when a 5 pound can of Hercules 2400 was manufactured. It is marked "2400 LOT 297 NET 5 LB" This can is still sealed.
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Just wondering if you would have any idea when a 5 pound can of Hercules 2400 was manufactured. It is marked "2400 LOT 297 NET 5 LB" This can is still sealed.
I'd e-mail Alliant and ask them the same question.
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If the can is red, I'd say 1960's.
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If it's still sealed, what difference does it make? It will still go bang.
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I just looked at the 3 - 1 lb cans I have. Each has an alphabetical prefix followed by a month/year. My guess and it is just that, a guess; is that your numbers mean Feb 1997.
Like it for my 223.
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16 grains under a moderate weight cast boolit in 30-06 is said to be quite accurate and predictable. I've used it under a Lyman/Ideal 308413 with results typical of that boolit (barely acceptable). I have both Hercules and Alliant 2400. I just opened my last can of Hercules about a year & a half ago. It looks, smells, and goes bang just like I remembered it back in the 1960s. 2400 is one of those powders one should never be without; it is just too versatile.
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Alliant 2400 (formerly Hercules) is and always was a double based powder containing nitroglycerin which ensures a VERY long shelf shelf unless purposely stored incorrectly. The type container will indicate if it is the slower version or the newer faster production. I'm working on lot 668 which I bought in the 80's in bulk. My square can is of the slower burning rate (I can't read the lot #) but my cardboard cylinder type containers are all the newer faster burning rate. As suggested above, I'd call Alliant and ask them. They are super nice people to deal with also.
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I never found this to be so.Originally Posted by 358 Win
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swheeler, no expert here at all, but I have read reports that the "newer" (not in the square cans) 2400 is 6% faster. The faster burning rate was morphed by Hercules, not Alliant. My testing in my .357 Rifles using several chronographs has born this out. The old square metal can of 2400 produced lower velocities than my Hercules round cardboard containers. I bought so much Hercules 2400 in bulk that I have not tested any Alliant 2400 to date. Of course there is always the lot to lot variation and could have had a hand in my testing.
358 Win
Alliant bought Hercules in November of 1994. A can from 1997 wouldn't have the Hercules logo.
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