I Have Fallen for Green Dot

[RC20]

I have conversion cylinders for my two black powder guns.

It allows more shooting in colder temps or if I just want a full day shooting vs loading, I can pre load rounds.

I have been going through my old powders, some I burned, just too old and had 5 years worth of the old stuff (Unique). I cam not going to sell old powders

So I worked through AL-8 (when its gone its gone) PB, B Eye. Finally got to the Green Dot.

Wow, love that stuff. It shoots clean, it has a mild recoil per the velocity. And darned if I did not fine a pound at a LGS. Enough of the old GD to keep going but most impressed with it.

[rclark]

I currently use Green Dot for my general .45 Colt load. I too like it for this purpose. I load 7.0gr Green Dot under 250gr RNFP. Works good in other cartridges as well.

[Jim Watson]

I got most of a caddy of Green Dot from a retiring shotshell loader. It loaded as well as anything in pistol calibers but nothing special to make me buy more instead of going back to W231.

If you were still shooting AL 8, what was so old that you burned it?

[Hawg]

I use W231 for all my non magnum handgun rounds.

[RC20]

If you were still shooting AL 8, what was so old that you burned it?

I got an odd lot of powder back during one of the shortages. No idea how old that stuff was, but considering how little powder a pistol cartridge uses, I got years and years of Unique.

Post post I did some sleuthing. Came across this from our own Mike Irwin.

1960s to the very early 1970s.

I remember buying the AL-8 but I think that can of Unique was part of that odd lot I bought. Can is much worse condition than the ALL-8.

AL-8 I am just shooting up. I like to experiment so its my play with load. Once its gone its a piece of history but I am having fun shooting up history.

Not a clue about W231, I just know that Green Dot has an unusually soft recoil for a powder of that type. May not be able to get it again either as Alliant is having production issues (I believe Unclenick said source materials from China cut off)

So I scored 2 lbs of it to go along with the old GD I had.

So like the AL-8, going through the old powders, darned if I did not like it so got the 2 lbs. I could get one more pound but have to draw the line someplace.

Its my main 45 lc powder and I shoot the old PB, AL-8, Unique and B Eye around that. All those should last a long time and I got several pounds of Unique.