Today I scored big! I had a friend find me a pound of longshot at a gunshow and pick it up for me, which is Awesome!

And THEN a local gun shop had some stuff come in from some one liquidating alot of loading supplies, and one of the people who worked there noticed the sealed 4LB JUG of AA No.9, and brought it around to me...got it for 94.50 out the door!

Im pretty pumped!

It seems like an older package, and I figure maybe someone could give me a time frame for its orginal sale? It looks like a black plastic half gallon milk jug, and on its bottom is a paper price type tag with 03994 on it.... im thinking 90's production?

Ill post a picture of the front in a little bit, it may help identify its age easier....

EDIT: Here we go!

That should be the microbead version with that date... 

Micro beads? Im interested , what does this mean in this context? I assume its a good thing... was the little paper price tag thing the date? 03-9-(19)94 would make sense from how it looks.

It would be the very fine beads of that powder...this is what I'm talking about;


The newer formulations look like this now;

Ahhhh, so its just a older formulation... any concern about loading data? Or is this version interchangable data wise with the current type?

Data hasn't changed it works with either the old or new...

Thanks for the help! Ive got all sorts of stuff to cross reference now 

This should keep me shooting for a good while now, now to get a nice pile of primers..... and the same place had PILES of CCI 300 large pistol mag primers of the same vintage from the pile of stuff the AA No.9 came from.....