I have ~1800 rounds of Ecuadorean 8mm with the headstamp "1955/AA" that I picked up a few years ago. The bad news is that only ~1 in 7 rounds goes bang. The good news is that I only paid $0.04/round for the stuff. My plan is to pull it apart, sell the brass to a scrapper (Berdan primed), sell the stripper clips, sort the bullets by weight and reload them into new, Boxer-primed brass with a new primer. I am trying to decide if it is worth attempting to salvage the powder. I have pulled the powder from 10 rounds and the charges weigh 43.24 - 45.44 grains. They average out to 44.66 grains. I was considering reducing the charge by 10% to 40.20 grains and loading up a few rounds to test. Am I crazy to re-use a powder for which I have no formal reloading data for with the new primers? Should I just buy a can of new powder and go with published loads and use the surplus powder to fertilize my tomatoes in the Spring?