Does dynamite "go bad"?

Originally Posted by barefoot serpent

umm... old dynamite is VERY UNSTABLE!!! if it shows any crystalline paticles on the wrapper that is NITRO GLYCERINE, it can explode on contact! But it can already have decomposed to Nitro on the inside so that the least shock can set it off.

My advice to you: Call the police and hope that they have a bomb squad.

WOW! Does that mean that if the ground squirrel ran across one of the other three sticks still sitting in that shed, it could blow everything up? The stick I took doesn't have any crystalline particles on the wrapper, but I didn't inspect the other 3 that are still laying in there.

YIPES!