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One might want to try adding a burn rate accelerator to your current mix. I tried a couple of different ones, but settled on using ammonium dichromate or potassium dichromate. I have no idea if one...

It is as easy as making a cake. The hard part in doing it exactly the same 1,000's of times in a row. Even if you do that, you still don't get the same end product every time.

Thank you for the report.

Some might be interested in this patent. It does have a drying temp for the hydrocellulose, but a different process of making it. The final use of it is related.

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You're welcome.

Maybe a wood pellet stove would be the answer if you can get pellets in your area. There should be no smoke. Around here about the only thing cheaper would be getting free wood or burning shell corn.

Because AN won't work with table sugar. It has to do with the melting points of the two. I've tried a few times to prove the experts wrong on this, didn't get a much more than smoke and a bunch of...

FWIW. If one wants to study NC powder making, the best source of detailed information is the volume of the series of books that Urbanowski wrote that contains that information. His books are...

Thanks for the update.

I'd suggest one never uses ammonium chlorate in any powder. In fact I'd rather not have any around nor be any place where there is some. It kabooms just for fun whenever it wants to. Not something I...

Geico for the last 15 years and I've had zero claims ever. The 1st increase in price was a couple of months ago, went up $120 a year.

While I got it by the online method, having a good...

Sounds like the real 'power' in the rifle is in the sighting system. I'd bet it would be cheaper to just buy that for the current rifles.

Yup. The M1 is a good plinker for punching holes in paper at the target range. But that has little to nothing to do with military weapons.

Interesting to see the difference between small arms smokeless and artillery compositions.

A couple there would be interesting to try for small arms as they are simpler to make and source on an...

This would have about the same energy(power) as single base NC smokeless powder.

To duplicate the same velocity as using a store bought smokeless, one would have to refine the grain size. Mainly...

Thanks for the reports on your work and the success you are having.

I've killed a few dozen with the roundup method you're using. But I've always done it in the spring or summer when there is sap running.

FWIW. The roundup will get out of the roots and get into...

I've never listened to music while reloading or doing anything else that is important.

FWIW. At an electronic manufacture I worked at once where I examined the quality data, when they banned...

Yup. That's how it's been for me. Done it for over 50 years just so that I know I'll have something available to use to shoot.

Also learn how to do it if/when an emergency happens and run the...

I've only used regular knsu powder in cartridge guns. Burn rate is about percent in a full sized rifle, about 15 fps slower than listed fps for original bp loads. A friend of mine used it in his...

What is the advantage of this powder over the tried and true KNO3 and table sugar? Cost is about $3 a pound.

Buckhorn 209 is a nitrocellulose based powder that is for blackpowder guns. Seems to sell and work well. The sds lists that it is 83% NC. What I don't know is what percent N the nitrocellulose is....

I'm of the opinion also that AN powders should be used up soon after loading, unless there happens to be some emergency. My understanding is that the Russians got rid of the Mosin ammo they had...

In the black powder factories back in the day, They used brass and/or bronze bearings in shafts. Under certain conditions a primary was formed and would set off the powder being made. It's been said...

In my experiments I found that NC was that best additive when I wanted a faster burning rate powder for 357 mag. Truth be told, really the only way I got any reasonable result in pistol caliber.
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