Black Powder Age and Source for New BP

[starnbar]

As a storage perspective there was a man who had a civil war cannonball he decided to see what was inside of it and while cutting it in half yeah you guessed it Kapow///////////// . I had the news report somewhere can't find it now.

[KCSO]

I pulled a load wadded with newspaper dated 1862. The powder worked just fine and it was in a gun barrel that long. I have tested 100 year old powder in doing 45-70 research and it ran through the chrony within 50 fps of modern powders. I don't think it can go bad unless you soak it.

[GOPHER SLAYER]

I watched a man tare the end off a paper cartridge loaded in 1863 at the St Louis Arsenal and light it. He lost the hair on his right hand.

[BigMagShooter]

black powder can be shipped with the right paperwork.

a few fellow shooters shoot BPCR and go through lots of the stuff, they order like 25 lbs at a time. Find someone like that and see if you can piggy back a pound or two on the order.

I have BP from 20 yrs or more ago, it's fine, no issues here. Killed a doe with it this year as a matter of fact. of course it was shoving a saboted cast bullet out the end of a rifle.