« Reply #1 on: November 18, 2011, 06:28:51 AM »
Not much of that floating around in the system. Last week I looked at how much of it has been brought into the U.S.
I had looked at a sample of the second shipment into the U.S. Was not allowed to check the first shipment and opted out of the third shipment.
I don't know if the importer, Diamondback Chemical, is still in business. They were located close to me at Tamaqua, Pa. This Diamondback Chemical Company was a subsidiary of Copperhead Chemical Company. This Copperhead Chemical Company produced medicinal nitroglycerin products. The plant was formerly owned by ICI and before that it was an Atlas Powder dynamite plant.
The Diamondback Black Powder came in from Brazil. A BP plant built around 2003 or 2004 using machinery pulled out of the old Elephant plant after it had been shut down in 2001.
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I like the old Elephant powder too. The earlier than 2000 production was nothing worth having but the lots 25/99 would shoot. Too bad they just got the hang of making good powder and they went out of business. It was not the best for mid and longrange work as the velocity was low but it did produce great accuracy and I could make it work best by going to the next size case (45-90 V 45-70). I still have some and like it for BP Schuetzen matches in my 38-55.
I have no way to know but I can guess that the newer Diamondback made in a new location by new people with different source components may not resemble the good 25/99 lots of Pachyderm Powder.
In those days I was buying it for $125 a case in person. Very useful for the price!