Originally Posted by
HamGunner
Ever since I started making BP, the enjoyment of making and testing exceeded my actual needs for shooting as I have been steadily building up a decent surplus of various different types of powder. I have some early Black Willow, Buckthorn, Sassafras, and a few others. I have it all bottled up in my old metal Goex cans and thought I would just keep the individual cans labeled, but then I finally thought that I had settled on Sassafras and since I had a larger amount of it made up, I decided to just dump all the cans into a big plastic tub on one hot sunny day and let the sun evenly dry it all out while I blended it together into one single batch. TP is the only thing I have now that is of a separate "Batch".
I do not shoot for competition, nor for any other reason that would actually require any specific powder, so my Heinz 57 mix suites me just fine. I will eventually get it used up perhaps, and I am planning on getting a .45 cal rifle soon that will eat a bit more than my smaller calibers, but in the mean time, I will experiment a bit more with TP.