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...
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Forum: Factory & Surplus Powder
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...
Forum: Factory & Surplus Powder
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...
Forum: Factory & Surplus Powder
Thanks for the reports on your work and the success you are having.
Forum: Our Town
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...
Forum: Our Town
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...
Forum: Muzzleloading.
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...
Forum: Muzzleloading.
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...
Forum: Muzzleloading.
What is the advantage of this powder over the tried and true KNO3 and table sugar? Cost is about $3 a pound.
Forum: Muzzleloading.
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....
Forum: Factory & Surplus Powder
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...
Forum: Factory & Surplus Powder
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...
Forum: Factory & Surplus Powder
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.
...
Forum: Black Powder Cartridge
FWIW. I'm currently listening to a Civil War Calvery reenactor who stated that his paper pistol cartridges start breaking up in about 8 hours. He used a Smith as his carbine, so it isn't an issue...
Forum: Factory & Surplus Powder
It would be more properly called an ammid pulver, because of the potassium nitrate in it.
Yup. Hard on brass. Plus the danger that if in a brass case for a long period under poor contiditions a...
Forum: Factory & Surplus Powder
I must have word my previous post poorly, as what I did created a courser grained powder. So I'll try and do a better job now.
1. First I sifted the product with a 16 mesh screen.
2. I collected...
Forum: Black Powder Cartridge
My understanding is that linen was desired because of standing up to being transported better than paper ones. But today it's unlikely said cartridge will be made, shipped by train 1000 miles,...
Forum: Factory & Surplus Powder
By the way there was a thread on here about 15 years ago where a guy was testing an AN powder and he did some testing with a duplex load to get good burn. I think the thread title was something like...
Forum: Factory & Surplus Powder
FWIW. I use a 32 mesh screen sift out the fines when use powders of this type.
Also, if one is having problems with getting a good burn rate they might want to add 1% to 3% by weight potassium...
Forum: Factory & Surplus Powder
While not a bad idea and I'd never discourage a person from doing it this way, but AN powders are right on the bottom end of burning fast enough to work in this application and there pressure curve...
Forum: Factory & Surplus Powder
Thanks for linking that. I'd totally forgotten that you'd posted that. I should dig out my old notebook on such powders and add that info to it. I did just copy it to my USB stick.
Forum: Factory & Surplus Powder
Hygroscopic it is. I tested this and various other formulas 12-13 years ago. Here in Minnesota it was fine during the winter for me, but come June in hours would have a 'puddle of water' instead of a...
Forum: Our Town
I can get powder here. About every standard one used. Prices start at $31 a pound.
I couldn't find anything that Brixtel makes powder. Only that they use the approved ones.
Forum: Our Town
Had a similar thing happen to me 2 and 1/2 years ago. But I did have to fire off shot get them to settle down. I too did install a better basement door.
Forum: Black Powder Cartridge
Listen to an audio book last week about two cousins who headed into northern Maine around 1880 for a winter of hunting and trapping. One had a 10 gauge muzzleloader and the other a .44 Wesson single...
BP | Bronze Point | IMR | Improved Military Rifle | PTD | Pointed |
BR | Bench Rest | M | Magnum | RN | Round Nose |
BT | Boat Tail | PL | Power-Lokt | SP | Soft Point |
C | Compressed Charge | PR | Primer | SPCL | Soft Point "Core-Lokt" |
HP | Hollow Point | PSPCL | Pointed Soft Point "Core Lokt" | C.O.L. | Cartridge Overall Length |
PSP | Pointed Soft Point | Spz | Spitzer Point | SBT | Spitzer Boat Tail |
LRN | Lead Round Nose | LWC | Lead Wad Cutter | LSWC | Lead Semi Wad Cutter |
GC | Gas Check |