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37. When is a manufacturer’s license required?
A manufacturer’s license is required by persons engaged in thebusiness of manufacturing explosive materials for sale, distribu-tion, or for their...

b) Black powder. Except for the provisions applicable topersons required to be licensed under subpart D, this part doesnot apply with respect to commercially manufactured blackpowder in quantities...

Boy is this thread getting long! We are gonna have to make a compressed version. Lots of good info.
Anyhow, do we have a list of screen sizes from 1f to 4f that would be required somewhere? I've...

First off sorry for the orientation, I can't seem to fix it. Anyways today I shot some of my homemade powder out of a Hawken 54cal. round ball and on the 1st shot did not add nest material. That's...

Thanks for all the replies. I'll be giving it a try.

Hmmm I never thought of using for a shot column. Might have to try that out. I just ordered some brass shells for the shotguns. I'll give it a try when they arrive.

Thanks for the quick replies. If it's good for nothing, I'll just toss it. The kids got a kick out of it.

Well I took my daughter and our dogs for a walk out back to find some trees for blackpowder use and found this old hive with a hole in its side. After further examination I noticed no bees around nor...

Shout out to FLY! Nice work on the puck maker. It's working great for me. I just need to figure out how to add a pressure gauge to my harbor freight 12 ton press? For now I just press till tight wait...

Would you need temp control of the heat source or just a upper limit on charcoal to know when to pull it?

LynC2 interesting article, a specially about charring temp. I've just built a small fire around a old popcorn tin to char not giving any control over temp. I'll have to try charring at 2 different...

Thanks Fly. I've been doing some scouting in the woods for black willow, but no luck yet. I may have to wait till spring time to id with the help of its leaves. I'm going to get some to plant for...

Does anyone have a list of the better woods to use for gunpowder? So far I've tried 2/4's with no luck. Last batch was with ***** willow that worked good. I used 60grains by volume out of a 50 cal....

Fly thanks for the help on using my harbor freight ball mill. I filled it halfway with 54 cal. Balls and it's working great know. The problem I'm having is when I fire it out of a 50 cal pistol or 54...