My homemade black powder

[dtknowles]

It is not just the shooting or making powder it is making things with your hands out of real physical stuff. Get her to start a garden back home too.
You're a keeper too.

[Trapper-Jack]

I had a visit from a young man this morning. He is doing a senior project for high school. His dad asked me a couple weeks ago if I would be willing to mentor him making powder. His dad and his teacher were both good with the idea. This young man is working on finishing up a percussion pistol and his project will be to be able to load and fire it with all homemade materials. We started out cooking a can of charcoal. While that was cooking, we went took a half pound batch of powder out of the tumbler and weighed out the materials for another half pound. By the time we got the green meal pressed into pucks, the charcoal was about done smoking so I turned off the heat and plugged the hole. We took the freshly pucked powder in and put them in the dehydrator and took out the pucks that I had put in a couple days ago. By the time we got back out to the shop, the charcoal can was cool to the touch so we ground the newly made charcoal sticks into usable charcoal powder. I then broke up the pucks we had removed from the dehydrator and we ground them into some 2F powder. After the powder making I got a pot of lead hot and he made some 50 caliber ball. That was pretty straight foreword. The final process was making the percussion caps. I've got a punch from Reloader22. and we punched out some cups and primed them. When he left, he left with all homemade components for his school project.

[Swineherd]

I had a visit from a young man this morning. He is doing a senior project for high school. His dad asked me a couple weeks ago if I would be willing to mentor him making powder. His dad and his teacher were both good with the idea. This young man is working on finishing up a percussion pistol and his project will be to be able to load and fire it with all homemade materials. We started out cooking a can of charcoal. While that was cooking, we went took a half pound batch of powder out of the tumbler and weighed out the materials for another half pound. By the time we got the green meal pressed into pucks, the charcoal was about done smoking so I turned off the heat and plugged the hole. We took the freshly pucked powder in and put them in the dehydrator and took out the pucks that I had put in a couple days ago. By the time we got back out to the shop, the charcoal can was cool to the touch so we ground the newly made charcoal sticks into usable charcoal powder. I then broke up the pucks we had removed from the dehydrator and we ground them into some 2F powder. After the powder making I got a pot of lead hot and he made some 50 caliber ball. That was pretty straight foreword. The final process was making the percussion caps. I've got a punch from Reloader22. and we punched out some cups and primed them. When he left, he left with all homemade components for his school project.

That's excellent! Can't possibly be a public school this young guy is attending, could it?
You've got your system nicely streamlined, it sounds. I have some bits, bobs details and minutiae still to attend in order to move smoothly through the process as you've just described. Inspiring!

[Trapper-Jack]

This young man is going to a public school, however it is a very small rural community. Most of the families are farm or ranch people and haven't subscribed to the political attitude of the bigger towns.

[Swineherd]

There's hope yet.
Do you find it enjoyable? Sharing your knowledge with a young person who is willing and eager to learn? I like teaching.

[LAGS]

I too enjoy sharing my hobby stuff with other person's that are interested , especially young people.
That is why I had a friend help me do a post on the pistol I built out of spare parts and he did that video on me shooting it with homemade powder , primers and my cast lead balls.
I hope that inspired others of all ages

[Trapper-Jack]

I found it enjoyable and personally extremely rewarding. I planned it out for a week to have a batch of powder ready to grind, another batch ready to press and have a batch of wood ready to char. He took notes and a lot of pictures of every phase of the operation.

[Swineherd]

Very cool, fellows. I enjoy sharing what I know about blackpowder with anyone who shows the slightest interest. I've given a handful of people their first opportunity to experience shooting BP with my cap and ball revolver. It's always so much fun. Don't know of anyone who's been bitten by the bug as a result of my influence, but its bound to happen eventually.

[DoubleBuck]

Trapper-Jack;
You done good! That boy will have that memory forever. I think the whole story is awesome!