Black Powder substitute

[toot]

at least he can roll them. he is entitled to his opinion. jmho.

[sharps4590]

I don't recall that anyone ever proclaimed the manufacture of BP as an incident free proposition. Old records frequently mention the "looseness" of how the buildings were constructed precisely NOT to contain an accidental blast. The death of Dan Pawlak all those decades ago was sad, as was the death of the two guys who formulated the original GOEX Cartridge. The death of Mr. Pawlak did not change my experience with or opinion of pyrojunk. It was a good start ut needs to be further developed as far as I'm concerned. That others have good results with it and like it is beyond dispute. I won't argue that but, it remains in the junk column at my house.

[toot]

sharps4590. ROGER THAT! if any one is happy with PYRODEX, so be it. just not me.

[salvadore]

BTW, I saw 45/90 buying pyrojunk at the local walmart.

[sharps4590]

If you're referring to me, you're lying, in more ways than one.

[archeryrob]

I use 777 in the inline that I setup for my daughter.

I use American Pioneer Powder as a sub for 3f in the revolvers as I don't have to worry about rust if I don't clean it right away or as good as it is sulfur-less. The can label says it is cleaner, but damn if I can see the difference. Still have to oil or clean the cylinder pin or it will bid up. I thought with cleaner powder and paper cartridges and I'm set. Three loads dry and bound up Cylinder pin needing oil and a wooden dowel to bang it out. Supposedly a smokeless powder that smokes. Since it is not black powder I use it in the Lee perfect powder measure to drop Paper cartridges.

Pyrodex is awful stuff and said to be more corrosive than BP it self. I started using it in the inline before 777 and damn was that thing hard to clean. I got 1/2 pound and won't use it.

Buckhorn 209 is really nice, easy to clean, but expensive