I smoke my corncob pipe when I'm making black powder. Like God intended.

Graphiting reduces dusting and somewhat improves flow characteristics, both of which are important to large-scale manufacturers. For small scale production by the Average Joe, it's just not necessary. re: safety...I run my 12 pound ball mill out in the middle of my large back yard when I'm milling BP. If it's raining (most of the time) I cover it with a plastic tub. It's probably an unnecessary precaution, as I've never had a problem in better than 2 decades of making BP, but it doesn't cost me anything to drag it outside.

@0neDoomedSpaceMarine

2 жыл бұрын

I'm learning a lot from these videos and these comments. Wonder if it's legal to make my own blackpowder in this country?

@r.awilliams9815

2 жыл бұрын

@@0neDoomedSpaceMarine Since I don't know where you are, that's a difficult question to answer. However, I'll leave you with a quote to consider from my moonshiner grandpappy..."It's only illegal if they catch you."

@0neDoomedSpaceMarine

2 жыл бұрын

@@r.awilliams9815 I guess I was just thinking out loud (or in text). Too true, also, if Yugoslav gangster can bomb each other to pieces in the cities down south with reckless abandon, I could probably get away with some quiet enough hobbying here out on the countryside.

@noturfather1106

Жыл бұрын

@@0neDoomedSpaceMarine just perform detonations off of your main worksite, to keep your own privacy.

Black powder just simply isn't as unsafe as everyone makes it out to be, and the static electricity myth has been tested ad nauseum over and over and found to be entirely untrue.

@Everythingblackpowder

2 жыл бұрын

Agreed

@Jake I’m a retired engineer with time on my hands. I’m planning on making homemade black powder following your manufacturing methods with the objective of getting Swiss FF and FFF performance. At least that’s the goal I’m shooting for. I particularly like the Corning technique that you use by fracturing the dried pucks by using a hand grain mill. I’m going to use the mill I’ve ordered (eBAY) outside and using an arc welders helmet and gloves ‘just in case’ milling the pucks one by one. The only reason that manufacturers add graphite to black powder is to try and prevent accidental conflagration caused by static electricity buildup and since graphite is electrically conductive it prevents this potential electrical charge buildup. The trade off is loss of performance, slowing the burn rate. I’ll not use graphite. I’ve got my ingredients, just waiting for the puck die, spacers and mill to come in. I’ll let you know how I do. (I have lots of facial hair - presently).

@Everythingblackpowder

2 жыл бұрын

Glad to hear it! Let me know how it goes.

@originaLkomatoast

Жыл бұрын

You made any BP yet?

@rogermiller9048

Жыл бұрын

@@originaLkomatoast Ya, and now he's growing back all the hair on his head haha.

Great video Jake. I can’t help but laugh at some of the safety ranger comments I see about how “they” know someone or heard a story about somebody making BP and managed to destroy half a city block and end 8 people while “attempting the exact same task”. “Make your stuff as safe as you see fit” wise words.

@missingthe80s58

2 жыл бұрын

You can smell a liar a mile away. My favorite story lurking on the internet: A friend of the writer/poster claims friend extracted nitrogylcerine from smokeless and depending on variation, died, blew off fingers or tested it on an anvil and it went off and then never did it again. Hate to break it to those people but it isn't nitrogylcerine, it is a much weaker barely flammable under nitrated derivative of it and it isn't shock sensitive. You'd think these clowns would read a MSDS before posting bullshit but hey.

Two reason for graphite that I know of are anti-static, and less dust formation in transit. Neither is really a factor for us 'home brewers' of powder. My impressions of velocity loss with graphite have been confirmed by seeing your tests. I don't usually glaze a batch... must try it. Good point about moisture content. Really dry powder is essential for good speed. You are right about safety with BP.... while it IS extremely easily ignited compared to the modern 'fairy dust', it's less likely to be a hazard than flammable hydrocarbons like IPA, Acetone etc.. I usually make one pound(500g) batches in the mill....I place the mill away from the house, and there are precautions "just in case" to avoid damage to anything but the mill itself. My mill container is plastic and the balls are linotype metal, and some might say "what about static?".... well a charge cannot exist inside a closed vessel, and I usually let the mill sit for a few minutes after it is stopped to let any external charge (which probably isn't there anyway) dissipate. BP, because it is not in general use, has had all sorts of myths perpetuated about it, just like methods of loading and firing various arms that use it. Most of them are horse-feathers. I once heard a police report about a raid on a house in which someone had been loading shotgun shells with BP. It was described as a "Suicidal thing to do"... which is nuts.... I do that all the time as I shoot BP in Western events..... not to mention that cartridges if all kinds were factory loaded with BP before 1890.

I think flowability and pourability might be another reason for graphite coating. And the rounding of grains probably makes mechanical measurements a tad bit more uniform.

Graphite is absolutely needed. Here is why. You see normal static like dry weather and wool socks static aren't enough to even come close to igniting black powder grains. Multiple people have even tried using a stun gun to light it and failed..BUT....wait for it... Somewhere out there in the ocean of near 8 Billion human inhabitants is that 1 in 8 Billion who welds in his reloading room right over spilled powder. They graphite coat because of him.

@Everythingblackpowder

2 жыл бұрын

Lol!!! Noted

@0neDoomedSpaceMarine

2 жыл бұрын

That strikes me as the stories of the kind of guy who when out hunting will take a reflex shot at perceived movement, before actually figuring out what he's shooting at, which even people in orange safety vests way up in their tree stands have fallen victim to. You can never truly make something 100% idiot proof, they'll always come out with a new idiot.

@missingthe80s58

2 жыл бұрын

@@0neDoomedSpaceMarine Very true.

You are sharing the same experiences I had about graphite. I very heavily glaze my powder, I don't have to graphite coat. All it does is slow flintlock ignition and contribute to hard fouling. I have Swiss I use for a control in my tests and ignition in the pan, that is time from flint on frizzen strike to full plume and main charge ignition is 3-4 times longer than my homemade. Same quantities of both prime and charge. The graphite is not flintlock friendly. It also doesn't meter any more reliably from my Lyman 55 than my powder. I get identical .1 -.2 grain deviations in the charge weights throw to throw regardless of graphite. I have not tested drop tube settling, maybe the Swiss will settle deeper in a cartridge than an equal volume of my own. If it's less than 1/16" then it wouldn't matter anyway and my bets are that is about what it would be. I originally started with Goex as my control, beat it quickly. Swiss was a taller order but I beat it. Especially fouling. Wood type, char temps, blend ratio, compression density and glazing.

@rogermiller9048

Жыл бұрын

More details on what you did to beat swiss, especially fouling.

@davidbahr9612

Жыл бұрын

tell us how to beat swiss then please

Nice work!

Cool intro Jake! You know, it’s very satisfying to compete in a Muzzle loading match using the rifle, powder, percussion cap, round ball and patches I made and to top it off shoot well. Look forward to the next one.

Thank you. This was timely. I'm getting close to making my first batch and was just pondering whether or not to use graphite. I was leaning pretty hard against it as I didn't see any advantage. Still have to figure out the dynamics of using my swage press, and figure out a way to grind it. Also, I'm waiting on some Quebracho Tannin for binder.

Thanks for clearing that up about graphite’s actual use in commercial production. Personally, I’m not giving up a hundred feet per second for it either. Concerning the danger of static discharge and inadvertent ignition : When I was a kid during the time when synthetic, wall to wall carpeting was first made available to all, we used to experience a lot of static sparks from walking across that carpet and touching a metal object or even another person. We got in trouble plenty of times from purposely sliding across the stuff with the sole intent of zapping someone. A quarter inch long blue spark could be produced with ease. That would have been in the late fifties and early sixties. I don’t remember that happening again in the sixty years that have passed since. It is an unlikely possibility to be mindful of , but I doubt its a serious threat to small batch hobbyists today. Like you said, if you don’t make anymore than you could safely survive an accidental ignition event, and wear protective eyewear and don’t go producing it in a bone dry barn full of hay, you’ll probably be fine. Basically, don’t make enough to blow yourself up or store enough to vaporize the neighbors if things go awry. Or more simply put, Don’t be stupid! Keep it to the point where you only risk your whiskers. Jake, I have a confession to make. When I was 9 years old , I singed the hair off my eyebrows and eyelashes scraping Armstrong’s mixture off of cap gun caps. It didn’t go over well with my dad. There was no way I could hide it at the breakfast table. He took one look at me and said. “What the hell happened to your eyebrows!? I said “uuh…” He said . “Uh huh. You were scraping caps.” He then proceeded to see to it that I wouldn’t do it again. Hasn’t happened since. I raked and weeded for the whole summer and bought a carbide cannon with my earnings. He was O.K with that. Good times. Thanks again Jake. 👍 and as always “Don’t singe your eyebrows “.

Gettin it done! Good stuff Jake. 👍Mike.

@Everythingblackpowder

2 жыл бұрын

Thanks Mike

Great video

Thank you for all this information you have been sharing it has improved my black powder by leaps and bounds. And I live on the east coast and I have yet to see a need in graphite with my black powder even with high humidity I have no trouble with ignition or burn rate it works amazing without in and my Vine charcoal powder generates more velocity than Pyrodex

@Everythingblackpowder

2 жыл бұрын

Excellent!

Dude you're gonna be big here soon if you keep this up. Its quality content.

@Everythingblackpowder

2 жыл бұрын

Thank you! I just it 5k subscribers today

If I remember correctly, graphite is used in the manufacture of smokless powder as a burning deterrent. Since explosives are the source material (Nitroglycerine and Nitrocelluose) the burn rate has to be reduced to make them perform as propellants. So it follows that it would indeed slow the burn rate of BP also.

As always great information presented in a clear and concise manner. Just a comment about safety Rangers, if they had been in charge the United States would still be 13 colonies on the East coast because exploring is just to dangerous. Like you I say thanks for your concern.

@Everythingblackpowder

2 жыл бұрын

Well said!

Still pretty new to powder guns, don't have and opinion on the graphite coating but I have a theory for the glazing. I work in excavation and masonry. When we want a solid base for say a stone patio, where water isn't a factored, one of the materials we will use is compacted crushed stone which is very angular. This angular feature tends to cause the individual stones to "lock" together when compacted thus minimizing base shifting. This is how I envision raw corned BP grains when charged. If on the other hand we are creating say a French drain system where we need water to drain thru a pipe with a porous material surrounding said pipe to be leeched away, we typically will use a stone with more rounded characteristics (think something akin to riverstones)which leaves small airports between each stone (even when compacted) that allows water to pass thru the base material and into the piping. This is how I view glazed BP. I would ASSUME that when glazed BP is charged (even when tamped like usual) that there's still minute channels between the grains (even if unseen) that allows for either air to help feed the "flame" as it migrates from grain to grain, or allows channels for the flame to pass thru easier, either way speeding up flash. I'm probably wrong but it sounds good to me so that's what ima stick with hahaha. Great vid.

Dear sir. I live in florida and my uncoated black powder works just fine. I hunt in the swamps with the gaters. I have never had moisture problems. I make my powder in winter yes we have winter. And keep it in airtight containers and horns. Love your videos. Thanks

@Everythingblackpowder

Жыл бұрын

Glad to hear it. Thank you

I thought about testing this on the outside of the grain and rolling it in my star roller to get that nice finish like the goex. It helps with the dust and doesn't stick to everything it touches

Wow 7 to 8.5% less velocity, thats more than i could imagine!

Static electricity will not ignite black powder. There's video on youtube of a guy using a taser on it and it won't ignite. There's not enough resistance to generate a flash.

Thanks for the update bud👍. Just curious, have you ever tried using pure lab grade carbon in your mix? I'm not sure if it would be better or worse than the charcoal... I was just thinking that in pursuit of the fastest cleanest powder, using purest lab grade carbon, sulfur, and potassium nitrate that you can get may serve as a baseline 🤷‍♂️... I know the pros still claim to use wood, and maybe they do, but they may also be purifying the carbon from the charcoal they get... I might be a mile off, just a thought though. Keep up the good work and I look forward to seeing more of your results! Edit: sorry, I just saw your short on refining carbon immediately after I wrote this, my bad.

After shooting some of my homemade powder, which is just screened, I don't think it's that much harder to clean up than Goex. Granted I'm using all my ingredients from Skylighter, but still, I don't find it much more of a clean up chore then when I shoot Goex. I had a cousin who back when I was a teenager got into his friend's dad's blackpowder back in the mid 80's, poured some out on the garage floor because they saw a Looney Tunes cartoon and wanted to see how fast a trail of black powder would light. For 3 months my cousin's arms were bandaged from his elbows down. I probably don't have to, but when I make my powder, it's a small batch and since I don't have a garage, I have two really long extension cords and my mill is away from the house and it's only run when I am home and when I granulate the powder and dry it, that's outside. I probably don't have to go that far, but it covers the bases.

Thanks for sharing.

Cool findings Jake! I tried making a batch out of activated charcoal I made in our "quest" to match swiss. It worked fine, but no better on the fowling. Good job and keep them coming!

@Everythingblackpowder

2 жыл бұрын

Thanks Ben! I’m gunna do some experiments using sodium nitrate instead of potassium nitrate and see if that changes anything.

@willowpine2604

Жыл бұрын

@@Everythingblackpowder can i make you a question about the glaze and polishing? How much you fill the jar both polished and glaze? Full ?half full ? low ? Thanks!!

@Everythingblackpowder

Жыл бұрын

About 1/4 full

@willowpine2604

Жыл бұрын

@@Everythingblackpowder and the amount of graphite is half a gram for both glaze and polishing?

@Everythingblackpowder

Жыл бұрын

@@willowpine2604 yes

I would like to see more information about adding dextrin to powder recipes.

@Everythingblackpowder

Жыл бұрын

Sorry, I don’t use dextrin

As a certified safety ranger, I approve of this video.

If you graphite coat while the powder is still wet, it creates a skin that helps prevent humidity absorption. Otherwise, it is used as a flow agent and helps improve production output.

Ex artillery man - ammo boots have hob nails on the bottom and can spark on cobbles , pavings etc . Not good in powder storage rooms or battery charging rooms , ammo storage rooms etc

Very good video. I don't see the point in graphite coating for the average guy. As long as you store the powder in airtight containers and use dessicant you'll have no issues even if its really humid.

One reference said 1/2 oz. Per 100 pounds. So, 0.03125 gram per 100 grams. If you are using half a gram per 200 hundred grams then that would be 8 times too much. If the reference is right. “Back east” it is humid in the summer but in the winter it is cold and very dry and static electricity is very noticeable. Maybe get a multimeter and stick the two probes in a pile of ungraphited and same distance apart into another pile of graphited (maybe some commercial product) antique muzzle loading propellant and see if the resistance is any different. Good multimeters can measure really high resistances, so if the resistance is the same then it’s probably not helping with static. If the really thin coat actually works to keep moisture out of the grains then it may still be worth it to keep the propellant stable when it’s not in an airtight container.

Man that is Fast ignition !

@Everythingblackpowder

Жыл бұрын

Pretty fast

This is invaluable advice because I am ramping up to make my own high-performance black powder. Pyrodex is so disappointing.

@Everythingblackpowder

2 жыл бұрын

Yeah, I don’t use pyrodex anymore

@mtkoslowski

2 жыл бұрын

@@Everythingblackpowder Jake, from an earlier video of yours where you make pucks: I am an unable to make my own aluminum pucking press. I have a 20 ton hydraulic press but don’t have the die. I don’t wish to put you on the spot but do you know where I can buy an aluminum die. I’ve googled but have not been successful and would very much like to replicate your fine results. I have been actively shooting/hunting black powder since 1982 but cannot afford the prices anymore and must make my own. Any help would be much appreciated.

@Everythingblackpowder

2 жыл бұрын

www.woodysrocks.com/store/p275/Black_Powder_Puck_Press.html#/

@mtkoslowski

2 жыл бұрын

@@Everythingblackpowder Thank you very much! I have just placed an order for the 3” die and spacers.

I bought the graphite before I saw this, so I might as well use it. Probably will stop when I run out. One thing related to this that nobody seems to mention is there is no point in grading powder before you glaze it because the sizes will change. I just remove the fines.

So, BP, like most solid propellants, burns from the surface in. It's a surface area to volume thing. Meanwhile, graphite, even though it is carbon, is a poor fuel. You have oxygen in the potassium nitrate at a proper ration to begin with...now you add a coating of lean poor fuel. Burnished powder meters well in machines for commercial purpose but is also making spheres coated in a poorly fueled lean mixture. You have to overheat the graphite coating to ignite the actual BP. Point is, graphite coated & burnished BP looks really nice when you show it to your friends but the reality is it isn't better, in fact it's performance inferior.

@chopsddy3

2 жыл бұрын

Anyone who doesn’t believe you should try burning some graphite. It doesn’t burn for crap.

@thinkingbill1304

2 жыл бұрын

Correction/clarification...the graphite coating makes a rich (i.e. oxygen poor) mixture on the surface but overall a bit lean in total.

Oh I have another one, they coat with graphite for safety purposes when on store shelves so it isn't spark sensitive, you know because it's normal to walk in to the LGS, say "hey Tom" and walk to the powder isle and past the totally normal arcing and smoking light fixture to grab a can of gunpowder...whew it's a good thing the powder is graphite coated.

Since I find it hard for a traditional matchlock to light a pan of Swiss 2f I wonder If I tried non graphite in it if the match would set it off better

@Everythingblackpowder

Жыл бұрын

I’m sure it would

Isn't it amazing what a wee bit of COMMON SENSE can do . Lol well done .

Ok I put .5 gram of graphite in the mix when cooking I don't remember where I got that but I did anyhow 50 grams with 50 without and the mixture with graphite seems much clearer than the one without maybe It just looks it to me and I did try the coating with graphite on another 100 grams I don't test the speed but the burning test I do and it was slowed down a bit as you said something I have been wondering on my ball mill is on it's leg and I know a vibrating's tumblers are much faster at mixing but your on thoughts vibrating tumbler for the propellant we are discussing?

Great video. So where are you getting primers?? Thx

@Everythingblackpowder

2 жыл бұрын

I’ve been hoarding primers long before it was popular.

8:00 those stories have probably been Chinese Whispered from troops working in a powder magazine (for a coastal battery, for example) being issued special boots and squaddies being told to stay the fuck out. British ammo boots (and probably most similar issue boots) have big fuck off hobnails that will kick up massive sparks on pavement.

Wow! I am surprised at your production batch size! 4 batches to get a pound of gun powder! I am 68 years of age now and still have 3 cases each of Swiss ff and Shuetzen fff, plus some odd cans (maybe even some elephant (yuk). It will last me out. In youth I would be tempeted to make my own. Dang; I'd better bet busy and shoot more if I want to use all this up ;-)

@Everythingblackpowder

Жыл бұрын

I burn a lot of powder

You ball mill your powder only when you are there? I ball mill mine only when I'm not there.

Since sodium nitrate is hygroscopic is graphite coated a suitable protectant from moisture & a decent binder for graining?

@Everythingblackpowder

Жыл бұрын

I don’t use any binders, I view them as contaminates. The graphite coating does protect it from moisture but since it’s pretty dry in my part of the country I don’t find it necessary.

@jackcraven7979

Жыл бұрын

@WillardMcBain what is the best way to increase efficiency ignition I don't have a press or mill all done by coffee grinder & hand mixed w screen any suggestions for ratios w sodium nitrate ffg powder

I think I heard you say like 100 or 200 grams in you mix. Have you ever tried adding a 1/2 teaspoon of aluminum powder in that 200?

@Everythingblackpowder

2 жыл бұрын

Yes but I’ve never tried it in a muzzleloader. It burns very hot and very sparkly.

😂😂 yup yup do you I will get me

What about newspaper

Coating the black powder with graphite is useless. This is both because carbon is also conductive enough (although less than graphite) to avoid the accumulation of static electricity, and because the mixture of which the powder is made is not sensitive to electrostatic charges, impact and friction. Furthermore, the graphite coating increases the amount of smoke and solid residue after the shot, fouling the barrel of the weapon. In fact, there are nitrocellulose powders which, due to paint and graphite-based coatings, risk generating a quantity of smoke equal to, if not even greater than, a good black powder. Calling these powders "smokeless", just because they contain nitrocellulose, is therefore a technical-scientific error.

So I use used dryer sheets in my powder measures to keep static down. Might that be something to consider?

@Everythingblackpowder

2 жыл бұрын

If you’re that concerned about it, sure

@308dad8

2 жыл бұрын

@@Everythingblackpowder I’m really not. I don’t know how many times I’ve shaken the bottle shot with it on the bench with me. I wonder how much wouldn’t be a problem if it ignited

@Everythingblackpowder

2 жыл бұрын

I don’t lose any sleep over it.

WHAT HAPPENS WHEN YOU LIGHT OFF A PUCK?

@Everythingblackpowder

2 жыл бұрын

It takes off like a rocket and flails around

There was a video on YT where a guy used a blender to mix his BP and it ignited and blew most all the windows out of the house.

@ Jake I have designed something that you might be interested in. Is there a way to write to you?

@Everythingblackpowder

2 жыл бұрын

sure

@mtkoslowski

2 жыл бұрын

@@Everythingblackpowder Please let me know how. Do you have a gmail account?

@Everythingblackpowder

2 жыл бұрын

Yes, I think you can see it if you go to my home page?

I've been making BP for pyrotechnics for at least 15 yrs. and just started making it for cap and ball and have never had any reason for safety concerns if you use common sense.

From all the reading that I did, including classic explosive theory texts like the Tenney book - the actual reason for graphite-coating black powder is not to increase its performance, but to improve its safety. Black powder does not conduct electricity, and that makes it possible that a static electricity buildup will generate a spark and make it go off. It's rare, but it did happen on occasion back in the day. Graphite does conduct electricity, and if you coat the black powder grains with it that will make the BP overall conduct electricity. That will help dissipate any static charge buildup before it can generate a spark. Of course this will reduce the performance and increase fouling - because graphite due to its structure, is a form of carbon that does not burn easily. Most of it will remain unchanged during the deflagration and contribute to fouling. It will also increase the time that the flame front propagates from one grain to another, thus reduce burn speed. Overall it's a trade-off between decreased performance and increased fouling, and increased safety- which you have to either accept or not.

It bugs me so much when other people on KZread making PB say corning is grating BP Doe through a screen facepalm.

@Everythingblackpowder

11 ай бұрын

Lol yeah I see that all the time

Graphiting is a process that affects convenience of use and safety. For the solitary producer/end user, it just isn't worth the effort.

Do you use bronze, ceramic, or lead in your ball mill...?

@Everythingblackpowder

2 жыл бұрын

Lead

@missingthe80s58

2 жыл бұрын

I use 1/2 water quenched super hard lead at the moment. My Rebel 17 is half full and I use a custom built drive chassis with a 1hp motor because the original chassis will not take that sort of load. Reduces mill time down to 1h per pound. Comes out atomized. I will probably be changing over very soon to 1/2" unhardened 304 stainless media which a lot of pyros who're conscious of lead contamination use. Allow me to emphasize, unhardened stainless balls, not hardened ball bearings. Anything hardened can spark, there are theories that hard ceramic can too and that is constantly debated on pyro forums. Even then when I do convert over, I'll be taking a few dozen to my anvil, suiting up in welding gear, placing plywood between myself and the anvil and smack them with my hammer. If they're honestly soft, I flatten a few balls a bit and that's that. If they're lying to me and they're hardened, they shatter, sparks fly as it usually does with shattering hard steel and I'll be mad but alive. Ebay carries the soft 304 stainless balls, orders have to come from China unfortunately but these are perfect for this job. Unhardened, stainless and non-toxic. They'll last near infinitely longer, no contamination, equally non-sparking as lead and a half jar of stainless is substantially lighter than a half jar of lead. If I had to fall back from stainless, I'd go with very very hard water quenched lead again.

@clone4211

2 жыл бұрын

@@missingthe80s58 How do you like the Rebel 17 drum, how fast are you spinning it and with how much lead? I was considering making a ball mill using that drum powered with a 3/4 hp motor I have on the shelf. My initial plan was to cast up some lead balls for milling, but I am considering buying some brass balls I found on eBay instead.

@missingthe80s58

2 жыл бұрын

@@clone4211 It's running about 70 rpm, ideal is supposed to be 90 rpm. I'm running it a touch over half full. The exact weight and count I do not know. I'd guess about 40lbs of shot. These balls are hard alloy, weigh a bit less than pure lead so lets say 170 grains per .490 ball. 7,000 grains in a pound. With the jar a hair over half full and guessing about 40lbs worth that rings in around 1,600 balls. Most people run these a bit less than half full at 35lbs. 35lbs seems to be the widely accepted weight. That would be about 1,440 hard alloy balls to bring the jar up to perfect spec. I've run mine with a mere 300 lead balls, it took 12+ hours to do what the half full jar does in 1 hour. Once loaded with a bit more than half full of shot, the milling time dropped to 1 hour for 500 grams of comp for my specific materials choice. This drum is worth every penny.

I know this is a tad off subject However it involves Black Powder. I converted a rolling block 32 rimfire to .25 Hornet am looking for dies. Some of you gun fellers might have a set of dies.

I told my Dad I was going to make my own powder for my new flintlock. He told me I was going to lose an eye. He also told me, when I got my harley it was going to be the death of me. I told him I'm pretty sure banging 40 dollar crack whores without a rubber will be the death of me. Sorry if I hurt anyone's feeling.

Can you make black powder using graphite insted of charcoal?

@Everythingblackpowder

2 жыл бұрын

I don’t think so

@0neDoomedSpaceMarine

2 жыл бұрын

No, graphite burns really poorly (hence the reduction in performance and increase in fouling).

I prefer nutmeg….

I believe the 'g' stands for granulation.