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My 8 year old has been bugging me to get or make some black powder and blow some stuff up. Well, I am all for the blowing things up but as I am wading throught the piles of stuff, I found some nice 2, 3 and 4 inch solid rounds of 1018 steel.

Black Powder Recipes

Apr 20, 2012 - The recipe for Blackpowder (gun powder), as discovered by Roger Bacon, a British monk/philosopher, some time around 1260.

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Flintlock pistol? | Survivalist Forum

So, like many of you, I've determined that the ultimate SHTF weapon, after all ammo availability has long been exhausted, would be the venerable flintlock pistol. With that in mind, I've been trying to find one... but the only black powder pistols I seem to find, either in shops, at shows or online, are percussion cap blackpowder arms; either those, or antique arms that no sane person would ...

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Little Woodham - 17thC Musketeer . An open day at the 17th Century village of Little Woodham with a demonstration of loading and firing a black powder musket. A good musketeer …

Brown Bess Flintlock Musket Black Powder Rifle, - CH Kadels

The flintlock musket is designed to use 1" flints and has a 2 1/2" drop and a single-style trigger with a 14 1/2" trigger pull. The flintlock ignition has a sidelock that incorporates the traditional flint and frizzen and the musket has a recommended load of 70 grains of black powder and a patched .735 round ball.

How To Make All Natural Black Powder - Survival Manual

Here are some black powder recipes! Recipe 1: 75 parts of saltpeter 15 parts of charcoal, and (Parts given by weight) 10 parts of sulfur Recipe 2: 100 parts of saltpeter 24 parts of charcoal Recipe 3: 45 parts of saltpeter 5 parts sugar 9 parts charcoal Keep in mind that these ratios are not written in stone. Since each batch of your ...

any black powder shooters here - TinBoats

As the title says any of yo like to shoot black powder.I got into the hobby about 3 years ago. I started with a brass frame gun and it shot loose fairly quickly. Next was a 58 Remington but I never cared for it so I sold it. I then bought a steel frame 1860 army and while I really liked it reloading got tiresome so I decided to convert it.

OT Is grapevine charcoal good for making blackpowder?

I grew up in the sticks of kentucky and my grand dad made his own black powder for blasting stumps ( this was back in the early 1920s) his recipe called for 75% saltpeter 15% willow charcoal and 10% sulpher he said the willow worked better than …

Makeshift Technology: Sulfurless Black Powder

Put the alcohol in the freezer the night before you want to make the gunpowder. Once the charcoal is finely powdered (mine was finer than powdered sugar), you are ready to make the black powder. According to Wikipedia on sulfurless black powder, "They typically contain 70.5 parts of saltpetre and 29.5 parts of charcoal."

How to Make Modern Gunpowder. - Applied ... - Science Forums

The problem with black powder is that it is very messy. It fouls the barrels of guns like you wouldn't believe. Smokeless powder like cordite doesn't foul the barrels of guns allowing for semi-auto and automatic weapons to be invented. If you were to load a machine gun with black powder, it would jam the mechanics of it before you fired a dozen ...

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How to Make Black Powder | Sciencing

Separate your ingredients. The recipe for black powder is 75 percent potassium nitrate, 15 percent charcoal and 10 percent sulfur. This is usually measured by weight: 75 parts to 15 parts to 10 parts. Finely grind the ingredients. For safety's sake, grind them all separately and clean out the mortar and pestle thoroughly between crushings. 00:00.

Making Black Powder | Bushcraft USA Forums

Somebody posted a thread awhile back on a recipe for making black powder. I don't remember if it was even in this catagory, or maybe the preparedness catagory. It was about an old lady who lived off the grid and made her own powder that she used for hunting with a flintlock rifle. I can't find it, but I'd like to put it in my favorite's list.

Reloading for older shotguns - NZ Hunting and Shooting

Have 2 old late 1800-early 1900 side by side 12 gauges Both are Damascus or twist steel actually one of each The Damascus one is English and it is nitro proofed it has the old 2-1/2 inch chambers but I make my own shells for it and it goes great with black powder I have also put a couple of boxes of falcon cowboy 2.5 inch roll crimped smokeless loads (very mild) and goes well with them aswell

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Weigh out the black powder lift charge, which will be between 3/4 and 1 ounce for a 3-inch shell, depending on the power of your black powder. These plastic shells are a loose fit in standard 3-inch mortars, so 1 ounce of lift powder for them is a good idea. Put that lift powder into one of the 5-ounce waxed paper cups.

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Gunpowder recipe x 2 | Solar

Two useful recipes. Usually black powder is a mixture of saltpeter, sulfur and charcoal. Also a black powder without any sulfur yields good results and produces even less smoke. (For how these ingredients are made, see the previous chapters). A reasonable recipe is a mix of: 100 parts of saltpeter, 18 parts of…

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1/4 Charcoal powder. 1/4 Sulfur. 1/2 Saltpeter. After having fantasized about going back in time enough, I figured I should really just memorize the formula for black powder. Edit: Here's a good resource though.

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black powder. The term black powder was only introduced around 1890. It distinguished the old powder or 'thunder weed' made from charcoal, saltpeter and sulphur from the newer smokeless nitro powder or what was then called 'white powder'. The following specifications are meant as a short description of the origin of black powder. To ...

My homemade black powder - Page 55 - Cast Boolits

Used my homemade black powder in my TC black diamond express today with some boolits sent to me by someone on the site. The powder performed really well with both 450gr .505 and .245gr power belts. The recoil was a little lighter than commercial powder but it had a nice crack to it. Much less smoke than other powers that I have used with still a very satisfiying smell.

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In the book 'Opus Majus' the Franciscan monk Roger Bacon from Ilchester, England, (1214 to 1294) a recipe for black powder is men-tioned: Seven parts saltpeter, five parts sulfur, five parts charcoal. Ca. 1280: In 'De mirabilibus mundi' Alberta Magnus, bishop of Regensburg descri-bes rockets with propellant powder and fire ignition ...

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For extra wow, stir in some chocolate marshmallows and Hot Fudge Sauce (see Chapter 17) before freezing. INGREDIENTS | YIELD: 1 QUART 3 cups heavy cream 1 cup whole milk ¾ cup sweetened cocoa powder ¾ cup sugar Pinch salt 8 ounces marshmallow creme 1 tablespoon vanilla extract 3 regular-sized 3 Musketeers candy bars

Black Powder Guns - CH Kadels

BLACK POWDER GUNS. Becoming more and more popular as a pastime, there's nothing like shooting a Black Powder Gun – the smell, the sound and the feel is legendary. CHKADELS offers a line of Black Powder Guns that are accurate and beautifully detailed, working replicas of historical pistols including Derringers, Colts and American Trappers.

Slow match - PyroGuide - PyroData

Production [] ChemicalThree chemicals have been used historically to create slow match. Potassium nitrate (KNO 3), the most widely used, is considered to be the best. Sodium nitrate (NaNO 3) also produces good results, but is hygroscopic, and therefore more difficult to store and less reliable in the presence of moisture.Lead acetate (Pb(CH 3 COO) 2) is not recommended at all, as its toxicity ...

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Swedish Occupation: Saltpetersjudare • FamilySearch

Swedish Occupation: Saltpetersjudare. A Salpetersjudare collected urine soaked earth to assist with the production of saltpeter. Saltpeter was a key ingredient of black powder (the first gunpowder.) Firearms had been invented around 1400 and required the use of black powder. At the time of Gustav Vasa, the army turned increasingly to the use of ...

Homemade Black Powder - Cast Bullet Assoc

The typical efficiency of home-made BP is about 50% of commercial powder. I think that's because Swiss uses a 3 ton mill and Goex uses a slightly smaller one. So, given that a cartridge designed for BP can not be overloaded, in fact fill is required, your velocity with home-made will be significantly lower.

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The handy guide is 8 1/4"x4" when folded and 21 3/4"x4" when completely open. This is a laminated, compact folding guide with detailed instructions and illustrations on the process of distilling moonshine. The easy-to-understand guide gives brief overview of what moonshine is and the types of stills that can be used to produce it.