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I live near Fort Nelson, it is a museum of Artillery with live firing of cannons, I used to exterminate the rodents there before it was turned into a museum.
Good place to go if you need a fix for BP smoke..
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Whatever you do always give 100%........... unless you are donating blood.
That had to be a gigantic fireball at the muzzle when fired.
D. Brian Casady
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Advanced is being able to do the basics while your leg is on fire---Bill Jeans
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I didn't pay close attention. Did the number of pounds of powder used as primer get mentioned?
D. Brian Casady
Quid Llatine Dictum Sit, Altum Viditur.
Advanced is being able to do the basics while your leg is on fire---Bill Jeans
Don't ever take a fence down until you know why it was put up---Robert Frost
We need a video, Jim!
I used 150 grains of FFg under a 700-grain Fosbury-style conical in the Pedersoli Kodiak .72 double rifle. The weight in those barrels kept the recoil from getting beyond the "robust" descriptor. Miss that rifle.
It really depends upon the caliber, ball or bullet weight, and weight of the gun also. What's comfortable in a 10 lb. rifle will hurt in a 7.5 lb. rifle. So I can't say it's this or that amount without prefacing it on which old gun I'm shooting.
I have been told by friends who shoot a lot of ML rifles that it's impossible to damage the guns from too much, as the ball exits the bore at some point and the excess just makes a big flash of fire. They're always telling me how safe BP is, and how I should use it in my old cartridge rifles. I've got one muzzleloader, a Vincent Half Stock in .38 caliber that's gorgeous, and extremely accurate. It only gets the real BP, and none of that substitute BP stuff. But I rarely ever even take it out to shoot, so my two lbs. of BP have been here for years.
Biggest black powder load I'm comfortable with? In a shoulder-fired gun, my standard load for my custom made .62 caliber Hawken flintlock is 120 gr. FFg under a 342 gr. round ball. It's the top gun in this photo:
As for uncomfortable, that would have been the 300 gr. of Fg that I touched off in my late brother's rifled 2 bore flintlock. Here is a link to a thread I posted about it:
I have an inline ML that is capable of using 150 grains. I use 95 grains of Pyrodex for best accuracy. 105 or more starts giving patterns instead of groups.
D. Brian Casady
Quid Llatine Dictum Sit, Altum Viditur.
Advanced is being able to do the basics while your leg is on fire---Bill Jeans
Don't ever take a fence down until you know why it was put up---Robert Frost
gamekeeper wrote: ↑Mon Feb 22, 2021 7:33 am
I live near Fort Nelson, it is a museum of Artillery with live firing of cannons, I used to exterminate the rodents there before it was turned into a museum.
Good place to go if you need a fix for BP smoke..
ftnelsn2.jpg
Wait... now that it's a museum, they don't need their rodent exterminated???
Griff,
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The big guns on navel ships used black and still may. I know a guy that used to work for Hogden powder company and he told me that the U.S. military is the biggest black powder customer they had.
gamekeeper wrote: ↑Mon Feb 22, 2021 7:33 am
I live near Fort Nelson, it is a museum of Artillery with live firing of cannons, I used to exterminate the rodents there before it was turned into a museum.
Good place to go if you need a fix for BP smoke..
ftnelsn2.jpg
Wait... now that it's a museum, they don't need their rodent exterminated???
When I exterminate something they stay exterminated.....
No once they became part of a national museum chain they all use a national pest control company, we in the trade call " Rent a Rat ".....
Whatever you do always give 100%........... unless you are donating blood.
Used to use 3 or 4 ounces of cannon grade BP in my buddies dads cannon, tennis balls fit the bore nicely, as did beer cans frozen ( with water) . The tennis balls were like tracers, the fuzz burned off leaving a trail.
The biggest BP cartridge I wanted to try was the .45-120 Sharps. It was a Win 1885 High Wall that I was trying to trade for in the 80's. First 1885 I had ever seen. I couldnt come up with enough boot, and I'm still dreaming about it.