Originally Posted by
Tasbay
You may notice madjon and I are both in the Nelson area. Gunworks and Gun city are the only 2 retailers I know of who sell Black Powder in the South Island and neither will freight it. At $85 per lb from Gun City Id just rather not buy it in the first place.
I bought a sack of Potasiumnitrate a few years ago from fruitfed supplies, was about $60 for 40kg if I remember correctly... still going strong and hardly made a dent in the sack.
I still use FFFFg for the flash pan and more oftern than not drop 4 grains of FFFg down the barrel first just as an ignighter with 80gr of home brew on top. Shoots the 50cal to the same point as with 80gr of bought FFg.
In the 44Mag and Martini 577/450 its just a primer and a compressed load of home brewed, lead slugs of course.
Home moulded lead bullets and homemade powder, very satisfing and hell of a cheap shooting.