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And I thought 'the Duck' was joking ............ :wtfsmilie:

I'd like to see the 'hang time' for an anvil ...............

Thirty years ago I was at an informal black powder shoot on a farm above one of the smaller Rotorua lakes - one guy had brought a beer...

That's an interesting page, been around for years - good place to start any research you might want to do.

Be warned - it can become addictive ...................

Quite a few years ago the Rotorua Deerstalkers Club challenged the Blackpowder shooters from the club next door to a 'shoot'.
I don't what the rules were, nor the ranges - all I did know was the...

There's an internet bloke by the monicker 'Mad Monk' who did a lot of research into modern and historic powders - and wrote about it in a series of articles. Some of those are quite old now - but you...

Martin's powder is quite highly rated from what I've heard - the blokes down the BP club like it, and they shoot distances I can't even see - just clearing that up :)

Oh - I thought about it, but got dragged into making parchment from possum skins instead and it was ten years before I surfaced.
Martin (Van Tiel) had set up his business by that time - and I...

I'm actually moderately antisocial - I don't really like people that much, so no - don't think that's something I'd do.

I spent 3 months trapping on my own up behind the Cobb Dam in the seventies...

Oh - and be a little careful with what you absorb from your readings, like anything there's some cowboys out there with advice I'm not totally onboard with .........

But if I had a front loader I...

Lots of guys across the ditch doing it - they helped me refine my processing.
Charcoal is the most important thing in making a good (fast) powder, and willow is rated.

I remember reading an...

This is a new Computer my son gave me and it's not registered or licensed for 'Word' - so it won't read my 'old computer' I got on a disc - and that's where my pictures are.

My plastic cylinders...

I can cram 80grs of mine in a Winchester 45/70 case using a 'drop tube' and a bit of compression - but I was out with my mate a few years back and watched him plonk two 330gr Gould's into two deer...

Cheers mate - am not sure what day the missus sent them and I was wondering today if you were gonna get them before Xmas - enjoy :)

BP has become really expensive now - hazardous shipping from the other side of the world I expect.
And when I was in my later teens there were times you couldn't even get the stuff - and that's why...

Got a suspicion they call that the CIA method - which is supposedly one of the safer ways to make it.
I do remember reading that compressing powder causes it to lose 'strength', but I never did it...

Yeah - I walked into hospital with one eye ball out of it's socket, was like looking through a red milk bottle - then they gave me something really nice ............

My dad arrived and told me...

I use willow sticks I collect and de-bark and let 'em dry for a year or so I always got some drying. Don't know what type willow it is ...........
I then cook it in a twenty litre metal drum inside...

I use a ball mill in my ancient Acorn lathe - which is just a plastic jar with a screw top lid, 1/4 full of .54 lead balls.

I also use the 'Double and double' method of mixing (it's on the net...

I'm here M'Sieur Duck - can't help myself ............

And I should ought to point out - I only got one eye in my head that works, blew the other out with homemade powder when I was nineteen. That...

I compress and granulate as I load 45/70 and snider brass as well as muzzle load.
I made a compressing die using aluminium ends and two split plastic tubes I hose clamp closed - made that at work...