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  1. nhmoose

    King's semi-smokeless powder

    I had a 10 pound metal keg of Kings marked powder it was marked 1F. The bottom was rusted out so lost 2 ponds to rust red color. Shot the rest in a musket as 1F powder pan flash ignited it the same as Dupont. No idea if it was semi smokeless or not for what it's worth.
  2. Scott Jones

    King's semi-smokeless powder

    I have a "one pound can 12 ounces net" can of King's someone gave me a couple decades ago. Can is in good condition, but there is a paper label over the center trademark which is itself a duplicate of the trademark; couldn't figure out why someone would do that. Never shot it, can is still...
  3. R

    Holy Black Cans

    Kings Low Pressure is a semi-smokeless powder. It should be safe but from what I’ve gathered it’s not, strictly speaking, black powder. I’ve got a can in my collection.
  4. Notchy Bob

    Holy Black Cans

    That was a great gift, @Rod Man ! Nicely documented, too. I've heard of King's Semi-Smokeless, but have never used it. I'm not really sure what it was, but I have seen it referenced in the old blackpowder literature and people did use it in their muzzle loaders. I have a little handbook my...
  5. Ed C.

    So you want a cap and ball revolver?

    My thanks goes out to you and others for posts like this that have enabled newbies like myself to get into the world of black powder, make confident decisions and do the necessary gunsmithing and tuning to make BP shooting so enjoyable. Those years of shared experience are much appreciated.
  6. B

    So you want a cap and ball revolver?

    very well done sir very well. I am a Gunpowder shooter from the old school (Du Pont) and you are right on the mark. Thanks Bunk
  7. L

    So you want a cap and ball revolver?

    Did you leave anything out? LOL!
  8. D

    Black powder?

    Interesting but you need to consider the time period when Kings Semi smokeless was developed and produced. In the late 1800's and early 1900's the new "Smokeless" powders were quickly taking over the market for loading the modern cartridge guns. Kings Semi Smokeless (as well as Duponts Lesmoke...
  9. Zonie

    Black powder?

    From what I can find, King's Semi-Smokless powder was basically black powder with about 20% nitrocellulose made from nitrated wood pulp in it. It was supposed to be safe to load into muzzleloaders and other black powder guns on a 1 to 1 ratio with a black powder load. It was supposed to make...
  10. SamTex1949

    Black powder?

    Have had this can for sometime (empty)
  11. Loyalist Dave

    Black powder?

    Ah well it could have been more powerful by weight, but depending on how the granules were formed and their size...they could've account for less weight by volume than the black powder that it replaced and thus had a balance of sorts. This is interesting, for Roberts in his book The...
  12. F

    Black powder?

    I have a couple of cans of something called "Kings Semi-Smokeless, A New Composition, for rifles and shotguns, Quick ignition, Extreme Cleanliness. It also says it "loads by measure and manner of loading same as black powder" in FG and FFFFG granulations. Any one know what this is? Would it...
  13. D

    Black powder?

    Kings Semi-smokeless was created as a cleaner substitute for black powder a long, long time ago. It's primary use was in loading cartridge ammo but was supposed to be suitable for muzzle loaders according to some sources. It has been out of production for many years (before WW II if I remember...
  14. Zonie

    20 gauge smoothy which powder

    Ah.... The thought plickens, or is that the plot thickens? On page 82 of The Muzzle-Loading Cap Lock Rifle , by Ned H. Roberts, Copyright © MCMXL, MCMXLIV, MCMXLVII and MCMLII by NED H. ROBERTS, Printed by BONANZA BOOKS, NEW YORK, the author wrote: Generally speaking, a very fine grain...
  15. J

    Transition powders

    White powder,a lot of the early bulk smokeless powders were white in color including DuPont Bulk Smokeless introduced in1893 and produced up into the late 50s early 60s- Goex's short lived "Clear Shot" powder was very similar in grain and ballistically to the old DuPont Schuetzen...
  16. B

    King's semi-smokeless powder

    Can anyone tell me what this is? Have a friend who has an unopened five pound container. Thanks, Pawbill
  17. V

    King's semi-smokeless powder

    I grew up near Cincinnati, Ohio back in the 1950's. I was too young to drive but my mother would drive me up to Kings Mills where I would buy a 25 lb keg of fffg black powder right off the loading dock. Back then it was considered to be the best black powder available. All the old timers used to...
  18. G

    So you want a cap and ball revolver?

    So you want a cap and ball revolver? Here are some points to realize and ponder. SIGHTS --- If you want one because of its historical context, then you'll get a revolver with crude sights (unless you buy one of the Remingtons with adjustable sights, which is historically incorrect). But don't...
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