Black vs Pyrodex vs Triple Se7en?

[zrifleman]

Wattsy---Obviously your expectations are low.

 

[BrownBear]

There's one thing that's important to me in all this fluff and fooferah over powders. Shooting.

And sometimes to do that, you have to use what you can get. Some are more available in remote areas.

Here's my reality. I live about as rural as you can get, an hour's drive out a dirt road from The Big City of 9,000, on an island, in a state disconnected from the continental US. To get any more rural I'd have to lose the road.

One thing you see out here and in most rural areas. Lotsa junk in people's yards. It's in their houses and shops, too. But that's not junk. It's spare parts and trading stock.

Out here you make do with what you've got because it's a long drive, a long wait, or darned near impossible to get anything else.

That's the way with powders, too. You either use what you've got, or do without unless you can overcome the time, distance and legal barriers.

I owe it to myself to be familiar with all the powders and how to use them, because there are times and places I can't get anything else. If I don't know how to make each and every powder work in my guns, what am I gonna do when there's nothing else available? Quit shooting? :rotf:

Like I said. I'm a shooter first, a purist second, and a fashion model for correctness waaaaaay down the line.

Guess what? Travel to MY world and lots of other folks on this board, and you're in the same leaky boat. If you can't bring your powder with you, you have to use what's available when you arrive.

There's a reason we choose to live in these little pieces of heaven far from the big cities with all their options and convenience. It's the same reason folks spend megabucks to get here for the trip of a lifetime.

Whatchagonnado when you arrive here in heaven and you can't get real black powder? You sure better know how to make something else work. :slap:

 

[Pete Gaimari]

No UPS delivery near you?

 

[necchi]

No UPS delivery near you?

That seem's to be the pat answer everytime someone say's BP's not available,,
"Buy a case and share it!"

Some people live check to check, yes even in todays world,,it can be tough to come up with the cash.
And yes I know you can get as little as 1# delivered, or 3, or 5,,
Com'on guy's,,move over a bit an make room for those that can't get, or don't care for black. :idunno:

For those "BP works best in my guns". Well that's good, it doesn't in mine.
I've a pile of Blue,Red and White ribbons and meat in the freezer,,all from using stuff that ain't black.
Some of the sub's DON'T work well, some Does. :surrender:

 

[BrownBear]

No UPS delivery near you?

No UPS Ground, and they won't ship it air.

Ain't gonna do a visiting sport any good, even if they did. You use what's available unless you want to risk a date with TSA for putting black on a plane.

You can buy one or the other of Pyrodex, 777, AP or Schlocky gold off the shelf if you're timing is good and someone else didn't beat you to it. Next shipment in 6 months. Maybe. And that's in an Alaskan Big City of 9,000. There's a whole, whole bunch of smaller towns with no sporting goods store and commercial airlines the only access. Those are the same places you fly to before heading into the bush on your dream hunt, too.

Facts of life for most of Alaska. You have to live with them or shoot a centerfire.

 

[Pete Gaimari]

It was a simple question.

I live on SS, and my diet is mostly fish I catch and deer I shoot. Nearest town is 2200 pop.

I can only buy BP 5 lbs at a time.

 

[BrownBear]

It was a simple question.

I live on SS, and my diet is mostly fish I catch and deer I shoot. Nearest town is 2200 pop.

I can only buy BP 5 lbs at a time.

Yeah, that all rings a bell with me. I've got half a dozen hunting/shooting pards and all of us are drawing rocking chair. I'm betting you'd do just fine up here, based on this and your other posts.

 

[Pete Gaimari]

I've always wanted to see Alaska. I had a friend who had a gold claim 100mi north of Fairbanks. He wanted me to come up and help him work it. I was only 30 at the time. I never made it, but always regretted not going.

 

[Rat Trapper]

I've had excellent luck using Triple Seven 2F in my TC Hawken rifles. I use CCI #11 mag caps with it. In my smaller bore rifles I use Goex.

 

[boom]

After reading all the replys to the post,
all i can say is, who gives a dam whats in the
powder :bull: , I have used the lot over the years
mainly in revolvers,but now i shot sidelock and
only shoot real black, it works good for me i like
it and i can get as much as i want, but thats just
me . :applause: .