Goex express

[faw3]

On the tv last week Na Geo had a thing about makeing big bangs,and covered black powder, most people wouldnt belive how easy it is to get and make pure, they scraped it off old walls inside a house! And bird and bat poop, and right off the top of the ground dont know why the North had a near panic cause they about ran out during the CW, sent a guy off to come up with another kind of powder, it was always to powerful, lucky they didnt have to use it since the place that was being used got blown to hell and back. The tree has everything to do with how fast,slow it burns, and fouls the barrel, I always thought (till I read up on Curtis and Harvey's #6 it was the saly peter content that made the bang, but you dont even need it to make usable and powerful black powder,Im still not sure how much glazeing has to do with it all than keep it from falling apart, never got that much into it,but can make it out of 10 to 12 differen things as long as you have at least 3 things to mix, Fred :hatsoff:

 

[roundball]

Bill Knight did some extensive testing and being a chemist found some interesting things about black powder. Not only the different trees used for charcoal, but the sources of potassium nitrate can effect powder performance. Another find was the amount of glazing is determined by the amount of time the powder is rolled. If done too long, the powder will have a much thicker glaze which can result in more fouling or less
velocity in a certain amount of powder. This may be an underlying cause of why different shooters may encounter different results using the same brand of powder. Looks like there are a lot of "if's", "ands" or "buts" involved in the powder manufacturing bizz!

Like my Flintlock debut with a particularly terrible lot of Elephant 3F...the good news is was so bad it was unusable even in caplocks, and even as a neophyte to real BP, I knew that couldn't possibly be correct.

Got some Goex and it's been like shooting lightning ever since...I've gone through quite a bit of Goex now and can say with conviction that in the initial small purchases and the various cases since, all the different lots of Goex have seemed just like the lot before it...very consistent, very good quality control.

 

[faw3]

Thats true of round ball shooting, the guys doing the 1000 yd 45/70s ect have found it (Goex) is different from lot to lot number as much as 5 feet at 1000 yds. For us it wouldnt be any big deal (unless someone is shooting 500 yds on out with a RB) :rotf: ok how about 100? Fred :hatsoff:

 

[Russianblood]

I have an e-mail into Goex to see if there is a pressure difference between equal amounts of 1f Goex and Goex Express. I'm looking for a high quality, low pressure powder for my brass barreled blunderbuss.

Here's the response I received from Goex:

Thank you for your inquiry. At normal load levels, Goex Express powder gives about 50 fps more velocity than does the standard Goex powder of the same granulation. It therefore follows that the Express generates more pressure than does the regular powder.

Express was developed for the shooter needing high velocity and a very consistent burn rate in order to be competitive in long range target shooting. Your historical application of a brass barreled blunderbuss does not require a powder with the burn rate of Express. Ordinary 1f Goex is the powder you need.

Sincerely, Bill Bagwell