Caniborrowsomeammo
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I'm trying to wrap my noggin around this powder charge conundrum. My thoughts are the powders back in the early 19th century were perhaps weaker than our modern manufactured powders?
I have never used commercially available Black Powder or sub in my sidelock.
Anyhow, I make my own powder and batch to batch I cannot tell a difference in performance. But when I ran my loads over a chronograph with 75 grains powder behind a .50 PRB in my TC "Hawken" I get 2100+ FPS average. If I can get that from my powder, I would think that those producing powder in the 1800s for a living would make a far superior product than I.
I have never used commercially available Black Powder or sub in my sidelock.
Anyhow, I make my own powder and batch to batch I cannot tell a difference in performance. But when I ran my loads over a chronograph with 75 grains powder behind a .50 PRB in my TC "Hawken" I get 2100+ FPS average. If I can get that from my powder, I would think that those producing powder in the 1800s for a living would make a far superior product than I.