When Mississippi did away with primitive weapons season and made it scoped 45-70 and 35 Whelen season all the stores in the area quit carrying caps and powder. Walmart here never carried black powder that I recall but they had pyrodex and caps (on occasion, musket caps) and at the end of hunting season would put them on clearance. I stocked up thinking that if BP became unavailable I could switch to pyrodex and musket caps. See, I’m not really stupid, I just look this way. I haven’t seen this stuff in probably over 10 years. It is probably fertilizer now. Don’t know when I will get to test it, I still have a couple of pounds of real powder and hardly ever get to shoot anymore and when I do I don’t want to waste time checking out stuff that I didn’t like when it was fresh.
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The caps have a long shelf life. If the pyrodex is sealed it may be OK.
I bought a can decades ago and used some. It sat on the shelf forever. I took some and tried it in my 58 Musketoon. Sounded like a cap gun, hit 2 feet low.
Sprinkled it on the lawn.
I bought a can decades ago and used some. It sat on the shelf forever. I took some and tried it in my 58 Musketoon. Sounded like a cap gun, hit 2 feet low.
Sprinkled it on the lawn.
