POWDER

[gen. jd]

JUST TO SHARE SOME INFO I GOT A CASE OF ELEPHANT2F&3F I SHOOT GOEX SO I RUN OUT GOT ELE. TO REPLACE IT LOADED MY 50 HATFIELD WITH 75 GRAINS OF 2F THEN AFTER 2ND SHOOT VERY HARD TO LOAD TRYED LUBE,PATCHS EVER THING I COULD THINK OF FINDLY TRYED 3F ELE.SHOOTS JUST FINE. I KNOW YOU CAN USE 2F FOR 50 CAL. AND UP BUT THIS OLD HATFIELD DOS,T LIKE IT HAVE ANY OF YOU FOLKS HAD EXP. WITH ELEPHANT POWDER I HAD GREAT RESULTS AFTER I CHANGED GRAINS AND POWDER IS CHEAPER MABEEEEEEE HA HA GEN JD

 

[tg]

I have been useing Elephant 3f lot 24/99 and 2f lot 22/00 and have had good luck with it. I also have several lbs of goex that works well also some don't care for the elephant some love it. I use 3f up to and incuding my .62 I only go to 2f in my .72

 

[gen. jd]

tx. tg for the input so far i like ele. powder have to learn witch guns 2f 3f so on i have 12 smoke poles got some shooting to do but thats what i like so will have some fun

 

[squirejohn]

At the recently concluded NERP some of the prizes included a blackpowder manufacrured in China named LIDU. I never heard of this powder and can't recall seeing any test or mention of it in MB or ML. Just for the heck of it I tried a half-baked (at best) test by alternating 3F Goex and 3F LIDU in the pan of a small L&R (John Bailes) lock. I only fired the pan 15 times for each brand, and didn't notice any real difference. Both went off when the spark was good and neither fired with a weak spark. There MIGHT have been a bigger "poof" with the Goex but no nearly as big a poof with 4F.The only other info I have is that it is distributed by Corman Sporting Goods in Stanford KY. Has anyone had any experience with this powder at to performance in a flinflock and/cost?