Need a tumbler to mill your powder? This is the best price I have seen on them. They also sell a double drum set up. But I figure one drum going up at a time is plenty.
https://www.harborfreight.com/3-lb-rotary-rock-tumbler-67631.html?_br_psugg_q=rock+tumbler
In my muzzleloader I cut my charge from 120 grain to 110 if I use 777. I personally don't care which I use. But I haven't wait a flint lock in 15 years.
FWIW -Although not as good as BP, I have shot flintlock rifle with Pyrodex as a main charge, and 4FG BP in the pan. Traditions specifies this combination as OK in their flintlock rifles btw. Prefer BP of course.
Thanks for the information. May have to get some Pyrodex RS to conserve my 2FG and 4FG by using layered loads of BP with Pyrodex. (BTW, I have read elsewhere that 5 gr of 4FG down the bore followed by Pyrodex also works well as a layered load in a flintlock. IIRC 5gr of BP is case capacity of an empty 22 long rifle case, would make measurement of the BP part of the charge easy.)
About 200 yrs if kept dry and actually if gotten wet can dry out and still use it, as verified by people killed from playing with civil war cannon balls that are still active, also civil war era guns still loaded and powder still viable.
did not know civil war cannons with BP was still explosive. Did the canon balls have a delay fuse?
Shuetzen is a manufacturer and Swiss if you cannot find any residual Goex anywhere. As of 8 AM EST, Track of the Wild has Swiss 3F in stock but you have to buy 25 lbs minimum. $37 a pound
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25# min order ???? gezzzShuetzen is a manufacturer and Swiss if you cannot find any residual Goex anywhere. As of 8 AM EST, Track of the Wild has Swiss 3F in stock but you have to buy 25 lbs minimum. $37 a pound
Yeah. exactly
