Tried out pyrodex P today

[pghrich]

Hello, Gander was out of goex 3f so out of desperation i decided to spring for the $22.00 and buy a pound of pyrodex P, and to my surprise it shot as accurate as goex,using my 44caliber 1851 civilian [25g volume, cornmeal, .454 ball], and further more it is very clean, just one pass with a patch and a dab of bore butter and the barrel was like new again, also my hands were not as dirty, after this pound is gone i will buy another and see how it works in my remmies pghrich

 

[BADUNAME30]

Pretty cool how much cleaner that is huh Rich ?
I loaded some .45 LC for my Vequero and dang was that nice cleanin' a modern day smoke wagon with jist a warm water wet patch.

Down side: not enough smoke

 

[rodwha]

I was given 2 lbs of P and 1 of RS, and I've bought some 3F 777. I've been feeling the need to buy some 3 or even 4F BP to try in the Old Army (Ruger states it can handle any granulation of BP).

Kinda want to see what I'm missing out on. A big mess?

Pyrodex smells similar to firecracker smoke to me. How does BP smell?

 

[BADUNAME30]

How does BP smell?

Like...................................Victory
Actualy, somewhat like rotten egg gas.
But in a good way

 

[pghrich]

Black powder reminds me of the good old days when the steel mills in southside were going strong, kinda like money, pghrich

 

[BADUNAME30]

Yeah, but visibility is better with black powder lol

"south side" ?
Why shame on you Richard.
Are you some kind of transplant ?
It's "souside".

 

[pghrich]

Ya Jim i know how to say it bit not spell it, rich

 

[mitchz]

I use a couple pounds of pyro P and RS a year and love it. I've used others but have always come back to pyrodex. I was born in Pittsburgh and I too remember smell of the mills and days of red skies over the city. Now I live in colorado and have to drive 70 miles south to Pueblo Co to a very small steel mill to smell it. The other one I miss from back in the day is the smell of sulfer from all the diesel trucks.

 

[Pancho]

Typical Spring National Shoot in Friendship Ind. No wind, high humidity, temperatures in the 90's and uncounted pounds of BP being burned all day. What a great fragrance! Makes you wonder what kind of hell a Civil War battle was like.

 

[BADUNAME30]

I was born in Pittsburgh and I too remember smell of the mills and days of red skies over the city. Now I live in colorado and have to drive 70 miles south to Pueblo Co to a very small steel mill to smell it. The other one I miss from back in the day is the smell of sulfer from all the diesel trucks.

"red skies" ?
Ahh mitchz , our skies were allways black !! With a hint of grey brown. lol
Ahhh, maybe yer thinkin o' the red night skies from the slag dumps near the clover leaf.That would explain the "sulpher " smell too.

 

[pghrich]

Hello, i can remember back in the 50,s when in school back arlington the girls wearing a white dress, inthe morning 'white', at the end of the day 'grey' rich

 

[andrewstorm]

fakr smoke

Pyrodex,is great but seal the lid tight,or after a humi d day at the range lol youll be loos
ing velocity

 

[zimmerstutzen]

check your gun again in a few days. Pyrodex has a way of oozing back out of microscopic crevices to rust bores.

 

[pghrich]

Thaks, i just checked all looks good and shiny, pghrich

 

[351 WINCHESTER]

I used to use pyrodex and it was less fouling than real black, but I have found it to be more corrosive than real black. I use nothing now but 777.