Making Black Powder

USN_Airdale

have anyone here tried to make your own BP ?

if "yes" how successful was your results ?

what formula did you use ?

where did you find the info to make your BP ?

many years ago (1970AD) a friend and i made a 10 lb. batch, it worked, but not as well as the original DuPont BP.

CapnMidnight

Do a post search on this forum. I can remember at least 1 lengthy post about the do's, don'ts and pit falls of making your own.
W.D.

perry shooter

I experimented when I was MUCH younger Lucky I never had an accident.
Be very careful and make small batches and wear protection

pulsarnc

If you have access to the book series FOXFIRE by Elliot Wigginton volume 5 has detailed instructions in it .

andersk

We made it as kids ... not too bright, but no one got hurt. I'm buying it from here on in!

Tflogger

quote:Originally posted by andersk
We made it as kids ... not too bright, but no one got hurt. I'm buying it from here on in!

+10000000000000000000000000000000000000

ofitg

This is the most informative book I have seen for DIY blackpowder -

http://pyrotechnic.narod.ru/Black_Powder.pdf

"Blackpowder Manufacturing, Testing & Optimizing" by Ian Von Maltitz


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yblockhead

We made it as kids too. Still have 9-7/8's fingers to prove it. (the other 1/8 was a skilsaw episode much later on).

v35

We've made it as kids and it never burned clean or as fast as commercial BP though we didn't use it in ammunition.
I think you need willow charcoal.
Dupont made it for 200 years but a plant blew up in NJ not many years back. Dupont then went out of business.
Components are ground WET. I think ball mills used Lignin Vitae no metal or ceramic.
They knew what they were doing.

elglide

not worth doing! Make your own bullets, patches but not B/P

andrewsw16

Last resort in SHTF/WROL/Mad Max, etc, conditions where you are absolutely out of powder for reloading. [:D] It's not all that hard, as you have seen above, many of us made it as kids and survived. [;)]