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http://www.medievalists.net/20...l-gunpowder-recipes/

Yup, there's a website for everyone these days...

"Do Not Try This At Home."

Might be good to know at some point.

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"Do Not Try This At Home."

How about out behind the barn?

Girls and skerdy cats can get to the house.

Tin Can,

Neat vid, thanks for posting.

I saw this one the other day and immediately thought of you!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z4W0qIPJmoo

Glad I found you here, I thought I might have to post it in gunsmithing!

I'm going to repeat this for those who have survived since the initial post. There are legions of monks who met their maker trying to figure out the black powder manufacturing process.

Part of the process is drying, grinding the mixture. Black powder derivatives have a bad habit of igniting under pressure -- like grinding/mixing.

I'd be curious too if there aren't laws that regulate the production of "explosives." Black powder is considered by the BATF as an "explosive" as contrasted to a "propellant" -- which is how it classes smokeless powders.

BATF rules for storage/sale of black powder are different than for smokeless, or even for Pyrodex.

This because it's EXPLOSIVE.

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Black powder derivatives have a bad habit of igniting under pressure -- like grinding/mixing.

Dupont had a really bad explosion in one of their grinding mills back in the late 1800's. I think it killed about 3 guys.