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Dave Parks
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Looks good to me Bill, I like the knot in the stock. How does the gun fit you? Joe mentioned Pyrodex and it's O.K. but I prefer regular old black powder in 2F or 3F for my shooting. Also, you can't use Pyrodex pelleted powder in anything but a modern gun made for it. Using it in a shotgun can cause tyhe gun to blow up due to the gaps in the base of the barrel. It would be the same as not seating a ball or wad down firmly on teh loose powder charge.
When you finally work out a good shooting load for your gun, do what we all do..........make a mark on your ramrod when that load is firly seated. This gives you a reference point to show you that you have the load properly seated. A black powder gun can blow up just as easily as any gun. What happens when a load is not firmly seated on the powder charge, it sees the load as a barrel obstruction (same as dropping a 20 ga down the chamber of a 12 ga. gun).
If there is a gap between the powder charge and the shot load, he gun will in most cases blow-up. That is why you can't us powder pellets in anything but a gun made in that caliber, ie. .45 or .50. In a BP modern rifle the diameter of the pellet is almost the same size as the bore and using 2 or 3 of them atop each other is no problem becuase the barrel is full of powder. The small holes in the middle of the powder pellets are there to help increase the IN-LINE primer flash ignite the charge more evenly. Granular powder in either Pyrodex or BP is what you want to use.
Dave
When you finally work out a good shooting load for your gun, do what we all do..........make a mark on your ramrod when that load is firly seated. This gives you a reference point to show you that you have the load properly seated. A black powder gun can blow up just as easily as any gun. What happens when a load is not firmly seated on the powder charge, it sees the load as a barrel obstruction (same as dropping a 20 ga down the chamber of a 12 ga. gun).
If there is a gap between the powder charge and the shot load, he gun will in most cases blow-up. That is why you can't us powder pellets in anything but a gun made in that caliber, ie. .45 or .50. In a BP modern rifle the diameter of the pellet is almost the same size as the bore and using 2 or 3 of them atop each other is no problem becuase the barrel is full of powder. The small holes in the middle of the powder pellets are there to help increase the IN-LINE primer flash ignite the charge more evenly. Granular powder in either Pyrodex or BP is what you want to use.
Dave
