ORIGINAL: nysbowhunter
I cant seem to get any help with pinnacle powder in my area, One guy (in front of a crowd)"said they dont make it in 3f" I said see ya. Another said I was wrong , if goex makes it it's black powder, again I'm outta here! anyway is clean shot the same stuff? I can get a hold of that and is it reliable in my percussion as well as my in line? thanks D.
Well, GOEX does
NOT make Pinnacle, it is
made by American Pioneer. This same outfit used to call their powder Clean Shot. How much difference there is between APP and old Clean Shot, I don't know. As far as ballistic perfomance is concerned, I am not convinced that Pinnacleis any different than APP's own labelled stuff (APP or Gold). Looks like caygad believes this too. The two brandsmay not LOOK exactly the same, however.
GOEX
did at one time make a substitute powdercalled
ClearShot. You had to use the FFF granulation of this stuff to get up close to BP velocities-the FF was
VERYweak. Other than that, it was a good powder-absolutely
NONCORROSIVE!! GOEX does NOT presently make any substitute powder, just BP.
I doubt if GOEX will EVER make a substitute again, as evidenced by their using an APP produce with a GOEX label, and the fact that they had a serious accident on the ClearShot production line which never re-started afterward.