Quote from American Pioneer "I dont know where everyone is getting the idea of the dampened APP powder thing. Ive used it on damp days, rainy days, snowy days, etc. Ive never had any problems with it not going off or any delays in firing. It works like any other powder Ive tried and it is the cleanest I have used to date. Someone must be letting rain or moisture go down their barrels for this to happen. Any powder will get wet and fail if you allow moisture to get to it. A piece of tape over the barrel wil prevent this from happening but I have never used it. I just dont hold my barrel skywards if it is raining or snowing which makes common sense. As for the primers i have always used the winchester muzzleloading. I did use federal 209 primers for reloading before that. I may try some of the remingtons again this year just to see how they fare to the winchesters."
I not only agree I live in AR where winter [when we hunt] is usually very wet and I have been using APP FF in my hawken as well as my inline and have not had any problem If you can use it with #11 caps and musket caps in wet weather with out any problem then what are these people doing [and there is a number of them] that do experance difficulty?
The only thing I know of that I do that is not a commenly accepted practice is cleaning the guns with boiling water and making sure they are completely dry before loading for hunting. It rain twice last year in the first week of our muzzle season and I dropped my buck without any miss or hang fires.Could it be that the difficulties are from oil in the barrel? Lee