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Last year I bought an old rusty CVA Bobcat from a guy for $20 and he threw in what he had left of some Pyrodex RS. I couldn't get that powder to shoot good for anything. I shot it all up and bought a new container and have no problems with the new powder.
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I have shot Triple Seven that was 6 years old and it shot just fine. But I keep silica gel packets in any open jugs I have to absorb moisture.
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Black powder, when kept dry, does not lose its potency. i sometimes inert Civil War explosive ordnance for collectors and museums: It's done remotely in an isolated area.
A medically retired EOD friend has the distinction of being the last USMC casualty of the Civil War. He was seriously injured while inerting a Parrot projectile in about 1988. The black powder in this round had not lost its potency when it detonated and killed the guy who was inerting it: http://forums.gunboards.com/showthre...ball-explosion But in February, White's hobby cost him his life: A cannonball he was restoring exploded, killing him in his driveway. More than 140 years after Lee surrendered to Grant, the cannonball was still powerful enough to send a chunk of shrapnel through the front porch of a house a quarter-mile from White's home in this leafy Richmond suburb. |
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