Can Powder Loose Potency?
01-11-2012 | 02:19 PM
#11
Nontypical Buck
Joined: Aug 2010
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From: Anne Arrundle County, Maryland
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.
01-12-2012 | 04:53 AM
#13
Boone & Crockett
Joined: Mar 2007
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From: Comance county, OK
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
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.
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.
