Hunting with homemade gunpowder?
12-21-2019, 12:44 PM
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Spike
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Hunting with homemade gunpowder?
Anybody else have experience hunting with homemade gunpowder?
Fairly dangerous and I wouldn't recommend it unless you really know what you're doing, but to see my experience, Google "hunting with homemade gunpowder" and then select "Videos" to narrow the results, and you'll see a guy in blaze orange. That's me!
I'd love to hear about other people's experiences trying this.
(Sorry, accidentally posed this on the wrong forum yesterday. Will remove ASAP!)
-jd
Fairly dangerous and I wouldn't recommend it unless you really know what you're doing, but to see my experience, Google "hunting with homemade gunpowder" and then select "Videos" to narrow the results, and you'll see a guy in blaze orange. That's me!
I'd love to hear about other people's experiences trying this.
(Sorry, accidentally posed this on the wrong forum yesterday. Will remove ASAP!)
-jd
12-31-2019, 04:54 PM
#3
Spike
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Join Date: Dec 2019
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So true. I don't take the risk lightly and no one should.
In the video in question, I just say you combine the ingredients "in a special way." I omit key details intentionally. If you don't do it right, you'll always get a powder that's less potent, not more.
I guess there are a lot of "how to" sources of info out there (a lot of them are junk info). If those guys are OK with having that on their conscience, not my problem.
I still remember the first time I went to a little gun shop and bought a pound of authentic GOEX FFFFg black powder. The guy was kind of reluctant to sell it to me, and I said, "I suppose that much black powder could take my hand off." And he said, "Son, that much powder could take your house off its foundation." A little hyperbole, I'm sure, but he was right to make the point.
Then again, riding a motorcycle, operating a chain saw, etc. are risky too ... a lot of the cool things in life are.
Happy New Year to you, Spike.
- Jon
In the video in question, I just say you combine the ingredients "in a special way." I omit key details intentionally. If you don't do it right, you'll always get a powder that's less potent, not more.
I guess there are a lot of "how to" sources of info out there (a lot of them are junk info). If those guys are OK with having that on their conscience, not my problem.
I still remember the first time I went to a little gun shop and bought a pound of authentic GOEX FFFFg black powder. The guy was kind of reluctant to sell it to me, and I said, "I suppose that much black powder could take my hand off." And he said, "Son, that much powder could take your house off its foundation." A little hyperbole, I'm sure, but he was right to make the point.
Then again, riding a motorcycle, operating a chain saw, etc. are risky too ... a lot of the cool things in life are.
Happy New Year to you, Spike.
- Jon
