Green River Sporting Black Powder
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Green River Sporting Black Powder
Next up, an oldie from Doc White! I have zero experience with this powder as it went out of business before I was born.
I greatly question whether it's true black powder or a substitute.
Many questions about this powder. I noted that the powder is bulky, light and if you look closely, has white throughout the granules, similar to what you'd find in pyrodex.
This 70gr volume load, almost is equal in weight to 80gr pyrodex rs. However, another important note.. pyrodex in the early years was a lot more bulky when they first started out.
Very dull in color, Gray's, whites, chunky, no graphite to be seen.
Sure wish Doc was still alive to answer these questions!
I do plan on testing it out when the weather is cooler.
UPDATED: Looking through some notes, American Pioneer Powder 2fg, weighs exactly 59 grains with the powder measure set at 70gr.
I greatly question whether it's true black powder or a substitute.
Many questions about this powder. I noted that the powder is bulky, light and if you look closely, has white throughout the granules, similar to what you'd find in pyrodex.
This 70gr volume load, almost is equal in weight to 80gr pyrodex rs. However, another important note.. pyrodex in the early years was a lot more bulky when they first started out.
Very dull in color, Gray's, whites, chunky, no graphite to be seen.
Sure wish Doc was still alive to answer these questions!
I do plan on testing it out when the weather is cooler.
UPDATED: Looking through some notes, American Pioneer Powder 2fg, weighs exactly 59 grains with the powder measure set at 70gr.
Re: Green River Sporting Black Powder
FrontierGander wrote:Next up, an oldie from Doc White! I have zero experience with this powder as it went out of business before I was born.
I greatly question whether it's true black powder or a substitute.
This powder was a true black powder. Tanyu Howard was trained by Bill Large to make GRRW barrels and was the genius and moving force behind Green River Black Powder. The only known photo of the Green River Powder plant is the tower you can dimly seen here. Tanyu Howard had been told
not to wear his biker boot in the tower because of the nails on his boot heels, the day it blew up he was wearing his boots and paid with his life when the tower went up.
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Re: Green River Sporting Black Powder
Size of the granual size looks like the cannon powder of goes. Works good in larger bores. Try it but be sensible. Velocity will be approx 20% lower than the same charge for 2f. I've shot alot of cannon powder in cartridge rifles. Food for thought.
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