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To: buffaloguy

They use to manufacture and maybe still do for some special purposes what what was call bulk smokeless that had black powder burn rate and pressures. There are black powder substitutes that are used in muzzle loading arms that are basically the same burning rate of black but are really more smokeless.


14 posted on 12/03/2012 7:17:51 AM PST by riverrunner
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To: riverrunner

I have used the black powder substitutes in muzzle loaders and am quite familiar with them and this is not one of them. The substitutes are basically black powder with substitutions of other chemicals for the sulfur.

Hard to clean, somewhat corrosive and quite frankly the lack of a large fragrant cloud is a real bummer compared to the real thing.


23 posted on 12/03/2012 7:41:04 AM PST by buffaloguy
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