1 Pound Black Powder (Pyrodex)

Just a little fun with black powder.

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[boomboom314159]

@FMJCANADA This is a retarded argument. If you had read a little more you would have seen that pyrodex uses the same 3 main ingredients as BP... KNO3, C, and S. The difference is a very small amount of graphite added to decrease sensitivity, and a small amount of KClO4 to increase power.

[boomboom314159]

@3inrifle You might want to check your research; it was either TNT or smokeless powder; the black powder was used to initiate the SP. Black powder just doesn't have the speed for good fragmentation.

Also, it's closer to 55% RE factor of TNT, but it's not even close to the VOD of TNT. Technically gasoline has more energy than TNT, but it reacts much slower.

[AugustinusSextus]

@FMJCANADA retarded much?

[FMJCANADA]

@leslyclaypoolio clearly you know nothing about Canada cuz everything i know about guns is from personal experience since ive been shooting since i was like 6 i also have both my lisences for long guns and restricted carbines and handguns and reload all my own ammo and could out shoot you any day anywhere.

[334683171014]

Ya now just pack it into a pvc pipe with the top end capped off and set it up straight and that mother will fly!!!!

[334683171014]

@FMJCANADA Oh my god!! Mr technical. Technically it's not gun powder, it's Electrons Protons and Neutrons! Google that!

[JohnAbroBoi]

lol I think you can make a rocket out of it :P

[jmar1371]

Pyrodex.

[jmar1371]

@BigBananaMan In a word... Wrong.

Black powder is black powder. BP substitutes are BP substitutes. There are applications where they are not interchangeable.

And I don't know where you live, but I'm in California, and I have no problem at all buying real 4F BP. Buy it by the pound, use it by the gram. In the application where I use it, Pyrodex, or any other substitute, won't work. Doesn't burn fast enough. Some times, you need a spike of pressure that a sub won't provide.

[BigBananaMan]

Oh you robots and your improper parsing of the English language...

Whenever somebody on earth says "black powder" they usually refer to black powder substitutes, minus the extra 3 syllables, not the practically impossible to buy real black powder which you will never see unless you make it yourself.

gun powder=smokeless propellant (solid powder granule form, not compressed gas canisters or plasma arc)

black powder=any common sense black powder substitute

homemade black powder=pirate cannon ammo

[pyrochemieNET]

@FMJCANADA

Thats where you are from. But in the whole world gunpowder is straight bp. So i think its time to excuse. Not only to me. Excuse to boomboom314159

[FMJCANADA]

@pyrochemieNET ok we're refering to " gun powder " differently where i come from " gun powder " means smokeless powder and black powder has always just been black powder

[pyrochemieNET]

@FMJCANADA

"Gunpowder, also known since the late 19th century as black powder, is a mixture of sulfur, charcoal, and potassium nitrate (saltpeter)." (wiki)

I think its time to excuse now.

[FMJCANADA]

@pyrochemieNET haha your a fucking idiot gun powder and black powder are not the same if they were we would still be using the same guns we were using over 100 years ago

[pyrochemieNET]

@FMJCANADA

You loose, gun powder is the same as blackpowder. Today there are some new mixtures but gunpowder is blackpowder;) Can you hear this?.... ?? ...? This is your soul feeling STUPID:AS:HELL!!!

[TheTOMSRT]

what you do it????? :O



[drchen054]

I'm going to guess this was granulated and not crushed to fine powder.If it was fine powder, the container would be blown apart probably.

[FMJCANADA]

@boomboom314159 it really is my bad dude

[jasbevizz]

it needs to be tite put a cap on next time but that wuz cool it wuz like a fountain

[dthhavok110]

ha ha.... holy crap

lol

[boomboom314159]

@3inrifle OK, the reason I said that is because I work with HE, energetic materials. I was comparitively speaking when I said it was weak... and in comparison to HE it is weak; it does not detonate.

Also, I am very safe when working with HE, I take all the necessary precautions, so enough talk of people losing limbs. Let's just end the discussion.

[3inrifle]

@Tril69 - Possibly because I care about safety. All too many people who say things like "black powder is shit anyways, it's very weak." end up missing body parts, or causing their friends to end up missing body parts.

Also, I don't want to see more restrictions put on powder or muzzle loading cannons because some capon in office reads a blub in the paper about someone being injured and decides that he needs to Do Something about it.

[Tril69]

@3inrifle who cares he was just having fun this isnt some rocket science contest

[3inrifle]

@boomboom314159 I did, including some older USMC manuals. Late versions, say Viet Nam era, did use TNT. Korea was a mix. WWII, if the manuals and references were correct, were all black powder.

But, that is by the by...my point, which you seem to have missed, is that BP is anything but "weak."

[3inrifle]

@boomboom314159

You might want to do some research on black powder. It isn't 'very weak." The US MKII Hand Grenade used a bursting charge of 2 ounces. It has roughly 65% of the energy of TNT.

Your video looked like you were burning off some Pyrodex.