Thread: Black powder in a charge master it says not to but Realistically....

My Chargemaster recently played up when dispensing Winchester ball powder 296. W296 seems to have very fine "dust" in it compared to W760 which I also run thru the CM wit out issues. The fine granules worked their way down around the rotating tube's bearing and the dispenser noticeably started to slow down, to the point that it was too sluggish to trickle the last 1/2 grain. I had to strip the CM down and clean out the fine dust.

What I am saying, aside from safety recommendations is that your BP may do the same with your CM. Back in the day when I shot a lot of BP both muzzle loader and cartridge I used to use a lot of WANO powder which was extremely dusty. It would have been a classic candidate to jam up my CM.

Back to safety, for a long while I used an RCBS Uniflow dispenser for BP. I then reflected on what I was doing (younger and sillier than) and ceased. There was probably a greater chance of something going wrong with the Uniflow than CM.

So, cannot recommend using a CM.