Thread: Making Black Powder

Originally Posted by Micky Duck

https://web.archive.org/web/20110520...r/bp_menu.html here is the place to get your knowledge.....

That's an interesting page, been around for years - good place to start any research you might want to do.

Be warned - it can become addictive ...................

golf balls....amatures ...real men use blacksmiths anvils LMFAO....

I'd like to see the 'hang time' for an anvil ...............

Thirty years ago I was at an informal black powder shoot on a farm above one of the smaller Rotorua lakes - one guy had brought a beer can mortar that fired beer cans full of concrete. At the end of the 'shoot' we were standing around and half a mile away and considerably lower than us was a swan floating around minding its own business.

"I got one can left, reckon I could hit it ?"
"Sod off, you haven't a shit show."

And that beer can went straight through the middle of that swan, just left the outspread wings and a bit of wreckage floating.

"You rotten bastard, what'd you do that for ......."

And thats what that anvil comment made me think of.

Originally Posted by Micky Duck

golf balls....amatures ...real men use blacksmiths anvils LMFAO....

Like this?

Originally Posted by Micky Duck

golf balls....amatures ...real men use blacksmiths anvils LMFAO....

And that's why the average sale time for an anvil on here is about 4.5 minutes....

And I thought 'the Duck' was joking ............

Originally Posted by Makros

Right, as a constant tinkerer, one of my follies next year is going to give casting bullets and making my own black powder a go. I'm kinda leaning towards purchasing a flintlock eventually so I can shoot home brewed projectiles and powder which will be neat.

I'm quite happy I can source all of the components at a reasonable price and I can make an unlimited amount of willow charcoal as it's not exactly scarce in NZ.

But I'm interested in what people are using to tumble/mill the powder in NZ. I know overseas a lot use a harbour freight sources rock tumbler which we obviously don't have here. Anyone got any good sources for such equipment. Would also like to try tumbling with ceramic balls rather than lead as a few sources have found this creates cleaner burning powder.

Also is any one compressing and corning their black powder? If so how are you doing it/ what are you using. I might need to find someone with a lathe to make a pucking die!

Anyway be interested in how others are doing it and general experience.

Any of the Harbour Freight stuff can be sourced from Aliexpress, I got the same cutoff saw that they sell for cutting .223 to .300 blackout in 230 Volt
I would say the rock tumbler would be available, American no longer make small cheap tools the import what ever they can,