Thread: Take a punt

Weather doesn't look to good tomorrow but if not raining and the spot the guys have lined up to test is suitable(farking big soft back stop etc) will be all go.
One of my powder dippers takes 30gr of the black powder mix so will do reverse handloading procedure and put 3 scoops in or 90gr first firing to "PROOF" it, will wall in with steel to protect myself and others from bad things.
If nothing blows up will go down two two scoops and depending on velocity and un burnt powder one scoop.
That is of course assuming it fires
Have done a test fire just with a rag rammed down the bore on top of a scoop on the end of my 300mm rule of milled but not granulated powder and no wick just powder packed down the wick hole. It went and smelled like Guy Fawks night
Since then powder has been granulated which according to my googling helps bond the components on a molecular level and increases efficiency but the bigger the granules the slower it is.I have never seen commercial black powder but my grain size is about half of 2208 or twice superformance.
Made some wicks that work great with nice consistent burn outside the cannon but who knows if they will work in it....I think/hope they will.