I found times gone tech awhile back, he doesn't have a big following but I subscribed.
 I found him when I started researching make BP .
 Like how he described and tested serpentine, screened and press powders.
 I tried the big C clamp pressing method use shows but ended up with the 20 ton harbor freight press.
 With the price of Swiss here, about 56$ per LB and goex unavailable it just makes sense to make your own.
  And for those of you worried about pressing and grinding and grading etc
 Screened powder is the easier way to go and works pretty darn well too, just use alittle more that you would compared to pressed powder
IIRC that's the way it was made until the mid to later 18th century.
 Don't need any special equipment either, just a way to mill it , a harbor freight rock tumbler will work for that in small batches and a kitchen screen type strainer will work .
 Go make some powder dang it!!
Kevin
 
 

I hate it when the truth hurts, but good folks are gonna get squeezed even more in the coming months and years when the price of the holy black skyrockets ... or becomes unobtanium.

You read that here.

However, the smokeless nitro based subs will still be around, but they ain't gonna work well if at all for the flint guns.

Too windy here to shoot accurately. Besides I?m a fair weather shooter. And this weekend looks doubtful. Temperatures are supposed to dip to the 40s. More LRB casting I guess.
Ordered some mutton tallow. Gonna try the Gatofeo no 1 lube that Winter Hawk posted a while back.

Rob, that looks real good to my eyes,  .... with the exception of anything to do with traditional muzzleloaders since their inception which may go as far back as the 19th century and forward to about the middle of the 19th century."

We can push that "time frame" back to the 18th. century for "traditional muzzleloaders" (flintlock ignition). 

Here's a rough overlook of blackpowder use in America.
Gunpowder arrived in America with early European explorers and colonists in the 16th and 17th centuries for trade, hunting, and warfare, but the American colonies had severe shortages by the Revolutionary War (starting 1775), prompting desperate measures like raids on British stores and massive importation from French West Indies, with France becoming a crucial supplier of high-quality powder in 1776

Good catch - it's on the right track, just a bit off with the starting century, I think. I just revised whomever wrote that original TMA by-law statement from ...

Our prime TMA focus and goals surround everything and anything to do with traditional muzzleloaders since their inception which may go as far back as the 19th century and forward to about the middle of the 19th century.  Yes, these weapons that have been used for warfare, defense, and sustenance have been around for about a full millennium.

... to ...

Our prime TMA focus and goals surround everything and anything to do with traditional muzzleloaders since their inception that will go at least back to the 17th century with regards to flintlocks and forward to about the middle of the 19th century with percussion locks.  Yes, these weapons that have been used for warfare, defense, and sustenance have been around for hundreds of years.

That should cover the propensity of where we're coming from, just not specifically referring to hand gonnes, snaphaunces, wheellocks, matchlocks, etc, but we want them as well.

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