FFFFG – locally!

[muleParticipant]

There are enough of us who are members of NAR and the NRA. No biggie.

I’m a Lifer in the NRA and GOA and am a member of the dark side… So, I hope that gets me at least a brownie button. I would love to have a flintlock, I may end up with one sometime in the future. I own an original 1812-14 ish percussion cap musket. It was made when the Brown Bess muskets got burned in the Tower of London fire…..

Also, remember that ffff powder has only one use – priming charge in the pan on flintlock weapons. Most BP weapons use 3f, 2f or 1f as the actual charge to fire the bullet.

Warren

Whats a Flint-Lock? Is that before we started using Shotgun primers?
I’ll have to get one, so I can use up this 4f.

Scott, I can’t see your face, so I hope you are joking 😛

Warren, Cannons also use FFG…..

[Warren B. MusselmanModerator]

The only cannon I’ve ever had was a PVC potato gun I built, but that used either White Rain hair spray or propane. My cousins had a carbide cannon that made quite a noise as I recall, but I was always bummed it didn’t shoot anything.

W

[muleParticipant]

I had delusions of grandeurs once and almost bought a real 1800s cannon. Soooooo glad I didn’t, you think Scott’s is loud 😯 Try one that has a 3-4″ bore. Man that would be cool though.

I made tennis ball cannons out of the tennis ball cans and used lighter fluid. Flaming balls at night. Kind of sounds like an adult horror story 😳 A friend of mine has a PVC tater cannon, his uses a striker for a Coleman stove for ignition and the hair spray. Those are loud too.

So, have we sufficiently got off topic or what???? Oh well, good fun.

talk to you guys later, I’m off to Kansas Friday morning – again…
Greg

[SCOTT EVANS]

There are enough of us who are members of NAR and the NRA. No biggie.

I’m a Lifer in the NRA and GOA and am a member of the dark side… So, I hope that gets me at least a brownie button. I would love to have a flintlock, I may end up with one sometime in the future. I own an original 1812-14 ish percussion cap musket. It was made when the Brown Bess muskets got burned in the Tower of London fire…..

Also, remember that ffff powder has only one use – priming charge in the pan on flintlock weapons. Most BP weapons use 3f, 2f or 1f as the actual charge to fire the bullet.

Warren

Whats a Flint-Lock? Is that before we started using Shotgun primers?
I’ll have to get one, so I can use up this 4f.

Scott, I can’t see your face, so I hope you are joking 😛

Warren, Cannons also use FFG…..

Not to brag, but I knocked a buck off a glacier at 185 yards with a Hawken and open sites. I cheated , it had a double set trigger.
Unfortunately, it wasn’t a one shot kill. With the Knight Rifle (and the peep sites) it might of been.
I killed a running Antilope Buck at 300 Yards (Heart Shot) with a Mannlicher-Schoenauer 270, again I cheated, double set trigger.
Do you think I know what a Flint-Lock is? 😉
I dont hunt much any more. To hard of work.
Nothing like grain and corn fed cattle meat!

[muleParticipant]

Not to brag, but I knocked a buck off a glacier at 185 yards with a Hawken and open sites. I cheated , it had a double set trigger.
Unfortunately, it wasn’t a one shot kill. With the Knight Rifle (and the peep sites) it might of been.
I killed a running Antilope Buck at 300 Yards (Heart Shot) with a Mannlicher-Schoenauer 270, again I cheated, double set trigger.
Do you think I know what a Flint-Lock is? 😉
I dont hunt much any more. To hard of work.
Nothing like grain and corn fed cattle meat!

HEY – not fair, you set me up 😛

I have the same Hawkins, my only story is a cow Elk and it’s not much of one….. I have a new CVA Wolf .50-mag, but haven’t got to hunt since a trip to Alaska 2 years ago. Anyway…… I think my trip to KS got moved up to tonight, so I won’t get the powder till next week. No biggie. Have a good one.

[Jeffrey Joe HintonModerator]

Doesn’t really matter where you get your powder from as long as you keep it dry. Blunderbuss is a good shop. Used to be a great shop in old Fort Collins, Grandpa’s Guns or something but I’m not sure it’s there anymore.

[John]

If anyone would be willing to bring me a 1lb can of 4F at Oktoberfest I’d certainly appreciate it and obviously pay for it. For use in my blackpowder rifle of course! I’ll be driving and possibly sleeping in a chocolate brown Tahoe. I am both a NAR and TRA member.

John

[Steve JensenParticipant]

The old guy retired and closed it. There is no BP FFFF in Fort Collins.

[bryans]

some may cry heresy, but i have been using 3f quite happily, mostly because it was around already for a kit built BP pistol. I find that the larger particle size does not behave much differently than the stuff AT supplies with reloads. I just always make sure to pack carefully, and ground test with the powder i intend to use, not assume that a given volume will behave the same across two different types.

Seems to me like that would be true for substitutes as well… your deployment system has to be able to ignite , and as long as it doesnt shoot burning particles through your , its just a ground testing exercise.

[MikeSModerator]

I use 3F also. Could not get 4F.

I had to adjust the amount a little.

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