Weird question-.303" black powder.

How did you get the mask to seal around all that hair???????

Guess you know how them wimmin feel when they wax their legs then eh dave?

Smokey wrote: Dave, "71.5 grains of RFG2 Black powder."   I never heard of that type. Is it "Real Fine Grain 2"

  Can't say that I know for sure ! apparently though they use to roll it (the charge) into a cylinder shape that was tappered at each end with a hole through the middle. This would have given a greater area of mass there by making it a Fast burning charge .

  Dave

hoadie wrote: Is that the kind of charge they ORIGINALLY used in the Snider "Rolling Block"? Hoadie

 It would seem .That it was the 'Standard' Powder  Type right through from the  Sniders  & 577-450s  to the .303 . I Damned if I can find a comparison to ,todays types of Black powder though so far as burning rates ! Can you though some light on the Subject Hoadie ???

    Dave

"I use FFF @ 80 grains (average) in my Enfield .577"

Well -I can tell you that from my black powder artillery school(a lifetime ago) there was mention of "pellet". Now-w/reference to my artillery book,it says:Aside from gradual improvement in the formula,no grt change in pwdr making came till 1860, when Gen.Thom.J Rodman(hoadie note-the Rodman gun)of the U.S.ordanace dept. began 2 tailor powder to the calibre of the gun.Action of ordinary cannon pwdr was too sudden.Whole charge was consumed before the projectile had fairly started on itsway-& strain on the gun was terrific.Rodman compressed pwdr into disks that fit the bore of the gun.Disks were an inch or 2 thick,& pierced w/holes.this arrangement a minimum of powder surface was exposed @ beginning of combustion,but as fire ate holeslarger,burning area actually increased-producing greater volume of gas as the projectile moved forward.Rodman thus laid the foundationfor the "progressive burning"pellets of modern powders.
Hmmm... Help any?
Hoadie

Any idea what they used to bind the powder to make the disks?  Gelatine or a chemical binder to hold them in shape?

I used to go to a range out in the PRK to shoot my replica Spiller & Burr and Griswold & Gunnison .36s.  They won't hit crap, but a guy used to come out with a Ruger Old Army and "ring the bell" (hit a school bus brake drum down at the end of the rifle range) 385 yards away with startling regularity.