You boys in Oklahoma who are looking for shooting supplies

[JimT]

If you are near Tulsa, Jerry's Shooting Supply, 9435 East 51st St. , Suite "E" has a pretty decent supply of powder, bullets, brass ... selling primers with a purchase but only 100 to a customer .. $8.00 per hundred.
My son-in-law stopped in on his way through and picked up several pounds of 3031 and 2400 plus a few hundred cast and jacketed bullets. Powder is going for between $35 and $40 a pound for one pound cans.

[Bill in Oregon]

Wish I were closer!

[rossim92]

If you are near Tulsa, Jerry's Shooting Supply, 9435 East 51st St. , Suite "E" has a pretty decent supply of powder, bullets, brass ... selling primers with a purchase but only 100 to a customer .. $8.00 per hundred.
My son-in-law stopped in on his way through and picked up several pounds of 3031 and 2400 plus a few hundred cast and jacketed bullets. Powder is going for between $35 and $40 a pound for one pound cans.

can you make homemade gunpowder that is dependable?

[JimT]

If I could make as good a gunpowder as what I can buy I would never buy any.

[AJMD429]

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I made black powder when I was a teenager, but mostly used it to blow small things up, and never loaded it into a cartridge. Presumably it's not that difficult, and our ancestors did it with far less technology than we have available now. One of the things that made me purchase a 500 Smith & Wesson levergun was the concept that I could use 50 caliber sabots in the cartridges, and shoot almost any projectile, with almost any powder, since it was a straight walled cartridge that could function with almost any pressure from mild to wild. Primers would really be the only crucial and hard to make component.

Probably a more practical firearm for day-to-day hunting and even home protection and some circumstances would simply be a big bore air rifle, where all you need is a projectile. I would think that a 50 caliber air rifle or 45 caliber air rifle with appropriate sabots would mean you could basically shoot pea gravel if necessary with nothing other than compressed air for power.

[Bill in Oregon]

In regard to shootable black powder, this gentleman has a series of very good Youtubes on how to make it, safely. The most important ingredient by far is the charcoal.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1l4fopab_OM