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Do you mean an actual wooden keg? How much was in it to begin with? I hope you didn't throw it away.
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No .. it was a tin one ... I think I paid a little over $60.00 for it ... I remember it was pretty expensive at the time .. more than $1.50 a pound. I got it from a guy who was closing out his gun shop and selling stuff off. I didn't want to keep 40 pounds of black all in one place so I split it up into 2 and 4 pound cans and kept them in seperate locations.
I think I found a picture of one. Looks somewhat like a miniature oil drum? Wow, 40lbs of powder. Is there anything larger than 8lbs available nowadays?
"...In this present crisis, government isn't the solution to the problem; government is the problem." Ronald Reagan
"...all experience hath shewn, that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed." Declaration of Independence
I picture Yosemite Sam running around with a keg leaving a trail behind him. Not that I'm comparing you, Jim, to Yosemite Sam. I'm sorry for your loss and that you had to use up all that powder.
Otto wrote:I think I found a picture of one. Looks somewhat like a miniature oil drum? Wow, 40lbs of powder. Is there anything larger than 8lbs available nowadays?
I tried to buy black powder in bulk a few years back. The most the gunshop was allowed to sell was 1 pound to a person per day, and I think the regs here are a max of 5 pounds per person in posession. Stoopid laws here. (california).
Just finished a book about the New Jersey and her sisters. Their 16" guns used 660 lbs of powder per shot, with a black powder ignition charge. Wonder what a 16", 2700lb, Sierra Matchking would shoot like?
When I was shooting matches every month I'd order from Coonies and they'd ship a case with 24 one pound cans right to the house by way of the little brown truck. No reason why someone couldn't do the same today.
If you're gonna be stupid ya gotta be tough-
Isiah 55:8&9
It's easier to fool people than it is to convince them they have been fooled.
What a blessing! But passing of an era? Yes indeed. DuPont is missed.
