What Black Powder Firing Looks Like

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Went shooting today. Caught the wife firing a shot with her .32 cal Black
Powder Muzzleloading Pistol. This is only a very light 17 grs. Goex FFF
Black Powder target load. In full daylight. This is a 11 inch barrel. Can you
imagine what 40 grs in a Colt 45 4 3/4 barrel back in the old west would be?

 

[Cosmoline]

Nice capture! Check out this ultra slow mo of just a pan full of 2F igniting in a Siler lock. It looks like some nebula exploding in space:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GzgVnH6uEP0

 

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Slow Motion of The Shot

 

[bwsmith2850]

Nice, I can't quite catch the flame.

Can you imagine what 40 grs in a Colt 45 4 3/4 barrel back in the old west would be?

It would look a bit like this....



30 gr in an 8" 1858 Remington



and 40gr. Honest, there is a gun in there somewhere...

 

[Calibre44]

Great pics - here is the first time I shot a BP Pistol. I loved it so much I now own three!
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[AirForceShooter]

And then there's the smell.
It's unique.

Love shooting BP

AFS

 

[heron]

Nice capture! Check out this ultra slow mo of just a pan full of 2F igniting in a Siler lock. It looks like some nebula exploding in space:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GzgVnH6uEP0

Quit doing that, you'll go blind!

 

[Manco]

Every time I see this stuff, I just know I have to get into BP shooting. If I didn't already have so many hobbies--most of which seem to involve traveling back in time in some manner--I would have already!

It would look a bit like this....

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30 gr in an 8" 1858 Remington

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and 40gr. Honest, there is a gun in there somewhere...

Now that's something the Old West shooters had that most of us don't--their own automatic smokescreens for concealment. Somebody should send these pictures to the producers of the TV series "Gunsmoke" to show them just how misnamed their series really was.

 

[ojh]

Here's a flintlock and a Japanese-style matchlock at this year's Finnish Black Powder Championship contest.

 

[jawrat]

Interesting article over at gunsamerica about powder pistols...