If you will remember a while back we had some discussion on whether or not black powder absorbed moisture or not. A point was brought that possibly the test I ran was not long enuf and possibly a longer test would show different results.

 Well, with the help of "GWarden" and his screened porch we're gonna run a much longer test. For a coupla months at least, and longer if GWarden wants to do the work.

 Just to make things a little more interesting I thought we ought to include a smokeless powder in the test to.

 The test is located at the web site below, and has all the particulars on powder used and how it's being carried out.

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PETE

Bob,

  As I mentioned at the end of the test, I think the test is slightly flawed in that we didn't have a check wgt. to see if, or how much the scale might be varying from day to day. Also I think we should have fired a set amount of shots with that batch to get a standard, so we could then fire a same number of shots afterwards. We proved that BP doesn't absorb moisture, but we didn't find out if the action of temp. and humidity might have affected performance.

  Since there didn't seem to be much interest according to the hit meter on that page, we'll leave that test to when we get you started shooting BP. 

PETE