Why not wait for your magazine? Should be along any day now.

John Boy 
The article was written about Blackhorn 209 only. The cliff notes are that the Blackhorn 209 shot very well. The groups from a trapdoor were impressive. I was about to publish it 2 Journals before this latest Journal. When I got a call from the author, asking me to delay the article. He had just gone down to his safe to get the trapdoor and found the barrel choked with rust. He said that he was having the powder residue chemically tested and wished to write a postscript. Turns out the residue left in the barrel can be highly corrosive. Read the entire article carefully. 
40 Rod

Mine came today and read it with deep interest.  There has been much discussion on several boards - is it a true sub or is it 'flavored' with nitrocellulose - which it is.

And the spectrograph reading that Blackhorn 209 and Trail Boss 'are very similar' was a shocker.  Trail Boss is billed as true smokeless powder which doesn't produce sulfuric acid that pits and rusts bores.
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Folks, if you use either powder, make sure you clean your bore immediately after shooting

I can believe it.  Right after Triple 7 came out I developed loads with it for the 577/450 and used it when I went to South Africa to hunt.  After taking two animals I cleaned the gun and packed it away for the trip home.  When I got home I cleaned all the guns again and put them away.  This was followed by a 2000 mile move and not shooting for 6 months.  Later when I pulled that Martini out and found that hard concrete crud ring  that grew in the throat even though the bore was still oily!!! What a shock.

It cleaned out with intensive application of steel wool wrapped around a bore brush.  There was no rust, but the bore is no longer shiney in the area where the crud ring was.

Solution looking for a problem. Black Powder works fine, If sombody wants smokeless and non corrosive, there is 4759.

Boats

If you look in the right place it isn't that difficult to find black powder.   

The deal that Powder inc does with shipping in 5 lb lots as well as including hazemat and shipping in the cost  make it pretty simple to get black powder.

Personally I find it less work to clean up black powder than the synthetics.

DoubleD wrote on Jan 22^nd, 2009 at 10:52pm:


I agree with your last point.

But since there are places where there is NO blackpowder availble within a radius of 100 miles AND since the HAZMAT fee is going UP to something like over $20 (if I heard correctly) then there is certainly room for finding alternatives that work.