It's amazing how clean that KiK powder burned in your test!.....John Boy!

Terry

podufa wrote on Jul 13^th, 2013 at 8:35pm:
Oops........ see how you could think that. Meant that he knocked over 32 of 40 animals. That would be a very long bullet if 32-40.

Mick B - lack of Goex in Oz sounds like a business opportunity.

I have to agree with Mick. I use Wano 1P in my 45/90 and 3P in the 40/65. I sock the 3P before using it. This reduces the fouling to that of Swiss. I get better accuracy with Wano than Swiss at half the price and easier availability

You put the powder into a sock (I presume one with some porosity). Shake it about thus removing the fines and dust. I've never done it, only read about it. Maybe someone can elaborate.
Bill

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Socking is no more dangerous for a 1 lb container than at manufacture a 2200 lbs are put in a drying rotary drum to reduce the moisture percentage down to about 6%.  In the polishing process, the rotating drum again rubs the angular edges to a 'rounded' condition - thus producing some powder fines and reducing the moisture down to 2 -3%.  Then before packaging most manufacturers coat the powder grains with graphite to allow for uniform drop in the powder chargers.  So we have in a can of powder - grain fines of powder and excess graphite.

Having screened every brand of powder for most of the grades - some brands have more fines that will pass through certified mesh laboratory screens - past the normal mesh mix by grade.  Say for FFg, fines will pass onto the 40-50 and 60 mesh screens.  These fines are composed of powder and INERT graphite.

So, the shooters back in the 1800's SOCKED powder brands with abnormal fines of powder and graphite.  

I sock different powder brands too, usually Goex and Diamondback with a knee high cotton athletic sock.  Pour the can in the sock, hold both ends of the sock OUTDOORS and rock it back and forth for a couple of minutes.  The fines will stick in the openings of the cotton sock thus yielding a more consistent powder grade and removing the INERT graphite fines that impedes ignition

I sock some brands for BPCR reloads only.  For CAS, what's in the can goes in the shells as is ... including Skirmish 1FA that I use for shot shells  

Socking is no more dangerous than the drying and polishing processes at the plants.  The only reason I sock outdoors is because I did it indoors once, blew my nose in a handkerchief for 2 days with black 'fines' in my snot as though I worked in a coal mine.

It's the fine dust that's raised that's dangerous, not the powder grains themselves.  Dust can cause dramatic explosions in material that would not normally be considered dangerous.  We all know gasoline fumes are explosive.  Dry commodities can and do blow just as easy. Sawdust in mills, Grain storage facilities , even Peanut shelling plants have exploded from dust suspended in the air.  Few years ago indoor shooting range in my area exploded when the range fans were turned off and suspended powder smoke went off. Ignition source never identified. Might have been static electricity someone may have been smoking or the fans when restarted may have ignited the dust.  One person seriously burned from the flash.   

Small amount of dust raised when dumping powder from a measure in a cartridge case very little risk.  More powder you dump higher the risk.  Use home methods, not spark shielded to sift out dust risk is substantially higher.  Now I don’t expect everybody to agree. If they have had professional fire fighting training and seen the effect of vapors and fine dust ignited my bet is they will agree.   

Boats