I went out to break in my Nachez Poor Boy on Sunday. First shot from the bench was a bullseye! I thought i was good to go and proceeded to try off hand shooting with it, which turned out terrible pnic. Anyway, after 4 rounds through it I ran a spit patch down it and there was some heavy granular substance like sand on the patch. I also shot the same powder out of a Jukar Kentucky rifle and my 1858 revolver with the same results. The grains were red in color. Have any of you experience this in the past? It is a pretty old can of powder that i picked up at a gun show. I didn't think to take any pictures of the patches.
sounds like rust !
I have used old 3f powder in the past and never had a problem except that it gave me a little more velocity than I was used to and printed a little higher. Sometimes there was a little clumping of the powder but as long as the clumps were soft enough to break up easily it shot just fine.
Cherrybow1, [hmm] So does it look like normal Black-powder in the measure? Or is rust flaking off the inside of the can and getting in the powder? pnic pnic
The color suggests sulfur. :mini-devil-28492:
Quote from: Watauga on March 22, 2022, 10:49:24 PM
Cherrybow1, [hmm] So does it look like normal Black-powder in the measure? Or is rust flaking off the inside of the can and getting in the powder? pnic pnic
That is a good thought. It looked normal, but then again, I wasn't looking at it that hard. I may try burning some on a clean metal surface and see what kind of residue is left behind.
I did a little burn comparison with the powder in question. It didn't show the residue that I found in the barrel but it did burn noticeably slower than the other 2 samples of fffg powder. Which is an old can of GOEX and a bottle of KIK. The KIK was obviously faster and easier to light so it went into the horn for the next round of shooting.
Maybe this is just normal residue...here is patches with the same thing described but different powder.
interesting , I`ve seen rust on patches , but it looked nothing like that .
Green color usually has something to do with copper. Are you using a bronze bristle brush to clean?
Quote from: Patocazador on March 31, 2022, 05:50:54 PM
Green color usually has something to do with copper. Are you using a bronze bristle brush to clean?
I was thinking something similar , the new copper balls that are required in some areas now ! if it`s a used gun , it could be built up residue !
Brand new Colerain barrel. I haven't used anything but water and cotton patches when cleaning then a barricade moistened patch.
Shooting hornady lead balls
" and so the plot thickens ! "
Indeed it does thicken... [hmm]
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I don't know if you ever came up with an answer for this, but someone at a match recently said that with the old powders if you had the load "just right" there would be a few little red dots in the fowling when you cleaned. That sounds a lot like what you had but I have no idea whether that theory is true since I never heard of it before and I don't remember seeing it myself.
I will not swear this is fact but the red dots are probably sulfur