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[Andy54Hawken]

I got 1 lb of fff back in July at green's I think it was around 35 bucks.
By the way @Andy54Hawken I see you change your location.
Good thing .
I believe you're old house is under water today.

Yep nice to be above water....I saw our old house on the news...and yep...the water is over the floor at the least....
Andy

 

[EPS]

Yep nice to be above water....I saw our old house on the news...and yep...the water is over the floor at the least....
Andy

I knew it as soon as I saw pictures of the river .

 

[Capn Jack]

Speaking of military language, my #1 son returned from 2 tours in Marines Gulf 1 duty speaking a virtually indecipherable dialect

We always had to be careful about using our, "non-tec. manual nomenclature" around mixed company. Especially the descriptive adjustives.

 

[Stomper]

It's the kind of a comment made by us ex-military types as a comment enlarger/permitted hyperbole.

In the interests of trying not to offend any dog-lovers here, I won't use it again - promise.

I can, however, assure you that NO dogs were financially incapacitated by the use of my grammatical hyperbole.

Military speech has much content that is nigh-on incomprehensible to the average English speaker in Civvy Street. There is one phrase, however, that has made the transition from the Army into the civilian milieu - it is, of course the Army name for a fried egg sandwich - the famous 'egg banjo'.

It has nothing to do with the shape of the comestible, but instead describes the action of the eater who is unlucky enough to have squirted the soft yolk down his front and is trying, unsuccessfully, to brush it off whilst still holding on to it with one hand - try it and see....

Using that obtuse method of a food-naming convention, I don't EVEN want to know how y'all came up with, "spotted dick"!

 

[tac]

Using that obtuse method of a food-naming convention, I don't EVEN want to know how y'all came up with, "spotted dick"!

Spotted Dick is a steamed suet pudding containing dried fruit, and is thought to have originated in the middle of the 19th Century. The "spotted" part of the name refers to the currants, which resemble spots, and "Dick" is believed to derive from the word dough.

Now we've cleared that up, take a look at 'star-gazey pie'.

 

[foxmeadow]

Last time I bought The Sacred Black it was <$25/lb. Six or so years ago.

Joe

So was smokeless.

 

[orygun]

I saw a couple of choices of smokeless in a store the other day. Sounds strange, but was pleased to see most of it under $40. Absurd....
Fortunately I'm sitting on several pounds of my "go-tos".

 

[Forger]

I just paid $19 per pound last week . For real BP

 

[Capn Jack]

I've had a pound of the phoney stuff sitting in the powder cabinet for several years now. I just haven't run out of the real stuff and been forced to use it.

 

[ma96782]

tac,

Is it illegal to make your own BP?

NOT saying that I would.

Aloha, Mark

 

[Mikej]

tac,

Is it illegal to make your own BP?

NOT saying that I would.

Aloha, Mark

@tac

Just sayin'.

 

[tac]

It almost goes without saying, in a country that suffered over thirty-five years of home-grown terrorism and wholesale murder by various terrorist groups, that the making of explosive substances at home is illegal - like 25 years jailtime illegal.

However, as yet it is not illegal to READ about the process, so I can heartily recommend Brett Gibbons' latest book about home-brewing of BP - fascinating stuff! I recommend it to anybody with ambitions to be parted from their facial hair on a regular basis.

Seriously, though, it's nothing less than the recent history of BP manufacture from a commercial POV, as well as the keen and motivated amateur.

The book is called 'Like fire and powder', and it comes with a pair of stick-on eyebrows*.







*Not really.

 

[Capn Jack]

I'll never forget the night, (in my early teens) when I decided to test some of my, "Home Brew BP". I had about a cup full in an open can on my desk and I decided to light a small amount a couple of feet away.

You guessed it. A spark went into the open can and for what seemed like forever, I had the prettiest orange fountain of flame I had ever seen.

Luckily, when the smoke cleared, the only damage was a cup sized burn on the desk and a bunch of little pock marks on the ceiling. Needless to say, any further, "burn" tests were performed outside.

 

[Bon Sauvage]

However, as yet it is not illegal to READ about the process, so I can heartily recommend Brett Gibbons' latest book about home-brewing of BP - fascinating stuff! I recommend it to anybody with ambitions to be parted from their facial hair on a regular basis.

Seriously, though, it's nothing less than the recent history of BP manufacture from a commercial POV, as well as the keen and motivated amateur.

The book is called 'Like fire and powder', and it comes with a pair of stick-on eyebrows*.







*Not really.

Spot on! His other books are pretty good too.

 

[tac]

Spot on! His other books are pretty good too.

I have 'em all.

Sadly for me, Mr G lives in a beautiful period house in Gettysburg PA, and I'm therefore unable to avail myself of his many fine products due to shipping costs of a ridiculous level.

I would happily spend our granddaughter's inheritance on paper cartridges for my .577 and .451 cal rifles and his beautiful swaged bullets to fit in them.... sigh...................

 

[Member 38805]

The new owners of Goex (Estes) just announced last week that they are up and running making Goex and Olde Eynsford BP again! So I'd expect the Goex powders to return to shelves in the next couple months.
Need to keep checking the usual sources online to see if they list it, and it should hit store shelves soon after.

 

[Cottonwood]

I'm set last case I bought was at $8.00 a pound for both FFFg and FFg, slowly using it up at 50 gr charges when I practice.