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Didn't intend for my post starting a big uproar just wanted to let you guys know about wally world and Blackhorn powder. sorry if i caused ill feelings.
Didn't intend for my post starting a big uproar just wanted to let you guys know about wally world and Blackhorn powder. sorry if i caused ill feelings.
Nowhere near enough. Sometimes it seems like they only made 5-10 lbs of itQuestion….How many pounds are produced per Lot # of BH209?
Question….How many pounds are produced per Lot # of BH209?
Its the only way I buy it and I check daily. I can't find it yet........Has anyone seen the 5# Jugs of BH 209 For Sale anywhere? My Local Walmarts have Never Sold any Muzzleloader Supplies☹
I hate to say but past 100 yards is not considered long distance for black powderThis again is from the perspective of someone that has yet to engage in long distance (over 100 yards) muzzleloading shooting. Nor, yet shot BH209.
From watching threads here, and looking at the cost of BH209 pre-Covid-19, the only way I would consider purchasing it on a regular basis would be in the 5 pound jugs.
Because it was shelf stable, it only made sense to me to save up money to buy the 5 pound jugs as then the price per shot became as reasonable as possible. Compared to black powder, I never saw the price of BH209 as reasonable.
Only if I was going to shoot a scoped inline with all of an its nooks and crannies to clean, would BH209 make any kind of sense to me.
Only, if I absolutely felt that I could not live without the ability to kill at distances equal to a modern scoped centerfire rifle, would the higher cost per shot of BH209 make any sense to me.
In sidelocks.......
Ordinary Goex, or Schuetzen, black powder in ffg & fffg grades, under a patched ball of the proper diameter (.45-.62 caliber), will kill effectively out to 125 yards if the shooter can see to kill at that distance, and if his rifle is equipped with front & rear sights that will allow him to do so.
The same Goex & Schuetzen, ffg & fffg grades of black powder, under lubed lead conicals, will kill effectively out to as far of a distance as a shooter can possibly see with a tang-mounted, vernier rear sight equipped with a Hadley Eyedisc. In conjunction with a front sight compatible with the terrain one is going to hunt in. The only limitations are, again, the quality of the shooter's eyesight, the sights on the rifle, and the shooter's ethics in killing a big game animal at long distance.
If one were willing to put a scope on a sidelock, then the ability to see the 18th/19th Century style sights becomes moot, and the only limitations are the diameter of the patched ball, its weight, and its ability to retain its muzzle velocity out past 100 yards.
A .58 caliber, .60 caliber, .62 caliber, or .66 caliber patched ball in a sidelock equipped with a scope is capable, depending upon the rate of twist, and the subsequent powder charge, of reaching out to 200 yards with sufficient killing power for deer, elk, bear, and moose.
A 1:20" twist, .45 caliber sidelock equipped with a scope, shooting lubed lead conicals, would theoretically be capable of reaching out to 800 yards just like a .45/70 Trapdoor Springfield, or a Sharps Business Rifle.
Utilizing Goex, Graf's, Schuetzen, Olde Eynsford, or Swiss black powders.
At a lower cost per shot than BH209.
We'll have to see what Hogdon does as far as the supply and demand for BH209 is concerned, compared to the previous owner up in Canada. With a yearly increasingly larger demand for BH209, one would think that the company would have just produced enough to satisfy the demand in the United States for it. I can see the big box stores not wanting to keep it in stock seasonally, but the online internet suppliers being allowed to run out on a regular basis made no sense to me at all.
You would have thought that the powder rep for the company would have been calling every single internet seller of BH209 on the regular to keep them well stocked up. Unless, of course, the company deliberately kept the supply short to create an intense demand that would allow them to charge what I consider outrageous prices for a muzzleloading propellant.
Unless, of course, the company deliberately kept the supply short to create an intense demand that would allow them to charge what I consider outrageous prices for a muzzleloading propellant.
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