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Article: Blackhorn 209 a sensational, new, black powder substitute.(Quarter Master)
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- Guns Magazine
- Article date:
- October 1, 2008
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It looks like smokeless powder. It smells like smokeless powder. It ignites like smokeless powder. It is non-corrosive, non-hydroscopic, temperature insensitive, leaves minimal fouling and cleans up with normal oil-based solvents. Ah, but it also produces big billows of acrid smelling smoke, can be loaded volume-for-volume with black powder, produces high velocities and low pressures with excellent accuracy. The only limiting factor is it is only compatible with solid breech, 209-primer-fired inlines and black powder cartridges.
Is this stuff magic? Yes, it is. We've been waiting a long, long time for it, too! It's Western Powders' new black powder replacement, ...