Well I took the Pinnacle out today for a test run. It was the FFFg grade. Good thing I went with the FFFg grade because it is pretty course otherwise. I could not even picture what the FFg would look like.
This powder I believe has some of the same properties that you will find with American Pioneer Powder as on the back of the container it tells you,
Developed jointly by Goex, Inc and American Pioneer Power, Inc.
Made in the U.S.A. by American Pioneer Powder, Inc
The powder is jet black in color and has those little moisture packets inside the container so your first thought is... is this moisture sensative?
The powder works good in both the inlines and sidelocks. It does not like the 460 grain No Excuses Conicals but then I never played with the load all that much do to lack of number of the conicals. It sprayed the conicals all over the place. I was not impressed with that.
Sabots shot very well out of the inline. One thing inline shooter might find of interest is there was no crud ring and very little fowling. I was shooting my T/C Black Diamond XR. I shot six T/C Mag Express XTP's and never swabbed. I really think I could have shot more but swabbed to see how much fowling was in the barrel. It was a one patch deal for sure.
I also shot roundball with excellent results out of my Hawkins cap lock. I fired 15 roundball and never swabbed the barrel. It shot the roundball excellent. I was shooting 90 grains of Pinnacle FFFg and a moosemilk patched roundball.
Clean up is easy with this powder. Water takes it right out of the barrel. I cleaned the sidelock with a water bath and could not get a solvent patch to pull any more out of the barrel. I even ran three of them to see if I was missing some fowling somewhere.
It still belches out a good amount of smoke but does not make a stink that I noticed. I think this has a lot of its roots in Clean Shot powder. I guess I like the little fowling and no crud ring, and the cleaning is easy. I wish I had a chronograph to see what kind of speed I was getting out of it. I need to shoot more of it...
I did not think this stuff had a chance with a flintlock so I never tried. Once the snow melts I will really put this stuff through the ringer...