mixed powder

[brew]

Some knucklehead foolishly mixed equal amounts of FFg with FFFg in my horn. I dont imagaine this would result in any danger when shooting but I assume it will effect my ignition. Has anyone had any experience with such a mixture? What might I expect?
Oh, and by the way, I am the knucklehead!

 

[roundball]

Some knucklehead foolishly mixed equal amounts of FFg with FFFg in my horn. I dont imagaine this would result in any danger when shooting but I assume it will effect my ignition. Has anyone had any experience with such a mixture? What might I expect?
Oh, and by the way, I am the knucklehead!

Not sure it would make as much difference in ignition as it might in velocity variations from shot to shot, depending upon the amounts of 3F or 2F in one charge compared to another charge, etc.

If it was me I'd pour it out into a container and mix the be-jeepers out of it to at least get it as close to an even blended consistency as possible...it should certainly be consistent enough to plink at the range...cans, steel targets, etc.

 

[tg]

For a while I mixed 2f and 3f half and half for my .62 and used up a lb. of it and it worked fine, some feel it is a compromise twixt the cleaner 3f and the lower pressured 2f and it will not seperate after being mixed, someone did a test on this...try it you might like it.

 

[J.D.]

Like tg, I have shot blended powder for a couple of years. The only difference I noticed was increased muzzle velocity of about 100 fps over the same load of FFFG.

I would pour that powder into a square container and SLOWLY roll the daylights out of it to mix thouroughly. Or, you might try using a wooden spoon or wooden paddle to mix the powder in a bowl. This shouldn't take all that long. I used a square plastic container in a rolling motion to mix powder while watching TV. It didn't take but about 5-10 minutes to get an even mix.

Warning, Don't handle any type powder while smoking, or when around somone else who is smoking. It's bad for your health.
J.D.

 

[Swampman]

I'd shake the horn and use it. If you reenact, use if for blanks.

 

[musketman]

Some knucklehead foolishly mixed equal amounts of FFg with FFFg in my horn. I dont imagaine this would result in any danger when shooting but I assume it will effect my ignition. Has anyone had any experience with such a mixture? What might I expect?
Oh, and by the way, I am the knucklehead!

Sounds like 2 1/2 Fg to me... :haha:

I would stay away from maximum loads while using it, just in case...

Another fix would be to strain it through a non-sparking mesh to sepperate the two sizes, but that is not really needed...

 

[bpollock_sr]

I usualy have a horn of mixed powder around .When I get to the bottom of a can and ther ain't enough to justify carying it around in my shooting box any more, it goes into " the horn ". Use the mixed powder in my smoothbore all the time.Back in the day ,they would use whatever they could get.so it's probably PC.As long as it goes boom and puts the ball on target I'm happy.

 

[brew]

Thanks for the info guys. I too will be shooting a .62 smoothbore with this mixed powder primarily at targets in the backyard so I guess this is fine.I will use a non blended powder for the biathlons.