I was looking to reduce the powder load in a plains pistol and ended up with the "dry ball" because of the patented breach, I found the hard way, don't go below a certain load.
Been there, done that.
I was looking to reduce the powder load in a plains pistol and ended up with the "dry ball" because of the patented breach, I found the hard way, don't go below a certain load.
It’s close enough. Pound to a pint. Eight pounds to a gallon container forty to a five gallon keg. pyrodex is lighter per volume, about eighty grains in a hundred grain measure.Ok, I'm not going to measure an old Goex can. What if we weigh 1 fluid ounce (volume) of powder and see if it weighs 1 ounce.
P.S. I thought Pyrodex was a 1:1 volume equivalent to black powder. It is less dense, but more energetic .
Pyrodex is loaded with a 1 to 1 volume equivalent to black powder. Loaded this way it gives about the same amount of energy as the black powder load.Ok, I'm not going to measure an old Goex can. What if we weigh 1 fluid ounce (volume) of powder and see if it weighs 1 ounce.
P.S. I thought Pyrodex was a 1:1 volume equivalent to black powder. It is less dense, but more energetic .
Put another way, one pound of it needs to have a bigger bottle to hold it than one pound of black powder needs.
If we multiply the 1.22 pounds by 16 ounces we get 19.52 ounces.If real black powder weighs about 252 grains per cubic inch (which I think it does), that can would hold 8568 grains of powder. Filled to the top, that would be 1.22 pounds of powder but remember, they don't fill these one pound of black powder cans up to the top.
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