Swiss Powder

[mike herth]

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Is there a difference? Just a label change or 2 types of powder?

[powderburner]

Pour both into a bucket, shake it up, pour back. there you got 2 pounds of the same stuff

[Clarence]

Change in label-the one on the right is newer. Normal variations in lots.

Claence

[desert deuce]

What Clarence said!

BTW, only pour cannister black powder into a glass container. Stir/mix with wooden spoon or paddle. No metal anything. Putting it back in original containers use non ferrous spoon (wood) and funnel. Aluminum and wood work as funnels.

[TexasMac]

What Clarence said!

BTW, only pour cannister black powder into a glass container. Stir/mix with wooden spoon or paddle. No metal anything. Putting it back in original containers use non ferrous spoon (wood) and funnel. Aluminum and wood work as funnels.

What's wrong with using metal containters & metal mixing tools?

Wayne

[desert deuce]

Think about that question. If you think it is OK then go ahead and do it, it only fails once and you won't remember it.

[SchuetzenDave]

Or use a plastic bowl when you mix it with a metal spoon.

I know a fellow who blew all the windows out of his parent's house.

He was knocked out, completely burned his face and no hair left on any exposed parts of his body.

Fortunately the house never caught fire.

But he did remember it well afterwards.

[martinibelgian]

I´m with Texasmac, BP won´t ignite from static electricity, and in order to generate a hot enough spark stirring with a metal spoon in a metal bowl, not even sure you're able to... Not even going at it like raving lunatic.
The plastic bowl would actually be far more susceptible to static electricity, being an isolator.

[Blackstone]

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Is there a difference? Just a label change or 2 types of powder?

If ur afraid of it get away from it and lever alone !

[desert deuce]

Schuetzen Dave wrote: "I know a fellow who blew all the windows out of his parent's house." But Dave, what was he doing that caused the event?

Static Electricity: Occasionally, when I reach into the closet to bring out a piece of clothing I see bluish white sparks jump from my fingertips. Same thing occasionally happens when I reach for a light switch in the dark or reach out and touch my wife on the arm which causes her to jump. You say static electricity won't set off black powder, well, I don't want to prove you wrong. What causes lightning other than an electrostatic discharge?

Static? "can" cause black powder to cling to the side of a plastic bowl which is why I don't use a plastic bowl or spoon. Sometimes put a fabric softener sheet around the plastic reservoir of a powder measure to prevent granule clinging but not always. Black & Smokeless.

My approach is sort of in the same category of I don't pet rattlesnakes. Perhaps an excess of caution, however, I don't want to blow the windows out of the loading room or singe all the hair off my face and head.

I wear a seat belt when driving, also come to complete stop at stop signs and look both ways before proceeding through a green light. Why? Because I have seen what happens when others do not and I don't want what happened to them to happen to me.

[semtav]

My approach is sort of in the same category of I don't pet rattlesnakes. Perhaps an excess of caution, however, I don't want to blow the windows out of the loading room or singe all the hair off my face and head.

I wear a seat belt when driving, also come to complete stop at stop signs and look both ways before proceeding through a green light. Why? Because I have seen what happens when others do not and I don't want what happened to them to happen to me.

That could explain why you don't shoot paperpatch

[desert deuce]

Results at the target is why I do not shoot paper patch in competition.
Matter of fact I still have some loaded up in new brass I need to fireform. Works OK for that.

[SchuetzenDave]

But Dave, what was he doing that caused the event?

He was mixing the ingredients to make his own black powder in a plastic bowl using a metal spoon to mix everything together.

[Steve Sudbeck]

Why take the chance?

[gunlaker]

Your average static discharge, although it makes a very high temperature spark, doesn't contain enough heat to ignite any but the tiniest of particles.

With a small amount of capacitance that can change dramatically and it would be easy to make a much hotter spark.

Chris.