"I should want a woman to marry me for love of me, and not out of romantic admiration because I was lucky enough to drill a hole in a man's shoulder with
smokeless powder. I tell you I am disgusted with this adventure tom-foolery and rot.
They were laughed at by the chemists, who held that, while it was just barely probable that a single cartridge, charged with the new
smokeless powder, might spontaneously explode, it was beyond all probability and possibility for all the cartridges in a given area, so charged, spontaneously to explode.
"And he's using
smokeless powder," he concluded, after an examination of the mile-distant shore.
The Winchester 1893, suffered the same ill from
smokeless powder, and was soon replaced with the much stronger Model 1897, a shotgun that remained in the Winchester line until 1959, a whopping 61 years!
Two years later Paris announced the adoption of the first small bore,
smokeless powder, repeating rifle--the Fusil d'Infanterie Modele 1886--better known to collectors as the Lebel, chambered for the smokeless 8mm Cartouche a Balle Ordinaire Modele 1886 which propelled a full metal jacketed (FMJ), flat point bullet to 2,067 fps.
What will be the best fillers for the 4-bore with
smokeless powders such as Blue Dot?
Keywords: Composting, nitroglycerin,
smokeless powderIN THE 1890S, AFEW YEARS AFTER
smokeless powder was invented, various makers and countries displayed an interest in semiauto pistols.
Smokeless powders, primarily based on nitrocellulose or nitroglycerin, and blackpowder or blackpowder substitutes burn in drastically different ways, which is why you cannot use
smokeless powder in most muzzleloaders.
The facility initially consisted of a
smokeless powder plant.
"Using Trail Boss, or any
smokeless powder, in a muzzleloading firearm is never recommended."
With regards to details like headspacing, finish reaming and the thread issue, all of these details factored in to me using either a small amount of pyrodex or a small amount of
smokeless powder in the shells that were loaded for it.