Homemade black powder! For shooting sports, fireworks, and fun! Ingredients I use are 75 percent Potassium Nitrate, 15 percent Charcoal, 10 percent Sulfur, and 5 percent Dextrin (By weight) for a total of a 105 percent total. GUN POWDER! Simple and fun… It has so many uses. I was glad to do the project. As […]

How to Granulate home made BLACK POWDER! I load up a Mosin Nagant and a 357 Revolver for the DIY Black Powder Shooting test. All I need now is a Muzzle Loader! : ) very satisfying and fun project! I make my own bullets, my own gun powder and load em my self! THIS STUFF […]

A quick review of the black powder paper cartridge kit I bought from Guns Of The West. I like it and recommend it. John's Hand LoadingJohn has been shooting since he was a kid and is now a middle aged man. He likes shooting rifles and handguns, reloading, bullet casting and the outdoors. He believes […]

Happy Halloween..!! The 38 Special was originally loaded with black powder in 1898. The 357 Magnum came out in 1935 and was never intended to be loaded with black powder or substitutes. Let’s go ahead and do that using Hodgdon Triple Seven FFFg powder and see if there is any utility there… FortuneCookie45LCFortuneCookie45LC started posting […]

Continuing our series on how YOU can accurize your revolver, we do an in-depth profile on this iconic black powder revolver. Why are percussion guns given a bad rap? Because a few simple steps are left out of the production gun process.

The true power of the 1847 Colt Walker using conical bullets, this is a torture test and should not be tried at home. The Colt Walker held up to the torture test with no perceivable problems. All loads was with Triple Seven within the black powder maximum range. Leverguns 50Most of our videos are about […]

The barrel makers informed me that the 500 S & W barrels were not as accurate as some of their other calibers suggesting that 2″ groups at 50 yards would be the best that I could get. Hodgdon Triple Seven powder offers us our own hunting seasons, so let’s see if we can beat that […]

Here is the completed rifle. I'm still waiting on bullet molds, but they are coming!

In this tutorial we show you how to load rounds for your Cimarron Uberti and similar single action revolvers. This is a basic overview which will get your 45, 357 or 44 caliber gun up and running in no time. We focus on the 44-40 in this instance. Do you want to learn how to […]

Happy Halloween..!! The 38 Special - let's go one better - also loaded was the 357 Magnum. And here's the range testing on a very windy day in Northern California.

The mid-1800s were a time in American history that gave birth to a number of innovative firearm designs, and this truly unique, unusual sidearm was also known as the "Grape Shot Revolver." Developed in New Orleans in 1856 by Dr. Jean LeMat and backed by Pierre G.T. Beauregard, roughly 2,900 were produced.

Just burning some powders in slow-motion and watching them do what they do. Request from Reddit users /r/reloading to test and show the different burn rates of powders by lighting them on fire with matches. Powders are burnt in realtime speed as well as slowed down to 1000 fps using my (previously) new camera. I […]

We do a shoot and see with our Remington 1858 Pietta Cap and ball percussion revolver we opened the cylinder throats and chamfered the forcing cone. Did we screw up the pistol or is accuracy improved?

Black Powder 20 Gauge

We take a break from work and putz around with an iconic firearm from the past. The 1859 Sharps Carbine Pedersoli reproduction is a blast (literally) to shoot and load. This .54 caliber behemoth with a 475 grain bullet and 100 grains of black powder combine to get your attention. Twenty bone jarring shots and we're lucky we didn't hurt anything. Join us as we enjoy a day afield! It's like your here with us, but not really since we have limited parking.

The first shooting of black powder or black powder substitutes in cartridges had many questions 1) safety 2) performance 3) fouling 4) clean up and 5) fun factor. This video answers all the above… FortuneCookie45LCFortuneCookie45LC started posting videos on YouTube in 2012.  He has been a Reloader and Shooter since 1969.

In this video I compare smokeless pistol powder (CFE pistol) to Black powder pistol powder (Swiss 3Fg). I show the granules up close, discuss characteristics and differences, then show how a small pile of each (.5 cc) reacts to the flame from a match. This is not a scientific discussion, this is for education and […]

Finding out the original black powder ballistics for the 50-110-300 WCF and the 50-100-450 WCF. According to the literature Rob found on the 50-110, the 300 grain bullet should be doing 1605 FPS with a muzzle energy of 1720 and a 100 yard energy of 1040, on penetration of seven-eights inch pine boards. Lead penetrated […]

This is a rifle scratch built, not a kit….a gift for one of my uncles who wants to go on a buffalo hunt, based on a bet made years ago! The bet still stands, and I’m betting (no cash) that he can do it.. Terms? One shot only, and the buffalo must fall within 2 […]

This is the second attempt at testing the 13 pace muzzleloader zero. I have increased my velocity up to 1950 fps by going up to a charge of 115 grains of FF black powder. As always thanks for watching, and until next time, have fun outside.. The Big ManHere at The Big Man’s Outdoors, my […]

Slow Mo footage, of Shooting the Thompson Center Hawkins flintlock rifle, this is my very first gun, shot my first two deer with it, later got a 94 Winchester in 30-30, with all that flash coming out it’s very hard to keep your eyes open, The slow Mo does a good job of showing you the time delay between the hammer fall on till the bullet leaves the barrel.

We are getting into the smokeless propellant portion of this load series. Our goal is to understand powder basics so the new reloader can begin selecting the appropriate powder for the job. For this video I talk about the beginning of Black Powder and bring it into the modernized Smokeless Powder. God bless and thanks for watching.

Well, we’ve got a great load for the 445 Super Magnum for hunting – 2150 fps with the 240 grain Speer Deep Curl bullet. But for straight wall black powder load hunting season, we’re in need of getting that load ready using the Lee 300 grain wide flat point smasher penetrator bullet, hard cast, of […]

This time we go through and shoot a classic western revolver, the Cimarron Firearms Outlaw Remington 1875 replica made by Uberti. From smokeless to black powder, we put this revolver through its paces and see just how well it holds to specs and shoots. mannyCAOur channel’s goal is to educate, enlighten, and entertain people in […]