Warden Callaway 4,480 Posted January 13 Share Posted January 13 Well crap! Grafs is out of Grafs FFg and FFFg! Also Goex. MidwayUSA is out of most black powder also. I stopped in at Grafs (in Mexico Mo) this morning to see by chance they had any in their stash. No. So I got a pound of Grafs FG. The difference is hardly noticeable. I shot 18 shots a bit ago and I expected, all went boom. Two observations, 1) It was harder to get it to run through the powder flask. I had to do a lot of shaking. I learned to feel the valve cut powder on closing. 2) It seemed to compress more. The same charge seemed to leave the ball seated lower than FFg. I tried the new capsules. I found the full capsule brought the ball up near the top when seated. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Garrison Joe, SASS #60708 2,705 Posted January 13 Share Posted January 13 And, not that it probably matters, but in revolvers especially it will give lower velocities. good luck, GJ Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Colorado Coffinmaker 3,350 Posted January 13 Share Posted January 13 Imagine that!! Black Powder that goes "BOOM." What an Earth Shaking revelation 3 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Prairie Dawg, SASS #50329 1,658 Posted January 13 Share Posted January 13 Fg is my favorite Shotgun powder. Lots of smoke & flash! 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Tequila Shooter 1,324 Posted January 13 Share Posted January 13 I just bought 5lbs of 2Fg from Graf’s yesterday, what is there some kind of run on BP now?? I got an email from Midway today about their BP sales event and when I checked the only powder they had was Cannon. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Jailhouse Jim, SASS #13104 584 Posted January 14 Share Posted January 14 Graf's website says they have Swiss and Scheutzen in the popular granulations as well as Reenactor Quote Link to post Share on other sites
John Boy 845 Posted January 14 Share Posted January 14 I called Graf & Sons ... was told their powder is relabeled Goex Quote Link to post Share on other sites
German Jim 39 Posted January 14 Share Posted January 14 Yes, the new Graf's Black Powder is made by Goex. Older Graf's Black Powder was imported by Schuetzen Powder Energetics, Inc. and manufactured be Wano Schwarzpulver GmbH in Germany. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Warden Callaway 4,480 Posted January 14 Author Share Posted January 14 1 hour ago, John Boy said: I called Graf & Sons ... was told their powder is relabeled Goex You can read that on the lower right of the can label. (Zoom in) Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Tequila Shooter 1,324 Posted January 14 Share Posted January 14 50 minutes ago, Warden Callaway said: You can read that on the lower right of the can label. (Zoom in) Ok you made your point...now get back to building your grips. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
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