Making your own black powder

Tree · Jan 13, 2016

Howdy,

Aside from the obvious risk involved, does anyone know if it's legal in Utah to make your own black powder?

heartshot · Jan 13, 2016

I don't know but after watching the guys on MythBusters try to make there own gun powder, I would never want to mess with it. They were not having much success with power or consistency.

trophyhunter · Jan 13, 2016

Aside from the risk....I agree with the above post.....quality control and consistency would be an issue as well as the Fed's at your door......once your start purchasing the components necessary to make an explosive.....you will become on the radar for sure.......

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deadibob · Jan 13, 2016

Yeah, the feds are closely watching the purchase of charcoal, saltpeter and sulphur. It can be made easily and of good quality. Sorry I don't watch mythbusters, but it's no surprise that they didn't show 10 million morons how to make it effectively.

Bill_in_MI · Jan 17, 2016

LAST EDITED ON Jan-17-16 AT 07:45AM (MST)[p]Hell my chemistry teacher in high school let me make it in class and um.. test it after school. She loved to see the fragments of things I recovered from the ... test site(s).

I went fishing with some of that material too, quite effective and consistent considering my delivery methods haha

Somewhere around then I ordered the a.narchist cookbook from a sweet little lady who owned the local mom and pop book store...oh to be a teenager again.

LOL it's a diff world today that's for sure. Good times though and no one died (although I still can remember the concussive blasts leaving me nauseas). The greenies would still be mad as hell though, as fish and flora count for sumthin haha

cannonball · Jan 17, 2016

Oh-ya! The fun of it, a homemade blackpowder bomb using dynamite fuse. Great fishing tool. Then there were the marble guns using homemade black powder. We're lucky we didn't get blown to pieces. I was really dumb, but I had some pretty good powder and lots of it. After much research about making it I would never do it again -- To dangerous.

pikespeakgoat · Jan 21, 2016

>Great fishing
>tool....We're lucky
>we didn't get blown to
>pieces. I was really
>dumb, but I had some
>pretty good powder and lots
>of it.

This I can relate to, brings back some great memories. I really miss the DuPont spinner escapades of my much younger days.

There's only 1 degree of DEAD!

tommyB14 · Oct 29, 2016

Did you ever get an answer on this? I notice that everybody has a damned opinion but no answer. It seems to be a common thing out on the internet that everybody that doesn't have an answer thinks its an invitation to spout off their opinion.

Zeke · Nov 1, 2016

>Did you ever get an answer
>on this? I notice that
>everybody has a damned opinion
>but no answer. It seems
>to be a common thing
>out on the internet that
>everybody that doesn't have an
>answer thinks its an invitation
>to spout off their opinion.
>

Tommy,
Ya damn kill-joy! I was enjoying all the "opinions" and youthful experiences and you come along with your cold shower!

Here's MY "opinion": no need to make it for my rifle unless I can make BH209. ha

Zeke