Getting ready for the rain we are supposed to get according to the weather guessers.. Supposed to be rain off and on this evening into Wednesday.. 2 -4 inches possible.. Supposed to smoke some butts tomorrow so moved the smoker under the edge of the patio roof.

 

Supposed to see some rain tomorrow and wednesday.

 

I survived black Friday weekend.. We trimmed and bagged better than 100 trees yesterday.. It had somewhat settled down when I got to work.. Had help the first couple hours..

 

Thats good Steve. I went to a friends house on black Friday. Made cartridges.

 

Did you get enough done for your next reenactment??

 

Yes we did Steve. Used 7 lbs of powder.

 

You were some busy bees. That is a fair amount of powder. How many do you roll out of a pound of powder??

 

We managed to fill one complete .50 caliber ammo can with 24 dozen cartridges. put another 9 dozen cartridges in a 3rd ammo can.

 

Comes out to about 400 paper cartridges. That is 100 grains of powder so it goes a bit quicker.

 

So about 70 per pound.. Since there is 7000 grains in a pound.. Smokeless sure goes farther.. Of course some rifle cartridges get a goodly amount of powder..

 

These are blanks so we use 100 grains per cartridge. If it was a live round then it would be about 75 grains of powder per cartridge.

 

Why so much.. For the smoke effect???

 

For the blanks we found that 100 grains gives us enough smoke and noise. As for a live round we need that much to get a 550 grain lead ball down range.

 

That sounds about right.. I kind of wish I still had my 45/70.. So I could throw some 500 grain slugs down range..

 

It is fun to do that for sure. Sadly with the muskets accuracy is not their forte.