Dear cmj8591:
Although at a first glance may not seem, but you and me are doing the same thing. You are trying to illustrate about the dangers involved in using unknow gunpowder, and I am trying to illustrate about the appearance of those gunpowders, and both we have the same purpose: to prevent that a reloader may commit a mistake, for example, to confuse Bullseye with 296.
Therefore, both we are providing reloaders with more information.
And if I didn't mention before, I'll do it right now: the first thing we did (in our forum) before publishing our "Gunpowders Photo Library" was a warn to reloaders with a highlighted red text, telling them that this method of identification couldn't be 100% accurate and the risks involved should force us to be more cautious.
Of course I would like to recommend something like this: "If you have an unknow gunpowder and you have $15 bucks in your wallet, go to the nearest gunpowder's shop and buy a new one."
But here in Uruguay, the gunpowder is a restricted sale item (a maximum of two pounds per person per month) and you need a special license to buy it, therefore, you have only two places to purchase it: in a military unit called "Servicio de Material y Armamento (something like "Supplies and Weapons Service") and in a private shooting club (the only one allowed to sell gunpowder to a reloader with special license).
Occasionally, some reloaders sell their own gunpowder and that is how the other shooters (without license) can get it often paying an overprice ($120 for a pound of rifle powder).
Instead, you have free access to gunpowder and therefore I say that we live in different realities.
Regards and thanks
Last edited by TIROyRECARGA; 08-27-2010 at 02:58 AM.
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