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jtaylor · March 15, 2008, 07:41 PM

We've been discussing it over at THR. I've made my own for a few years now. It's around $4-6 a pound depending on where you get your chems and how much you buy at once. You can buy lab grade KNO3 in bulk on ebay real cheap. I always make my charcoal from Willow, so that's free.
I wish making BP became common practice so it wouldn't people would be more comfortable with the idea of it. It's easy and you can make BP that's better than commercial BP.
I've surpassed the point to recover the start up costs, between all the powder I use and the powder I give to others, it's saved tons of money, but it's kind of like reloading, you start doing it to save money, but then you just end up shooting more.

March 15, 2008, 07:41 PM	#8
jtaylor Senior Member Join Date: October 7, 2007 Location: New Hampshire Posts: 215	We've been discussing it over at THR. I've made my own for a few years now. It's around $4-6 a pound depending on where you get your chems and how much you buy at once. You can buy lab grade KNO3 in bulk on ebay real cheap. I always make my charcoal from Willow, so that's free. I wish making BP became common practice so it wouldn't people would be more comfortable with the idea of it. It's easy and you can make BP that's better than commercial BP. I've surpassed the point to recover the start up costs, between all the powder I use and the powder I give to others, it's saved tons of money, but it's kind of like reloading, you start doing it to save money, but then you just end up shooting more.