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Henry Stebbins mentioned finding most of a box of solid head .45 Colt empties on the range and thinking it unusual. This in his 1960 book but who knows when it actually happened.
I had heard of Peyton Powder, used by the Army for a few years before Whistler Aspenwald. Didn't know it contained ammonium picrate.
I cannot google anything on Goldenrod powder. I wonder if it did not contain ammonium picrate and more of it.
Ammonium picrate was known in the service as "Yellow D" and boy is it ever YELLOW, and long lasting. I learned real quick to wear rubber gloves handling 3" shells that had been filled with it. It is so yellow that it was used as a stain for microscope specimens.
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