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I have a couple of buddies who are big into black powder shooting, both cartridge and muzzle loader. They came across some cases of antique German black powder bullets from the late 1800s. They broke it down and used it. It was the best black powder they ever found. They treated it like gold because it butned cleaner than anything on the market.
I wasn't too fond of their method of breaking it down. They would take a live round and put it astraddle of a vise and hit it in the middle with a sharp chisel. The round would break in half and the powder would fall into a coffee can below. They would save and melt down the lead bullets. They never had an accident with this method but I woudn't hang around when they were doing it.
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