Blackpowder

[Qball]

Howdy Y'all
How may use blackpowder as main propellant for
shooting CAS matches?
I'prefer the holy black myself, hands in the air every one

[Cheyenne]

Yup, I prefer Gunpowder myself! 

[Calamity Jane]

Nuthin but

[US Scout]

Been shooting the real powder since 1978 or so.

The only time I use the "other" stuff is when I'm shooting indoors.  The range staff and other shooters seem to object to the smoke and fragrance for some reason.


US Scout
Baghdad

[Will Ketchum]

I started shooting muzzle loaders in 1973.  The first 2 years I shot 24 pounds of powder .  I shot NMLRA pistol for several years and worked for Tedd Cash of Cash Manufacturing, maker of many muzzle loading products.

When I started shooting CAS in 93 I thought I would shoot real gunpowder but soon found that I detested loading black powder rounds and didn't like the mess of the fired brass .  So I just used Unique like I had for IPSC.  Then switched to Titegroup.

Now that I want to shoot my Smith & Wesson New Model Number 3s I realize that I must use black powder so I am back to it for at least some matches.  I just bought some Magtech brass hulls and will need to earn how to load them. .

Who knows I might convert full time

Will Ketchum

[Silver Creek Slim]

Read my signature line. 

Slim

[Nashville Frank]

Howdy Qball!

As I see on your answers there is only five jusing blackpowder here

I`ll stick to Vitavhouri. Just because I`m lazy, and don?t have the time too reload and clean..

[Russ T Chambers]

Maybe the reason there have been so few responses, is because we're all out cleaning our guns.  Been shooting BP for close to 7 years now.  I love making the RO and spotters cough.  Besides I still think if I yell CLANG!!! after I shoot, they will think I hit the target.  They sure can't see it through the smoke.

[Cheyenne]

Yup, nothin' like making a RO choke and gag! 

[Qball]

Yes Nashville Frank it sad to se the result
But on the other side we have more fun.
ain't much cowboy in Vitavhouri
Join us att the Blue Mountain Trail and find out
Acuatly when i started cowboy shooting i thought
it was blackpowder only
When i clean my revolvers i just pour hot water on them.
Cleen as new, blowdry an oil. My Rossi never gets dirty
because i use fullhouse loads. Run a damp patch trough
the barrel from the chamber first, cleen as a wistle.

[Cheyenne]

That Heathen powder is Ok , but lacks the grin factor when you miss....mostly you grimace when you miss using it, with BP, you just grin wider!

[Silver Creek Slim]

That Heathen powder is Ok , but lacks the grin factor when you miss....mostly you grimace when you miss using it, with BP, you just grin wider!

Amen, brother! 

Slim

[Cheyenne]

And you look so good evne when you miss!

[Cuts Crooked]

Black Powder or subs is all I ever use in CAS! I also love to hunt with BP loads!

[Dick Dastardly]

Never popped a cap on heathen smokeyless at a CAS match.  Never shot enythin' but Gunfighter.  Only fillers in my brass are more BP.

The roar, fire, and smoke take me back to a simpler time.  No lawyers, no liberal judges, just sixgun justice.  Like they said in The Life and Times, "it may not be the way the west was, but it's the way it should have been".

My ammo is loaded till I'm all out of brass, my knives are sharp, very sharp, my guns are clean and they are talkin' to me.  Cabin fever takes extra suds to endure.  Dang.  I gotta shoot!

DD-DLoS

[Paper Chaser]

Plans are to transition to FC this summer.

[Dusty Chaps]

Remember, in Mounted Shooting we use nothing BUT FFg in our blanks.  Yee ha

[D. R. Greysun]

I can't seem to commit, on dark days it the Black. On bright day I'm a little smoke-less! 
D R

[Paper Chaser]

Actually, I'm going to be shooting FC next month.  Couldn't wait till summer.  And I prefer GUNPOWDER.  Tried Pyrodex pellets ONCE; they were okay but nothing like good old black powder.

[Tangle Eye]

Nothing but black powder for me!  That's a big part of the fun of this game.