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To: Dead Corpse
“Making new brass or primers is still beyond current capabilities, but I'm working on it.”

If you plan ahead and store a supply of ‘white tip’ kitchen matches, you can easily make ‘cap lock’ muzzle-loader primers with the tips and alum soda cans.

A crude form of black-powder can be made with nothing more than charcoal and pig manure.

94 posted on 03/01/2012 12:00:25 PM PST by Beagle8U (Free Republic -- One stop shopping ....... It's the Conservative Super WalMart for news .)
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To: Beagle8U

I have a selection of older chemistry books. I’d rather not have to rely on anything I can’t make more of.


155 posted on 03/01/2012 2:21:23 PM PST by Dead Corpse (Steampunk- Yesterday's Tomorrow, Today)
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