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Offline Molly

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1 f Use
« on: April 01, 2020, 04:44:25 PM »
Have a one pound can of 1f.  Was given to me some years ago.  I use 2f in a 58 cal but was wondering if 1f will also work?  I hear stories about grinding it down but that would seem to result in a mixture from very fine to rather course, unless one were to screen it.

Thoughts???

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Offline OldMtnMan

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Re: 1 f Use
« Reply #1 on: April 01, 2020, 04:58:40 PM »
Canons?

I've used Swiss 1 1/2F in a .54 but it's more like 2F Goex.
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Offline Bob McBride

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Re: 1 f Use
« Reply #2 on: April 01, 2020, 05:04:16 PM »
Works great for reducing felt recoil in big bore stuff. Like 10 bores. Loads of fouling. I shoot it in my .69 and 12 bore. Works fine.
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Offline Pukka Bundook

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Re: 1 f Use
« Reply #3 on: April 01, 2020, 05:27:00 PM »
It'll work in most guns Molly.

Bit more carbon left behind, but needn't be  a problem.

I remember as a kid milling some finer in a coffee grinder.
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Offline Scota4570

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Re: 1 f Use
« Reply #4 on: April 01, 2020, 07:23:22 PM »
It will work well.  Just shoot it. 
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Offline D. Taylor Sapergia

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Re: 1 f Use
« Reply #5 on: April 01, 2020, 07:27:08 PM »
Molly:  in the 70's I was stationed on what was then the Queen Charlotte Islands.  I bought my first muzzleloader then, a T/C "Hawken" in flint igniton.  The only powder I could find was Meteor 1Fg labelled "Cannon Powder".  I used it as the main charge and the pan powder too, in that .50 cal rifle, and shot deer for groceries a couple times a week for three years.  Now-a-days, I use GOEX 1Fg in my Sharps cartridges, though it would be great too, in a muzzleloading shotgun.
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Offline old george

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Re: 1 f Use
« Reply #6 on: April 01, 2020, 07:39:27 PM »
That's nice to know I too have a can of goex 1fg laying about.

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Offline Daryl

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Re: 1 f Use
« Reply #7 on: April 01, 2020, 09:27:51 PM »
Taylor even used it on a trail walk once, in his .40 Kuntz rifle. He'd grabbed the wrong horn form his camp. It worked just fine
but did give a slightly lower point of impact. More of it was needed to hit the same was the only detractor.
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Offline WadePatton

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Re: 1 f Use
« Reply #8 on: April 01, 2020, 09:42:39 PM »
Many smoothie shooters have found better patterns with the gentler shove of 1F, from what I've read here at ALR.

I think it'd be the ideal powder for big honkin' bare-ball loads too.

Some day I'll try it. 
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Re: 1 f Use
« Reply #9 on: April 01, 2020, 10:02:19 PM »
Old George, you can use up that FG in that new 20 ga. smooth bore.   :D :)
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Offline wattlebuster

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Re: 1 f Use
« Reply #10 on: April 02, 2020, 12:27:25 AM »
Ive used it for many yrs in 12 an 10 ga smoothbores. Works just fine an I didnt notice anymore fowling with it than if I would have been using ffg. Its all dirty an all has to be cleaned up after shooting
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Offline Maineshops

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Re: 1 f Use
« Reply #11 on: April 02, 2020, 12:43:42 AM »
Good to know . I was given 10 lbs awhile back
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Offline snapper

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Re: 1 f Use
« Reply #12 on: April 02, 2020, 02:45:06 AM »
I had a few pounds of 1F swiss.   Use it in shotguns.   I use 1.5F all the time, no issues for the most part.

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Offline Daryl

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Re: 1 f Use
« Reply #13 on: April 02, 2020, 09:37:20 AM »
I use 1F in my 12 bore damascus SxS.
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Re: 1 f Use
« Reply #14 on: April 03, 2020, 07:11:56 AM »
Use it in my 4 bore blunderbuss all the time...... ;)



And here is  the owner of the 10 bore I made a while back using 1F in it......


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Re: 1 f Use
« Reply #15 on: April 03, 2020, 10:12:26 PM »
Well timed photo.
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Offline Bob Roller

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Re: 1 f Use
« Reply #16 on: April 03, 2020, 11:49:22 PM »
Quote from: D. Taylor Sapergia on April 01, 2020, 07:27:08 PM
Molly:  in the 70's I was stationed on what was then the Queen Charlotte Islands.  I bought my first muzzleloader then, a T/C "Hawken" in flint igniton.  The only powder I could find was Meteor 1Fg labelled "Cannon Powder".  I used it as the main charge and the pan powder too, in that .50 cal rifle, and shot deer for groceries a couple times a week for three years.  Now-a-days, I use GOEX 1Fg in my Sharps cartridges, though it would be great too, in a muzzleloading shotgun.

I had a Pedersoli Rolling Block 45-70 that performed really well with 1fg
and a 560 grain bullet.There is NO reason it won't work in a 58 caliber
muzzle loader.
Bob Roller
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Offline Hungry Horse

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Re: 1 f Use
« Reply #17 on: April 04, 2020, 01:02:58 AM »
 The slow burning 1F is the absolute best powder for smoothbores. The slow burn doesn’t blow any wadding through the pattern, and softer recoil is great for those light Fowlers.

  Hungry Horse
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Offline Molly

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Re: 1 f Use
« Reply #18 on: April 04, 2020, 02:38:07 AM »
Gonna have to get me one of them "Blunder Buss" things!
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Re: 1 f Use
« Reply #19 on: April 04, 2020, 03:43:26 AM »
That Blunder Buss might be considered the ultimate intimidation machine.
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Offline Pukka Bundook

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Re: 1 f Use
« Reply #20 on: April 04, 2020, 06:33:23 AM »
I think that was the idea, Smylee. 
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Offline Daryl

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Re: 1 f Use
« Reply #21 on: April 05, 2020, 05:17:44 AM »
Yes indeed - That cavernous hole and God only knows what's coming out of it. :o
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Re: 1 f Use
« Reply #22 on: April 06, 2020, 06:37:34 AM »
Quote from: Molly on April 04, 2020, 02:38:07 AM
Gonna have to get me one of them "Blunder Buss" things!

There were plenty of them at the Lake Cumberland show. Would you like a bayonet with that?  ;D
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