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What powder(s) do you use in your GAF Guns?
« on: April 16, 2014, 09:56:16 AM »
What powder(s) do you use in your GAF Guns? I'm not asking for recipes. Just curious what everybody uses.

I use Goex 2F and 3F
Trailboss
IMR 4350
Universal Clays
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Re: What powder(s) do you use in your GAF Guns?
« Reply #1 on: April 16, 2014, 12:11:43 PM »
I use Red Dot.
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Re: What powder(s) do you use in your GAF Guns?
« Reply #2 on: April 16, 2014, 12:41:17 PM »
Kik or Skirmish 3F or 2F for blackpowder.
Trailboss for smokeless.
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Re: What powder(s) do you use in your GAF Guns?
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Re: What powder(s) do you use in your GAF Guns?
« Reply #3 on: April 16, 2014, 03:57:47 PM »
Swiss Black, or Swiss Trail Boss.


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Re: What powder(s) do you use in your GAF Guns?
« Reply #4 on: April 16, 2014, 04:46:53 PM »
Trail Boss in rifles and Red Dot in pistols.
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Re: What powder(s) do you use in your GAF Guns?
« Reply #5 on: April 16, 2014, 06:45:44 PM »
Smokeless handguns: American Select.

Smokeless rifle: Skirmish-Trail boss.  Long range-IMR 4350.

Black Powder: Goex Old Enysford 3f in all.
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Re: What powder(s) do you use in your GAF Guns?
« Reply #6 on: April 16, 2014, 10:21:59 PM »
Trailboss for smokeless rifle, with Green dot or Unique on hand incase I can't find more TB.

Bullseye for .38, Goex or Unique in .45.

Goex in 45-70.
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Re: What powder(s) do you use in your GAF Guns?
« Reply #7 on: April 16, 2014, 11:24:22 PM »
Hodgdon' UNIVERSAL in pistol cartridges. IMR4198 with a 2-inch square of single-ply toilet paper over the powder for light loads in .40-65WCF, .45-70, .45-2.4" (.45-90WCF); IMR3031 without a filler; ReloadeR 7 for some hotter loads in a .45-70 M1886. Thinking about experimenting with Varget in a .40-65WCF replica HiWall, but haven't had the chance to try it out.
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Re: What powder(s) do you use in your GAF Guns?
« Reply #8 on: April 17, 2014, 02:03:54 PM »
GOEX (mainly because it is about all I can get for BP) and Trailboss, for the most part, now.
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Re: What powder(s) do you use in your GAF Guns?
« Reply #9 on: April 22, 2014, 01:43:48 PM »
Kik or Schuetzen for black in my IW guns
Bullseye and 2400 for my expansion era guns
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Re: What powder(s) do you use in your GAF Guns?
« Reply #10 on: April 22, 2014, 07:14:17 PM »
The Holy Black.

Either Goex or Scheutzen.
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Re: What powder(s) do you use in your GAF Guns?
« Reply #11 on: April 24, 2014, 01:39:00 PM »
AA 2
Nitro 100

Scheutzen 2F 3F

Varget 5744  Long Range 30-40 32 Spec 45/70

For a GAF legal 30-40 AA2

My next BP purchase will be Kik 2F and some Old Eynesford as I am still in the grasping at straws figuring what my Rolling Block and Replica Sharps Like former a Navy Arms (Pedersoli) latter Armi Sport older with small firing pin
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Re: What powder(s) do you use in your GAF Guns?
« Reply #12 on: April 28, 2014, 07:41:03 PM »
Goex's Pinacle 3Fg, Pyrodex (P), Trail Boss in Post 1900 firearms, (M1909 Colt N/S, Colt .38 Army Special, Colt M1911, M1896 Krag)
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Re: What powder(s) do you use in your GAF Guns?
« Reply #13 on: June 20, 2014, 08:38:05 AM »

Swiss or WANO 3F in all 44WCF BP loads

Trail Boss for revolvers and RL-7 for long range in 44 WCF
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