Thanks pards
For the input. I just decided to go with GOEX because my far shot is 25 yards. GOEX is OK, available, will do the job, and the price is right.
Respectfully
Bunk
Bunk your original question led me to some entertaining reading on how NOT TO run a business - (specially a blackpowder plant) - this is a brief cut from the history of the Belin (Goex) plant up to 1997 --- its a classic of expediency over safety and economic corner cutting (easy to point the finger afterwards I guess - but I took this excercise in large part because of the comments I get about making powder - usually along the lines of -- u r an idjit ya gonna blow yrself up - then the references to stories like this one)
"In 1986 a packing/sifting house at the Belin Plant blew up.
While the building was destroyed, there was no injury to any of the workers.
A worker was detailed to change a light switch in a packing/sifting house. The worker removed the cover from the light switch box. Then attempted to remove the screws holding the wires to the switch. The screwdriver being used to loosen one of the connecting wire screws touched the side of the switch box. There was an arc. A spark consisting of a particle of heated metal landed on a building support that was covered in powder dust. The powder dust then began to burn like a slow fuse train. The worker quickly left the building and ran to get as far away from the building as possible. An
explosion followed that involved an estimated 1,000 pounds of black powder."
So this goose stuck his screwdriver in a LIVE light switch and blew the place up!!! It must be a very damp humid site for the powder dust to burn slow enough to let him run !!!