American Pioneer Powder 2F

We love this black powder we have fun hunting and target practice. What we love about this powder is the smoke and when it clears off, it's awesome and We just love it.

I have used American Pioneer Powder(APP)FFg for almost two years. I use the powder in St. Louis hawkins 50 caliber rifle. I find that the APP (FFg) powder is very coarse and takes a good spark to ignite it. Before I load the powder into the barrel, I spike it with a little finely grounded up APP powder. I use a wooden handle and a plastic cup to finely grind the coarse powder into a fine flowery powder. No more hang fires. The APP powder does cause some fouling at the muzzle end of the barrel. To work around this problem, I use a .49" ball and a .005 patch. Another way is to clean out the barrel with a damp(water) cleaning patch. Before shooting; fire a few primers to clear the barrel. Cleaning takes about 15 minutes, with only water and some cleaning patches. I usually run a wire brush down the barrel to help the cleaning process. Good stuff! Try it. You will never go back to the other substitute stuff or black powder.