I predict all your shots will go a little high.

Now he’ll have the ATF AND the DEA after him!

Its April 12th you have to wait 8 more days until 4/20.

I predict all the shots will go “up in smoke”

Almost swallowed my chew on that intro amigo!!!!!😂 What no Patron account to support your ongoing hilarities? Love what you do brother!

Of course hemp makes good BP, it was a gift from Shiva. Perhaps remove all tannins from hemp fiber by boiling with 5% sodium hydroxide, expand surface area with steam treatment. Toilet paper is already at that stage. I am not nit picky..but you realize hotter ignition (209 in an inline) and higher chamber pressure (cartridge load) are going to burn that propellant cleaner with higher velocities. I am happy to see you have a strong following, this art will be much appreciated as the future unfolds.

Everything is research. You're doing a great job of exploring all the possible things to char. Good going.

The Hippie ✌🏻 target, that was classic! Ha ha. Nice touch! Hope to see more cool targets in the future!

This just never gets old watching.

So you charred up the fibers from the outside of the stalks. Basically bark. The part thats used to make rope and textiles. The inside of the stalks are woody, cellulose rich things that should give better results.

Thank you for loading the pistol the smart way! SO many people charge all the chambers then fumble around trying to load the balls....much better to load one, ram then leave the ram in place to hold the cylinder while the next chamber is charged. Rinse and repeat. Good stuff!

This could be marketed as Sgt. Stedenko's Gold, either that or "Dave's Not Here" Marching Powder.

Well, put's the term Smoke Pole in a different light....I researched the hell out of this in my early 20's, ignites every time!

I am still laughing at the Dirty Hippie Target!!🤣🤣😂

Hemp hurd is probably what the other guy was using, it's the pith of the stem where what you've got is the outer shell. Hurd looks to be less than $2 a pound online for either animal bedding or concrete additive (and the former means you can probably walk into a pet store and nab some). Uncarded bast like what you have is the equivalent of shredded hemp rope or burlap. The sci/ag sites say that bast is going to be 50% to 80% cellulose, which is a wild swing... it depends on what cultivar was grown. They also say that hurd is on average 20% lignin, so maybe this is a cultivar problem and not hurd vs. bast, since both of them are similar. Couple papers point to kenaf fiber (it's a kind of jute) and cotton stalks as lower lignin alternatives. Just for things to try, you should be able to cut lignin percentage in a carbon source by a couple means, the cheapest probably being boiling it in plain white vinegar. EDIT: White wood rot eats lignin. So if you find a log in the woods with white fungus all over it and threatening to crumble into dust, you might find a spot to let it dry out and give it a go.

Thanks Jake! Interesting , informative, and interning. And it didn't suck, way too go.

What you bought was 'Industrial' Hemp that has next to no THC. Unfortunately a lot of people in local government (like those in Dorchester County, South Carolina), who treat it like the other psychoactive variety, and cost framers like Trent Pendarvis $ millions when they illegally destroyed his field of Hemp without a valid warrant.

I have a suspicion that wood ash content is an important thing to consider. The stuff that performed the worst in your tests, hemp and hay, have the highest ash content - it is grass, plant tissue which needs minerals for active growth. Toilet paper is the best because it is refined wood fiber very low in minerals. Oak maybe bad because it has up to 5% ash. Willow, a popular choice, is 1%. If we consider the weight of charcoal approximately 10% of dry willow wood weight, willow charcoal has 10 % ash. The three woods with the lowest ash content (known to me by searching the web and my own experiment) are eucalyptus (0.35%), manzanita (0.3%), and beech (0.17 %). I would also consider brown charcoal (incomplete carbonization) prepared under controlled temperature/time conditions. Electric baking oven can be used to make it. Brown charcoal ignites at lower temperature compared to the crisp black one. Following your channel with great interest.

I like your videos I come from the south of France bravo for your work and good luck

merci pour le partage du teste .

I agree this is better than the hay thank you for sharing this very enjoyable and informative video six stars brother

Would love to see you experiment with projectiles too. Aluminum round ball, brass, bronze, copper and pewter all come to mind. Fairly easy to cast and find materials for to make ammo. All patched of course

Love watching the experiments as I finish my treadmill ball mill😎. I was going to recommend trying rice hulls, but after watching this one I suspect it would be similar. We mix rice hulls in the media use when we pot our container trees on or small tree farm. They are inexpensive, especially in bulk. If you’d like to try them I can ship ya a few lbs(we buy super bales of them, many hundreds of lbs) but I actually thought that hemp would rock, and well…..

I don't want to "blow smoke" but this was a great video!!!! As a fellow Crusader on the road to beat the Swiss, I beg the master to make an obsevation..........it is well known that charcoal is the wild child,....in order to direct it to its greatest potential, I suggest not to leave it in the wood stove to long ........once it is charred and left at an elevated temp it begins to revert to a graphite structure and become basically inert for Antique Muzzle loading Propellant.....I strive for medium rare...... ( and again, a truly great video 😅 😂 )

I was just wondering about this yesterday. Can't wait to see the results.

It did seem to be very reliable powder as well. No hang fires or misfires. I was thinking about the hay video when you showed the raw hemp.

Unless hemp is insanely cheap, I probably will go with Cottonelle. Since you used a Cap & Ball revolver for this review, you might consider doing a video on making percussion caps sometime in the future. Thank you for the informational videos!

Great vid sir, I love your work.

And he never ceases to amaze me

Would be interested to see you try bamboo. Would be curious to see if it would turn out similarly to the hay and hemp since they're all grasses? Bamboo toilet paper might also be an interesting experiment.

Thanks Jake for Yor's hard work.

The video didn’t suck. The powder sure did though. Love these different tests.

I betting they all shot high & left of center. And, dude - I totally think you should try like making charcoal from chocolate chip cookies after this 🍪

Great video

Now i wanto know how the actuall flower would perform, as a black powder ofc ;) since there are many farmers in the USA perhaps some could donate flower that wont sell or doesnt get selected for the consumer market, it wont have to be pricey

Well being in a legal state I looked at the prices of the real thing and the cheapest is going for 50 bucks an ounce. Makes Swiss look great for price. So maybe a cow pie might be the next great $hit powder😮 🥃 thanks again for the hard work.

Once again, thank you for the experimental results!

Enlightening and entertaining as always

I’m surprised ! I thought it would do better. Thanks for the video.

Well was some interesting results. Velocity was not what I was hoping, but is good to know it burns clean. And as someone who use to work in Law Enforcement, yes Hemp has been de listed. Besides Hemp will not get you anything other then a headache if you try to smoke it.

Hemp fibers are used instead of teflon tape for sealing water pipes in the central Europe. It has the advantage of self sealing after it gets wet. Also most of cordage is made of hemp.

Great video yet again. These are some of my favorites. Testing different charcoil sources, keep doing it. I have a suggestion if you haven't done it yet. People say you can make good BP out of regular pine 2x4s.

Interesting video as always.

I did an initial test using a plaster bucket in a paint shaker with brass scraps off a lathe. It's seems promising, reduced the dry plaster chunks to a fine powder in minutes!

Bone I believe is a traditional source. When I get enough from hunting I will try it.

So much for that stuff....Thanks guy's.... Old F-4 Shoe🇺🇸

Love your old chevy

Revolvers and hemp sounds like a New York Saturday night

How about combining two of my favorite, past victims for the next B/P science project ....... Hemp Toilet Paper? Yup, it's a thing. Saw some at my local Hippy Dippy food co-op last time I ventured from my mountain top abode in search of supplies. It was about 3 times more expensive than my regular outhouse brand, so didn't try it. Might be interesting to see how it compares to the first (fast/clean) TP you tried 🤔 Thanks for this experiment, lots of fun!

If you can make charcoal from it, it will likely work in bp; just a matter of how well. Tough to compare to other's powder without knowing charcoal ratio, mill time, density, grain size etc. Always fun to try new sources because you never know.

Great video as usual. I'm interested in how the Cottonelle toilet paper powder in the Kibler 54-caliber rifle with hunting loads. Actually, a video working up loads for best accuracy using the Cottonelle toilet paper powder would be very interesting. If you have already done this, I would appreciate the link to the episode. Again, I find these videos very interesting and useful. Thanks.

Thank you very much for all your educational content. Recently found your channel and got caught up on most your videos. Fun watching your progression. How would rice work for a carbon source?

the good thing about hemp is that it would be easy to grow if you required to grow your own carbon ingredients for whatever reason and you can turn it into rope and clothes and blah blah blah so as a tool for off the grid kind of living, its great. Buuut obviously there are very few scenarios when youd need to do all that. Plus how you gunna get your sulphur etc if you have to go off grid?

Pardon me if you have answered this before, but..What makes some carbons more potent than others? Is it chemical makeup or density or something I'm not thinking of? I not only appreciate the quality of your videos, but the humor is great and they are always informative. Thanks!

You had me hoping to me the good old colt. In this. keep up the grear workguts

It;s not how good did it shoot, but how good did you feel after sniffing that smoke! Good job boys!

Lol… well sir. Yet another good vid… thanks for sharing

You have to find and test out Alder Buckthorn. Here in Sweden its called Brakved, that translates to Thunderouswood or Bangwood. Considered to be the best wood for blackpowder in the old days.

I made toilet paper powder once several years ago and although I didn't compress it well and it was a very light powder, it performed far better than I could have imagined. I think if I would have compressed it, it would have performed like store bought powder. I think I had the ratios off a little too. I had read about a couple different ratios and was trying to make some sulfur-less powder also... so it probably could have been better.

Safe to say, it works better as baling twine than it does as gun propellant.

We gots lots of horseweed in iowa wonder how that work. Seems like the stalks and out side fiber wouldent be much differnt from hemp. Sometin for me to try later this summer. Happy trails

Great video! Hope KZfaq is paying ya… they are running ads! What kind of cleaning patches are you using

I lived in Kansas for a short while. Feral cannabis, aka wild marijuana or ditch weed could be found just about everywhere. It is a throwback from industrial hemp plants that were previously cultivated for fiber. If you live in Kansas/Nebraska might want to give it a try as a carbon source.

You get it in Nebraska it's everywhere especially railroad tracks

Good one guy's it did seem to ignite pretty good if nothing else !!

I wonder if stinging nettles fiber would work, I use it for thread,string,rope.Have you tried Elderberry wood? Love your experiments.👍

The fact that this isn’t a 4-20 release date breaks my heart lol

AHHH! I was expecting better! I'm sorry it wasnt great for ya. I did 75/15/10 and only 2F that did better than cottonelle for me in 45colt brass and 50cal muzzleloader. I have also not used any name brand BP before so I have only compared to TP, bamboo, willow, hemp hurds and degummed hemp fiber. Thanks for sharing the results though.

I'm still working on the cottonelle powder. My first batch was lighter than Goex by a good bit but milling it longer, pucking, drying longer and grinding my weights measured out are really close to Goex weight now. Also when I puck it I press it multiple times. So I think for now I'm happy with it. I'll wait until I get a chronograph to measure my results better and then try improve.

good shit, man !!!

Also, the quality of the charcoal is dependent on the charring method and temperature and source of course, but instead of trying new carbon sources, try an electric crucible/furnace for charring where you have control of the temperature, thats key.

That’s the part of the plant used for fiber. It’s my understanding that there is a waste product called “hurl” or “hurd” that’s mixed with cement for “hempcrete” building material. Maybe that would work better? If it is available,and dirt cheap, It might be worth a try. Otherwise, it seems like a pain to mess with it.

I would say to try this again , instead of using the straw type substance You purchased, try and source some actual stems or trunks off the main plant , being larger and more solid they will probably make a more lump wood style charcoal which will need to be broken up before milling it , it would be interesting to see if there is a difference, the straw looked like it had been washed and combed ready for rope making or hempcrete blocks or something similar so that most of the starch will have been washed out possibly affecting its calorific value . Thanks for this video I'm playing catch up watching You earlier videos before |I discovered this channel and subscribed . Living in the UK I could end up serving 5 years for making gunpowder , so I'm now seeing things I only imagined and wondered about . So Thanks again , catch You next time , Shoot Straight Stay Safe & Stay Well.

You could try making a black powder charcoal using powdered starch.

It is the retted un comb and spun from the plant, just like raw flax. I had never thought of using Hemp or flax

Hello, a challenge, for I see another doing smokless powders in older modern muzzle loaders I know it can be done, but you have the time, the knowledge, and a pretty good following to break the lie

will you make this promised video about your fab process (or i missed it) ? I especially would like to know what pressure you use. And the time of drying.

You handle your firearms like a man who is use to them . Interesting video

If it makes good activated charcoal, it willmake good black powder. Hemp makes awsome activated charcoal and also can be further treated to make excellent lithium battery anodes as well.

Love your videos mate. Considering how tightly you control the other variables, I’m surprised you still make the carbon by simply chucking it into an old paint can and throwing it into a fire. Do you have any plans to build a propane fired steel charring vessel?

Thanks, Jake!!

love your videos. have you tried corn stalks?

Although pot comes from a hemp plant, not all varieties of hemp produce pot. Hemp rope is made from the hemp plant and can be made from any variety of hemp.

i hear a lot of people say it's the purity carbon in charcoal that makes the difference . i don't know that's true but if it is i would love to see graphite as a substitute to charcoal . it would settle the debate once and for all because graphite is pure crystalline carbon.

Slower will hit higher. The bullet has longer time to ride the recoil rise. I noticed this in my ruger vaquero when working up light 45LC loads.

I wonder if there is some hydrocarbon other than charcoal that would provide more energy. Charcoal is used because its ignition temperature is far lower than pure carbon, and can be ignited easily. BP made from pure carbon would just smolder and fizz like a match head. But something like paraffin has a lower ignition point, and a higher energy density than charcoal. Getting the ratio right could be tricky, because paraffin contains far longer carbon chains than charcoal.

I wonder if some powder works better in different guns? Caliber and barrel length probably influence what is the most optimal burn rate for that particular gun.

I believe some more research regarding the pyrolysis process would be interesting. Specifically, I read that iron and nickel compounds act as catalyst to form a more graphitic structure (which I would assume to burn poorly). To test this, I would suggest a comparison using a well understood carbon source (like cottonelle TP). One sample soaked in a dilute iron solution (ferric chloride should be easy to get/make), then dried and charred. A second sample should be made without iron contamination (porcelain/ glazed flower pot instead of steel can). The exact degree/ temperature of pyrolysis would also be interesting, as it's commonly believed that the best performance is when it's not quite cooked to pure carbon yet. This would however require better process control. I doubt, you'd want to buy/ build a PID controlled electric kiln just for this series. This might also shed some light on why some people get "amazing" results with things like hemp while your tests show it to be mid.

I have read plum timber makes quality powder....cherry wood also sounds like a good testing wood.

Now, honest question. What are the odds that way back in the day powder was made with hemp (or in reference to your other video) or straw/hay? Obviously this was a time of use what you have, so I'd imagine it was done but I'm thinking of a soldier somewhere between Fort Wilderness (1750) and Chickamauga (1864) needing to make powder and I'm just right curious what the procedure was then. Also would leaves, bark and pinecones work reliably for carbon? Obviously wood would which I'd imagine was the biggest use of carbon in powder.

As usual, very good and very interesting video I enjoy each and every one. However, I would very much like to see you use BAMBOO T.P as a carbon source. I feel that it would do really fine, thanks again for another excellent video.

Glossing over the chain fire aspect of the lead rings completely, I’ve seen people say that because a small amount of lead is removed it can affect accuracy. They then went on to say that if the mouths of the chambers are chamfered a little bit, the ball swages in without removing lead but still getting a firm seat. I’d be interested to know if the lead rings do affect accuracy.

I think the KZfaq algorithm doesn’t like you. I typed in every letter to your channel and “Everything Black Powder” still didn’t show on the list. You must be doing something right. Keep up the good work!

Here is a fun one you might be interested in. Suggested by a friend. Gun cleaning patches as a carbon source. Both new and used. Id do it myself but Im not exactly good at making black powder yet. Getting there though.

Great video. Have you ever tried grapevines? I hear that grapevine is as good as willow.

Did you get the munchies after shooting?.... Great presentation as usual. Cheers!

I love that truck

Ever thought of using psillum husks or corn husks?

I don't know anything about hemp either, other than it can be used for an amazing number of products, but that stuff had a pretty unrefined rough look to it. Is that the same stuff the guy who suggested it used to make his powder? Oh, and were his ratios the same as yours?

I was searching your videos for bamboo but I don't find anything... have you tried bamboo charcoal? It's pretty porous, but I guess it's pretty hard... probably wouldn't be that good?