Home made Nitrocellulose gun powder, 7 grains in a .38 spc with a 158 gr bullet 907 FPS

Nice work.

Very nice video i aslo use nitrocellulose powder for 12 gauge cartridge but i buy factory made it works very good

Used to be a vid up of some little kid making that stuff in his bedroom. He had a pillowcase full of it. Insane! If your kids are being quiet, that’s when you check on them.

how to made bro?

So do you have to mix Nitrocellulose with anything else, or is it as simple as rip off the appropriate amount, weigh it, and then load it into the casing?

Would love to see more details on how you did this

I'd love to see production or at least notes on your recipe,if the powder is homemade, then you my good person have officially moved from a shtf survivor to a lord of men lol

What do y'all use for your nitrocellulose? A bunch of video tutorials use store bought sulfuric acid and nitric acid. But no one has shown how to do it if you walked out into the woods with your bare hands.

What Good Is This Video, WITHOUT The Formula?

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Isn't guncotton really volatile ?

Hello Gordon, very interesting result. It would be nice to see in a future video how match head powder would stack up against nitrocellulose using the same variables. Cheers, Matt

Did you dissolve the nitro cellulose with acetone to break it down, and then run it through a screen before it set in order to granulate it? Or just use straight flash cotton, and stuff a weighed amount in a case?

Nice

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Very cool! Got my sub. Thinking about trying to make some gun cotton to test in my mosin along with some homemade foil cartridges.

I would also be interested in knowing how you make your powder. Do you have a video on your production?

Have you tested it in rifles

This is pretty interesting

Yes PLEASE do more videos on this with more explanation of the recipie!

That's f***ing phenomenal 👏

That is +P speed. Wonder how actual chamber pressure is. Any pressure signs?

Normal smokeless powder also has a percentage of nitroglycerine, have you thought about adding a small amount? Regular smokeless powder is maybe around 10-30% NG if I recall correctly

Will work in 12 guage?

I'm more surprised that someone has managed to make that powder at home

The fact of home made nitrocellulose is absolutely not new.
However if contaminated raw materials are used the feared auto ignition comes in sight. (Sudden-boom in your storage)
Formula's and procedures to produce reliable powder cannot be found at the street.

Hey no bildap man. Just . Nitrocellulose + kclo3 + gelatin

Can you calculate the pressure generated by using the velocity and bullet weight? I'd like to know how it compares with commercial powder.

Have you experimented with home made primers as well?

7 grains?! Might as well use black powder.

I’ve done this venture in the past, you can get lab grade components from Amazon now days. Much better that household products.

There's 3 stages of smokeless gun powder, the first stage is gun cotton turned into a powder, the next 2 stages are a bit too dangerous for the inexperienced person to make.

Neat

Congratulations! You have nearly duplicated 1872 Hercules "Bullseye"! You have no means of testing pressure properly, but 8.3 grains with a 6" barrel should yield just about 1000 (996 by the old Lyman loading manual) FPS muzzle velocity at about 18,000 PSIA if you have pure nitrocellulose powder. You would get better results with true concentrated Nitic Acid (in the presence of Con. Sulfuric Acid to absorb the water). My lab partner and I made "Guncotton" in High School Chemistry II my Sophomore Year (1968-69). For safety, we used a cold water bath around our reaction container, otherwise, we followed Noble's method to the letter (Noble used an ice bath-he was used to making high explosives, and was a safety NUT-smart man!). Some of the class used the British "Hodges" method with fuming nitric acid. It didn't seem to make any difference if you purified the raw product properly.

I am interesting that the NC powder is mixture with Nitroglycerin? and what kind of the intermediate to keep the powder save？

Add your homemade nitrocellulose lacquer to a jar of slightly soapy water, cap it fast and shake the shit out of it. Use a set of strainers to grade it uniformly and you have spherical smokeless powder.

Acetone and alcohol are water soluble. Nitrocellulose is not.

Do not consider anything you nitrate to be shelf stable. Expect that it will undergo an undesired reaction, catch fire and burn everything. First smokeless rifle cartridges were experimented with in the 1840's and 50's. The Austrians figured out a cartridge for their Lorenz rifle musket.
Problem wasn't cartridge development. No no! The problem was the cartridges in magazines kept blowing up. Took the world nearly 50 years to figure out how to stabilize the propellant to the point of not blowing up magazines.

You can add ingredients like a little kerosene to make the old French Powder B. You can add petroleum jelly. You can add charcoal. All of these enrich the fuel oxygen ratio, makes it burn rich, cooler and slower. A way to temper your powder.
Think like you're playing with a carborator. Richer is cooler, slower and dirtier. Leaner is...well leaning it might have its uses but it can get dicey.
Pay attention to primer cups! They have a story to tell.
Primers that are still rounded on the edge and poke out of the pocket means brass isn't expanding. Under pressure loads. This is usually a semi auto rifle issue. Tight bolt actions and pistols may not reveal this.
Primers seated flush, round edge and expanded brass is perfect.
Flat primers means you're at the far end of pressure. Not dangerous but reduced margin of safety.
Primer cups flowing out of the pocket under the head and creating a rim where the radius was means you're in the danger zone.

It is not 38 velocity , but cool as hell .

Did you add anything to the Nitrocelluose to slow down the detonation?

Why do I see smoke in the video when I shoot?

Correct,slows burnrate,stabilizes shelf life

Such a incredible experiment! But what about over pressure in chamber? I was thinking about trying it, with gun cotton, but I'm a little afraid of it.

Making guncotton is not difficult - but it is dangerous. And not from any explosion risk, its the sulfuric acid. Same reason I don't reclaim lead from car batteries. i CAN, but the risk of acid burns makes it not worth it.

When are you going to put more videos with further experiments with gun cotton? I am hoping you will soon. Not many people are doing this type of stuff even though the price of smokeless powder is through the roof.