Swiss Black Powder

[Road King]

Anyone know who carries Swiss Black Powder in Ontario? Canada?

 

[plinker 777]

Never heard of it. Goex is fairly common...still.

 

[maple_leaf_eh]

Swiss Black Powder was discovered by the DCRA long range black powder shooters 15-20 yrs ago. Better than everything else out there. Worked like a charm in duplex black and smokeless 45-90 etc loads. But the last source I knew was in Maine at the Old Powder Mill (or something like that), and they may have gone out of business.

 

[snowshoe]

Track of the wolf sells it in the states. Goex is about $17 a pound and Swiss is over $28

 

[gunlaker]

I'd love to find an importer too. I managed to pick up a couple of pounds at the last Chilliwack gun show. I haven't done a lot of testing with it yet, but it seems to work better in my Shiloh than any of the Goex powders including Goex Express. There was a definite decrease in fouling.

Chris.

 

[kodiak1]

Hillfolk out of Senlac Sask. have Swiss. They also have goes.
Ray ner Shine out of Lancer Sask. has both if my memory serves me correct.

Ken.

 

[Shrapnel]

I've tried Swiss, Wano, Goex and Elephant... And that's the decreasing order of their quality! Pre-2000 Elephant was sometimes very bad (inside of cans corroded, then then used crappy plastic cans for a while which cracked during storage) but the newer stuff is OK... I mainly used the stuff in cannons and in smoothbores so fouling or precision were not real issues! Swiss is great in rifled arms...

Swiss is (or at least was!) imported in the USA by Schuetzen Powder in Texas and is distributed by many outfits in the USA... The Maine Powder House was my place to buy powder before all the new post 9-11 hysteria... Or we picked up a crate or two when down in Virginia for one of the Civil War shoot! Good old days! I'm not sure now if you still can buy BP in cans in the USA as a tourist... I think it is not considered ammunition but one would have to check!