This feature article, “From The Loading Bench: IMR Trail Boss Smokeless Powder,” appeared originally in the July 2005 issue of American Rifleman. Trail Boss gunpowder is currently a Hodgdon ...

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Alliant Powder, a leading manufacturer of smokeless propellant, will launch improved Red Dot and Green Dot reloading powders during the 2018 SHOT Show (Booth No. 14551), January 23-26 at the Sands ...

Smokeless Powder. Share full article. April 8, 1900. Credit... The New York Times Archives. See the article in its original context from April 8, 1900, Page 29 Buy Reprints. View on timesmachine.

Early smokeless powders, like the French Poudre B, proved three times more potent than black powder by weight and produced much less smoke. Rimfire cases by design straddled the pressure curve ...

The first smokeless powder rifle was the famous French Lebel 1886, which used a revolutionary new type of propellant, the nitrocellulose “Poudre B,” and nearly doubled the velocity and power ...

In the spirit of rivalry, the other big lever gun company in the U.S. at the time, Marlin, chambered its Model 1893 rifle for the cartridge, but that company called it “.30-30” or “.30-30 Smokeless” ...

The California Powder Works was also the first company on the Pacific Coast to produce nitro-cotton smokeless powder for cannons and supplied the U.S. Army during the Spanish American War. The ...