Charcoal for sale?

[LambentPyro]

One way to grind charcoal fast is to use a either a meat grinder or a cast iron corn and grain grinder, it'll give you a wide variety of particle sizes

I'll stick to my ball mill doing the dirty work.

 

It works just great for lift and burst too.

Hmm, interesting. Didn't know that

[Mumbles]

Very surprisingly I can get cow boy charcoal here. Is this usable? How is the performance?

I remember mumbles said before some can use some can't

 

 

This all assumes it's the same product, not just the same brand name with different woods of course. I found if you use it as-is, the product is passable. It works great for KP, and bursts for larger shells where there is more time for pressure to build up. It does sort of lack that "pop" that you need for small shells though. However, if I went through and picked out all the light pieces, I got pretty good BP. It was about on par with commercial goex. Nothing to write home about, but if you know what you're doing, it should work for most applications.

 

When you go through the bag, you'll notice sort of a mixture of harder and softer pieces. I went through and picked out all the soft, lightweight pieces. My idea behind this was that it's a mix of hardwoods. If you pick out the light soft ones, they'll be similar to the good BP charcoals. If I had to guess, I'd say the heavier, harder pieces are most likely oak, while the lighter pieces are maples and some others that tend to make good BP.