. The American sportsman : containing hints to sportsmen, notes on shooting, and the habits of game birds and wild fowl of America . ission of theflame through the whole mass of the powder.* TESTS FOR POWDER. English sporting-powder, when good, is found to impart scarcelyany color to the hand when crushed in the palm with the powder, to be perfect, should be equally free from allcharcoal appearances. There is a simple method of ascertainingthe quality of powder, which in some measure may be relied a small quantity be placed upon a sheet of white paper andexploded, it shoul
. The American sportsman : containing hints to sportsmen, notes on shooting, and the habits of game birds and wild fowl of America . ission of theflame through the whole mass of the powder.* TESTS FOR POWDER. English sporting-powder, when good, is found to impart scarcelyany color to the hand when crushed in the palm with the powder, to be perfect, should be equally free from allcharcoal appearances. There is a simple method of ascertainingthe quality of powder, which in some measure may be relied a small quantity be placed upon a sheet of white paper andexploded, it should burn with a sudden white smoke, accompaniedwith a peculiar sharp report, or rather phiz, that the ear soon be-comes familiar with and easily detects. There should be nothingleft on the paper after the explosion if the powder be superior ; if,however, the residuum be blackish matter, the probability is thatthere is too much carbon in the powder; if the paper shouldexhibit a dotted appearance, with little black splotches over it, wewould be led to suppose that the sulphur or nitre was inferior inquality and badly THE EPREUVETTE, OR POWDER-PROVER. It is not an easy matter to ascertain the real pulsion of powder,even by subjecting it to the test of the epreuvette,—an instrument * See report of experiments on gunpowder, made at Washington Arsenal by Cap-tain Mordecai. MISCELLANEOUS HINTS. 439 in common use in England, but scarcely known in this country,and on this account deserving of notice in this place. The epreuvette, though the most perfect of all small instrumentsyet invented for the purpose of testing the strength of gunpowder,if not used properly will often give very unsatisfactory construction of the epreuvette should be perfect in all itsparts, more particularly in the spring which controls the move-ments of the wheel on which the graduations are marked. Themouth-piece, or rather the piece which closes the muzzle of theepreuvette and is attac
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