hi vern
gun powder that makes sence long tubes makes a nice long trail of gun powder to what they wanted blown up wow vern you are the man when it comes to guns ammo etc. i just picked up a blast from the past ammo scarce as hens teeth and hens dont have teeth they are 318 bee rounds for old winchester rifle 219 zipper is rareer then 218 bee.but dont have any of them i have all ways bought old obsolete ammo most of the ammo i have cant be bought at wall mart they dont even know what we are talking about sorry got of the post of those powder pencils the cosacks carried best to every one andy militarynut