Owner's Manual

IMPORTANT CAUTIONS
FOR MUZZLE LOADING SHOOTING
1) USE BLACK POWDER (or PYRODEX, if allowed in your Country) ONLY to load your muzzle
loading firearm.
WARNING: The use of smokeless powder, or a mixture of smokeless and Black Powder
(duplex loads) or the wrong type or granulation of Black Powder (or Pyrodex, if allowed in
your Country) or overloading may cause serious injury and/or death to the shooter or
bystanders and damage to property.
The reason for using a low yeld powder such as Black Powder (or Pyrodex, if allowed in your
Country) is quite basic and it is related to firearm design. When used as a propellent, Black
Powder (or Pyrodex, if allowed in your Country) generates a relatively low breech pressure.
Muzzleloading firearms, even those with modern steel barrels, are not designed to withstand
the high pressures produced by a Smokeless Powder charge.
People who become interested in muzzleloading tend to research and to seek out some of
the early journals which describe loading implements, components and powders of
yesterday. Reading these old books can be pleasurable. Never assume, however, that
obsolete printed material has a safe application in today’s world.
All our guns have been regularly proof tested to the NATIONAL PROOF HOUSE in Gardone V.T.
with a forced test firing, as the mark stamped on each gun or pistol testifies. Still stamped on
the barrel they all carry the words “BLACK POWDER ONLY”.
Never use smokeless powder of any type or in any quantity in a muzzleloading firearm, and
never mix powders.
Black powder producers in the world use different grains identification methods, following the
metric system of each Country.
Our company suggests the following comparing chart for guns type with the purpose to
correlate the various types of black powder produced in different countries following the
adopted classification.
SUISSE
BLACK
POWDER
FRENCH
BLACK
POWDER
VECTAN
GERMAN
BLACK
POWDER
PO-WEX
U.S.A.
BLACK
POWDER
Big caliber guns/small scale cannons 4 PNF1 Fg 1f or fg
.45 caliber and larger caliber rifles 3 PNF1 FFg 2f or ffg
Revolvers, pistols and rifles up to .45 caliber 2 PNF2 FFFg 3f or fffg
Pistols up to .31 caliber / flintlock gun pans 1 PNF4 FFFFg 4f or ffffg
Black powder SHOULD NEVER BE STORED IN A PLASTIC CONTAINER, which could build a static
electricity charge. In case, make sure they are made of anti-static material. Keep the
container away from heat sources.
Davide Pedersoli Co. declines any responsibility for the use of different from original
propellent or that is not of commercial production high quality and for the use of maximum
loads different from those recommended in this manual.
Unreasonably heavy charges of Black Powder (or Pyrodex, if allowed in your Country) can
be dangerous. Heavier loading showed marked increases in pressure and substantially more
recoil for only minor gains in velocity.
2) Percussion caps and black powder should be stored in separate locations.
3) Caps are sensitive to static electricity, heat, flame and percussion.
DO NOT USE GLASS CONTAINERS TO STORE THEM, but leave them in their original containers.
4) NEVER SMOKE while loading, shooting or handling black powder.
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