As said, we have much more information today regarding turn-of-the-century and pre-WWI powders. Brindle did make some mistakes regarding powder Dram Equivalency, and it should be clear why the inattentive or casual shell loader could blow up his shotgun
42 grain = 3 Dram Equivalent Bulk Powders
“E.C.” No. 1
“Schultze”
Curtis & Harvey “Amberite” (40 grains)
Sporting Smokeless Powder Syn., Ltd “Cannonite Shot-gun”
Smokeless Powder Co. “S.S.” (Smokeless Shot-gun) (43 grains)
Cooppal & Co. “Cooppal’s No. 1”
United States Smokeless Powder Co. “Gold Dust”
Dynamit Nobel’s Troisdorf Powder Co. “Troisdorf” (41.5 grains)
American Wood Powder
“J.B.” Powder
36 Grain = 3 Dram Equivalent Bulk Powders
DuPont Bulk (36.5 grains)
Hazard Powder Co. “Blue Ribbon” (37 grains)
“E.C.” No. 2 (Improved)
“New Schultze”
33 Grain = 3 Dram Equivalent Bulk Powders
“New E.C. (Improved) No. 3” (Introduced in U.S. in 1904)
Curtis & Harvey “Smokeless Diamond” (1903)
Walsrode Smokeless & Waterproof Gun Powder Co. “Walsrode Gray”
Louis Muller & Cie S.A. “Mullerite No. 2”
Nobel’s Explosive Co. “Empire”
“Cooppal’s No. 2” (30 grains = 3 Dr. Eq.)
………………..BULK…………….-----------------------.........……………….DENSE…………..
.......E.C.No.1.....DuPont……Schultze-----Walsrode Green....Ballistite…..Infallible
3 Dram....42...........36.5........42................30………..…...24..............21 grains
3 1/4…...45.5..........41..........45................32……..….…..26..............23 grains
3 1/2…...49............43..........48................34………..…...28..............25 grains
The original “Schultze” & “E.C.” No. 1 Bulk Smokeless were 14 grains/drachm.
“New Schultze” & New “E.C.(Improved) No. 2” Bulk Smokeless were 12 grains/drachm.
“E.C. No. 3” was 11 grains/drachm or 33 grains = 3 Dr. Eq.
